Windows Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 2,181 3,209 4,182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.49% 13.25% 13.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.66% 68.47% 70.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 2,248 2,786
10th Percentile £150 £159 £138
25th Percentile £205 £200 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £395 £325
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +21.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile £667 £650 £613
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 261 378
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.19 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.60 £20.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -12.03% +6.95% +16.88%
75th Percentile £23.75 £50.00 £28.41
90th Percentile £64.88 £67.50 £55.77
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,272 4,687 5,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.74% 19.36% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 3,273 3,905
10th Percentile £171 £163 £148
25th Percentile £250 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +9.68%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.68% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 348 473
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.56
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +50.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -41.33% +68.31% +25.38%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
South East 0 709 £416 +1.83% 378
North of England 0 464 £350 -6.67% 318
South West -4 335 £495 +10.00% 217
Midlands 0 318 £350 -6.67% 256
North West -4 258 £350 -17.65% 183
West Midlands 0 188 £400 -10.16% 152
Yorkshire +3 175 £325 -3.70% 105
Scotland -11 168 £475 +26.50% 100
East of England -12 146 £290 -2.52% 183
East Midlands +2 126 £200 -38.46% 104
Wales -4 37 £223 -42.58% 28
North East +11 32 £423 +78.11% 34
Northern Ireland -9 9 £350 +110.53% 27
Windows
UK

Windows
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
1 245 (11.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 161 (7.38%) SharePoint
3 89 (4.08%) Confluence
4 47 (2.15%) IIS
5 38 (1.74%) SharePoint Server
6 24 (1.10%) Apache
7 19 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 16 (0.73%) CMS
9 14 (0.64%) Skype for Business
10 10 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2007
11 9 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
12 6 (0.28%) JBoss
12 6 (0.28%) nginx
12 6 (0.28%) SAS
13 5 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2000
14 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2003
15 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
16 2 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 272 (12.47%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.092%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.046%) Simulink
7 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.32%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.18%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.14%) assyst
3 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.092%) Shopify
4 2 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.046%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.046%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.046%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 583 (26.73%) Microsoft 365
2 440 (20.17%) Azure
3 129 (5.91%) AWS
4 117 (5.36%) Entra ID
5 54 (2.48%) OneDrive
6 37 (1.70%) Azure Stack
7 35 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (1.56%) Power Platform
9 29 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
10 26 (1.19%) IaaS
11 24 (1.10%) OpenShift
12 21 (0.96%) SaaS
13 17 (0.78%) Serverless
14 16 (0.73%) Azure Storage
14 16 (0.73%) OCI
15 15 (0.69%) PaaS
16 13 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (0.60%) PowerApps
17 12 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 288 (13.20%) Firewall
2 246 (11.28%) DNS
3 172 (7.89%) DHCP
4 171 (7.84%) VPN
5 139 (6.37%) LAN
6 120 (5.50%) WAN
7 112 (5.14%) SAN
8 100 (4.59%) TCP/IP
9 63 (2.89%) Wireless
10 61 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
11 53 (2.43%) Network Security
12 37 (1.70%) VLAN
13 35 (1.60%) BGP
14 31 (1.42%) Remote Desktop
15 26 (1.19%) Internet
16 25 (1.15%) NAS
17 24 (1.10%) VoIP
18 23 (1.05%) Skype
19 22 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
20 19 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.05%) MySQL
3 22 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (1.01%) Power BI
4 19 (0.87%) Relational Database
5 17 (0.78%) Big Data
6 15 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (0.69%) RDBMS
7 13 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.55%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.28%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.23%) DB2
12 3 (0.14%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.14%) Tableau
13 2 (0.092%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.092%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.092%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 133 (6.10%) JIRA
2 68 (3.12%) Git
3 43 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.28%) Bitbucket
4 28 (1.28%) Robot Framework
5 21 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 17 (0.78%) Eclipse
8 16 (0.73%) GitLab
8 16 (0.73%) MSI
9 12 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
10 11 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 11 (0.50%) Selenium
11 9 (0.41%) GoogleTest
11 9 (0.41%) Maven
12 8 (0.37%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.32%) Gradle
13 7 (0.32%) Mercurial
13 7 (0.32%) Subversion
14 5 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 709 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 224 (10.27%) Public Sector
3 210 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (7.29%) Finance
5 110 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
6 86 (3.94%) Telecoms
7 75 (3.44%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.43%) Marketing
9 46 (2.11%) Legal
10 39 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (1.79%) Electronics
11 35 (1.60%) Banking
11 35 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.28%) Military
13 24 (1.10%) Retail
14 16 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 16 (0.73%) Law
15 12 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.50%) Automotive
17 10 (0.46%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 294 (13.48%) Support Engineer
2 252 (11.55%) Analyst
3 191 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 187 (8.57%) IT Support
5 179 (8.21%) Architect
6 137 (6.28%) Desktop Support
7 133 (6.10%) Senior
8 129 (5.91%) IT Engineer
9 127 (5.82%) Desktop Engineer
10 114 (5.23%) Service Analyst
11 112 (5.14%) Administrator
12 108 (4.95%) Service Desk Analyst
13 106 (4.86%) Windows Engineer
14 102 (4.68%) 2nd Line Support
15 100 (4.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 79 (3.62%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 77 (3.53%) Systems Administrator
18 74 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
18 74 (3.39%) IT Technician
19 68 (3.12%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (2.38%) Node.js
2 28 (1.28%) .NET
2 28 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
3 22 (1.01%) Apache NiFi
4 20 (0.92%) REST
4 20 (0.92%) XML
5 19 (0.87%) Middleware
6 16 (0.73%) LDAP
7 15 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 15 (0.69%) HTML
8 14 (0.64%) Web Services
9 12 (0.55%) CSS
10 11 (0.50%) Kafka
10 11 (0.50%) React
10 11 (0.50%) RESTful
11 10 (0.46%) JSON
12 9 (0.41%) Spring Boot
13 8 (0.37%) SAML
14 7 (0.32%) Flash
14 7 (0.32%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 146 (6.69%) PKI
2 94 (4.31%) Data Centre
3 86 (3.94%) Driving Licence
4 70 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 66 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 50 (2.29%) Clustering
7 47 (2.15%) NHS
7 47 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 40 (1.83%) Private Cloud
9 38 (1.74%) Client/Server
9 38 (1.74%) Replication
10 31 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
11 25 (1.15%) Onboarding
12 21 (0.96%) iPhone
12 21 (0.96%) Product Ownership
12 21 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
13 19 (0.87%) CMDB
14 18 (0.83%) iPad
15 17 (0.78%) Cyberattack
15 17 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 613 (28.11%) Windows Server
2 596 (27.33%) Windows 10
3 514 (23.57%) Linux
4 156 (7.15%) Windows Server 2012
5 154 (7.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 147 (6.74%) Apple iOS
7 146 (6.69%) Windows 7
8 145 (6.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 128 (5.87%) Unix
10 97 (4.45%) Android
11 90 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 62 (2.84%) Mac OS
13 36 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
14 31 (1.42%) Ubuntu
15 23 (1.05%) Windows Vista
16 21 (0.96%) Windows NT
16 21 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
17 20 (0.92%) VMS
18 17 (0.78%) Windows XP
19 15 (0.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (18.29%) Customer Service
2 375 (17.19%) ITIL
3 373 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (11.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 235 (10.77%) Agile
6 183 (8.39%) DevOps
7 171 (7.84%) Migration
8 136 (6.24%) Service Management
9 130 (5.96%) CI/CD
10 122 (5.59%) Cybersecurity
11 120 (5.50%) Change Management
12 107 (4.91%) Mobile Device Management
13 97 (4.45%) Service Delivery
14 80 (3.67%) ITSM
15 73 (3.35%) Decision-Making
16 70 (3.21%) Computer Science
16 70 (3.21%) Project Management
17 69 (3.16%) Customer Requirements
17 69 (3.16%) Security Architecture
18 67 (3.07%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 327 (14.99%) PowerShell
2 143 (6.56%) Python
3 141 (6.46%) SQL
4 76 (3.48%) C#
5 56 (2.57%) C++
6 47 (2.15%) VBScript
7 46 (2.11%) Java
8 41 (1.88%) JavaScript
9 37 (1.70%) Bash
10 24 (1.10%) VB
11 20 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 19 (0.87%) Perl
13 18 (0.83%) C
14 15 (0.69%) Bicep
15 14 (0.64%) Ruby
16 9 (0.41%) R
17 6 (0.28%) Groovy
18 4 (0.18%) F#
18 4 (0.18%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 751 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 379 (17.38%) DV Cleared
3 353 (16.19%) SC Cleared
4 262 (12.01%) Degree
5 100 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 59 (2.71%) MCSE
7 57 (2.61%) CCNA
7 57 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
8 44 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.60%) MCSA
10 34 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
11 32 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 30 (1.38%) MCP
13 26 (1.19%) A+ Certification
13 26 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 24 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
15 23 (1.05%) Master's Degree
16 21 (0.96%) CCNP
17 19 (0.87%) DBS Check
18 17 (0.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (5.96%) SLA
2 63 (2.89%) QA
3 37 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 35 (1.60%) Government Security Classifications
5 21 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (0.96%) NIST
6 17 (0.78%) GDPR
6 17 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 13 (0.60%) ISO 9001
8 10 (0.46%) ISO 9000
9 7 (0.32%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.32%) RMADS
10 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.092%) NCSC
14 1 (0.046%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.046%) PMO
System Software
1 899 (41.22%) Active Directory
2 287 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (5.50%) Hyper-V
4 88 (4.03%) VMware ESXi
5 52 (2.38%) Firmware
6 51 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
7 44 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
8 42 (1.93%) vSphere
9 39 (1.79%) Docker
10 38 (1.74%) VMware NSX
11 35 (1.60%) XenApp
12 26 (1.19%) BitLocker
13 24 (1.10%) VMware Workstation
14 23 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
15 19 (0.87%) XenDesktop
16 13 (0.60%) KVM
17 11 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
17 11 (0.50%) Terminal Services
18 9 (0.41%) iptables
19 8 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 370 (16.96%) SCCM
2 187 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 110 (5.04%) Ansible
4 90 (4.13%) WSUS
5 76 (3.48%) SCOM
6 69 (3.16%) vCenter Server
7 66 (3.03%) Kubernetes
7 66 (3.03%) Terraform
8 55 (2.52%) NetBackup
9 42 (1.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 30 (1.38%) Puppet
11 27 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
12 25 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
13 21 (0.96%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.96%) Sysprep
14 20 (0.92%) Nagios
15 18 (0.83%) Kibana
16 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
17 16 (0.73%) Grafana
17 16 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 970 (44.48%) Microsoft
2 421 (19.30%) VMware
3 126 (5.78%) Citrix
4 121 (5.55%) Apple
5 118 (5.41%) Cisco
6 107 (4.91%) ServiceNow
7 102 (4.68%) HP
8 74 (3.39%) Oracle
9 67 (3.07%) Atlassian
10 64 (2.93%) Red Hat
11 61 (2.80%) Veeam
12 59 (2.71%) Splunk
13 56 (2.57%) SAP
14 44 (2.02%) Dell
15 42 (1.93%) NetApp
16 40 (1.83%) EMC
17 34 (1.56%) Symantec
18 32 (1.47%) Veritas
19 29 (1.33%) Google
20 24 (1.10%) Palo Alto