Windows Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 14 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 3,214 5,051 6,764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.72% 10.10% 9.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.78% 61.37% 60.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,230 3,616 4,677
10th Percentile £160 £165 £150
25th Percentile £213 £230 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £675
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 282 422
10th Percentile £11.80 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +12.28% +17.65%
75th Percentile £25.00 £50.42 £32.75
90th Percentile £64.25 £67.50 £59.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +23.08%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,039 8,230 11,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 16.46% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,443 5,843 7,667
10th Percentile £183 £195 £173
25th Percentile £294 £326 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 391 560
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.96 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.23 £17.72 £15.78
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +22.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.40% +73.33% +25.80%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in England

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in England

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in England

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in England

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in England

Windows
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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 -5 1,218 £400 -20.00% 456
South East +1 699 £425 +6.25% 376
North of England -2 439 £339 -9.67% 326
South West -3 331 £498 +10.56% 239
Midlands +2 326 £350 -6.67% 275
North West -4 239 £350 -17.65% 176
West Midlands +1 187 £381 -13.84% 159
Yorkshire 0 172 £325 -3.70% 119
East of England -12 144 £290 -7.20% 201
East Midlands +3 136 £215 -33.85% 116
North East +10 29 £431 +81.47% 37
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 394 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 217 (6.75%) SharePoint
3 96 (2.99%) Confluence
4 74 (2.30%) IIS
5 35 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2010
5 35 (1.09%) SharePoint Server
6 32 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
6 32 (1.00%) Skype for Business
7 28 (0.87%) Apache
8 22 (0.68%) Exchange Server 2007
8 22 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 16 (0.50%) CMS
10 15 (0.47%) JBoss
10 15 (0.47%) nginx
11 14 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2003
12 12 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
13 10 (0.31%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 5 (0.16%) IBM Notes
15 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2000
15 4 (0.12%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 397 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
2 96 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.093%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.062%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.062%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.031%) Simulink
9 1 (0.031%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.28%) Loan IQ
3 7 (0.22%) Teamcenter
3 7 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.16%) Shopify
5 4 (0.12%) LabWindows
5 4 (0.12%) SystmOne
6 3 (0.093%) Eikon
6 3 (0.093%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.093%) OPENHousing
6 3 (0.093%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.062%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.062%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.062%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.062%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.062%) ION MarketView
7 2 (0.062%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.031%) Primavera
8 1 (0.031%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 908 (28.25%) Microsoft 365
2 738 (22.96%) Azure
3 250 (7.78%) AWS
4 218 (6.78%) Entra ID
5 82 (2.55%) OneDrive
6 70 (2.18%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (1.93%) IaaS
8 59 (1.84%) PaaS
9 47 (1.46%) SaaS
10 41 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
11 38 (1.18%) Azure Stack
12 37 (1.15%) WhatsApp
13 36 (1.12%) Azure Storage
14 34 (1.06%) GitHub
14 34 (1.06%) Power Platform
15 31 (0.96%) GCP
16 29 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
17 27 (0.84%) Serverless
18 25 (0.78%) Mimecast
19 21 (0.65%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 395 (12.29%) Firewall
2 356 (11.08%) DNS
3 239 (7.44%) VPN
4 225 (7.00%) DHCP
5 172 (5.35%) LAN
6 156 (4.85%) WAN
7 152 (4.73%) SAN
8 122 (3.80%) TCP/IP
9 106 (3.30%) Wireless
10 77 (2.40%) Network Security
11 73 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
12 54 (1.68%) Internet
13 53 (1.65%) VLAN
14 47 (1.46%) NAS
15 45 (1.40%) BGP
16 42 (1.31%) Skype
17 33 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
18 32 (1.00%) VoIP
19 28 (0.87%) MPLS
20 26 (0.81%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 44 (1.37%) Relational Database
3 38 (1.18%) MySQL
4 31 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (0.78%) MongoDB
5 25 (0.78%) Oracle Database
5 25 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 24 (0.75%) Power BI
7 21 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (0.53%) Big Data
10 14 (0.44%) Hadoop
11 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.19%) DB2
12 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.12%) KDB
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 163 (5.07%) JIRA
2 101 (3.14%) Git
3 78 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.21%) Bitbucket
5 34 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 33 (1.03%) TeamCity
7 29 (0.90%) GitLab
8 28 (0.87%) Artifactory
8 28 (0.87%) Robot Framework
9 26 (0.81%) MSI
10 22 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (0.68%) Subversion
11 19 (0.59%) Eclipse
12 17 (0.53%) Selenium
13 12 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
14 9 (0.28%) GoogleTest
15 8 (0.25%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.22%) Hudson
16 7 (0.22%) Mercurial
General
1 922 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 450 (14.00%) Finance
3 271 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 269 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 155 (4.82%) Banking
6 129 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
7 99 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 83 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 79 (2.46%) Marketing
10 67 (2.08%) Legal
10 67 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (1.84%) Front Office
12 55 (1.71%) Electronics
13 52 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
14 43 (1.34%) Investment Banking
15 37 (1.15%) Retail
16 33 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 32 (1.00%) Military
18 26 (0.81%) Law
19 23 (0.72%) French Language
Job Titles
1 441 (13.72%) Support Engineer
2 409 (12.73%) Analyst
3 267 (8.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 246 (7.65%) IT Support
5 221 (6.88%) Architect
6 220 (6.85%) Desktop Support
7 197 (6.13%) Senior
8 182 (5.66%) IT Engineer
9 176 (5.48%) Desktop Engineer
10 155 (4.82%) Administrator
11 150 (4.67%) Service Analyst
12 144 (4.48%) Windows Engineer
13 141 (4.39%) Service Desk Analyst
14 137 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support
14 137 (4.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 113 (3.52%) Support Analyst
16 111 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
17 101 (3.14%) Systems Administrator
18 96 (2.99%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 92 (2.86%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.36%) .NET
2 59 (1.84%) Node.js
3 41 (1.28%) LDAP
3 41 (1.28%) Middleware
4 36 (1.12%) Web Services
5 33 (1.03%) XML
6 30 (0.93%) .NET Framework
7 28 (0.87%) REST
8 27 (0.84%) JSON
9 25 (0.78%) ASP.NET
9 25 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
9 25 (0.78%) HTML
10 24 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
11 23 (0.72%) ARM Templates
12 21 (0.65%) CSS
13 20 (0.62%) SAML
14 17 (0.53%) React
15 15 (0.47%) Software Packaging
15 15 (0.47%) WCF
15 15 (0.47%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 167 (5.20%) PKI
2 125 (3.89%) Data Centre
3 116 (3.61%) Management Information System
4 85 (2.64%) Video Conferencing
5 81 (2.52%) Replication
6 80 (2.49%) Driving Licence
7 71 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 70 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 66 (2.05%) Clustering
10 57 (1.77%) NHS
11 46 (1.43%) Onboarding
12 44 (1.37%) Client/Server
13 41 (1.28%) iPhone
13 41 (1.28%) Private Cloud
14 34 (1.06%) iPad
15 30 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (0.90%) Smartphone
17 27 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
18 26 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
19 25 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 904 (28.13%) Windows Server
2 823 (25.61%) Windows 10
3 729 (22.68%) Linux
4 219 (6.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 211 (6.57%) Windows 7
6 196 (6.10%) Unix
7 190 (5.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 189 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 177 (5.51%) Apple iOS
10 157 (4.88%) Android
11 115 (3.58%) Mac OS
12 105 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 65 (2.02%) Windows Server 2008
14 40 (1.24%) Ubuntu
15 39 (1.21%) VMS
16 30 (0.93%) Mac OS X
17 29 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
18 28 (0.87%) Solaris
19 23 (0.72%) Windows XP
20 22 (0.68%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (16.33%) Customer Service
2 496 (15.43%) ITIL
3 479 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
4 362 (11.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 306 (9.52%) Migration
6 302 (9.40%) Agile
7 288 (8.96%) DevOps
8 186 (5.79%) CI/CD
9 160 (4.98%) Cybersecurity
10 152 (4.73%) Service Management
11 149 (4.64%) Change Management
12 147 (4.57%) Mobile Device Management
13 144 (4.48%) Disaster Recovery
14 128 (3.98%) Service Delivery
15 123 (3.83%) ITSM
16 112 (3.48%) Risk Management
17 109 (3.39%) Release Management
18 105 (3.27%) Analytics
19 100 (3.11%) Asset Management
20 98 (3.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 548 (17.05%) PowerShell
2 319 (9.93%) SQL
3 259 (8.06%) Python
4 158 (4.92%) C#
5 89 (2.77%) C++
6 84 (2.61%) Java
7 70 (2.18%) Bash
8 67 (2.08%) JavaScript
9 57 (1.77%) VBScript
10 47 (1.46%) VB
11 41 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 33 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 33 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 25 (0.78%) VBA
14 23 (0.72%) Perl
15 22 (0.68%) Bicep
16 19 (0.59%) C
17 17 (0.53%) Go
18 12 (0.37%) R
19 10 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 913 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 441 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 435 (13.53%) DV Cleared
4 351 (10.92%) Degree
5 141 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 64 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
7 60 (1.87%) CCNA
8 58 (1.80%) MCSE
9 57 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 42 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 40 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
12 39 (1.21%) A+ Certification
13 36 (1.12%) MCP
14 35 (1.09%) MCSA
14 35 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 32 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 26 (0.81%) CCNP
17 25 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
18 24 (0.75%) Master's Degree
19 21 (0.65%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (5.82%) SLA
2 99 (3.08%) QA
3 37 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
5 34 (1.06%) NIST
6 29 (0.90%) GDPR
7 27 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
8 20 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 15 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.40%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.31%) ISO 9000
14 9 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.22%) RMADS
16 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 4 (0.12%) ISO 15022
17 4 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 1,300 (40.45%) Active Directory
2 391 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 151 (4.70%) Hyper-V
4 87 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
5 81 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
6 69 (2.15%) vSphere
7 65 (2.02%) Firmware
8 62 (1.93%) Docker
8 62 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 53 (1.65%) VMware NSX
10 38 (1.18%) XenApp
11 35 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
12 22 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
12 22 (0.68%) XenDesktop
13 18 (0.56%) NFS
14 16 (0.50%) BitLocker
15 13 (0.40%) HDFS
16 10 (0.31%) iptables
16 10 (0.31%) KVM
17 9 (0.28%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 512 (15.93%) SCCM
2 284 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 148 (4.60%) Ansible
4 118 (3.67%) WSUS
5 107 (3.33%) Kubernetes
6 103 (3.20%) SCOM
7 101 (3.14%) Terraform
8 68 (2.12%) vCenter Server
9 62 (1.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 59 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
11 57 (1.77%) NetBackup
12 49 (1.52%) Puppet
13 33 (1.03%) EMC NetWorker
14 27 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
15 23 (0.72%) Grafana
16 22 (0.68%) Progress Chef
17 21 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
17 21 (0.65%) Sysprep
18 19 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
18 19 (0.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1,348 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 567 (17.64%) VMware
3 235 (7.31%) Citrix
4 180 (5.60%) Cisco
5 176 (5.48%) ServiceNow
6 163 (5.07%) Apple
7 154 (4.79%) Oracle
8 140 (4.36%) HP
9 101 (3.14%) Veeam
10 84 (2.61%) Dell
11 79 (2.46%) Red Hat
11 79 (2.46%) SAP
12 78 (2.43%) Splunk
13 63 (1.96%) EMC
14 61 (1.90%) Atlassian
15 55 (1.71%) IBM
16 50 (1.56%) Google
17 43 (1.34%) Palo Alto
18 38 (1.18%) NetApp
19 35 (1.09%) Bloomberg