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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 130 176 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.68% 8.16% 8.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.91% 62.63% 62.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 122 209
10th Percentile £221 £159 £140
25th Percentile £269 £251 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £400 £473
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.34% +11.18%
75th Percentile £600 £592 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £665
Central London median daily rate £475 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £24.35 - -
25th Percentile £25.25 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £28.50 £24.38 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% - -
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.59 -
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.66 -
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £23.00 -
% change year-on-year +15.22% - -

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 217 281 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.83% 13.03% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 191 331
10th Percentile £257 £219 £158
25th Percentile £363 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.12% +7.50%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £714 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £518 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £24.35 - £37.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £21.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £24.38 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -51.25% +100.00%
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.59 £68.13
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.66 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +15.22% -45.88% +65.05%

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 30 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 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 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.08%) CMS
2 4 (3.08%) Confluence
3 2 (1.54%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.77%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 43 (33.08%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (31.54%) Azure
3 17 (13.08%) Entra ID
4 16 (12.31%) AWS
5 6 (4.62%) GitHub
5 6 (4.62%) IaaS
5 6 (4.62%) SaaS
6 5 (3.85%) GCP
6 5 (3.85%) OneDrive
7 4 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.08%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.31%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.31%) Nutanix
8 3 (2.31%) PaaS
8 3 (2.31%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.54%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.62%) DNS
1 19 (14.62%) Firewall
2 11 (8.46%) DHCP
3 7 (5.38%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.85%) VPN
5 4 (3.08%) WAN
5 4 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.31%) HTTP
6 3 (2.31%) LAN
6 3 (2.31%) MPLS
6 3 (2.31%) Network Security
6 3 (2.31%) VoIP
7 2 (1.54%) SAN
7 2 (1.54%) VLAN
8 1 (0.77%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.77%) Multicast
8 1 (0.77%) SMTP
8 1 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.54%) MySQL
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.54%) Power BI
3 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.77%) DataStage
4 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.77%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (7.69%) JIRA
2 4 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.31%) Git
3 3 (2.31%) MSI
4 2 (1.54%) JMeter
4 2 (1.54%) Subversion
4 2 (1.54%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.77%) Gatling
5 1 (0.77%) GitLab
5 1 (0.77%) Hamcrest
5 1 (0.77%) JUnit
5 1 (0.77%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.77%) Postman
5 1 (0.77%) Selenium
5 1 (0.77%) Serena SBM
5 1 (0.77%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (44.62%) Finance
2 40 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.38%) Banking
4 10 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.85%) Front Office
6 4 (3.08%) International Banking
6 4 (3.08%) Law
6 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Legal
8 2 (1.54%) Local Government
8 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.54%) Retail
8 2 (1.54%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.77%) Advertising
9 1 (0.77%) Back Office
9 1 (0.77%) Billing
9 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (16.15%) Analyst
2 15 (11.54%) Support Engineer
2 15 (11.54%) Windows Engineer
3 13 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 12 (9.23%) Support Analyst
5 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (7.69%) IT Support
6 8 (6.15%) IT Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Applications Support
7 6 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.62%) Consultant
7 6 (4.62%) Desktop Support
8 5 (3.85%) Architect
8 5 (3.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) C# Developer
8 5 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Developer
8 5 (3.85%) IT Analyst
8 5 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.62%) .NET
2 3 (2.31%) WPF
3 2 (1.54%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.54%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.54%) Kafka
3 2 (1.54%) Web Services
3 2 (1.54%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.77%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.77%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.77%) LDAP
4 1 (0.77%) REST
4 1 (0.77%) WinForms
4 1 (0.77%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.31%) Clustering
4 3 (2.31%) Equities
4 3 (2.31%) iPad
4 3 (2.31%) iPhone
4 3 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.31%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.54%) Replication
5 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 37 (28.46%) Windows Server
2 30 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 29 (22.31%) Linux
4 9 (6.92%) Apple iOS
5 8 (6.15%) Unix
6 7 (5.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (4.62%) Mac OS
8 4 (3.08%) Android
9 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.54%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.77%) CentOS
10 1 (0.77%) Solaris
10 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (16.15%) Migration
3 19 (14.62%) ITIL
4 12 (9.23%) DevOps
4 12 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 10 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (6.15%) Agile
6 8 (6.15%) Asset Management
7 7 (5.38%) Change Management
7 7 (5.38%) CI/CD
7 7 (5.38%) Data Protection
7 7 (5.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (5.38%) ITSM
7 7 (5.38%) Test Automation
8 6 (4.62%) Configuration Management
8 6 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (4.62%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (4.62%) Project Delivery
8 6 (4.62%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.38%) PowerShell
2 18 (13.85%) Python
3 14 (10.77%) SQL
4 9 (6.92%) Bash
4 9 (6.92%) C#
5 6 (4.62%) Java
6 3 (2.31%) Bicep
6 3 (2.31%) VBScript
7 2 (1.54%) C++
8 1 (0.77%) C
8 1 (0.77%) Go
8 1 (0.77%) Perl
8 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.77%) Ruby
8 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.92%) Degree
4 4 (3.08%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.54%) VCAP
5 2 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.77%) A+ Certification
6 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.77%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.85%) GDPR
1 5 (3.85%) QA
2 4 (3.08%) SLA
3 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.54%) NIST
3 2 (1.54%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (33.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.85%) Docker
4 4 (3.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.31%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.54%) XenApp
6 2 (1.54%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.77%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 22 (16.92%) SCCM
2 21 (16.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.85%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.08%) Ansible
4 4 (3.08%) Terraform
4 4 (3.08%) WSUS
5 3 (2.31%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.54%) AirWatch
6 2 (1.54%) CASB
6 2 (1.54%) Control-M
6 2 (1.54%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.54%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.54%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.54%) Puppet
6 2 (1.54%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 1 (0.77%) Grafana
7 1 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.77%) Kibana
7 1 (0.77%) QRadar
7 1 (0.77%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (33.08%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.54%) VMware
3 14 (10.77%) Citrix
4 10 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 8 (6.15%) Oracle
6 7 (5.38%) Bloomberg
7 5 (3.85%) Splunk
8 4 (3.08%) Cisco
8 4 (3.08%) CyberArk
8 4 (3.08%) HP
8 4 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.08%) Reuters
9 3 (2.31%) Apple
9 3 (2.31%) F5
9 3 (2.31%) Google
9 3 (2.31%) Refinitiv
9 3 (2.31%) Symantec
9 3 (2.31%) Tradeweb
10 2 (1.54%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.54%) Nexthink