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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 20 April 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
20 Apr 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
9 |
9 |
7 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
0 |
-2 |
-1 |
| Contract jobs citing Windows |
11,044 |
9,822 |
12,364 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
10.92% |
10.59% |
11.59% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
52.51% |
51.23% |
53.32% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
6,789 |
5,949 |
7,220 |
| UK median daily rate |
£365 |
£360 |
£350 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+1.39% |
+2.86% |
+3.70% |
| 10th Percentile |
£133 |
£140 |
£146 |
| 90th Percentile |
£575 |
£550 |
£526 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£328 |
£337 |
£325 |
| % change year-on-year |
-2.82% |
+3.69% |
+3.17% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,113 |
1,010 |
1,272 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£15.86 |
£15.00 |
£15.75 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+5.73% |
-4.76% |
+3.14% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.00 |
£10.50 |
£10.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£43.65 |
£44.05 |
£40.23 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£15.00 |
£14.50 |
£15.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.45% |
-6.45% |
+3.33% |
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 |
21,033 |
19,172 |
23,187 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.79% |
20.68% |
21.73% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
13,359 |
12,135 |
14,204 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£420 |
£400 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+1.19% |
+5.00% |
+6.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£181 |
£200 |
£194 |
| 90th Percentile |
£613 |
£588 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£400 |
£375 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.67% |
- |
+7.14% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,291 |
1,192 |
1,515 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.00 |
£16.50 |
£17.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+3.03% |
-2.94% |
+6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£10.50 |
£10.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.50 |
£47.50 |
£46.25 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£15.86 |
£15.86 |
£16.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
-3.88% |
+6.45% |
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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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 |
4,190 (37.94%) |
Active Directory |
| 2 |
3,868 (35.02%) |
Microsoft |
| 3 |
3,246 (29.39%) |
Windows Server |
| 4 |
2,531 (22.92%) |
Windows 10 |
| 5 |
2,353 (21.31%) |
Linux |
| 6 |
2,218 (20.08%) |
VMware |
| 7 |
2,141 (19.39%) |
Windows 7 |
| 8 |
1,920 (17.39%) |
Office 365 |
| 9 |
1,713 (15.51%) |
ITIL |
| 10 |
1,615 (14.62%) |
PowerShell |
| 11 |
1,589 (14.39%) |
Finance |
| 12 |
1,580 (14.31%) |
SQL |
| 13 |
1,560 (14.13%) |
Microsoft Azure |
| 14 |
1,553 (14.06%) |
Security Cleared |
| 15 |
1,510 (13.67%) |
Microsoft Office |
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| 16 |
1,498 (13.56%) |
SCCM |
| 17 |
1,480 (13.40%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 18 |
1,405 (12.72%) |
Windows Server 2008 |
| 19 |
1,388 (12.57%) |
Citrix |
| 20 |
1,367 (12.38%) |
Migration |
| 21 |
1,345 (12.18%) |
SQL Server |
| 22 |
1,238 (11.21%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 23 |
1,172 (10.61%) |
SC Cleared |
| 24 |
1,132 (10.25%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 25 |
1,120 (10.14%) |
DevOps |
| 26 |
1,061 (9.61%) |
DNS |
| 27 |
1,006 (9.11%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 28 |
986 (8.93%) |
Amazon AWS |
| 29 |
952 (8.62%) |
Firewall |
| 30 |
941 (8.52%) |
Cisco |
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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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