Windows Contracts in West End of London

Microsoft Windows
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West End of London requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 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 6 11 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 11 4 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 15.94% 7.69% 24.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 84.62% 100.00% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 12
10th Percentile £105 £113 £202
25th Percentile £448 £124 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £147 £373
Median % change year-on-year +295.90% -60.67% +65.56%
75th Percentile £600 £219 £638
90th Percentile - £260 £784
Central London median daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 -
% change year-on-year +338.89% - -

All Operating Systems
West End of London

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13 4 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 18.84% 7.69% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £105 £113 £203
25th Percentile £448 £124 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £147 £375
Median % change year-on-year +295.90% -60.93% +66.67%
75th Percentile £600 £219 £638
90th Percentile - £260 £768
Central London median daily rate £513 £450 £523
% change year-on-year +13.89% -13.88% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +338.89% -35.71% +42.86%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in West End of London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for Windows in West End of London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in West End of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in West End of London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in West End of London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in West End of London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the West End of London region 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
Holborn - 4 £450 -
Windows
Central London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Route 53
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Service Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Mac OS
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
1 4 (36.36%) Server Management
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Service
2 3 (27.27%) Servant Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.09%) CRM
4 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 1 (9.09%) Puppet
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft