Windows Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 20 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Windows 1,223 2,086 2,842
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.86% 7.80% 7.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.72% 53.93% 53.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,551 2,104
10th Percentile £167 £180 £181
25th Percentile £250 £263 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 40 81
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.04 £13.88
25th Percentile £18.93 £22.29 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.71 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +7.53% -1.81%
75th Percentile £25.00 £51.06 £37.50
90th Percentile £38.75 £64.50 £55.90
England median hourly rate £18.00 £22.21 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.94% +11.03% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,119 3,868 5,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.89% 14.47% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,512 2,826 3,868
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £325 £400 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £666
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
England median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 64 105
10th Percentile £15.40 £18.93 £16.08
25th Percentile £18.33 £22.72 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.67 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.11% +57.84% -42.35%
75th Percentile £30.75 £66.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £80.90 £71.74
England median hourly rate £22.08 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.13% +70.45% +23.87%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 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
Central London -2 207 £393 -1.88% 58
East London -2 36 £440 +10.00% 15
West London +8 29 £400 +21.21% 35
South London -10 14 £200 -13.51% 18
North London -4 2 £250 +8.11% 6
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
1 173 (14.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 74 (6.05%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.84%) IIS
4 30 (2.45%) Exchange Server 2010
5 25 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2013
6 23 (1.88%) Skype for Business
7 19 (1.55%) Confluence
8 14 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2007
9 12 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
10 11 (0.90%) Apache
11 10 (0.82%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2003
12 9 (0.74%) nginx
13 8 (0.65%) JBoss
14 6 (0.49%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 4 (0.33%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.25%) IBM Notes
17 2 (0.16%) IBM Domino
17 2 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 158 (12.92%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.082%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.74%) Loan IQ
2 6 (0.49%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.33%) SystmOne
5 3 (0.25%) Eikon
5 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.25%) OPENHousing
5 3 (0.25%) Shopify
6 2 (0.16%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.16%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.16%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.16%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.082%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.082%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.082%) thinkFolio
7 1 (0.082%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 379 (30.99%) Microsoft 365
2 345 (28.21%) Azure
3 148 (12.10%) AWS
4 116 (9.48%) Entra ID
5 42 (3.43%) PaaS
6 38 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (3.11%) OneDrive
7 37 (3.03%) IaaS
8 28 (2.29%) WhatsApp
9 27 (2.21%) SaaS
10 25 (2.04%) GitHub
11 22 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (1.72%) GCP
13 19 (1.55%) Mimecast
14 18 (1.47%) Azure Storage
15 14 (1.14%) Power Platform
16 12 (0.98%) Nutanix
17 11 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (0.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (0.90%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 146 (11.94%) Firewall
2 125 (10.22%) DNS
3 80 (6.54%) VPN
4 55 (4.50%) DHCP
5 54 (4.42%) SAN
6 46 (3.76%) Wireless
7 44 (3.60%) LAN
7 44 (3.60%) WAN
8 36 (2.94%) TCP/IP
9 33 (2.70%) Internet
10 28 (2.29%) NAS
11 26 (2.13%) Skype
12 24 (1.96%) Network Security
13 16 (1.31%) MPLS
13 16 (1.31%) VLAN
13 16 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
14 15 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (1.23%) FTP
15 12 (0.98%) Kerberos
16 10 (0.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.96%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.62%) Relational Database
3 21 (1.72%) MySQL
4 18 (1.47%) MongoDB
4 18 (1.47%) Oracle Database
5 16 (1.31%) RDBMS
6 13 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (0.98%) Hadoop
8 10 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.49%) Power BI
9 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.33%) KDB
11 4 (0.33%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.25%) DB2
13 2 (0.16%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.16%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 51 (4.17%) Git
2 50 (4.09%) Jenkins
3 49 (4.01%) JIRA
4 29 (2.37%) TeamCity
5 17 (1.39%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.31%) Subversion
6 16 (1.31%) Visual Studio
7 15 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 15 (1.23%) GitLab
8 8 (0.65%) MSI
9 7 (0.57%) Selenium
10 5 (0.41%) Hudson
10 5 (0.41%) WiX
11 4 (0.33%) JMeter
11 4 (0.33%) Maven
11 4 (0.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 3 (0.25%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.25%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 316 (25.84%) Finance
2 292 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 127 (10.38%) Banking
4 95 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 93 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (4.58%) Front Office
7 43 (3.52%) Investment Banking
8 31 (2.53%) Financial Institution
8 31 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 31 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (2.21%) Marketing
9 27 (2.21%) Telecoms
10 26 (2.13%) Legal
11 18 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.39%) Electronics
13 16 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.23%) French Language
15 14 (1.14%) Retail
16 12 (0.98%) Mandarin Language
17 11 (0.90%) German Language
Job Titles
1 177 (14.47%) Support Engineer
2 172 (14.06%) Analyst
3 109 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 102 (8.34%) Desktop Support
5 93 (7.60%) IT Support
6 80 (6.54%) Senior
7 75 (6.13%) IT Engineer
8 67 (5.48%) Desktop Engineer
9 62 (5.07%) Developer
9 62 (5.07%) Windows Engineer
10 59 (4.82%) Support Analyst
11 51 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
12 49 (4.01%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 48 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
14 44 (3.60%) Architect
15 41 (3.35%) Administrator
15 41 (3.35%) Applications Support
16 40 (3.27%) Service Analyst
17 39 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
17 39 (3.19%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (6.95%) .NET
2 30 (2.45%) LDAP
3 26 (2.13%) .NET Framework
4 25 (2.04%) Middleware
5 23 (1.88%) ASP.NET
6 19 (1.55%) JSON
6 19 (1.55%) Web Services
7 17 (1.39%) XML
8 16 (1.31%) REST
9 15 (1.23%) WCF
10 13 (1.06%) HTML
10 13 (1.06%) WinForms
10 13 (1.06%) WPF
11 11 (0.90%) .NET Core
11 11 (0.90%) SAML
12 10 (0.82%) HTML5
12 10 (0.82%) Software Packaging
13 9 (0.74%) CSS
14 8 (0.65%) Apache Camel
14 8 (0.65%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 64 (5.23%) Management Information System
2 59 (4.82%) Video Conferencing
3 56 (4.58%) Data Centre
4 44 (3.60%) Replication
5 30 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (2.21%) PKI
7 25 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 24 (1.96%) iPhone
9 23 (1.88%) Clustering
10 20 (1.64%) Blackberry
11 19 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.47%) iPad
12 18 (1.47%) Smartphone
13 17 (1.39%) Cloud Native
14 15 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.98%) Hedge funds
15 12 (0.98%) NHS
16 11 (0.90%) Client/Server
16 11 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 337 (27.56%) Windows Server
2 261 (21.34%) Windows 10
3 244 (19.95%) Linux
4 110 (8.99%) Unix
5 75 (6.13%) Windows 7
6 69 (5.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 61 (4.99%) Android
7 61 (4.99%) Mac OS
7 61 (4.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 45 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 40 (3.27%) Apple iOS
10 36 (2.94%) Windows Server 2008
11 28 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 21 (1.72%) Mac OS X
13 20 (1.64%) VMS
14 13 (1.06%) Solaris
14 13 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
15 9 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
15 9 (0.74%) Windows 8
16 8 (0.65%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
2 158 (12.92%) Customer Service
3 154 (12.59%) Migration
4 153 (12.51%) ITIL
5 146 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 136 (11.12%) DevOps
7 92 (7.52%) Agile
8 83 (6.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 66 (5.40%) CI/CD
10 56 (4.58%) Asset Management
11 55 (4.50%) Cybersecurity
12 52 (4.25%) Analytics
13 50 (4.09%) ITSM
13 50 (4.09%) Risk Management
14 44 (3.60%) Incident Management
14 44 (3.60%) Proactive Monitoring
15 43 (3.52%) Time Management
16 42 (3.43%) Change Management
16 42 (3.43%) Mobile Device Management
16 42 (3.43%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 254 (20.77%) PowerShell
2 190 (15.54%) SQL
3 153 (12.51%) Python
4 78 (6.38%) C#
5 46 (3.76%) Java
6 39 (3.19%) T-SQL
7 38 (3.11%) Bash
8 33 (2.70%) C++
9 29 (2.37%) PL/SQL
10 25 (2.04%) JavaScript
10 25 (2.04%) VBA
11 21 (1.72%) VB
12 18 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.23%) Go
14 14 (1.14%) Perl
15 9 (0.74%) VBScript
16 6 (0.49%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.41%) PHP
18 4 (0.33%) Bicep
18 4 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 186 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 113 (9.24%) Degree
3 108 (8.83%) SC Cleared
4 65 (5.31%) DV Cleared
5 46 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 20 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (1.31%) A+ Certification
9 15 (1.23%) CISSP
10 14 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (0.90%) CISM
11 11 (0.90%) MCSE
12 10 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.82%) CCNA
12 10 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (0.82%) MCP
12 10 (0.82%) MCSA
13 8 (0.65%) GIAC
14 7 (0.57%) CCNP
14 7 (0.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.89%) SLA
2 44 (3.60%) QA
3 18 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.14%) NIST
5 13 (1.06%) GDPR
6 9 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.49%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.33%) ISO 15022
10 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.25%) PMO
11 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.16%) HL7
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.082%) GLBA
12 1 (0.082%) IASME
12 1 (0.082%) ISAE 3402
12 1 (0.082%) NCSC
System Software
1 487 (39.82%) Active Directory
2 112 (9.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (3.84%) Hyper-V
4 31 (2.53%) Docker
4 31 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (2.13%) vSphere
6 16 (1.31%) NFS
6 16 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 15 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.14%) Firmware
9 13 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (0.98%) HDFS
11 6 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.33%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.25%) KVM
13 3 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.16%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 180 (14.72%) SCCM
2 114 (9.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 65 (5.31%) Ansible
4 56 (4.58%) Terraform
5 52 (4.25%) Kubernetes
6 35 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
7 29 (2.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 27 (2.21%) SCOM
9 23 (1.88%) WSUS
10 22 (1.80%) Puppet
11 18 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
12 14 (1.14%) Grafana
13 12 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.74%) BladeLogic
14 9 (0.74%) Tivoli
15 8 (0.65%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.65%) Netcool
15 8 (0.65%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.65%) SCVMM
15 8 (0.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 459 (37.53%) Microsoft
2 180 (14.72%) VMware
3 132 (10.79%) Citrix
4 88 (7.20%) Oracle
5 85 (6.95%) ServiceNow
6 78 (6.38%) Cisco
7 60 (4.91%) Apple
8 52 (4.25%) HP
9 46 (3.76%) Dell
10 41 (3.35%) IBM
11 39 (3.19%) Veeam
12 32 (2.62%) Bloomberg
13 30 (2.45%) Dynatrace
13 30 (2.45%) Splunk
14 29 (2.37%) EMC
15 28 (2.29%) Red Hat
16 26 (2.13%) Google
17 24 (1.96%) Qualys
17 24 (1.96%) SAP
18 23 (1.88%) Adobe