Windows Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Windows
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 17 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing Windows 179 296 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.26% 8.48% 7.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.25% 62.18% 57.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 210 243
10th Percentile £165 £140 £150
25th Percentile £252 £213 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.34% +11.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £595 £573 £575
90th Percentile £675 £663 £650
Central London median daily rate £400 £425 £388
% change year-on-year -5.88% +9.68% -13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 - £14.34
Median hourly rate £24.38 - £21.75
75th Percentile £27.59 - £46.25
90th Percentile £28.66 - £85.13
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 - £21.75
% change year-on-year - - +55.36%

All Operating Systems
City of London

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 283 476 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.07% 13.64% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 337 406
10th Percentile £220 £159 £183
25th Percentile £350 £263 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +0.76%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £617
90th Percentile £735 £738 £700
Central London median daily rate £450 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile - £37.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £41.25 £14.81
Median hourly rate £24.38 £50.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.25% +100.00% +78.57%
75th Percentile £27.59 £68.13 £42.50
90th Percentile £28.66 £77.50 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year -45.88% +65.05% +82.30%

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 26 May 2024.

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
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 34 (18.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.59%) IIS
2 10 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.35%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (2.23%) Apache
5 3 (1.68%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (1.68%) nginx
5 3 (1.68%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.12%) Confluence
6 2 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.12%) JBoss
6 2 (1.12%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.68%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.56%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.56%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.56%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 63 (35.20%) Azure
2 46 (25.70%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (12.85%) AWS
4 20 (11.17%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.59%) Mimecast
7 8 (4.47%) PaaS
8 7 (3.91%) IaaS
9 6 (3.35%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.35%) Azure Storage
9 6 (3.35%) GitHub
9 6 (3.35%) OneDrive
9 6 (3.35%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.35%) Serverless
10 5 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.79%) GCP
11 4 (2.23%) WhatsApp
12 3 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 39 (21.79%) Firewall
2 16 (8.94%) SAN
3 11 (6.15%) DNS
4 10 (5.59%) VPN
5 8 (4.47%) Internet
5 8 (4.47%) WAN
6 6 (3.35%) Network Security
7 5 (2.79%) FTP
7 5 (2.79%) LAN
8 4 (2.23%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.68%) H.323
9 3 (1.68%) MPLS
9 3 (1.68%) NAS
9 3 (1.68%) Wireless
10 2 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.12%) Skype
10 2 (1.12%) SSL
10 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.32%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.47%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.79%) MySQL
4 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.23%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.12%) KDB
7 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.12%) Power BI
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.56%) Metadata
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (6.70%) Git
1 12 (6.70%) JIRA
2 10 (5.59%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.47%) TeamCity
4 5 (2.79%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.79%) GitLab
5 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.12%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.12%) Subversion
7 1 (0.56%) AppScan
7 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.56%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.56%) Maven
7 1 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 47 (26.26%) Finance
2 39 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.99%) Banking
4 12 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.70%) Investment Banking
5 8 (4.47%) Front Office
6 7 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.79%) French Language
9 4 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.23%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.23%) Law
9 4 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.68%) Legal
11 2 (1.12%) Advertising
11 2 (1.12%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Arabic Language
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
12 1 (0.56%) German Language
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (17.32%) Analyst
2 29 (16.20%) Support Engineer
3 17 (9.50%) IT Support
4 15 (8.38%) Desktop Engineer
4 15 (8.38%) Developer
4 15 (8.38%) IT Engineer
5 14 (7.82%) Desktop Support
6 11 (6.15%) IT Analyst
7 10 (5.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) Architect
9 7 (3.91%) Support Analyst
10 6 (3.35%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (3.35%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Senior
10 6 (3.35%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Systems Analyst
10 6 (3.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.61%) .NET
2 8 (4.47%) .NET Core
3 7 (3.91%) ASP.NET
4 6 (3.35%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.35%) Blazor
4 6 (3.35%) Web Services
5 4 (2.23%) LDAP
6 3 (1.68%) XML
7 2 (1.12%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.12%) HTML
7 2 (1.12%) HTML5
7 2 (1.12%) IBM Integration Bus
7 2 (1.12%) JSON
8 1 (0.56%) CSS
8 1 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.56%) OAuth
8 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.56%) SOAP
8 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.61%) Video Conferencing
2 13 (7.26%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.70%) Blackberry
4 11 (6.15%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.35%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.79%) iPhone
6 5 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.79%) Replication
7 4 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.68%) Clustering
8 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.12%) IoT
9 2 (1.12%) iPad
9 2 (1.12%) PKI
10 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.35%) Linux
2 37 (20.67%) Windows Server
3 34 (18.99%) Windows 10
4 18 (10.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (9.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (8.38%) Unix
7 12 (6.70%) Android
8 10 (5.59%) Mac OS
9 8 (4.47%) Windows 7
10 6 (3.35%) Apple iOS
10 6 (3.35%) Mac OS X
11 5 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (1.68%) Windows 8
13 2 (1.12%) VMS
13 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.56%) CentOS
14 1 (0.56%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.20%) DevOps
2 22 (12.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (11.17%) Migration
4 18 (10.06%) Agile
4 18 (10.06%) Disaster Recovery
5 16 (8.94%) CI/CD
5 16 (8.94%) Customer Service
5 16 (8.94%) Information Security
5 16 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (8.94%) SDLC
6 15 (8.38%) Software Engineering
7 14 (7.82%) ITIL
8 12 (6.70%) Asset Management
9 11 (6.15%) Business Continuity
10 10 (5.59%) Test Automation
11 9 (5.03%) Computer Science
11 9 (5.03%) Incident Management
12 8 (4.47%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (4.47%) Data Loss Prevention
13 7 (3.91%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.35%) PowerShell
2 33 (18.44%) Python
3 30 (16.76%) SQL
4 15 (8.38%) C#
5 11 (6.15%) C++
5 11 (6.15%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.91%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.91%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.91%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.35%) Java
8 5 (2.79%) Bash
8 5 (2.79%) Go
9 3 (1.68%) Perl
9 3 (1.68%) VBScript
10 1 (0.56%) PHP
10 1 (0.56%) VB
10 1 (0.56%) VC++
10 1 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (9.50%) Degree
2 8 (4.47%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.79%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.23%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.23%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.68%) GCIA
5 3 (1.68%) GCIH
5 3 (1.68%) GIAC
5 3 (1.68%) ISEB
5 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.12%) CCNA
6 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) QA
2 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.68%) COBIT
3 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.68%) SLA
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) NCSC
5 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.56%) MiFID
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (33.52%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.35%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.23%) Docker
5 4 (2.23%) HDFS
5 4 (2.23%) NFS
5 4 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.12%) vSphere
7 1 (0.56%) iptables
7 1 (0.56%) KVM
7 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (18.44%) SCCM
2 19 (10.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (6.15%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.91%) Ansible
4 7 (3.91%) Terraform
5 5 (2.79%) Puppet
6 4 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.23%) Nessus
7 3 (1.68%) CASB
7 3 (1.68%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.68%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.68%) QRadar
7 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.12%) Grafana
8 2 (1.12%) Graylog
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (1.12%) Nagios
8 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.12%) SCOrch
8 2 (1.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 59 (32.96%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.99%) Citrix
3 25 (13.97%) Oracle
4 20 (11.17%) Cisco
5 18 (10.06%) VMware
6 14 (7.82%) HP
7 13 (7.26%) Apple
7 13 (7.26%) Avaya
8 11 (6.15%) CheckPoint
8 11 (6.15%) EMC
9 10 (5.59%) ServiceNow
10 9 (5.03%) Adobe
11 7 (3.91%) Bloomberg
11 7 (3.91%) IBM
11 7 (3.91%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.79%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (2.79%) MuleSoft
13 4 (2.23%) iManage
13 4 (2.23%) Isilon
13 4 (2.23%) Okta