Windows Specialist Contracts

Windows Specialist
UK

The median Windows Specialist daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 695 825
Rank change year-on-year +125 +130 -151
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Specialist 12 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.014% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.015% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £289 £325 £408
25th Percentile £394 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £512 - -
90th Percentile £558 - £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £288 £338 £463
% change year-on-year -14.81% -27.03% +32.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Windows Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Windows Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Specialist in the UK

Windows Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Specialist in the UK

Windows Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Specialist over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Specialist in the UK

Windows Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Specialist in the UK

Windows Specialist
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +103 11 £500 - 5
London +98 8 £500 - 1
Work from Home +117 6 £450 -10.00%
UK excluding London +58 3 £288 -14.81% 4
East of England - 2 £288 -
South East - 1 - - 4

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Windows Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Windows Specialist in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 6 (50.00%) SCCM
3 6 (50.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (41.67%) VMware
4 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
5 4 (33.33%) Citrix
5 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (33.33%) AWS
5 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 4 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
6 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (25.00%) SLA
6 3 (25.00%) SQL
7 2 (16.67%) VBScript
7 2 (16.67%) IIS
7 2 (16.67%) ITIL
7 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
7 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (16.67%) Change Management
7 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
7 2 (16.67%) Time Management
7 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (16.67%) IIS
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (8.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Change Management
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL
2 2 (16.67%) Time Management
2 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (8.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) VBScript
3 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Citrix
3 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (8.33%) IBM