Windows Contracts in Hillingdon

Microsoft Windows
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hillingdon 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 11 11 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 +26 -36
Contract jobs citing Windows 2 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 4.26% 8.00% 2.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.67% 88.89% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - - £130
25th Percentile - £513 £134
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £150
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +250.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £538 £165
90th Percentile - - £283
West London median daily rate £400 £400 £365
% change year-on-year - +9.59% +102.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West London median hourly rate £18.13 £32.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -44.22% -50.00% +225.00%

All Operating Systems
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 6.38% 9.00% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 8
10th Percentile £265 £509 £131
25th Percentile £288 £513 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £525 £163
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +223.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £363 £538 £409
90th Percentile £385 - £452
West London median daily rate £400 £400 £425
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West London median hourly rate £18.13 £28.15 £75.00
% change year-on-year -35.60% -62.47% +265.85%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Hillingdon

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Hillingdon

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Hillingdon

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 1 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
Northwood -1 2 £400 -
Windows
West London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware