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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 18 28
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows 1,120 2,142 2,882
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.78% 8.74% 7.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.42% 58.30% 52.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 1,579 2,163
10th Percentile £181 £181 £185
25th Percentile £268 £281 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £738 £725
England median daily rate £440 £440 £420
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 38 63
10th Percentile £16.23 £16.13 £13.88
25th Percentile £19.53 £22.53 £20.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.71 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +7.53% +3.96%
75th Percentile £23.89 £52.33 £29.25
90th Percentile £27.24 £61.35 £51.18
England median hourly rate £20.00 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.77% +23.10% +25.00%

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 2,021 3,674 5,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.24% 14.99% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 2,675 4,024
10th Percentile £213 £210 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 58 86
10th Percentile £16.24 £18.93 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.75 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +103.89% -1.81%
75th Percentile £29.38 £63.38 £41.13
90th Percentile £61.14 £83.23 £62.75
England median hourly rate £27.00 £42.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -36.47% +88.89% +32.35%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Central London -2 206 £425 -5.56% 55
East London -2 34 £375 +7.14% 12
West London +3 24 £330 +57.14% 18
South London -9 12 £238 +18.75% 8
North London +1 2 £250 +29.03% 3
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
1 133 (11.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 73 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 52 (4.64%) IIS
4 13 (1.16%) Tomcat
5 12 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2010
6 11 (0.98%) Apache
7 10 (0.89%) Confluence
7 10 (0.89%) Skype for Business
8 8 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2013
8 8 (0.71%) JBoss
8 8 (0.71%) nginx
9 6 (0.54%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 6 (0.54%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2007
11 4 (0.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.36%) CMS
12 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 129 (11.52%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.45%) Trello
6 3 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
6 3 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.18%) Maya
7 2 (0.18%) NUKE
8 1 (0.089%) DaVinci Resolve
Business Applications
1 6 (0.54%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.27%) OPENHousing
2 3 (0.27%) Shopify
3 2 (0.18%) Advent Geneva
3 2 (0.18%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.18%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.18%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.089%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.089%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.089%) Eikon
4 1 (0.089%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.089%) HiPortfolio
4 1 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.089%) Relativity
4 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.089%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.089%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.089%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 342 (30.54%) Azure
2 300 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
3 130 (11.61%) AWS
4 115 (10.27%) Entra ID
5 42 (3.75%) PaaS
6 38 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (3.30%) IaaS
7 37 (3.30%) OneDrive
8 32 (2.86%) WhatsApp
9 28 (2.50%) GCP
10 25 (2.23%) SaaS
11 23 (2.05%) Azure Storage
12 19 (1.70%) GitHub
13 18 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (1.52%) Mimecast
15 15 (1.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 13 (1.16%) Power Platform
17 12 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
19 10 (0.89%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 126 (11.25%) Firewall
2 112 (10.00%) DNS
3 79 (7.05%) VPN
4 53 (4.73%) DHCP
5 44 (3.93%) Internet
6 36 (3.21%) WAN
7 35 (3.13%) LAN
8 32 (2.86%) SAN
8 32 (2.86%) Wireless
9 31 (2.77%) TCP/IP
10 21 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (1.70%) MPLS
11 19 (1.70%) VoIP
12 17 (1.52%) Network Security
13 15 (1.34%) FTP
13 15 (1.34%) Skype
13 15 (1.34%) SSH
14 13 (1.16%) NetScaler
14 13 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
15 11 (0.98%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (14.91%) SQL Server
2 39 (3.48%) Oracle Database
2 39 (3.48%) Relational Database
3 36 (3.21%) MySQL
4 25 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.05%) RDBMS
6 14 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.16%) Hadoop
8 9 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.71%) DB2
9 8 (0.71%) Power BI
10 7 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.54%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.54%) Tableau
12 4 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 56 (5.00%) Git
2 52 (4.64%) JIRA
3 41 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.23%) TeamCity
5 16 (1.43%) GitLab
6 13 (1.16%) Bitbucket
7 12 (1.07%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.07%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.63%) NUnit
8 7 (0.63%) Subversion
9 6 (0.54%) MSI
9 6 (0.54%) MSTest
10 4 (0.36%) Maven
10 4 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.36%) Selenium
10 4 (0.36%) Toad
11 3 (0.27%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.27%) WiX
12 2 (0.18%) Hudson
General
1 291 (25.98%) Finance
2 268 (23.93%) Social Skills
3 127 (11.34%) Banking
4 85 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 46 (4.11%) Investment Banking
7 36 (3.21%) Front Office
8 29 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 28 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (1.79%) Marketing
11 18 (1.61%) Legal
12 16 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.34%) Advertising
14 14 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.16%) Retail
16 12 (1.07%) Law
17 11 (0.98%) Electronics
17 11 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 173 (15.45%) Support Engineer
2 121 (10.80%) Analyst
3 96 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 91 (8.13%) Desktop Support
5 90 (8.04%) IT Support
6 81 (7.23%) IT Engineer
7 78 (6.96%) Developer
8 73 (6.52%) Windows Engineer
9 69 (6.16%) Senior
10 56 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
11 51 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
12 48 (4.29%) Architect
13 44 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
14 43 (3.84%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 43 (3.84%) Support Analyst
15 41 (3.66%) 2nd Line Support
16 39 (3.48%) Consultant
17 38 (3.39%) Applications Support
18 36 (3.21%) C# Developer
19 35 (3.13%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (8.57%) .NET
2 54 (4.82%) .NET Framework
3 32 (2.86%) LDAP
4 30 (2.68%) ASP.NET
5 26 (2.32%) Middleware
5 26 (2.32%) WCF
5 26 (2.32%) WPF
6 24 (2.14%) REST
7 21 (1.88%) WinForms
8 20 (1.79%) HTML
9 18 (1.61%) Web Services
10 15 (1.34%) HTML5
10 15 (1.34%) SAML
10 15 (1.34%) XML
11 13 (1.16%) JSON
12 12 (1.07%) CSS
13 11 (0.98%) Entity Framework
13 11 (0.98%) LINQ
14 10 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
14 10 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 47 (4.20%) Management Information System
3 43 (3.84%) Video Conferencing
4 36 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.41%) Replication
7 23 (2.05%) Clustering
7 23 (2.05%) PKI
8 20 (1.79%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.70%) iPhone
10 18 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.61%) Smartphone
11 15 (1.34%) Blackberry
11 15 (1.34%) iPad
12 14 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.07%) Client/Server
13 12 (1.07%) Cloud Native
13 12 (1.07%) Security Posture
14 11 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 275 (24.55%) Windows Server
2 270 (24.11%) Linux
3 215 (19.20%) Windows 10
4 122 (10.89%) Unix
5 60 (5.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 58 (5.18%) Android
7 53 (4.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 51 (4.55%) Mac OS
9 49 (4.38%) Windows 7
10 41 (3.66%) Apple iOS
11 32 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
12 28 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 20 (1.79%) Mac OS X
13 20 (1.79%) Windows Server 2008
14 18 (1.61%) VMS
15 11 (0.98%) Solaris
16 9 (0.80%) CentOS
17 7 (0.63%) Ubuntu
18 6 (0.54%) AIX
18 6 (0.54%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
2 144 (12.86%) Migration
3 137 (12.23%) Customer Service
4 136 (12.14%) DevOps
5 115 (10.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 114 (10.18%) ITIL
7 90 (8.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 86 (7.68%) Agile
9 74 (6.61%) CI/CD
10 49 (4.38%) Analytics
10 49 (4.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 46 (4.11%) ITSM
12 43 (3.84%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (3.66%) Test Automation
14 40 (3.57%) Incident Management
15 39 (3.48%) Asset Management
15 39 (3.48%) Change Management
16 38 (3.39%) Time Management
17 36 (3.21%) Service Management
18 33 (2.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 216 (19.29%) PowerShell
2 205 (18.30%) SQL
3 120 (10.71%) Python
4 89 (7.95%) C#
5 48 (4.29%) T-SQL
6 45 (4.02%) Java
7 44 (3.93%) VBA
8 43 (3.84%) PL/SQL
9 41 (3.66%) VB
10 33 (2.95%) Bash
11 28 (2.50%) Shell Script
12 26 (2.32%) JavaScript
13 21 (1.88%) Perl
14 18 (1.61%) C++
15 14 (1.25%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.80%) VBScript
17 8 (0.71%) Bicep
18 7 (0.63%) TypeScript
19 6 (0.54%) Go
19 6 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 165 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 114 (10.18%) Degree
3 112 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 49 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 19 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (1.61%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.25%) CCNA
9 14 (1.25%) MCSA
10 13 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.16%) MCSE
11 11 (0.98%) CCNP
11 11 (0.98%) CISSP
11 11 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (0.80%) A+ Certification
13 7 (0.63%) CISM
14 6 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.54%) MCP
15 5 (0.45%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.18%) SLA
2 44 (3.93%) QA
3 12 (1.07%) GDPR
3 12 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.45%) ISO 15022
4 5 (0.45%) NIST
5 4 (0.36%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.27%) COBIT
6 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.18%) NCSC
8 1 (0.089%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.089%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.089%) IASME
8 1 (0.089%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.089%) PMO
System Software
1 412 (36.79%) Active Directory
2 116 (10.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (4.46%) Hyper-V
4 30 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (2.59%) vSphere
6 28 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (2.32%) Docker
8 17 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (1.34%) Firmware
9 15 (1.34%) XenApp
10 14 (1.25%) XenDesktop
11 13 (1.16%) NFS
12 12 (1.07%) HDFS
13 11 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
14 10 (0.89%) VMware NSX
15 8 (0.71%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
17 4 (0.36%) Tivoli Directory Server
18 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
19 2 (0.18%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 166 (14.82%) SCCM
2 114 (10.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 70 (6.25%) Ansible
4 66 (5.89%) Terraform
5 44 (3.93%) Kubernetes
6 25 (2.23%) Puppet
7 23 (2.05%) Jamf Pro
8 20 (1.79%) SCOM
9 19 (1.70%) WSUS
10 13 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (1.16%) Grafana
10 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
10 13 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.07%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.89%) vRealize
13 9 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
15 7 (0.63%) Tivoli
15 7 (0.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 6 (0.54%) Control-M
Vendors
1 450 (40.18%) Microsoft
2 176 (15.71%) VMware
3 126 (11.25%) Citrix
4 125 (11.16%) Oracle
5 68 (6.07%) ServiceNow
6 67 (5.98%) Cisco
7 57 (5.09%) Apple
8 36 (3.21%) Dell
9 35 (3.13%) CyberArk
9 35 (3.13%) HP
10 28 (2.50%) EMC
11 26 (2.32%) IBM
12 25 (2.23%) Veeam
13 24 (2.14%) Adobe
14 22 (1.96%) Red Hat
15 21 (1.88%) Avaya
15 21 (1.88%) Google
16 19 (1.70%) CA
16 19 (1.70%) SAP
17 17 (1.52%) Dynatrace