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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 17 January 2019 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
17 Jan 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
8 |
8 |
9 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
0 |
+1 |
-3 |
| Contract jobs citing Windows |
11,802 |
11,115 |
10,858 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
11.87% |
11.08% |
11.15% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
56.72% |
53.50% |
52.74% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
7,200 |
6,872 |
6,557 |
| UK median daily rate |
£375 |
£350 |
£350 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+7.14% |
- |
+1.45% |
| 10th Percentile |
£131 |
£130 |
£140 |
| 90th Percentile |
£571 |
£563 |
£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 |
1,188 |
1,080 |
1,101 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£16.23 |
£15.93 |
£15.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+1.90% |
+6.20% |
-3.23% |
| 10th Percentile |
£10.79 |
£11.00 |
£10.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£43.75 |
£45.50 |
£42.00 |
| 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 |
20,808 |
20,777 |
20,589 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.93% |
20.71% |
21.15% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
12,971 |
13,265 |
12,935 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£402 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.85% |
+0.38% |
| 10th Percentile |
£160 |
£168 |
£193 |
| 90th Percentile |
£600 |
£613 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£400 |
£381 |
£370 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.99% |
+2.97% |
+2.07% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,355 |
1,263 |
1,278 |
| 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 |
£10.61 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.50 |
£47.50 |
£46.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.50 |
£16.62 |
£15.85 |
| % change year-on-year |
-0.69% |
+4.83% |
-3.94% |
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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 17 January 2019.
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 17 January 2019.
Windows
Top 18 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 17 January 2019. 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 17 January 2019, 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 (38.22%) |
Active Directory |
| 2 |
4,185 (35.46%) |
Microsoft |
| 3 |
3,254 (27.57%) |
Windows 10 |
| 4 |
3,253 (27.56%) |
Windows Server |
| 5 |
2,514 (21.30%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
2,400 (20.34%) |
Office 365 |
| 7 |
2,332 (19.76%) |
VMware |
| 8 |
2,297 (19.46%) |
Windows 7 |
| 9 |
1,817 (15.40%) |
PowerShell |
| 10 |
1,814 (15.37%) |
SCCM |
| 11 |
1,770 (15.00%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 12 |
1,609 (13.63%) |
Finance |
| 13 |
1,608 (13.62%) |
ITIL |
| 14 |
1,605 (13.60%) |
Microsoft Office |
| 15 |
1,586 (13.44%) |
SQL |
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| 16 |
1,491 (12.63%) |
Migration |
| 17 |
1,487 (12.60%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 18 |
1,383 (11.72%) |
Security Cleared |
| 19 |
1,297 (10.99%) |
Citrix |
| 20 |
1,289 (10.92%) |
SQL Server |
| 21 |
1,274 (10.79%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 22 |
1,255 (10.63%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 23 |
1,206 (10.22%) |
DevOps |
| 24 |
1,112 (9.42%) |
Unix |
| 25 |
1,075 (9.11%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 26 |
1,052 (8.91%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 27 |
1,025 (8.68%) |
SC Cleared |
| 28 |
1,019 (8.63%) |
Firewall |
| 29 |
1,007 (8.53%) |
DNS |
| 30 |
1,002 (8.49%) |
Infrastructure Engineering |
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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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