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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 153 117 186
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.40% 6.14% 7.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.45% 55.98% 62.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 85 124
10th Percentile £173 £195 £154
25th Percentile £223 £263 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% - -
75th Percentile £610 £564 £579
90th Percentile £674 £685 £675
London median daily rate £416 £425 £420
% change year-on-year -2.12% +1.19% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £19.33 £19.85 £24.29
25th Percentile £19.44 £21.31 £26.03
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -64.75% +208.89%
75th Percentile £33.38 £27.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £50.25 £29.25 -
London median hourly rate £22.80 £23.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.76% -6.07%

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 245 209 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.25% 10.97% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 147 198
10th Percentile £188 £222 £209
25th Percentile £290 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £634 £666 £638
90th Percentile £724 £700 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £19.33 £20.33 £24.29
25th Percentile £19.44 £22.53 £26.03
Median hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -62.59% +91.72%
75th Percentile £33.38 £29.13 £112.00
90th Percentile £50.25 £29.80 -
London median hourly rate £24.00 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year -4.57% -6.85% -38.41%

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 16 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Central London over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Central London

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 16 October 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 -4 124 £415 -7.78% 21
City of Westminster -10 8 £175 -62.16% 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £150 -
West End of London -12 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 (19.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.61%) Confluence
4 3 (1.96%) IIS
5 2 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.65%) Monis
Cloud Services
1 52 (33.99%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (26.14%) Azure
3 33 (21.57%) Entra ID
4 15 (9.80%) AWS
5 12 (7.84%) OneDrive
6 11 (7.19%) GitHub
6 11 (7.19%) SaaS
7 8 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.92%) Azure AKS
8 6 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (3.92%) GCP
9 5 (3.27%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.27%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.61%) IaaS
10 4 (2.61%) PaaS
11 3 (1.96%) Serverless
12 2 (1.31%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.31%) Slack
13 1 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (27.45%) DNS
2 31 (20.26%) DHCP
3 24 (15.69%) VPN
4 21 (13.73%) Firewall
5 19 (12.42%) TCP/IP
6 10 (6.54%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (4.58%) LAN
8 5 (3.27%) Unified Communications
8 5 (3.27%) VLAN
8 5 (3.27%) WAN
9 4 (2.61%) VoIP
10 3 (1.96%) BGP
10 3 (1.96%) Multicast
10 3 (1.96%) SAN
10 3 (1.96%) SMTP
10 3 (1.96%) Wireshark
11 2 (1.31%) DMZ
11 2 (1.31%) OSPF
11 2 (1.31%) Value-Added Service
11 2 (1.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.27%) Oracle Database
2 5 (3.27%) Power BI
2 5 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.96%) Big Data
4 3 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.65%) Db2
6 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 17 (11.11%) JIRA
2 8 (5.23%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.92%) Artifactory
4 5 (3.27%) Git
5 4 (2.61%) GitLab
6 3 (1.96%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.96%) MSI
6 3 (1.96%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.31%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.65%) Gradle
8 1 (0.65%) JMeter
8 1 (0.65%) Locust
8 1 (0.65%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.65%) NUnit
8 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.65%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.65%) Subversion
8 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.65%) TestCafe
General
1 53 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 39 (25.49%) Finance
3 17 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.15%) Banking
5 8 (5.23%) Front Office
6 4 (2.61%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.96%) Military
7 3 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.31%) Law
9 1 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (26.14%) Support Engineer
2 22 (14.38%) IT Support
3 19 (12.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (11.76%) Analyst
5 17 (11.11%) IT Engineer
6 14 (9.15%) IT Support Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) Support Analyst
8 12 (7.84%) Desktop Support
9 9 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
10 8 (5.23%) IT Analyst
10 8 (5.23%) Windows Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Senior
12 6 (3.92%) Active Directory Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) Deployment Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support
12 6 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 6 (3.92%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.46%) Terraform
2 15 (9.80%) .NET
3 8 (5.23%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.27%) REST
5 3 (1.96%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.31%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.31%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.31%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.31%) Kafka
6 2 (1.31%) LDAP
6 2 (1.31%) Middleware
6 2 (1.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.31%) PCRE
6 2 (1.31%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.65%) Blazor
7 1 (0.65%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.65%) OAuth
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.65%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.65%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.99%) Onboarding
2 15 (9.80%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (7.19%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.58%) PKI
5 6 (3.92%) Clustering
6 5 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.61%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.61%) iPhone
7 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.31%) BYOD
9 2 (1.31%) CMDB
9 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.65%) iPad
10 1 (0.65%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (30.72%) Windows Server
2 31 (20.26%) Linux
3 24 (15.69%) macOS
4 22 (14.38%) Windows 10
5 10 (6.54%) Unix
6 8 (5.23%) Android
7 6 (3.92%) Apple iOS
8 5 (3.27%) VMS
8 5 (3.27%) Windows 7
8 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (1.31%) CentOS
11 2 (1.31%) OpenVMS
11 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (20.92%) ITIL
3 26 (16.99%) Migration
4 24 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (15.03%) ITSM
6 20 (13.07%) Customer Service
7 19 (12.42%) DevOps
8 17 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 17 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (10.46%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (10.46%) Service Management
10 15 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (8.50%) Asset Management
11 13 (8.50%) High Availability
11 13 (8.50%) Incident Management
12 12 (7.84%) Change Control
12 12 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (7.19%) Mentoring
13 11 (7.19%) Service Delivery
14 10 (6.54%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (28.76%) PowerShell
2 21 (13.73%) SQL
3 18 (11.76%) Python
4 14 (9.15%) C#
5 9 (5.88%) Bash
6 6 (3.92%) Java
7 4 (2.61%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.61%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.96%) C++
9 2 (1.31%) Korn
9 2 (1.31%) Perl
9 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.65%) CodeQL
10 1 (0.65%) R
10 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (20.92%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.88%) Degree
4 8 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.58%) A+ Certification
6 5 (3.27%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.31%) CCNA
8 2 (1.31%) CCNP
8 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.65%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.65%) CCIE
9 1 (0.65%) CISA
9 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.65%) MCSE
9 1 (0.65%) MOS
9 1 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.65%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.76%) SLA
2 9 (5.88%) QA
3 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.65%) GRC
System Software
1 73 (47.71%) Active Directory
2 23 (15.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.19%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.58%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (3.92%) Docker
7 5 (3.27%) vSphere
8 4 (2.61%) BitLocker
8 4 (2.61%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.96%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.65%) Firmware
10 1 (0.65%) UAG
10 1 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.65%) zsh
Systems Management
1 35 (22.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (14.38%) SCCM
3 16 (10.46%) Kubernetes
4 14 (9.15%) Ansible
5 9 (5.88%) vCenter Server
6 5 (3.27%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (3.27%) WSUS
7 4 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (2.61%) Puppet
7 4 (2.61%) SCOM
8 3 (1.96%) Grafana
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (1.96%) Nagios
8 3 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.96%) vMotion
9 2 (1.31%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.31%) Nessus
9 2 (1.31%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.31%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.65%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 88 (57.52%) Microsoft
2 32 (20.92%) ServiceNow
3 31 (20.26%) VMware
4 17 (11.11%) Citrix
5 16 (10.46%) Cisco
6 12 (7.84%) Oracle
7 11 (7.19%) Apple
8 9 (5.88%) Bloomberg
9 7 (4.58%) Google
10 6 (3.92%) Dynatrace
10 6 (3.92%) Remedy
10 6 (3.92%) Splunk
11 5 (3.27%) HP
11 5 (3.27%) ION Trading
11 5 (3.27%) Symantec
12 4 (2.61%) EMC
13 3 (1.96%) Adobe
13 3 (1.96%) Altiris
13 3 (1.96%) BMC
13 3 (1.96%) Commvault