Windows Contracts in West London

Microsoft Windows
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 15 19
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows 16 28 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 7.48% 7.73% 8.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.54% 60.87% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 44
10th Percentile £225 £125 £135
25th Percentile £263 £231 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £330 £330
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% - +65.00%
75th Percentile £469 £538 £561
90th Percentile £750 £553 £638
London median daily rate £450 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £15.83 - -
25th Percentile £16.70 £18.13 -
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% -65.69% +225.00%
75th Percentile £23.57 £23.80 -
90th Percentile £26.83 £44.02 -
London median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £25.71
% change year-on-year +9.91% -14.43% +7.53%

All Operating Systems
West 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 26 46 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 12.15% 12.71% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 55
10th Percentile £225 £125 £146
25th Percentile £338 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.31%
75th Percentile £438 £525 £566
90th Percentile £750 £538 £638
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £15.83 £15.99 £65.00
25th Percentile £16.70 £18.13 -
Median hourly rate £18.13 £20.22 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -73.05% +265.85%
75th Percentile £23.57 £23.43 £80.00
90th Percentile £26.83 £40.65 £85.00
London median hourly rate £24.58 £22.00 £38.67
% change year-on-year +11.73% -43.11% +54.68%

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 17 May 2025.

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
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 17 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
Hounslow +5 2 £250 - 3
Hillingdon -1 2 £400 -23.81% 4
Wembley -3 2 - - 2
Ealing - 1 - -
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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DHCP
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (12.50%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (12.50%) VoIP
3 1 (6.25%) DECT
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (6.25%) NAS
3 1 (6.25%) VLAN
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Back Office
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Rollout Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
1 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 2 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) PKI
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
2 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (18.75%) ITIL
1 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (18.75%) Server Patching
2 2 (12.50%) BPMN
2 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (12.50%) High Availability
2 2 (12.50%) ITSM
2 2 (12.50%) Migration
2 2 (12.50%) MVC
2 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
2 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
2 2 (12.50%) Technical Debt
2 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
3 1 (6.25%) Document Management
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (6.25%) Network Management
3 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (12.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) SCCM
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
1 7 (43.75%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (12.50%) Qualys
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) EMC
4 1 (6.25%) Mitel
4 1 (6.25%) NEC
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) Remedy
4 1 (6.25%) Veeam
4 1 (6.25%) Veritas