Windows 7 Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Windows 7
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Windows 7 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 123 120
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +32
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.055% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.44% 0.50% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £202 - -
25th Percentile £279 £225 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £250 £170
Median % change year-on-year +66.00% +47.06% -28.42%
75th Percentile £423 £275 £205
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £150 £233 £170
% change year-on-year -35.48% +36.76% -28.42%

All Operating Systems
City of London

Windows 7 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 208 200 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.95% 11.03% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 144 186
10th Percentile £200 £258 £250
25th Percentile £368 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £649
90th Percentile £690 £732 £725
Central London median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £19.30 £24.25 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.38 £25.00 £25.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +1.85% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.50 £28.19
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.95 £28.90
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows 7 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Windows 7 job vacancy trend in the City of London

Windows 7
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows 7.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows 7

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 7 in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 7 in the City of London

Windows 7
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows 7.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Windows 7

Windows 7
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Help Desk Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (33.33%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) OpenVMS
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Veeam
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft