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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 128 146
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +14
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 1 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.095% 0.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.53% 0.72% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - - £140
25th Percentile £225 - £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £140 £200
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -30.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £275 - £450
90th Percentile - - £495
Central London median daily rate £233 £140 £200
% change year-on-year +66.07% -30.00% -20.00%

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 189 278 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.72% 13.25% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 180 288
10th Percentile £254 £255 £182
25th Percentile £325 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £673 £643 £639
90th Percentile £722 £726 £725
Central London median daily rate £496 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -3.79% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £24.25 £23.90 £23.88
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.06 £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -25.52% +81.25%
75th Percentile £29.50 £28.19 £45.31
90th Percentile £29.95 £28.90 £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £27.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -3.70% -25.52% +79.01%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Windows 7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 7 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
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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MOS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Avaya
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Polycom
1 1 (100.00%) Wyse