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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 27 19
Rank change year-on-year -29 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 92 149 201
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.54% 7.79% 8.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.11% 60.82% 64.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 105 145
10th Percentile £177 £215 £158
25th Percentile £198 £263 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year -23.78% +15.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £575
90th Percentile £668 £675 £675
London median daily rate £425 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -4.49% +11.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £23.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £26.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +15.22% -
75th Percentile £22.72 £69.56 £27.00
90th Percentile £23.31 £140.33 £28.43
London median hourly rate £24.00 £24.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 180 245 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.93% 12.81% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 178 220
10th Percentile £187 £237 £205
25th Percentile £253 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +3.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £661
90th Percentile £668 £714 £739
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.00 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £23.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £26.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +15.22% -45.88%
75th Percentile £22.72 £69.56 £27.00
90th Percentile £23.31 £140.33 £28.43
London median hourly rate £26.08 £24.34 £22.00
% change year-on-year +7.13% +10.64% -54.87%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -37 75 £325 -29.73% 32
West End of London -8 4 £575 +130.00% 2
City of Westminster -6 2 £600 +33.33% 3
Southwark - 1 £188 - 1
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 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.17%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.87%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (30.43%) Azure
3 16 (17.39%) Entra ID
4 15 (16.30%) AWS
5 7 (7.61%) GCP
5 7 (7.61%) GitHub
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (5.43%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.35%) IaaS
7 4 (4.35%) PaaS
8 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.26%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.26%) SaaS
9 2 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.48%) DNS
2 12 (13.04%) DHCP
3 10 (10.87%) VPN
4 8 (8.70%) Firewall
5 6 (6.52%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.26%) SMTP
7 2 (2.17%) LAN
7 2 (2.17%) Unified Communications
7 2 (2.17%) WAN
8 1 (1.09%) Internet
8 1 (1.09%) IPv4
8 1 (1.09%) IPv6
8 1 (1.09%) Multicast
8 1 (1.09%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.09%) Network Security
8 1 (1.09%) SAN
8 1 (1.09%) VLAN
8 1 (1.09%) VSAN
8 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.35%) Db2
2 4 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.26%) Big Data
3 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.17%) Power BI
4 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) JIRA
2 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.17%) git-flow
3 2 (2.17%) MSI
4 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.09%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.09%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.09%) Gradle
4 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.39%) Finance
3 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.61%) Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.17%) Publishing
7 1 (1.09%) Front Office
7 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.09%) International Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Law
7 1 (1.09%) Legal
7 1 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) Support Engineer
2 13 (14.13%) Analyst
3 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) IT Support
5 10 (10.87%) Desktop Support
6 7 (7.61%) Developer
6 7 (7.61%) IT Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) IT Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (5.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Senior
9 4 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (4.35%) C# Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Service Analyst
9 4 (4.35%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.70%) .NET
2 6 (6.52%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.26%) Backbone.js
3 3 (3.26%) Bootstrap
3 3 (3.26%) Ember.js
3 3 (3.26%) Hugging Face
3 3 (3.26%) jQuery
3 3 (3.26%) Keras
3 3 (3.26%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.26%) React
3 3 (3.26%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (2.17%) COM
4 2 (2.17%) Qt
4 2 (2.17%) Web Services
5 1 (1.09%) Blazor
5 1 (1.09%) Kafka
5 1 (1.09%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 6 (6.52%) PKI
2 6 (6.52%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (5.43%) Clustering
3 5 (5.43%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.17%) BYOD
4 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.17%) iPhone
4 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.09%) CMDB
5 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.09%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Life Science
5 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 15 (16.30%) Linux
2 15 (16.30%) Mac OS
3 10 (10.87%) Windows 10
4 5 (5.43%) Android
5 4 (4.35%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.35%) VMS
6 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.09%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.09%) SUSE
7 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.09%) Unix
7 1 (1.09%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (16.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (15.22%) ITIL
4 13 (14.13%) Migration
5 11 (11.96%) Customer Service
5 11 (11.96%) DevOps
6 10 (10.87%) AI
7 9 (9.78%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.61%) Change Management
9 7 (7.61%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (7.61%) High Availability
9 7 (7.61%) Mentoring
10 6 (6.52%) Analytics
10 6 (6.52%) Application Packaging
10 6 (6.52%) Change Control
10 6 (6.52%) Machine Learning
10 6 (6.52%) Runbook
10 6 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (5.43%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.65%) PowerShell
2 14 (15.22%) SQL
3 12 (13.04%) C#
4 6 (6.52%) Python
5 4 (4.35%) C++
5 4 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.17%) Java
6 2 (2.17%) VBA
7 1 (1.09%) Bash
7 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.78%) Degree
3 7 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.43%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.26%) CCNA
5 3 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.26%) PhD
6 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.17%) MCSE
7 1 (1.09%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.09%) CCA
7 1 (1.09%) CISA
7 1 (1.09%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.09%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) QA
2 4 (4.35%) SLA
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 38 (41.30%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.61%) Hyper-V
3 7 (7.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (7.61%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (6.52%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (4.35%) BitLocker
5 4 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (3.26%) Docker
6 3 (3.26%) Terminal Services
6 3 (3.26%) vSphere
7 2 (2.17%) Firmware
8 1 (1.09%) XenApp
8 1 (1.09%) XenDesktop
8 1 (1.09%) zsh
Systems Management
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (11.96%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.70%) SCCM
4 6 (6.52%) Ansible
4 6 (6.52%) Terraform
5 5 (5.43%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.26%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (3.26%) Nagios
6 3 (3.26%) Puppet
6 3 (3.26%) vMotion
7 1 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.09%) SCVMM
7 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.09%) VxRail
7 1 (1.09%) WSUS
7 1 (1.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (48.91%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.57%) Citrix
3 13 (14.13%) VMware
4 8 (8.70%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.43%) Apple
5 5 (5.43%) HP
5 5 (5.43%) Oracle
6 4 (4.35%) Bloomberg
6 4 (4.35%) Google
7 3 (3.26%) Cisco
7 3 (3.26%) Symantec
8 2 (2.17%) Adobe
8 2 (2.17%) Dell
8 2 (2.17%) EMC
8 2 (2.17%) IBM
8 2 (2.17%) ION Trading
9 1 (1.09%) Charles River
9 1 (1.09%) Isilon
9 1 (1.09%) Reuters
9 1 (1.09%) Sybase