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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing Windows 145 121 186
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.89% 6.26% 7.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.67% 56.02% 62.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 85 121
10th Percentile £173 £200 £153
25th Percentile £223 £263 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £408 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% -9.44% -
75th Percentile £610 £563 £588
90th Percentile £668 £676 £675
London median daily rate £416 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -2.12% +6.25% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £19.85 £24.68
25th Percentile £19.38 £21.31 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -9.26% +20.00%
75th Percentile £23.25 £27.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.25 -
London median hourly rate £21.00 £23.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.88% -5.95%

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 239 216 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.71% 11.17% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 154 193
10th Percentile £185 £250 £214
25th Percentile £297 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -0.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £662 £638
90th Percentile £715 £696 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 £24.68
25th Percentile £19.38 £22.53 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.13 £112.00
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.80 -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year -12.52% -6.85% -32.50%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -7 115 £420 +3.07% 88
City of Westminster -10 8 £175 -62.16% 12
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £150 -
West End of London -11 2 £453 +110.47% 3
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 30 (20.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.76%) Confluence
4 2 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.38%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.69%) Monis
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (27.59%) Azure
3 30 (20.69%) Entra ID
4 14 (9.66%) AWS
5 12 (8.28%) OneDrive
5 12 (8.28%) SaaS
6 9 (6.21%) GitHub
7 8 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.14%) Azure AKS
8 6 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.14%) GCP
9 5 (3.45%) IaaS
9 5 (3.45%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.45%) PaaS
9 5 (3.45%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.38%) Slack
12 1 (0.69%) BlazeMeter
12 1 (0.69%) Google Docs
12 1 (0.69%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 40 (27.59%) DNS
2 30 (20.69%) DHCP
3 22 (15.17%) VPN
4 21 (14.48%) Firewall
5 18 (12.41%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.52%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (4.14%) LAN
8 5 (3.45%) Unified Communications
8 5 (3.45%) WAN
9 3 (2.07%) BGP
9 3 (2.07%) SAN
9 3 (2.07%) SMTP
9 3 (2.07%) VLAN
9 3 (2.07%) VoIP
9 3 (2.07%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.38%) DMZ
10 2 (1.38%) Multicast
10 2 (1.38%) SSL
10 2 (1.38%) Value-Added Service
11 1 (0.69%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.93%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.45%) Power BI
4 4 (2.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.07%) Big Data
5 3 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.69%) Db2
7 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 16 (11.03%) JIRA
2 7 (4.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.76%) Artifactory
3 4 (2.76%) GitLab
4 3 (2.07%) Git
4 3 (2.07%) MSI
5 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.38%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.38%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.69%) Gradle
6 1 (0.69%) JMeter
6 1 (0.69%) Locust
6 1 (0.69%) Newman
6 1 (0.69%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.69%) Subversion
6 1 (0.69%) TestCafe
General
1 50 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 35 (24.14%) Finance
3 18 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.59%) Banking
5 6 (4.14%) Front Office
6 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.07%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.07%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.38%) Law
7 2 (1.38%) Military
7 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 39 (26.90%) Support Engineer
2 22 (15.17%) IT Support
3 19 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (11.72%) IT Engineer
5 16 (11.03%) Analyst
6 14 (9.66%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) Desktop Support
7 12 (8.28%) Support Analyst
8 9 (6.21%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) IT Analyst
10 7 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.83%) Senior
10 7 (4.83%) Windows Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Active Directory Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Developer
11 6 (4.14%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (4.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.66%) Terraform
2 13 (8.97%) .NET
3 7 (4.83%) .NET Framework
4 4 (2.76%) REST
5 2 (1.38%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.38%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.38%) Kafka
5 2 (1.38%) LDAP
5 2 (1.38%) Middleware
5 2 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.38%) PCRE
5 2 (1.38%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.69%) Blazor
6 1 (0.69%) OAuth
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.69%) Spring
6 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.69%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.55%) Onboarding
2 15 (10.34%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (7.59%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.83%) Clustering
4 7 (4.83%) PKI
5 5 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.76%) iPhone
7 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.38%) BYOD
8 2 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.69%) iPad
9 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.69%) PMI
9 1 (0.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 45 (31.03%) Windows Server
2 28 (19.31%) Linux
3 25 (17.24%) Mac OS
4 21 (14.48%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.52%) Android
6 7 (4.83%) Unix
7 6 (4.14%) Apple iOS
8 5 (3.45%) VMS
8 5 (3.45%) Windows 7
8 5 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (1.38%) CentOS
11 2 (1.38%) OpenVMS
11 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (20.69%) ITIL
3 25 (17.24%) Migration
4 24 (16.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (14.48%) ITSM
6 18 (12.41%) Customer Service
7 16 (11.03%) CI/CD
7 16 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (9.66%) DevOps
8 14 (9.66%) Service Management
9 13 (8.97%) Asset Management
9 13 (8.97%) High Availability
9 13 (8.97%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (8.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (8.28%) Service Delivery
11 11 (7.59%) Change Control
11 11 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (7.59%) Incident Management
12 10 (6.90%) Problem Management
12 10 (6.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.59%) PowerShell
2 21 (14.48%) SQL
3 15 (10.34%) Python
4 13 (8.97%) C#
5 7 (4.83%) Bash
6 5 (3.45%) Java
7 4 (2.76%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.76%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.07%) C++
9 2 (1.38%) Korn
9 2 (1.38%) Perl
10 1 (0.69%) R
10 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.21%) Degree
4 8 (5.52%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.83%) A+ Certification
6 3 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.38%) CCNA
7 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.38%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.69%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.69%) CCNP
8 1 (0.69%) CISA
8 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.69%) MCSE
8 1 (0.69%) MOS
8 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.41%) SLA
2 9 (6.21%) QA
3 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.69%) GRC
4 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 22 (15.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.59%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (5.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.83%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.45%) Docker
7 4 (2.76%) BitLocker
7 4 (2.76%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (2.76%) vSphere
8 3 (2.07%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.69%) Firmware
9 1 (0.69%) UAG
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.69%) zsh
Systems Management
1 34 (23.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (14.48%) SCCM
3 15 (10.34%) Kubernetes
4 13 (8.97%) Ansible
5 9 (6.21%) vCenter Server
6 5 (3.45%) WSUS
7 4 (2.76%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (2.76%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (2.76%) Puppet
7 4 (2.76%) SCOM
8 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (2.07%) Nagios
8 3 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.07%) vMotion
9 2 (1.38%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.38%) Grafana
9 2 (1.38%) Nessus
9 2 (1.38%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.38%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.69%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 86 (59.31%) Microsoft
2 30 (20.69%) VMware
3 27 (18.62%) ServiceNow
4 17 (11.72%) Citrix
5 15 (10.34%) Cisco
6 11 (7.59%) Apple
6 11 (7.59%) Oracle
7 9 (6.21%) Bloomberg
8 6 (4.14%) Google
8 6 (4.14%) Remedy
9 5 (3.45%) Dynatrace
9 5 (3.45%) HP
9 5 (3.45%) Splunk
9 5 (3.45%) Symantec
10 4 (2.76%) EMC
10 4 (2.76%) ION Trading
11 3 (2.07%) Adobe
11 3 (2.07%) Altiris
11 3 (2.07%) BMC
11 3 (2.07%) Commvault