Windows Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Windows
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 21 17
Rank change year-on-year -41 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 79 162 202
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.23% 8.23% 8.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.97% 60.67% 64.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 114 146
10th Percentile £181 £214 £145
25th Percentile £196 £263 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £393
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +8.28% -1.88%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £570
90th Percentile £675 £672 £675
London median daily rate £443 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -1.67% +12.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £19.41 £21.75 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £22.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £24.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £22.72 £106.38 £24.56
90th Percentile £23.31 £155.05 £26.03
London median hourly rate £22.21 £24.18 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.15% +9.91% -14.43%

All Operating Systems
Central London

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 155 267 314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.34% 13.56% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 192 223
10th Percentile £186 £231 £182
25th Percentile £230 £325 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +14.44% -13.46%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £651
90th Percentile £723 £709 £735
London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £19.41 £21.75 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £22.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £24.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +7.69% -35.00%
75th Percentile £22.72 £106.38 £24.56
90th Percentile £23.31 £155.05 £26.03
London median hourly rate £23.71 £24.58 £22.00
% change year-on-year -3.55% +11.73% -45.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Windows job vacancy trend in Central London

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Central London over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Central London

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Windows

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -40 68 £365 -14.12% 58
West End of London -6 3 £575 -2.54% 1
Southwark +2 1 £188 -21.33%
City of Westminster -2 1 £488 +8.33% 2
Windows
London

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.44%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (30.38%) Azure
3 10 (12.66%) Entra ID
4 9 (11.39%) AWS
5 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.33%) GitHub
6 4 (5.06%) GCP
7 3 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.80%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.80%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.53%) SaaS
8 2 (2.53%) Serverless
9 1 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) DNS
2 5 (6.33%) VPN
3 4 (5.06%) Firewall
4 3 (3.80%) DHCP
5 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.27%) HTTP
6 1 (1.27%) IPv4
6 1 (1.27%) IPv6
6 1 (1.27%) LAN
6 1 (1.27%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.27%) Network Security
6 1 (1.27%) SAN
6 1 (1.27%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.27%) VLAN
6 1 (1.27%) VSAN
6 1 (1.27%) WAN
6 1 (1.27%) WebEx
6 1 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.80%) DB2
2 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.80%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.53%) Power BI
3 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) JIRA
2 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.53%) git-flow
3 2 (2.53%) MSI
4 1 (1.27%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.27%) Git
4 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (40.51%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.52%) Finance
3 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.59%) Banking
4 4 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Law
6 2 (2.53%) Legal
6 2 (2.53%) Military
6 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Publishing
7 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.27%) International Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (20.25%) Support Engineer
2 11 (13.92%) IT Support
3 10 (12.66%) Analyst
4 7 (8.86%) Desktop Support
4 7 (8.86%) IT Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Citrix Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Consultant
5 5 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (5.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Developer
6 4 (5.06%) IT Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) Senior
6 4 (5.06%) Service Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) Data Scientist
7 3 (3.80%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.06%) .NET
2 3 (3.80%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.80%) Backbone.js
2 3 (3.80%) Bootstrap
2 3 (3.80%) Ember.js
2 3 (3.80%) Hugging Face
2 3 (3.80%) jQuery
2 3 (3.80%) Keras
2 3 (3.80%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.80%) React
2 3 (3.80%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (2.53%) COM
3 2 (2.53%) Qt
3 2 (2.53%) REST
3 2 (2.53%) Web Services
4 1 (1.27%) gRPC
4 1 (1.27%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.06%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.53%) BYOD
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Clustering
4 2 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) iPhone
4 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Life Science
5 1 (1.27%) CMDB
5 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.27%) PACS
5 1 (1.27%) PKI
5 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.27%) Robotics
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.52%) Windows Server
2 13 (16.46%) Windows 10
3 12 (15.19%) Mac OS
4 9 (11.39%) Linux
5 5 (6.33%) Android
5 5 (6.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.80%) VMS
7 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.27%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.27%) SUSE
8 1 (1.27%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.46%) ITIL
1 13 (16.46%) Migration
2 12 (15.19%) Customer Service
2 12 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (12.66%) DevOps
4 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (8.86%) Change Management
6 7 (8.86%) CI/CD
7 6 (7.59%) AI
7 6 (7.59%) Analytics
7 6 (7.59%) Change Control
7 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (6.33%) Application Packaging
8 5 (6.33%) Mentoring
8 5 (6.33%) Runbook
9 4 (5.06%) Asset Management
9 4 (5.06%) Computer Science
9 4 (5.06%) Roadmaps
9 4 (5.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
1 11 (13.92%) SQL
2 8 (10.13%) C#
3 3 (3.80%) C++
3 3 (3.80%) Python
4 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.53%) VBA
5 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) Degree
2 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.06%) CCNA
4 4 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.80%) PhD
6 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.53%) MCSE
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.27%) CCA
7 1 (1.27%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.27%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.27%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.80%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.80%) SLA
3 2 (2.53%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.27%) DICOM
4 1 (1.27%) HL7
4 1 (1.27%) NIST
4 1 (1.27%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (34.18%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.53%) Firmware
4 2 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.53%) vSphere
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.27%) XenApp
5 1 (1.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (10.13%) SCCM
3 4 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.06%) Terraform
4 3 (3.80%) Ansible
5 2 (2.53%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.27%) AirWatch
6 1 (1.27%) Autotask
6 1 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.27%) Packer
6 1 (1.27%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.27%) VxRail
6 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (41.77%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.19%) Citrix
3 8 (10.13%) ServiceNow
4 7 (8.86%) VMware
5 5 (6.33%) Oracle
6 2 (2.53%) Adobe
6 2 (2.53%) Apple
6 2 (2.53%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.53%) HP
7 1 (1.27%) Charles River
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco
7 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.27%) Dell
7 1 (1.27%) EMC
7 1 (1.27%) Freshdesk
7 1 (1.27%) Google
7 1 (1.27%) IBM
7 1 (1.27%) RedGate