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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 14 November 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
14 Nov 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
9 |
9 |
9 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
0 |
0 |
-3 |
| Contract jobs citing Windows |
12,451 |
11,319 |
12,025 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.93% |
10.99% |
11.38% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
56.75% |
52.29% |
52.45% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
7,507 |
6,937 |
7,263 |
| UK median daily rate |
£375 |
£350 |
£350 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+7.14% |
- |
+0.72% |
| 10th Percentile |
£133 |
£130 |
£140 |
| 90th Percentile |
£575 |
£550 |
£538 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£350 |
£325 |
£330 |
| % change year-on-year |
+7.69% |
-1.52% |
+1.54% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,328 |
1,103 |
1,154 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£16.50 |
£16.00 |
£15.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+3.13% |
+6.67% |
-4.76% |
| 10th Percentile |
£10.97 |
£10.75 |
£10.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£43.08 |
£45.00 |
£42.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£15.86 |
£15.00 |
£15.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.73% |
- |
-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 |
21,942 |
21,645 |
22,927 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
21.03% |
21.01% |
21.70% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
13,575 |
13,720 |
14,392 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£400 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+6.25% |
+2.56% |
| 10th Percentile |
£163 |
£170 |
£200 |
| 90th Percentile |
£606 |
£600 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£388 |
£375 |
£370 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.33% |
+1.35% |
+2.07% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,507 |
1,315 |
1,312 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
£16.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+6.06% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.00 |
£11.00 |
£10.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.50 |
£47.83 |
£43.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.50 |
£16.75 |
£15.75 |
| % change year-on-year |
-1.49% |
+6.35% |
-1.56% |
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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 14 November 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 14 November 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 14 November 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 14 November 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 |
4,788 (38.45%) |
Active Directory |
| 2 |
4,410 (35.42%) |
Microsoft |
| 3 |
3,433 (27.57%) |
Windows Server |
| 4 |
3,371 (27.07%) |
Windows 10 |
| 5 |
2,568 (20.62%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
2,476 (19.89%) |
Windows 7 |
| 6 |
2,476 (19.89%) |
Office 365 |
| 7 |
2,457 (19.73%) |
VMware |
| 8 |
1,928 (15.48%) |
SCCM |
| 9 |
1,908 (15.32%) |
PowerShell |
| 10 |
1,821 (14.63%) |
Finance |
| 11 |
1,818 (14.60%) |
SQL |
| 12 |
1,795 (14.42%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 13 |
1,768 (14.20%) |
ITIL |
| 14 |
1,653 (13.28%) |
Microsoft Office |
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| 15 |
1,537 (12.34%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 16 |
1,529 (12.28%) |
Migration |
| 17 |
1,422 (11.42%) |
SQL Server |
| 18 |
1,405 (11.28%) |
Security Cleared |
| 19 |
1,377 (11.06%) |
Citrix |
| 20 |
1,369 (11.00%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 21 |
1,293 (10.38%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 22 |
1,261 (10.13%) |
Unix |
| 23 |
1,162 (9.33%) |
DevOps |
| 24 |
1,109 (8.91%) |
Windows Server 2008 |
| 25 |
1,085 (8.71%) |
DNS |
| 26 |
1,080 (8.67%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 27 |
1,057 (8.49%) |
SC Cleared |
| 28 |
1,056 (8.48%) |
Firewall |
| 29 |
1,044 (8.38%) |
Infrastructure Engineering |
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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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