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 13 April 2021 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.
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.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills
8,532
12,326
19,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
16.26%
20.58%
20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted
5,600
7,935
12,749
10th Percentile
£180
£138
£158
25th Percentile
£325
£243
£313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£450
£420
£425
Median % change year-on-year
+7.14%
-1.18%
-
75th Percentile
£538
£525
£538
90th Percentile
£625
£606
£613
UK excluding London median daily rate
£388
£388
£400
% change year-on-year
-
-3.13%
-
Number of hourly rates quoted
453
969
1,132
10th Percentile
£12.00
£11.61
£11.17
25th Percentile
£14.13
£13.92
£13.00
Median hourly rate
£18.00
£17.50
£16.95
Median % change year-on-year
+2.86%
+3.24%
+3.67%
75th Percentile
£43.00
£23.00
£27.50
90th Percentile
£55.00
£47.83
£47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£16.75
£17.00
£16.00
% change year-on-year
-1.47%
+6.25%
+3.23%
Windows Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Windows Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows.
Windows Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows over the 6 months to 13 April 2021.
Windows Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows.
Windows Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows over the 6 months to 13 April 2021.
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 13 April 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 13 April 2021, 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.
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:
