Windows Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Microsoft Windows
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 9 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 10.00% 1.63% 3.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.00% 40.00% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £470 £184
25th Percentile - £481 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £507 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +19.18% +82.80%
75th Percentile - £525 £438
90th Percentile - £533 £603
South London median daily rate £190 £325 £190
% change year-on-year -41.54% +71.05% -15.56%

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 15 5 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 16.67% 4.07% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 28
10th Percentile £491 £440 £391
25th Percentile £521 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £475 £569
Median % change year-on-year +22.79% -16.48% -5.21%
75th Percentile £683 £506 £638
90th Percentile £717 £525 £675
South London median daily rate £450 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +38.46% -35.00% -9.09%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Croydon

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Windows

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 9 (100.00%) Confluence
1 9 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 9 (100.00%) Route 53
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) DNS
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) FTP
1 9 (100.00%) HTTP
1 9 (100.00%) IMAP
1 9 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (100.00%) SMTP
1 9 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
1 9 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 9 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Change Management
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 9 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Groovy
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
1 9 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 9 (100.00%) Postfix
1 9 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
1 9 (100.00%) Nessus
1 9 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (100.00%) ServiceNow