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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 21 February 2020 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
21 Feb 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
4 |
8 |
7 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+4 |
-1 |
+2 |
| Contract jobs citing Windows |
9,025 |
11,614 |
11,178 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.18% |
11.72% |
11.00% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
63.82% |
56.46% |
53.21% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,527 |
7,169 |
6,969 |
| UK median daily rate |
£345 |
£375 |
£363 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-8.00% |
+3.45% |
+3.57% |
| 10th Percentile |
£125 |
£131 |
£131 |
| 90th Percentile |
£550 |
£563 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£325 |
£352 |
£328 |
| % change year-on-year |
-7.54% |
+7.33% |
-2.24% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,004 |
1,141 |
1,090 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.00 |
£16.00 |
£15.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+3.23% |
+3.33% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.41 |
£10.92 |
£10.99 |
| 90th Percentile |
£43.54 |
£43.75 |
£45.28 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.50 |
£15.22 |
£15.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+8.41% |
+1.47% |
+0.96% |
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 |
14,142 |
20,572 |
21,006 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.66% |
20.76% |
20.68% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
8,677 |
12,878 |
13,445 |
| UK median daily rate |
£410 |
£425 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-3.53% |
- |
+3.66% |
| 10th Percentile |
£136 |
£158 |
£170 |
| 90th Percentile |
£600 |
£600 |
£613 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£388 |
£400 |
£390 |
| % change year-on-year |
-3.13% |
+2.56% |
+4.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,130 |
1,310 |
1,276 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£17.00 |
£17.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+2.94% |
- |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.63 |
£11.00 |
£11.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£48.75 |
£47.89 |
£47.83 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£17.00 |
£16.00 |
£15.86 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+0.88% |
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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 21 February 2020.
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 21 February 2020.
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 21 February 2020. 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 21 February 2020, 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 |
3,545 (39.28%) |
Active Directory |
| 2 |
3,490 (38.67%) |
Windows 10 |
| 3 |
3,200 (35.46%) |
Microsoft |
| 4 |
2,521 (27.93%) |
Windows Server |
| 5 |
2,409 (26.69%) |
Office 365 |
| 6 |
1,942 (21.52%) |
Windows 7 |
| 7 |
1,668 (18.48%) |
VMware |
| 8 |
1,532 (16.98%) |
Azure |
| 9 |
1,511 (16.74%) |
SCCM |
| 10 |
1,495 (16.57%) |
Linux |
| 11 |
1,381 (15.30%) |
Security Cleared |
| 12 |
1,379 (15.28%) |
PowerShell |
| 13 |
1,345 (14.90%) |
Migration |
| 14 |
1,291 (14.30%) |
Microsoft Office |
| 15 |
1,170 (12.96%) |
ITIL |
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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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