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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 31 March 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
31 Mar 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
4 |
8 |
9 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+4 |
+1 |
0 |
| Contract jobs citing Windows |
8,201 |
11,253 |
11,221 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK |
13.15% |
11.67% |
10.97% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
63.80% |
56.70% |
52.63% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,048 |
7,168 |
7,043 |
| Median daily rate |
£347 |
£375 |
£365 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-7.47% |
+2.74% |
+4.29% |
| 10th Percentile |
£125 |
£133 |
£131 |
| 90th Percentile |
£550 |
£575 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£325 |
£360 |
£325 |
| % change year-on-year |
-9.72% |
+10.77% |
-2.99% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
943 |
1,035 |
1,102 |
| Median hourly rate |
£17.16 |
£16.00 |
£15.86 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+7.25% |
+0.88% |
+5.73% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.40 |
£11.17 |
£11.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£40.69 |
£44.50 |
£44.98 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.50 |
£15.37 |
£15.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+7.35% |
+2.47% |
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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 |
12,854 |
19,846 |
21,321 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.61% |
20.58% |
20.85% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
7,888 |
12,494 |
13,651 |
| Median daily rate |
£413 |
£425 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-2.76% |
- |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£136 |
£158 |
£175 |
| 90th Percentile |
£606 |
£613 |
£613 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£388 |
£400 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
-3.13% |
- |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,058 |
1,196 |
1,273 |
| Median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£17.50 |
£17.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+0.01% |
+2.93% |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.75 |
£11.17 |
£11.17 |
| 90th Percentile |
£48.75 |
£47.92 |
£47.50 |
| Median hourly rate |
£17.00 |
£16.00 |
£15.86 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+0.88% |
-0.88% |
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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 31 March 2020.
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 31 March 2020.
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 31 March 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 31 March 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 |
3,261 (39.76%) |
Active Directory |
| 2 |
3,133 (38.20%) |
Windows 10 |
| 3 |
2,963 (36.13%) |
Microsoft |
| 4 |
2,339 (28.52%) |
Windows Server |
| 5 |
2,148 (26.19%) |
Office 365 |
| 6 |
1,671 (20.38%) |
Windows 7 |
| 7 |
1,516 (18.49%) |
VMware |
| 8 |
1,414 (17.24%) |
Azure |
| 9 |
1,346 (16.41%) |
Linux |
| 10 |
1,342 (16.36%) |
SCCM |
| 11 |
1,302 (15.88%) |
Security Cleared |
| 12 |
1,261 (15.38%) |
PowerShell |
| 13 |
1,239 (15.11%) |
Microsoft Office |
| 14 |
1,193 (14.55%) |
Migration |
| 15 |
1,057 (12.89%) |
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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