Windows Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Microsoft Windows
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 14 3 22
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 25.45% 4.69% 13.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 87.50% 21.43% 73.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 19
10th Percentile £271 - £450
25th Percentile £371 - £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £260 £540
Median % change year-on-year +159.62% -51.85% +208.57%
75th Percentile £1,000 £355 £660
90th Percentile - £412 £770
East London median daily rate £416 £300 £350
% change year-on-year +38.67% -14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
East London median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
% change year-on-year - - -37.94%

All Operating Systems
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 14 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 29.09% 21.88% 17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 26
10th Percentile £282 £204 £450
25th Percentile £416 £250 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £415 £610
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% -31.91% +248.29%
75th Percentile £1,000 £541 £660
90th Percentile - £584 £770
East London median daily rate £478 £400 £495
% change year-on-year +19.50% -19.19% +23.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
East London median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
% change year-on-year - - -37.94%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Tower Hamlets

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Windows

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Canary Wharf +10 14 £675 +159.62% 2
Windows
East London

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 2 (14.29%) Google Workspace
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
2 2 (14.29%) DMZ
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) HTTP
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JUnit
1 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 11 (78.57%) Banking
2 10 (71.43%) Finance
3 7 (50.00%) Front Office
4 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 5 (35.71%) Financial Institution
5 5 (35.71%) Investment Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Quantitative Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Help Desk Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (14.29%) Help Desk Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Help Desk Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Support
4 2 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Middleware Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Junior PMO
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) EDI
1 2 (14.29%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
1 2 (14.29%) SOAP
1 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Derivative
1 5 (35.71%) Equities
1 5 (35.71%) Equity Derivative
1 5 (35.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) AIX
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (35.71%) Mathematics
2 5 (35.71%) Physics
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) API Integration
5 2 (14.29%) API Management
5 2 (14.29%) Change Control
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (14.29%) ITSM
5 2 (14.29%) Service Management
6 1 (7.14%) Budgeting
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (7.14%) Issue Tracking
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (7.14%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (7.14%) Robotic Process Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C++
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Korn
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SEPA
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) WSUS
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Sophis
3 2 (14.29%) Bloomberg
3 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (14.29%) ION Trading
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Reuters
4 1 (7.14%) Remedy
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow