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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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
4 |
9 |
9 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+5 |
0 |
0 |
| Contract jobs citing Windows |
10,667 |
12,428 |
11,316 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.48% |
11.84% |
10.96% |
| As % of the Operating Systems category |
63.62% |
56.63% |
52.78% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
6,622 |
7,547 |
6,984 |
| UK median daily rate |
£350 |
£375 |
£350 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-6.67% |
+7.14% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£127 |
£133 |
£130 |
| 90th Percentile |
£550 |
£575 |
£555 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£325 |
£350 |
£325 |
| % change year-on-year |
-7.14% |
+7.69% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,126 |
1,283 |
1,067 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.12 |
£16.30 |
£15.86 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+5.03% |
+2.77% |
+5.73% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£10.88 |
£10.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£46.40 |
£43.75 |
£45.20 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.00 |
£15.75 |
£15.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.59% |
+5.00% |
- |
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 |
16,766 |
21,946 |
21,441 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
21.19% |
20.91% |
20.77% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
10,316 |
13,633 |
13,683 |
| UK median daily rate |
£413 |
£425 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-2.94% |
- |
+6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£140 |
£163 |
£170 |
| 90th Percentile |
£600 |
£606 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£388 |
£390 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
-0.64% |
+4.00% |
+3.45% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,272 |
1,454 |
1,271 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£17.50 |
£17.39 |
£17.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+0.62% |
-0.61% |
+7.63% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.25 |
£11.00 |
£11.00 |
| 90th Percentile |
£48.75 |
£47.50 |
£47.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£16.76 |
£16.50 |
£16.65 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.55% |
-0.87% |
+7.39% |
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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 14 December 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 14 December 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 14 December 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 14 December 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 |
4,289 (40.21%) |
Active Directory |
| 2 |
4,158 (38.98%) |
Windows 10 |
| 3 |
3,858 (36.17%) |
Microsoft |
| 4 |
2,912 (27.30%) |
Windows Server |
| 5 |
2,859 (26.80%) |
Office 365 |
| 6 |
2,373 (22.25%) |
Windows 7 |
| 7 |
2,018 (18.92%) |
VMware |
| 8 |
1,946 (18.24%) |
SCCM |
| 9 |
1,803 (16.90%) |
Azure |
| 10 |
1,758 (16.48%) |
Linux |
| 11 |
1,686 (15.81%) |
Migration |
| 12 |
1,583 (14.84%) |
Security Cleared |
| 13 |
1,579 (14.80%) |
PowerShell |
| 14 |
1,542 (14.46%) |
Microsoft Office |
| 15 |
1,478 (13.86%) |
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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