Windows Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Windows
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 33 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 603 890 1,961
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 6.09% 5.83% 7.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.19% 56.01% 55.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 648 1,391
10th Percentile £221 £184 £200
25th Percentile £350 £309 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £656 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £16.19
25th Percentile £14.81 £14.00 £21.26
Median hourly rate £43.50 £16.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +171.88% -73.33% +130.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £18.21 £72.81
90th Percentile £69.88 £32.76 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.56% -20.00% +12.50%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,178 1,589 3,529
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.90% 10.42% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 1,106 2,488
10th Percentile £300 £219 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £504
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.74% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 48 104
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.10 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £39.60
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.15 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +244.35% -67.00% +29.41%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £69.63
90th Percentile £68.53 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.09 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.50% -44.02% +74.67%

Windows
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Windows
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows.

Windows daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Windows over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Windows daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows.

Windows hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Windows over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Windows hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 55 (9.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (8.13%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.48%) Confluence
4 14 (2.32%) IIS
5 13 (2.16%) JBoss
6 8 (1.33%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.00%) CMS
7 6 (1.00%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.83%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.66%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.17%) Apache
12 1 (0.17%) DataSynapse
12 1 (0.17%) nginx
12 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 67 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.33%) Trello
4 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Notion
4 1 (0.17%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.66%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.33%) Actimize
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 185 (30.68%) Azure
2 123 (20.40%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (14.43%) AWS
4 81 (13.43%) Entra ID
5 23 (3.81%) OneDrive
6 22 (3.65%) SaaS
7 18 (2.99%) GitHub
8 17 (2.82%) IaaS
9 16 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (1.99%) GCP
11 11 (1.82%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.82%) Power Platform
11 11 (1.82%) Route 53
12 10 (1.66%) Asana
12 10 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.49%) Slack
14 8 (1.33%) PaaS
14 8 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 86 (14.26%) DNS
2 61 (10.12%) DHCP
2 61 (10.12%) Firewall
3 37 (6.14%) VPN
4 24 (3.98%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.48%) WAN
6 20 (3.32%) LAN
7 17 (2.82%) Network Security
8 12 (1.99%) Skype
8 12 (1.99%) SMTP
9 11 (1.82%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (1.82%) SAN
10 10 (1.66%) Internet
11 9 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (1.49%) Wireless
12 8 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
12 8 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.16%) HTTP
13 7 (1.16%) SSL
14 5 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.49%) Oracle Database
3 12 (1.99%) KDB
3 12 (1.99%) Kdb+
4 11 (1.82%) Power BI
5 10 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.00%) DB2
9 6 (1.00%) MS Access
9 6 (1.00%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.50%) Big Data
11 3 (0.50%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 48 (7.96%) JIRA
2 38 (6.30%) Git
3 26 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 20 (3.32%) Visual Studio
5 17 (2.82%) MSI
6 10 (1.66%) Selenium
6 10 (1.66%) Subversion
7 9 (1.49%) GitLab
8 8 (1.33%) QARun
8 8 (1.33%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.33%) WinRunner
9 5 (0.83%) Ant
9 5 (0.83%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.83%) Maven
9 5 (0.83%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.66%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.66%) HP UFT
10 4 (0.66%) JUnit
10 4 (0.66%) TestComplete
General
1 217 (35.99%) Social Skills
2 145 (24.05%) Finance
3 57 (9.45%) Banking
4 44 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (5.64%) Public Sector
6 22 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.48%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.49%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.32%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.33%) Front Office
13 7 (1.16%) Law
14 6 (1.00%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Legal
14 6 (1.00%) Retail
15 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.83%) Local Government
15 5 (0.83%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (11.77%) Analyst
2 66 (10.95%) Senior
3 55 (9.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 54 (8.96%) Developer
5 52 (8.62%) Support Engineer
6 48 (7.96%) Architect
7 34 (5.64%) Windows Engineer
8 31 (5.14%) IT Engineer
9 28 (4.64%) IT Support
10 25 (4.15%) Consultant
11 22 (3.65%) IT Support Engineer
12 19 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
12 19 (3.15%) Lead
12 19 (3.15%) Service Analyst
13 18 (2.99%) Service Desk Analyst
13 18 (2.99%) Test Analyst
14 17 (2.82%) 2nd Line Support
14 17 (2.82%) Applications Support
15 16 (2.65%) Python Developer
16 15 (2.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.15%) .NET
1 25 (4.15%) Web Services
2 15 (2.49%) Middleware
3 12 (1.99%) LDAP
4 10 (1.66%) REST
5 6 (1.00%) .NET Framework
5 6 (1.00%) HTML
5 6 (1.00%) Kafka
5 6 (1.00%) Node.js
5 6 (1.00%) Software Packaging
5 6 (1.00%) Spring Boot
6 5 (0.83%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.83%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (0.83%) Playwright
6 5 (0.83%) SOAP
6 5 (0.83%) XML
7 3 (0.50%) Azure Blueprints
7 3 (0.50%) IBM Integration Bus
7 3 (0.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.98%) Data Centre
2 29 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.81%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.32%) PKI
5 19 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.49%) Cloud Native
7 15 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.16%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.99%) Clustering
10 10 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.66%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
11 8 (1.33%) Equities
12 7 (1.16%) Derivative
12 7 (1.16%) Replication
12 7 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 220 (36.48%) Linux
2 169 (28.03%) Windows Server
3 77 (12.77%) Windows 10
4 56 (9.29%) Unix
5 35 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (3.15%) Android
8 19 (3.15%) Mac OS
9 18 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (2.65%) Apple iOS
11 11 (1.82%) VMS
12 10 (1.66%) AIX
13 7 (1.16%) Solaris
14 6 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
14 6 (1.00%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
17 3 (0.50%) Mac OS X
18 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (15.26%) ITIL
3 89 (14.76%) Migration
4 68 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 65 (10.78%) Agile
6 59 (9.78%) DevOps
7 40 (6.63%) Service Management
8 39 (6.47%) Customer Service
9 37 (6.14%) CI/CD
10 35 (5.80%) High Availability
11 33 (5.47%) ITSM
12 30 (4.98%) Change Management
12 30 (4.98%) Cybersecurity
12 30 (4.98%) Disaster Recovery
12 30 (4.98%) Root Cause Analysis
13 29 (4.81%) Project Management
14 27 (4.48%) Configuration Management
14 27 (4.48%) SDLC
14 27 (4.48%) SIEM
15 25 (4.15%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 139 (23.05%) PowerShell
2 97 (16.09%) Python
3 93 (15.42%) SQL
4 49 (8.13%) C#
5 37 (6.14%) Bash
6 32 (5.31%) PL/SQL
7 25 (4.15%) Java
8 22 (3.65%) C++
9 14 (2.32%) Delphi
10 12 (1.99%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.99%) Perl
11 7 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.16%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.16%) VB
12 6 (1.00%) VBScript
13 5 (0.83%) Bicep
13 5 (0.83%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.66%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.66%) ActionScript 2.0
14 4 (0.66%) C
Qualifications
1 161 (26.70%) Security Cleared
2 152 (25.21%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.47%) Degree
4 27 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 25 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.49%) MCSE
9 8 (1.33%) CCNA
10 7 (1.16%) CISSP
11 5 (0.83%) CISM
12 4 (0.66%) CCNP
12 4 (0.66%) MCSA
13 2 (0.33%) CEH
13 2 (0.33%) CISA
13 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.33%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.48%) SLA
2 20 (3.32%) QA
3 10 (1.66%) GDPR
4 6 (1.00%) NIST
5 5 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.50%) PMO
7 3 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.33%) ITGC
8 2 (0.33%) NCSC
8 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) HL7
9 1 (0.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 193 (32.01%) Active Directory
2 57 (9.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.64%) Docker
4 26 (4.31%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.99%) vSphere
6 15 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (1.99%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.83%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.66%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.50%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.50%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.50%) Firmware
12 3 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.50%) XenApp
13 2 (0.33%) NFS
13 2 (0.33%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 78 (12.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 60 (9.95%) Ansible
3 57 (9.45%) SCCM
4 44 (7.30%) Terraform
5 37 (6.14%) Kubernetes
6 22 (3.65%) Progress Chef
7 20 (3.32%) WSUS
8 16 (2.65%) Puppet
9 10 (1.66%) FortiGate
9 10 (1.66%) NetBackup
10 9 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.33%) Grafana
12 7 (1.16%) Kibana
13 6 (1.00%) SCOM
13 6 (1.00%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.83%) Prometheus
15 4 (0.66%) Packer
16 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
16 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
16 3 (0.50%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 256 (42.45%) Microsoft
2 105 (17.41%) VMware
3 64 (10.61%) Oracle
4 33 (5.47%) Cisco
5 31 (5.14%) ServiceNow
6 29 (4.81%) Red Hat
7 22 (3.65%) Citrix
7 22 (3.65%) CyberArk
8 20 (3.32%) Splunk
9 18 (2.99%) IBM
10 16 (2.65%) Apple
10 16 (2.65%) Palo Alto
11 15 (2.49%) F5
11 15 (2.49%) HP
12 14 (2.32%) SolarWinds
13 12 (1.99%) Dell
14 9 (1.49%) NetApp
15 8 (1.33%) Fortinet
15 8 (1.33%) Qualys
16 7 (1.16%) Veritas