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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 September 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Microsoft Windows UK |
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6 months to
24 Sep 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
9 |
9 |
8 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
0 |
-1 |
-2 |
| Contract jobs citing Windows |
11,798 |
10,314 |
12,269 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.57% |
10.59% |
11.50% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
55.91% |
50.89% |
52.02% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
7,051 |
6,253 |
7,364 |
| UK median daily rate |
£375 |
£350 |
£350 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+7.14% |
- |
+2.94% |
| 10th Percentile |
£133 |
£133 |
£150 |
| 90th Percentile |
£575 |
£550 |
£538 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£350 |
£325 |
£335 |
| % change year-on-year |
+7.69% |
-2.99% |
+3.08% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,332 |
1,002 |
1,110 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£16.17 |
£16.00 |
£15.25 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+1.03% |
+4.92% |
-4.69% |
| 10th Percentile |
£10.82 |
£10.50 |
£10.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£42.98 |
£45.90 |
£40.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£15.50 |
£15.00 |
£15.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.33% |
- |
-3.23% |
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 with a requirement for operating system skills.
| All Operating Systems UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills |
21,102 |
20,268 |
23,586 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.70% |
20.81% |
22.11% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
13,063 |
12,738 |
14,854 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£400 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+6.25% |
+6.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£170 |
£183 |
£206 |
| 90th Percentile |
£607 |
£588 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£390 |
£375 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.00% |
- |
+7.14% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,517 |
1,186 |
1,270 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.00 |
£17.50 |
£16.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-2.86% |
+6.06% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.00 |
£10.75 |
£10.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.50 |
£47.83 |
£43.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.00 |
£16.50 |
£16.25 |
| % change year-on-year |
-3.03% |
+1.54% |
+1.56% |
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Windows
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Windows as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Windows.
Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Windows over the 6 months to 24 September 2018.
Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows.
Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Windows over the 6 months to 24 September 2018.
Windows
Top 17 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 24 September 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 24 September 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Windows also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Windows.
| 1 |
4,575 (38.78%) |
Active Directory |
| 2 |
4,221 (35.78%) |
Microsoft |
| 3 |
3,297 (27.95%) |
Windows Server |
| 4 |
3,178 (26.94%) |
Windows 10 |
| 5 |
2,440 (20.68%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
2,366 (20.05%) |
VMware |
| 7 |
2,350 (19.92%) |
Windows 7 |
| 8 |
2,313 (19.61%) |
Office 365 |
| 9 |
1,844 (15.63%) |
SCCM |
| 10 |
1,775 (15.04%) |
SQL |
| 11 |
1,765 (14.96%) |
Finance |
| 12 |
1,738 (14.73%) |
PowerShell |
| 13 |
1,681 (14.25%) |
ITIL |
| 14 |
1,645 (13.94%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 15 |
1,561 (13.23%) |
Microsoft Office |
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| 16 |
1,475 (12.50%) |
Migration |
| 17 |
1,420 (12.04%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 18 |
1,415 (11.99%) |
Security Cleared |
| 19 |
1,406 (11.92%) |
SQL Server |
| 20 |
1,398 (11.85%) |
Citrix |
| 21 |
1,383 (11.72%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 22 |
1,221 (10.35%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 23 |
1,148 (9.73%) |
Windows Server 2008 |
| 24 |
1,136 (9.63%) |
Unix |
| 25 |
1,104 (9.36%) |
DNS |
| 26 |
1,090 (9.24%) |
SC Cleared |
| 27 |
1,049 (8.89%) |
DevOps |
| 28 |
1,023 (8.67%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 29 |
1,017 (8.62%) |
Firewall |
| 30 |
971 (8.23%) |
Problem-Solving |
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Windows
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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