Windows Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Microsoft Windows
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 17.39% - 21.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.00% - 64.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile £436 - £169
25th Percentile £453 - £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £185
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.08%
75th Percentile £492 - £400
90th Percentile £501 - £485
Central London median daily rate £458 £426 £450
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.57 £112.00 £20.72
% change year-on-year -81.64% +440.67% +3.58%

All Operating Systems
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10 0 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 21.74% - 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 14
10th Percentile £430 - £173
25th Percentile £438 - £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.76%
75th Percentile £506 - £834
90th Percentile £510 - £938
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.88 £112.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -77.78% +491.65% -7.66%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Windows job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Mayfair - 4 £475 -
Paddington - 3 - - 1
Westminster - 1 - -
Windows
Central London

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
3 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DKIM
2 1 (12.50%) DMARC
2 1 (12.50%) PSTN
2 1 (12.50%) WebEx
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Japanese Language
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Application Packaging
1 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Service Management
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) BMC
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow