Windows Contracts in Croydon

Microsoft Windows
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 32 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows 1 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 1.10% 1.38% 9.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.29% 18.18% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £191
25th Percentile £425 £638 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £390
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +73.08% -25.71%
75th Percentile £475 £713 £500
90th Percentile - - £536
South London median daily rate £325 £200 £225
% change year-on-year +62.50% -11.11% -25.00%

All Operating Systems
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7 11 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 7.69% 7.59% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 58
10th Percentile £425 £425 £415
25th Percentile £430 £463 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £559 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.62% +1.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £500 £567 £675
90th Percentile £503 £582 £725
South London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Croydon

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Croydon

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Croydon

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 1 (100.00%) VMware