Windows Contracts in South London

Microsoft Windows
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 29 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 11 14 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 5.95% 5.83% 11.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.74% 53.85% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 35
10th Percentile £189 £185 £131
25th Percentile £241 £186 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £200 £225
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -11.11% -25.00%
75th Percentile £491 £244 £475
90th Percentile £598 £263 £500
London median daily rate £444 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +11.00% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £37.45 -
25th Percentile - £38.01 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -18.69% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £44.95 -
90th Percentile - £46.10 £51.95
London median hourly rate £24.09 £22.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year +9.50% -14.43% +7.53%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 27 26 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 14.59% 10.83% 26.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 88
10th Percentile £186 £186 £149
25th Percentile £297 £200 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £502 £559 £625
90th Percentile £613 £567 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £37.45 -
25th Percentile - £38.01 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -18.69% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £44.95 -
90th Percentile - £46.10 £51.95
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in South London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in South London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in South London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in South London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in South London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Merton +3 5 £325 +36.84%
Kingston Upon Thames +3 3 £135 -32.50%
Bromley -7 2 £725 +281.58% 6
Croydon +7 1 £450 -33.33% 1
Windows
London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 3 (27.27%) JBoss
2 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
3 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
3 1 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) NAS
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) IMS/DB
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Local Government
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Operations Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Service Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) CSS
2 1 (9.09%) EJB
2 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) J2EE
2 1 (9.09%) JDBC
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 2 (18.18%) Android
2 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) VMS
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
3 3 (27.27%) ITSM
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Logistics
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
5 1 (9.09%) Batch Processing
5 1 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) Risk Register
5 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) REXX
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) vSphere
4 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) EMC
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) SonicWALL