X-Windows Contracts

X-Windows
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring X-Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited X-Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 581 -
Rank change year-on-year +64 - -
Contract jobs citing X-Windows 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.002% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.045% 0.011% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £133 -
Median % change year-on-year +351.13% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

X-Windows falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

X-Windows
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing X-Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for X-Windows in the UK

X-Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing X-Windows.

Daily rate trend for X-Windows in the UK

X-Windows
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing X-Windows over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for X-Windows in the UK

X-Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing X-Windows.

Hourly rate trend for X-Windows in the UK

X-Windows
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing X-Windows within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +43 3 £600 +351.13% 1
UK excluding London - 3 £600 -
Scotland - 3 £600 -

X-Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Line Management
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft