Windows Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Windows
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 134 184 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.67% 8.47% 8.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.54% 65.95% 59.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 130 220
10th Percentile £216 £142 £140
25th Percentile £266 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £570
90th Percentile £675 £675 £663
Central London median daily rate £444 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +11.00% - -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £162.50 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £175.00 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +677.78% - -
75th Percentile £187.50 £25.38 -
90th Percentile - £26.35 -
Central London median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 -
% change year-on-year +338.89% - -

All Operating Systems
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 237 279 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.56% 12.84% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 196 363
10th Percentile £259 £190 £160
25th Percentile £363 £313 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -6.06% +1.43%
75th Percentile £664 £671 £663
90th Percentile £711 £744 £738
Central London median daily rate £513 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +13.89% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £162.50 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £175.00 £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +677.78% -35.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £187.50 £25.38 £59.38
90th Percentile - £26.35 £74.00
Central London median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +338.89% -35.71% +42.86%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. 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
London Bridge - 1 £238 -
Windows
Central London

Windows
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (10.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (10.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.99%) CMS
2 4 (2.99%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.75%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (14.18%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.49%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 53 (39.55%) Azure
2 46 (34.33%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (15.67%) Entra ID
4 18 (13.43%) AWS
5 7 (5.22%) OneDrive
5 7 (5.22%) SaaS
6 6 (4.48%) GitHub
6 6 (4.48%) IaaS
7 5 (3.73%) GCP
8 4 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.99%) Nutanix
8 4 (2.99%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.24%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.24%) PaaS
9 3 (2.24%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.24%) Serverless
10 2 (1.49%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.67%) Firewall
2 19 (14.18%) DNS
3 12 (8.96%) DHCP
4 5 (3.73%) Network Security
4 5 (3.73%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.73%) VPN
5 4 (2.99%) MPLS
5 4 (2.99%) VLAN
5 4 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.24%) HTTP
6 3 (2.24%) VoIP
7 2 (1.49%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.49%) LAN
7 2 (1.49%) WAN
7 2 (1.49%) Wireless
8 1 (0.75%) Internet
8 1 (0.75%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.75%) SAN
8 1 (0.75%) SMTP
8 1 (0.75%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.19%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.49%) DataStage
4 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.49%) MySQL
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.49%) Power BI
4 2 (1.49%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.75%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 11 (8.21%) JIRA
2 4 (2.99%) Git
2 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.24%) MSI
4 2 (1.49%) JMeter
4 2 (1.49%) Subversion
4 2 (1.49%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.75%) Gatling
5 1 (0.75%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) Hamcrest
5 1 (0.75%) JUnit
5 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.75%) Postman
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.75%) Serena SBM
5 1 (0.75%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (44.78%) Finance
2 44 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.18%) Banking
4 6 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.99%) International Banking
6 4 (2.99%) Law
7 3 (2.24%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.24%) Retail
8 2 (1.49%) Front Office
8 2 (1.49%) Legal
8 2 (1.49%) Local Government
8 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) French Language
9 1 (0.75%) Military
9 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (14.93%) Analyst
2 17 (12.69%) Support Engineer
3 14 (10.45%) Windows Engineer
4 13 (9.70%) Desktop Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (8.21%) IT Support
5 11 (8.21%) Support Analyst
6 8 (5.97%) Consultant
7 7 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) IT Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Senior
8 6 (4.48%) IT Analyst
8 6 (4.48%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (3.73%) Applications Support
9 5 (3.73%) Architect
9 5 (3.73%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Desktop Support
10 4 (2.99%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) .NET
2 3 (2.24%) Web Services
3 2 (1.49%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.49%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.49%) Kafka
3 2 (1.49%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.75%) Blazor
4 1 (0.75%) LDAP
4 1 (0.75%) REST
4 1 (0.75%) WinForms
4 1 (0.75%) WireMock
4 1 (0.75%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.46%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.24%) Clustering
4 3 (2.24%) Equities
4 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.24%) iPad
4 3 (2.24%) iPhone
4 3 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.24%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.49%) Blackberry
5 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.49%) Replication
5 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.49%) Wiki
6 1 (0.75%) BYOD
6 1 (0.75%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 40 (29.85%) Windows Server
2 37 (27.61%) Windows 10
3 29 (21.64%) Linux
4 10 (7.46%) Apple iOS
5 8 (5.97%) Unix
6 7 (5.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (3.73%) Mac OS
8 4 (2.99%) Android
8 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.49%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.75%) CentOS
10 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.75%) Solaris
10 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (14.93%) Migration
3 15 (11.19%) ITIL
4 14 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (8.96%) Customer Service
5 12 (8.96%) DevOps
6 10 (7.46%) Asset Management
7 9 (6.72%) Agile
7 9 (6.72%) Change Management
7 9 (6.72%) CI/CD
8 8 (5.97%) Configuration Management
8 8 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (5.22%) Data Protection
9 7 (5.22%) ITSM
9 7 (5.22%) Project Management
9 7 (5.22%) Test Automation
10 6 (4.48%) Cloud Security
10 6 (4.48%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (4.48%) Project Delivery
10 6 (4.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.12%) PowerShell
2 18 (13.43%) Python
3 16 (11.94%) SQL
4 6 (4.48%) Bash
4 6 (4.48%) C#
5 5 (3.73%) Java
6 3 (2.24%) Bicep
6 3 (2.24%) C++
6 3 (2.24%) VBScript
7 2 (1.49%) Go
7 2 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.49%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) Ruby
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.21%) Degree
2 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.73%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.49%) VCAP
6 2 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CCNA
7 1 (0.75%) CCNP
7 1 (0.75%) CCSA
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.75%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.48%) SLA
2 5 (3.73%) GDPR
3 3 (2.24%) QA
4 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.49%) NIST
4 2 (1.49%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.75%) PMO
5 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (35.07%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.73%) Docker
5 4 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.24%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.24%) XenDesktop
7 2 (1.49%) Firmware
7 2 (1.49%) XenApp
8 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.75%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 24 (17.91%) Microsoft Intune
1 24 (17.91%) SCCM
2 6 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.99%) Ansible
3 4 (2.99%) Terraform
4 3 (2.24%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.24%) WSUS
5 2 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.49%) AirWatch
5 2 (1.49%) CASB
5 2 (1.49%) Control-M
5 2 (1.49%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.49%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.49%) Puppet
5 2 (1.49%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.75%) Kibana
6 1 (0.75%) QRadar
6 1 (0.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 51 (38.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.45%) Citrix
2 14 (10.45%) VMware
3 9 (6.72%) ServiceNow
4 8 (5.97%) Oracle
5 7 (5.22%) Bloomberg
6 5 (3.73%) Cisco
7 4 (2.99%) Google
7 4 (2.99%) Reuters
8 3 (2.24%) Apple
8 3 (2.24%) Commvault
8 3 (2.24%) CyberArk
8 3 (2.24%) F5
8 3 (2.24%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.24%) HP
8 3 (2.24%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.24%) Refinitiv
8 3 (2.24%) Splunk
8 3 (2.24%) Symantec
8 3 (2.24%) Tradeweb