Windows Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 30 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 788 1,225 2,076
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.28% 6.87% 7.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.46% 57.86% 53.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 872 1,547
10th Percentile £206 £169 £180
25th Percentile £310 £250 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £575 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
England median daily rate £420 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 50 39
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.23 £15.25
25th Percentile £20.31 £19.25 £21.94
Median hourly rate £24.09 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -12.00% +4.56%
75th Percentile £28.85 £25.21 £51.70
90th Percentile £54.48 £47.92 £64.50
England median hourly rate £18.77 £17.72 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.90% -21.24% +12.50%

All Operating Systems
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,502 2,117 3,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.97% 11.87% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 1,510 2,826
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £641 £629 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 69 61
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.30 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.89 £18.93 £22.63
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%
75th Percentile £32.75 £33.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in London

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in London

Windows
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 within the London 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
Central London -6 165 £450 +12.50% 70
West London +1 15 £400 - 35
South London +4 12 £325 +62.50% 11
East London -3 11 £408 -7.37% 9
North London -3 3 £285 +14.00% 4
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 74 (9.39%) SharePoint
2 71 (9.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (3.17%) IIS
4 17 (2.16%) Confluence
5 10 (1.27%) CMS
5 10 (1.27%) JBoss
5 10 (1.27%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.51%) Apache
7 4 (0.51%) nginx
7 4 (0.51%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (0.38%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) DataSynapse
10 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 92 (11.68%) Microsoft Office
2 47 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.51%) InfoPath
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.25%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.13%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.25%) Actimize
2 2 (0.25%) Alphatax
2 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.25%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 272 (34.52%) Azure
2 246 (31.22%) Microsoft 365
3 110 (13.96%) Entra ID
4 101 (12.82%) AWS
5 44 (5.58%) OneDrive
6 29 (3.68%) GCP
7 28 (3.55%) IaaS
8 27 (3.43%) SaaS
9 18 (2.28%) GitHub
10 15 (1.90%) Google Workspace
11 14 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.78%) Power Platform
11 14 (1.78%) Slack
12 12 (1.52%) Azure AKS
13 11 (1.40%) PaaS
14 10 (1.27%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.27%) Asana
14 10 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (1.27%) Mimecast
14 10 (1.27%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 102 (12.94%) Firewall
2 93 (11.80%) DNS
3 71 (9.01%) VPN
4 59 (7.49%) DHCP
5 35 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
6 34 (4.31%) TCP/IP
7 24 (3.05%) WAN
8 20 (2.54%) LAN
9 18 (2.28%) Network Security
9 18 (2.28%) SAN
10 16 (2.03%) Internet
10 16 (2.03%) MPLS
11 14 (1.78%) VLAN
12 12 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
12 12 (1.52%) Wireless
13 11 (1.40%) HTTP
14 10 (1.27%) NAS
14 10 (1.27%) SMTP
14 10 (1.27%) VoIP
15 8 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 46 (5.84%) Oracle Database
3 17 (2.16%) MongoDB
4 14 (1.78%) MySQL
5 12 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.63%) Power BI
9 5 (0.63%) Tableau
10 4 (0.51%) Big Data
10 4 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.51%) DB2
10 4 (0.51%) MS Access
11 3 (0.38%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 53 (6.73%) JIRA
2 33 (4.19%) Git
3 22 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.65%) Selenium
5 12 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 12 (1.52%) TeamCity
6 11 (1.40%) GitLab
6 11 (1.40%) JMeter
7 10 (1.27%) LoadRunner
8 9 (1.14%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.02%) QARun
9 8 (1.02%) WinRunner
10 7 (0.89%) MSI
10 7 (0.89%) Subversion
11 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.63%) HP UFT
11 5 (0.63%) JUnit
11 5 (0.63%) Maven
12 4 (0.51%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.51%) TestComplete
General
1 260 (32.99%) Finance
2 246 (31.22%) Social Skills
3 110 (13.96%) Banking
4 61 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (3.17%) Investment Banking
9 22 (2.79%) Legal
10 21 (2.66%) Front Office
11 16 (2.03%) Law
12 14 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.78%) Local Government
13 13 (1.65%) Retail
13 13 (1.65%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.40%) Marketing
15 9 (1.14%) Back Office
15 9 (1.14%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.02%) Electronics
16 8 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (13.20%) Support Engineer
2 101 (12.82%) Analyst
3 77 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 77 (9.77%) Senior
4 62 (7.87%) Developer
5 59 (7.49%) Windows Engineer
6 52 (6.60%) Architect
7 48 (6.09%) IT Support
8 44 (5.58%) Desktop Engineer
9 41 (5.20%) C# Developer
10 40 (5.08%) Desktop Support
11 38 (4.82%) IT Engineer
12 35 (4.44%) Support Analyst
13 34 (4.31%) IT Support Engineer
14 31 (3.93%) .NET Developer
15 30 (3.81%) C# WPF Developer
15 30 (3.81%) WPF Developer
16 29 (3.68%) 2nd Line Support
17 28 (3.55%) Consultant
18 27 (3.43%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (9.64%) .NET
2 40 (5.08%) .NET Framework
3 33 (4.19%) WPF
4 23 (2.92%) Kafka
5 19 (2.41%) Web Services
6 17 (2.16%) HTML
7 15 (1.90%) ASP.NET
8 14 (1.78%) CSS
9 12 (1.52%) WCF
9 12 (1.52%) WinForms
10 11 (1.40%) FIX Protocol
10 11 (1.40%) REST
11 10 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
11 10 (1.27%) Middleware
11 10 (1.27%) Node.js
11 10 (1.27%) React
11 10 (1.27%) Sass
12 9 (1.14%) HTML5
13 8 (1.02%) LESS
13 8 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.20%) Data Centre
2 32 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 28 (3.55%) Video Conferencing
4 21 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (2.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 16 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 15 (1.90%) PKI
8 13 (1.65%) Clustering
8 13 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.27%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
11 9 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.14%) Replication
12 8 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.02%) Equities
13 7 (0.89%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 191 (24.24%) Windows Server
2 179 (22.72%) Linux
3 150 (19.04%) Windows 10
4 46 (5.84%) Apple iOS
4 46 (5.84%) Unix
5 45 (5.71%) Mac OS
6 32 (4.06%) Android
7 19 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (1.40%) Windows 7
11 10 (1.27%) CentOS
12 7 (0.89%) AIX
12 7 (0.89%) Mac OS X
13 6 (0.76%) Solaris
13 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.51%) VMS
15 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (14.47%) Migration
3 97 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 88 (11.17%) ITIL
5 80 (10.15%) DevOps
6 77 (9.77%) Agile
7 58 (7.36%) Customer Service
8 51 (6.47%) Disaster Recovery
8 51 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (6.09%) CI/CD
10 47 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (5.84%) ITSM
12 39 (4.95%) Project Management
13 37 (4.70%) Configuration Management
14 36 (4.57%) Data Protection
15 35 (4.44%) Change Management
15 35 (4.44%) Time Management
16 34 (4.31%) Service Management
17 33 (4.19%) Asset Management
17 33 (4.19%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 163 (20.69%) PowerShell
2 126 (15.99%) SQL
3 103 (13.07%) Python
4 83 (10.53%) C#
5 52 (6.60%) PL/SQL
6 51 (6.47%) Java
7 42 (5.33%) VB
8 36 (4.57%) Bash
9 32 (4.06%) JavaScript
9 32 (4.06%) VBA
10 22 (2.79%) T-SQL
11 20 (2.54%) C++
12 17 (2.16%) VB.NET
13 10 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 8 (1.02%) Perl
14 8 (1.02%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.89%) Go
16 6 (0.76%) ActionScript 2.0
16 6 (0.76%) C
16 6 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 106 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 87 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.87%) Degree
4 29 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.27%) CISSP
8 9 (1.14%) CCNA
8 9 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.89%) PMP
11 6 (0.76%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.63%) A+ Certification
12 5 (0.63%) CISM
12 5 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.51%) CCNP
13 4 (0.51%) CISA
13 4 (0.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.09%) QA
2 26 (3.30%) SLA
3 19 (2.41%) GDPR
4 10 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.27%) NIST
5 6 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
6 5 (0.63%) NCSC
6 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.38%) SEPA
7 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.25%) GRC
8 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) ITGC
8 2 (0.25%) PMO
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 272 (34.52%) Active Directory
2 78 (9.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (2.92%) Docker
3 23 (2.92%) Hyper-V
4 20 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.90%) vSphere
7 13 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
9 9 (1.14%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
11 4 (0.51%) Firmware
11 4 (0.51%) Platform Symphony
12 3 (0.38%) vCloud
12 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.38%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.25%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.25%) XenApp
14 1 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 129 (16.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 110 (13.96%) SCCM
3 50 (6.35%) Terraform
4 37 (4.70%) Kubernetes
5 34 (4.31%) Ansible
6 14 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
7 13 (1.65%) Puppet
8 12 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.02%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.02%) Kibana
10 7 (0.89%) Grafana
10 7 (0.89%) VxRail
11 5 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.63%) WSUS
12 4 (0.51%) NetBackup
12 4 (0.51%) Packer
12 4 (0.51%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 317 (40.23%) Microsoft
2 107 (13.58%) VMware
3 86 (10.91%) Oracle
4 57 (7.23%) Citrix
5 53 (6.73%) Cisco
6 44 (5.58%) ServiceNow
7 32 (4.06%) Google
8 31 (3.93%) Apple
9 26 (3.30%) Splunk
10 21 (2.66%) Red Hat
11 19 (2.41%) CyberArk
11 19 (2.41%) IBM
12 18 (2.28%) Bloomberg
12 18 (2.28%) Zscaler
13 17 (2.16%) Dell
14 16 (2.03%) BeyondTrust
14 16 (2.03%) EMC
14 16 (2.03%) HP
15 15 (1.90%) Reuters
16 12 (1.52%) Palo Alto