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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 23 September 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
23 Sep 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
6 |
9 |
9 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+3 |
0 |
-1 |
| Contract jobs citing Windows |
10,998 |
11,688 |
10,366 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
12.51% |
11.56% |
10.58% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
60.49% |
55.87% |
50.90% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
6,887 |
6,977 |
6,285 |
| UK median daily rate |
£370 |
£375 |
£350 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-1.33% |
+7.14% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£130 |
£133 |
£133 |
| 90th Percentile |
£575 |
£575 |
£550 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£350 |
£350 |
£325 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+7.69% |
-2.26% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,088 |
1,325 |
1,007 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£16.95 |
£16.20 |
£16.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+4.63% |
+1.25% |
+4.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£10.84 |
£10.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£47.00 |
£42.90 |
£46.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.00 |
£15.50 |
£15.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.23% |
+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 |
18,181 |
20,919 |
20,367 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.67% |
20.68% |
20.79% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
11,333 |
12,939 |
12,801 |
| UK median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£425 |
| 10th Percentile |
£150 |
£170 |
£183 |
| 90th Percentile |
£619 |
£606 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£400 |
£393 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.91% |
+4.67% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,238 |
1,509 |
1,193 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£17.00 |
£17.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+2.94% |
-2.86% |
+6.06% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£11.00 |
£10.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.00 |
£47.50 |
£47.83 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.68 |
£16.00 |
£16.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.22% |
-3.03% |
+1.54% |
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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 23 September 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 23 September 2019.
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 23 September 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 23 September 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 |
4,358 (39.63%) |
Active Directory |
| 2 |
4,072 (37.02%) |
Windows 10 |
| 3 |
3,953 (35.94%) |
Microsoft |
| 4 |
2,955 (26.87%) |
Windows Server |
| 5 |
2,745 (24.96%) |
Office 365 |
| 6 |
2,292 (20.84%) |
Windows 7 |
| 7 |
2,110 (19.19%) |
VMware |
| 8 |
1,979 (17.99%) |
SCCM |
| 9 |
1,941 (17.65%) |
Linux |
| 10 |
1,907 (17.34%) |
Azure |
| 11 |
1,778 (16.17%) |
Migration |
| 12 |
1,700 (15.46%) |
PowerShell |
| 13 |
1,599 (14.54%) |
ITIL |
| 14 |
1,519 (13.81%) |
Finance |
| 15 |
1,488 (13.53%) |
Microsoft Office |
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| 16 |
1,408 (12.80%) |
Security Cleared |
| 17 |
1,316 (11.97%) |
SQL |
| 18 |
1,185 (10.77%) |
Citrix |
| 19 |
1,183 (10.76%) |
Windows Server 2012 |
| 20 |
1,168 (10.62%) |
VMware Infrastructure |
| 21 |
1,110 (10.09%) |
SQL Server |
| 22 |
1,095 (9.96%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 23 |
1,083 (9.85%) |
Infrastructure Engineering |
| 24 |
1,072 (9.75%) |
DNS |
| 25 |
1,035 (9.41%) |
Windows Server 2008 |
| 26 |
1,001 (9.10%) |
SC Cleared |
| 27 |
918 (8.35%) |
DevOps |
| 28 |
905 (8.23%) |
AWS |
| 29 |
880 (8.00%) |
Problem-Solving |
| 30 |
845 (7.68%) |
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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