Windows 7 Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Windows 7
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Windows 7 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 349 366
Rank change year-on-year -84 +17 +20
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 12 20 33
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.060% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.73% 1.29% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 14
10th Percentile - £180 £105
25th Percentile £150 £218 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £250 £190
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +31.58% -13.64%
75th Percentile £386 £338 £221
90th Percentile £445 £526 £241
England median daily rate £349 £250 £200
% change year-on-year +39.64% +25.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - - £19.13
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £18.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -14.23% +30.56%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £23.08
England median hourly rate - £18.87 £16.25
% change year-on-year - +16.12% -8.30%

All Operating Systems
London

Windows 7 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,640 1,554 2,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.18% 11.53% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 1,041 1,381
10th Percentile £207 £225 £225
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -3.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 44 43
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.80
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +5.67% -45.71%
75th Percentile £26.00 £25.18 £41.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £58.93 £61.14
England median hourly rate £35.22 £24.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +46.75% -33.64% -9.59%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows 7 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Windows 7 job vacancy trend in London

Windows 7
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows 7.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows 7

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 7 in London over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 7 in London

Windows 7
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows 7.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Windows 7

Windows 7
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the London region over the 6 months to 24 August 2026. 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
Central London -15 6 £150 -35.48% 1
Windows 7
England

Windows 7
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
1 3 (25.00%) French Language
1 3 (25.00%) Front Office
1 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Junior
3 2 (16.67%) Junior IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Junior IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) Junior Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Help Desk Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (8.33%) Help Desk Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (16.67%) OpenVMS
6 2 (16.67%) VMS
7 1 (8.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Ticket Management
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
4 2 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Coaching
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) A+ Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (16.67%) WSUS
3 1 (8.33%) SCOM
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Veeam
3 2 (16.67%) Veritas
4 1 (8.33%) Juniper