Windows Specialist Contract Job Trends

Windows Specialist
UK

The median Windows Specialist daily rate in the UK is £503, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 546 627
Rank change year-on-year -6 +81 +185
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Specialist 6 12 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.033% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.036% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 2
10th Percentile £463 £248 £429
25th Percentile £481 £263 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £582
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -14.09% +56.24%
75th Percentile £544 £545 £670
90th Percentile £550 £556 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £540 £445
% change year-on-year -6.52% +21.40% +22.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 31,178 33,721 44,002
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.86% 93.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,742 20,325 29,954
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,761 1,274 1,526
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.07 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.19 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.39 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.74% -16.91% +57.89%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +85.42%

Windows Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Windows Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Windows Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Specialist job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Specialist job vacancies in the UK

Windows Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Specialist job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Specialist job vacancies in the UK

Windows Specialist
Top 5 Contract Job 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 3 November 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
England -21 6 £503 +7.20% 3
London -5 5 £500 +85.19% 1
South East +2 1 £505 -6.52% 2
Work from Home +2 1 £500 -12.09% 1
UK excluding London -33 1 £505 -6.52% 2

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Windows Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Windows Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
5 1 (16.67%) Application Virtualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Change Management
5 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (16.67%) Data Discovery
5 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Disk Encryption
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (16.67%) NAS
5 1 (16.67%) NetApp
5 1 (16.67%) Power BI
5 1 (16.67%) Power Platform

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Regular Expression
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
2 1 (16.67%) Application Virtualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Discovery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Qualys
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Varonis