Windows 7 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows 7
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows 7 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 7 over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 259 234
Rank change year-on-year -37 -25 -56
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 52 138 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.68% 1.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.33% 4.31% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 85 151
10th Percentile £146 £143 £135
25th Percentile £157 £163 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £210 £200
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £295 £238 £300
90th Percentile £501 £342 £550
UK median daily rate £220 £210 £200
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 32 19
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.75 £13.63
25th Percentile £18.41 £13.87 £16.40
Median hourly rate £18.51 £17.71 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -4.27% +14.76%
75th Percentile £20.03 £20.00 £20.38
90th Percentile £24.18 £22.57 £49.00
UK median hourly rate £18.51 £17.71 £18.50
% change year-on-year +4.52% -4.27% +12.12%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows 7 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,236 3,200 4,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.22% 15.77% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,442 2,133 3,041
10th Percentile £178 £175 £163
25th Percentile £231 £263 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £588
90th Percentile £626 £672 £675
UK median daily rate £467 £469 £500
% change year-on-year -0.53% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 323 316
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.27 £17.25
Median hourly rate £21.90 £22.50 £29.65
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -24.11% +48.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.74
UK median hourly rate £22.53 £22.08 £39.05
% change year-on-year +2.06% -43.47% +69.78%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows 7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 7 in the UK excluding London

Windows 7
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 7 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows 7 in the UK excluding London

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 7 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 7 in the UK excluding London

Windows 7
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 7 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 7 in the UK excluding London

Windows 7
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South West +49 17 £130 -46.94% 9
South East -12 9 £263 +22.09% 5
Northern Ireland -2 8 £148 -
Midlands -9 7 £200 +33.33% 3
North of England +15 6 £163 -43.23% 5
North West +18 5 £314 +87.31% 5
East Midlands -15 4 £200 +33.33% 3
West Midlands +6 3 £512 +127.56%
Wales - 3 - -
Scotland -2 2 £240 +12.94% 3
North East - 1 £110 -
Windows 7
UK

Windows 7
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.69%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (26.92%) VPN
2 8 (15.38%) DNS
3 7 (13.46%) DHCP
4 6 (11.54%) LAN
4 6 (11.54%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (11.54%) Skype
4 6 (11.54%) VLAN
4 6 (11.54%) WAN
5 4 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.85%) Firewall
7 2 (3.85%) VoIP
7 2 (3.85%) Wireless
8 1 (1.92%) FTP
8 1 (1.92%) HTTP
8 1 (1.92%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.92%) SSL
8 1 (1.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Hudson
1 1 (1.92%) MSI
General
1 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
1 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Electronics
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 13 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) IT Support
3 7 (13.46%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Field Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Desktop Support
5 5 (9.62%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Windows Support Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) 1st Line Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 2 (3.85%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) BYOD
2 4 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) Anti-Spyware
4 2 (3.85%) Clustering
4 2 (3.85%) Fat Client
4 2 (3.85%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 52 (100.00%) Windows
2 35 (67.31%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Vista
4 3 (5.77%) Windows XP
5 2 (3.85%) Linux
6 1 (1.92%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Break/Fix
2 5 (9.62%) ITSM
3 4 (7.69%) Customer Experience
3 4 (7.69%) Customer Service
3 4 (7.69%) Disk Encryption
3 4 (7.69%) Service Management
4 3 (5.77%) Change Control
4 3 (5.77%) Incident Management
4 3 (5.77%) ITIL
4 3 (5.77%) Service Delivery
4 3 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (3.85%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (3.85%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (3.85%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (3.85%) Programme Management
5 2 (3.85%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 2 (3.85%) Test Automation
5 2 (3.85%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.69%) VB
2 4 (7.69%) VBScript
3 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) A+ Certification
4 4 (7.69%) Degree
5 3 (5.77%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.92%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.62%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.69%) BitLocker
4 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.92%) XenApp
5 1 (1.92%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) SCCM
2 2 (3.85%) AirWatch
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.85%) Proxmox
2 2 (3.85%) SCVMM
2 2 (3.85%) XenMobile
3 1 (1.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (67.31%) Microsoft
2 13 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.62%) VMware
4 4 (7.69%) Cisco
5 2 (3.85%) Adobe
5 2 (3.85%) Apple
5 2 (3.85%) Computacenter
5 2 (3.85%) Ivanti
5 2 (3.85%) MobileIron
5 2 (3.85%) Remedy
5 2 (3.85%) SAP
6 1 (1.92%) Bomgar
6 1 (1.92%) Citrix
6 1 (1.92%) CyberArk