Windows Contracts in East London

Microsoft Windows
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 12 36 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 11.65% 15.52% 20.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.00% 83.72% 81.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 34 31
10th Percentile £243 £161 £170
25th Percentile £321 £258 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £440 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £585 £508 £514
90th Percentile - £770 £750
London median daily rate £444 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +11.00% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - +16.22% -15.04%
London median hourly rate £24.09 £22.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year +9.50% -14.43% +7.53%

All Operating Systems
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 43 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 15.53% 18.53% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 38 39
10th Percentile £243 £166 £176
25th Percentile £250 £325 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £440 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £543 £533 £537
90th Percentile £585 £770 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% +16.22% -15.04%
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.09% -45.00% +63.27%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in East London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in East London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in East London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in East London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in East London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Tower Hamlets 0 5 £585 -6.40% 2
Havering +2 2 £245 -44.32% 2
Windows
London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (41.67%) OneDrive
4 4 (33.33%) AWS
4 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 3 (25.00%) Mimecast
6 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (8.33%) GCP
7 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (8.33%) SaaS
7 1 (8.33%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) VLAN
2 5 (41.67%) DHCP
2 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) WAN
3 4 (33.33%) Firewall
4 3 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (16.67%) HTTP
5 2 (16.67%) LAN
5 2 (16.67%) VoIP
5 2 (16.67%) VPN
5 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Ant
1 2 (16.67%) JUnit
1 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
1 2 (16.67%) Toad
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Desktop Support
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (16.67%) EDI
1 2 (16.67%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
1 2 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (16.67%) AIX
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (25.00%) Change Control
1 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (25.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL
1 3 (25.00%) Project Management
1 3 (25.00%) Threat Management
1 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) API Management
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Data Science
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (16.67%) Robotic Process Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Korn
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) SCCM
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (16.67%) AppManager
4 1 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) IBM
4 2 (16.67%) Ivanti
4 2 (16.67%) Perforce
5 1 (8.33%) Citrix
5 1 (8.33%) SkyKick