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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 88 154 208
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.06% 7.40% 8.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.66% 55.20% 61.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 114 148
10th Percentile £181 £204 £153
25th Percentile £200 £263 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £496 £393
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +26.43% -7.65%
75th Percentile £633 £600 £545
90th Percentile £756 £672 £675
London median daily rate £447 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +9.02% -3.53% -14.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £48.48 £19.63
25th Percentile £20.82 £89.31 £20.67
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +397.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £23.71 £130.88 £23.75
90th Percentile - £164.85 -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £24.42 £23.00
% change year-on-year -9.91% +6.17% -8.00%

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 164 279 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.56% 13.40% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 201 244
10th Percentile £187 £238 £189
25th Percentile £266 £363 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £627
90th Percentile £766 £711 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £21.39 £48.48 -
25th Percentile £22.24 £89.31 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.13 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.56% +397.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £28.05 £130.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £28.92 £164.85 -
London median hourly rate £23.50 £26.54 £23.25
% change year-on-year -11.44% +14.13% -9.20%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -35 77 £410 -18.00% 47
City of Westminster - 3 £475 - 1
West End of London +2 2 £575 -4.17% 2
Southwark +1 1 £188 -43.61%
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 5 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.14%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.14%) Eikon
2 1 (1.14%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.14%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.09%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (27.27%) Azure
3 11 (12.50%) AWS
4 10 (11.36%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.41%) GCP
6 3 (3.41%) GitHub
6 3 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.27%) OCI
7 2 (2.27%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.14%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.14%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.14%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) DNS
1 6 (6.82%) VPN
2 4 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.41%) Firewall
4 2 (2.27%) DHCP
4 2 (2.27%) LAN
4 2 (2.27%) WAN
5 1 (1.14%) HTTP
5 1 (1.14%) IPv4
5 1 (1.14%) IPv6
5 1 (1.14%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.14%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.14%) SAN
5 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.14%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.14%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) DB2
1 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) JIRA
2 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.27%) Git
3 2 (2.27%) git-flow
4 1 (1.14%) MSI
General
1 47 (53.41%) Social Skills
2 25 (28.41%) Finance
3 10 (11.36%) Banking
4 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Front Office
6 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.41%) Publishing
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.27%) Law
7 2 (2.27%) Legal
7 2 (2.27%) Marketing
7 2 (2.27%) Military
7 2 (2.27%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.27%) Retail
7 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) International Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) Support Engineer
2 11 (12.50%) IT Support
3 10 (11.36%) IT Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) IT Support Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Analyst
6 6 (6.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Consultant
6 6 (6.82%) Lead
7 5 (5.68%) Citrix Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Developer
7 5 (5.68%) Senior
8 4 (4.55%) Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Service Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Service Desk Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.41%) IT Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Programme Manager
9 3 (3.41%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) .NET
2 3 (3.41%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.41%) Backbone.js
2 3 (3.41%) Bootstrap
2 3 (3.41%) Ember.js
2 3 (3.41%) Hugging Face
2 3 (3.41%) jQuery
2 3 (3.41%) Keras
2 3 (3.41%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.41%) React
2 3 (3.41%) REST
2 3 (3.41%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.27%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (2.27%) COM
3 2 (2.27%) Middleware
3 2 (2.27%) Qt
3 2 (2.27%) Web Services
4 1 (1.14%) RESTful
4 1 (1.14%) Swing
4 1 (1.14%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.95%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.41%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.27%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.14%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) BYOD
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Windows 10
2 19 (21.59%) Windows Server
3 15 (17.05%) Linux
4 8 (9.09%) Mac OS
5 5 (5.68%) Android
6 4 (4.55%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.41%) Unix
8 1 (1.14%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.14%) Solaris
8 1 (1.14%) VMS
8 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.32%) ITIL
2 16 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (17.05%) Migration
4 11 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 11 (12.50%) DevOps
5 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (9.09%) Analytics
7 6 (6.82%) Application Packaging
7 6 (6.82%) CI/CD
7 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (6.82%) ITSM
7 6 (6.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (5.68%) Agile
8 5 (5.68%) Change Control
8 5 (5.68%) Change Management
8 5 (5.68%) Project Delivery
8 5 (5.68%) User Experience
9 4 (4.55%) Asset Management
9 4 (4.55%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.05%) SQL
2 14 (15.91%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.95%) C#
4 5 (5.68%) Python
5 2 (2.27%) Bash
5 2 (2.27%) C++
5 2 (2.27%) Java
5 2 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (13.64%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.41%) PhD
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.27%) CCNA
5 2 (2.27%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.14%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.14%) CCA
6 1 (1.14%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.14%) MCSE
6 1 (1.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.27%) NIST
4 2 (2.27%) NIST 800
4 2 (2.27%) SLA
5 1 (1.14%) DICOM
5 1 (1.14%) HL7
5 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.27%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.14%) Docker
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.14%) XenApp
4 1 (1.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (17.05%) Microsoft Intune
1 15 (17.05%) SCCM
2 7 (7.95%) Ansible
3 5 (5.68%) Terraform
4 2 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.14%) AirWatch
5 1 (1.14%) Autotask
5 1 (1.14%) Packer
5 1 (1.14%) SCVMM
5 1 (1.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 32 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.36%) Citrix
2 10 (11.36%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.95%) VMware
4 3 (3.41%) Apple
4 3 (3.41%) CyberArk
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle
5 2 (2.27%) Adobe
5 2 (2.27%) Altiris
5 2 (2.27%) Remedy
5 2 (2.27%) Symantec
6 1 (1.14%) Bomgar
6 1 (1.14%) Dell
6 1 (1.14%) Google
6 1 (1.14%) HP
6 1 (1.14%) IBM
6 1 (1.14%) Ivanti
6 1 (1.14%) Qualys
6 1 (1.14%) Reuters
6 1 (1.14%) Veeam