Windows Contracts in West London

Microsoft Windows
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 20 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 27 49 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 7.65% 8.64% 10.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.70% 62.82% 55.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 42 47
10th Percentile £215 £142 £130
25th Percentile £250 £205 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £330 £175
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +88.57% -27.84%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £240
90th Percentile £558 £638 £424
London median daily rate £400 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £22.90 - £14.40
25th Percentile £23.80 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +225.00% -
75th Percentile £36.84 - £21.00
90th Percentile £49.24 - £25.35
London median hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.56% -1.81%

All Operating Systems
West London

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 advertised in West London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 46 78 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 13.03% 13.76% 18.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 57 86
10th Percentile £223 £161 £133
25th Percentile £250 £240 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £330
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +28.79% -34.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £566
90th Percentile £538 £638 £660
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 12
10th Percentile £18.08 £64.95 £15.20
25th Percentile £22.68 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.15 £75.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.47% +265.85% -52.33%
75th Percentile £36.07 - £25.56
90th Percentile £47.17 £85.00 £36.63
London median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -37.14% +45.83% -43.86%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in West London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in West London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in West London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in West London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in West London

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in West London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in West London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in West London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in West 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 London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Hillingdon +29 8 £525 +250.00% 5
Richmond upon Thames +3 4 £400 -3.03% 1
Wembley +2 3 £400 +14.29% 2
Hounslow -4 3 £260 -35.00% 5
Hammersmith - 2 £159 -
Windows
London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (7.41%) IIS
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) AWS
4 4 (14.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.81%) SaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.70%) Mimecast
6 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.70%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) DNS
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) HTTP
2 4 (14.81%) HTTPS
2 4 (14.81%) IPsec
3 3 (11.11%) Wireless
4 2 (7.41%) DHCP
4 2 (7.41%) VPN
5 1 (3.70%) DKIM
5 1 (3.70%) DMARC
5 1 (3.70%) Extranet
5 1 (3.70%) Internet
5 1 (3.70%) LAN
5 1 (3.70%) NAS
5 1 (3.70%) Network Security
5 1 (3.70%) SAN
5 1 (3.70%) SSL
5 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.70%) Gatling
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Electronics
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (14.81%) Architect
1 4 (14.81%) Desktop Support
1 4 (14.81%) Network Architect
1 4 (14.81%) Technical Support
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (11.11%) IT Support
2 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Configuration Specialist
3 2 (7.41%) Consultant
3 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Server Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Support Technician
4 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared DBA
4 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.70%) Lead
4 1 (3.70%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) SAML
2 2 (7.41%) Software Packaging
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (14.81%) PKI
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (7.41%) Clustering
4 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.41%) NHS
5 1 (3.70%) Fat Client
5 1 (3.70%) Thin Client
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
2 7 (25.93%) Windows 10
3 5 (18.52%) Linux
4 3 (11.11%) Unix
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.81%) High Availability
1 4 (14.81%) ITIL
1 4 (14.81%) Migration
1 4 (14.81%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
2 3 (11.11%) Capacity Management
2 3 (11.11%) Change Management
2 3 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (11.11%) ITSM
2 3 (11.11%) RBAC
2 3 (11.11%) Security Hardening
2 3 (11.11%) Server Management
2 3 (11.11%) SIEM
2 3 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (7.41%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (7.41%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) CCIE
2 3 (11.11%) CCNP
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) SCCM
2 6 (22.22%) SCOM
3 4 (14.81%) FortiGate
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (11.11%) SCVMM
4 3 (11.11%) Terraform
5 2 (7.41%) AirWatch
5 2 (7.41%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.70%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.70%) VxRail
6 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) SolarWinds
2 5 (18.52%) VMware
3 4 (14.81%) Apple
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco
4 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
4 3 (11.11%) HP
4 3 (11.11%) New Relic
4 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.41%) Huawei
5 2 (7.41%) Trend Micro
6 1 (3.70%) Dell
6 1 (3.70%) F5
6 1 (3.70%) Forcepoint
6 1 (3.70%) Mitel
6 1 (3.70%) MobileIron
6 1 (3.70%) Proofpoint
6 1 (3.70%) Splunk
6 1 (3.70%) Wyse