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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 18 July 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
18 Jul 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
9 |
9 |
7 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
0 |
-2 |
-1 |
| Contract jobs citing Windows |
11,518 |
9,732 |
12,853 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.13% |
10.24% |
11.67% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
53.65% |
49.55% |
52.23% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
6,994 |
5,847 |
7,697 |
| UK median daily rate |
£365 |
£360 |
£350 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+1.39% |
+2.86% |
+3.70% |
| 10th Percentile |
£133 |
£133 |
£150 |
| 90th Percentile |
£575 |
£550 |
£538 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£338 |
£334 |
£338 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.17% |
-1.16% |
+3.85% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,250 |
972 |
1,140 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£16.00 |
£15.00 |
£15.25 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+6.67% |
-1.64% |
-4.69% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.12 |
£10.50 |
£10.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£43.00 |
£43.98 |
£40.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£15.48 |
£14.50 |
£15.21 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.76% |
-4.64% |
+1.37% |
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 |
21,469 |
19,640 |
24,609 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.74% |
20.67% |
22.34% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
13,439 |
12,387 |
15,464 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£400 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+6.25% |
+6.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£180 |
£196 |
£210 |
| 90th Percentile |
£613 |
£588 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£388 |
£400 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
-3.06% |
+6.67% |
+7.14% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,457 |
1,141 |
1,335 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£16.50 |
£16.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+6.06% |
- |
+2.10% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£10.50 |
£10.63 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.50 |
£47.50 |
£45.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.00 |
£15.50 |
£16.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.23% |
-6.06% |
+4.63% |
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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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 |
4,511 (39.16%) |
Active Directory |
| 2 |
4,054 (35.20%) |
Microsoft |
| 3 |
3,320 (28.82%) |
Windows Server |
| 4 |
2,942 (25.54%) |
Windows 10 |
| 5 |
2,347 (20.38%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
2,293 (19.91%) |
VMware |
| 7 |
2,188 (19.00%) |
Office 365 |
| 8 |
2,133 (18.52%) |
Windows 7 |
| 9 |
1,763 (15.31%) |
SQL |
| 10 |
1,718 (14.92%) |
SCCM |
| 11 |
1,673 (14.53%) |
Finance |
| 12 |
1,665 (14.46%) |
ITIL |
| 13 |
1,657 (14.39%) |
PowerShell |
| 14 |
1,625 (14.11%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 15 |
1,590 (13.80%) |
Security Cleared |
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| 16 |
1,530 (13.28%) |
Microsoft Office |
| 17 |
1,467 (12.74%) |
Citrix |
| 18 |
1,455 (12.63%) |
Migration |
| 19 |
1,428 (12.40%) |
SQL Server |
| 20 |
1,361 (11.82%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 21 |
1,340 (11.63%) |
Windows Server 2008 |
| 22 |
1,326 (11.51%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 23 |
1,269 (11.02%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 24 |
1,240 (10.77%) |
SC Cleared |
| 25 |
1,165 (10.11%) |
DNS |
| 26 |
1,039 (9.02%) |
DevOps |
| 27 |
981 (8.52%) |
Unix |
| 28 |
978 (8.49%) |
Firewall |
| 28 |
978 (8.49%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 29 |
966 (8.39%) |
Problem-Solving |
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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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