Windows Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Windows
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows 175 304 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.11% 8.72% 7.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.72% 63.07% 58.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 210 245
10th Percentile £156 £140 £150
25th Percentile £250 £209 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.34% +11.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £664 £650
Central London median daily rate £400 £425 £388
% change year-on-year -5.88% +9.68% -13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile - - £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £24.38 - £26.50
75th Percentile £27.59 - £50.00
90th Percentile £28.66 - £91.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 - £26.50
% change year-on-year - - +89.29%

All Operating Systems
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 279 482 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.93% 13.82% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 334 403
10th Percentile £218 £154 £182
25th Percentile £350 £263 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £614
90th Percentile £750 £738 £700
Central London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile - £37.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £41.25 £15.94
Median hourly rate £24.38 £50.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.25% +94.17% +83.93%
75th Percentile £27.59 £68.13 £46.25
90th Percentile £28.66 £77.50 £85.13
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -45.88% +60.38% +87.61%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the City of London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City 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 35 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.14%) IIS
4 6 (3.43%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (2.29%) Apache
6 3 (1.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (1.71%) nginx
6 3 (1.71%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.14%) Confluence
7 2 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (1.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.71%) Adobe Premiere
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.57%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.57%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.57%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 61 (34.86%) Azure
2 43 (24.57%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (12.00%) AWS
4 20 (11.43%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.14%) Mimecast
7 8 (4.57%) PaaS
8 7 (4.00%) IaaS
9 6 (3.43%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.43%) Azure Storage
9 6 (3.43%) GitHub
9 6 (3.43%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.43%) Serverless
10 5 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.86%) GCP
10 5 (2.86%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.29%) WhatsApp
12 3 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 39 (22.29%) Firewall
2 17 (9.71%) SAN
3 10 (5.71%) DNS
3 10 (5.71%) VPN
4 8 (4.57%) Internet
4 8 (4.57%) WAN
5 5 (2.86%) FTP
5 5 (2.86%) LAN
5 5 (2.86%) Network Security
6 4 (2.29%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.71%) H.323
8 2 (1.14%) MPLS
8 2 (1.14%) NAS
8 2 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.14%) Skype
8 2 (1.14%) SSL
8 2 (1.14%) Wireless
9 1 (0.57%) MQTT
9 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.57%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.86%) MySQL
5 4 (2.29%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.29%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.14%) KDB
7 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.14%) Power BI
7 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (7.43%) JIRA
2 12 (6.86%) Git
3 10 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.57%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.86%) GitLab
6 3 (1.71%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.14%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.14%) Subversion
8 1 (0.57%) AppScan
8 1 (0.57%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.57%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.57%) Maven
8 1 (0.57%) Selenium
8 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 45 (25.71%) Finance
2 40 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 35 (20.00%) Banking
4 12 (6.86%) Investment Banking
5 11 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.00%) Front Office
6 7 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.43%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.29%) French Language
8 4 (2.29%) Law
8 4 (2.29%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.71%) Legal
10 2 (1.14%) Advertising
10 2 (1.14%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Back Office
11 1 (0.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.57%) German Language
11 1 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (17.14%) Support Engineer
2 28 (16.00%) Analyst
3 17 (9.71%) IT Support
4 16 (9.14%) Desktop Engineer
5 15 (8.57%) Developer
5 15 (8.57%) IT Engineer
6 14 (8.00%) Desktop Support
7 11 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.29%) IT Analyst
8 10 (5.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Architect
11 7 (4.00%) Support Analyst
12 6 (3.43%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.43%) Lead
12 6 (3.43%) Operations Engineer
12 6 (3.43%) Senior
12 6 (3.43%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.86%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.86%) .NET
2 8 (4.57%) .NET Core
3 7 (4.00%) ASP.NET
4 6 (3.43%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.43%) Blazor
4 6 (3.43%) Web Services
5 4 (2.29%) LDAP
6 2 (1.14%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.14%) HTML
6 2 (1.14%) HTML5
6 2 (1.14%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (1.14%) XML
7 1 (0.57%) CSS
7 1 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.57%) OAuth
7 1 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.57%) XSD
7 1 (0.57%) XSLT
7 1 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.43%) Video Conferencing
2 14 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.86%) Blackberry
4 10 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.43%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.86%) iPhone
6 5 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.29%) Replication
7 4 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.71%) Clustering
8 3 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.71%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.14%) IoT
9 2 (1.14%) iPad
9 2 (1.14%) PKI
10 1 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.14%) Linux
2 36 (20.57%) Windows Server
3 35 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 19 (10.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (10.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (8.00%) Unix
7 12 (6.86%) Android
8 11 (6.29%) Mac OS
9 8 (4.57%) Windows 7
10 6 (3.43%) Apple iOS
10 6 (3.43%) Mac OS X
11 4 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (1.71%) Windows 8
13 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.57%) CentOS
14 1 (0.57%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.57%) DevOps
2 22 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (11.43%) Migration
4 19 (10.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (10.29%) Agile
5 18 (10.29%) Customer Service
6 16 (9.14%) CI/CD
7 15 (8.57%) Information Security
7 15 (8.57%) ITIL
7 15 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (8.57%) SDLC
7 15 (8.57%) Software Engineering
8 12 (6.86%) Asset Management
8 12 (6.86%) Business Continuity
9 9 (5.14%) Computer Science
9 9 (5.14%) Incident Management
9 9 (5.14%) Test Automation
10 7 (4.00%) Analytics
10 7 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (4.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (20.57%) PowerShell
2 31 (17.71%) Python
3 28 (16.00%) SQL
4 15 (8.57%) C#
5 11 (6.29%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.71%) C++
7 7 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.00%) PL/SQL
7 7 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.43%) Java
9 5 (2.86%) Bash
9 5 (2.86%) Go
10 3 (1.71%) Perl
11 1 (0.57%) PHP
11 1 (0.57%) VB
11 1 (0.57%) VBScript
11 1 (0.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (9.71%) Degree
2 7 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.71%) GCIA
4 3 (1.71%) GCIH
4 3 (1.71%) GIAC
4 3 (1.71%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.14%) CCNA
5 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.14%) ISEB
5 2 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.71%) QA
2 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.29%) SLA
3 3 (1.71%) COBIT
3 3 (1.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.14%) GDPR
4 2 (1.14%) NCSC
5 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 61 (34.86%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.29%) Docker
5 4 (2.29%) HDFS
5 4 (2.29%) NFS
5 4 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.57%) iptables
6 1 (0.57%) KVM
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (19.43%) SCCM
2 17 (9.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (6.29%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.00%) Ansible
4 7 (4.00%) Terraform
5 5 (2.86%) Puppet
6 4 (2.29%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.29%) Nessus
7 3 (1.71%) CASB
7 3 (1.71%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.71%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.71%) QRadar
7 3 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.14%) Grafana
8 2 (1.14%) Graylog
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (1.14%) Nagios
8 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.14%) SCOrch
8 2 (1.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (32.57%) Microsoft
2 35 (20.00%) Citrix
3 25 (14.29%) Oracle
4 21 (12.00%) Cisco
5 18 (10.29%) VMware
6 15 (8.57%) HP
7 14 (8.00%) Avaya
8 13 (7.43%) Apple
9 12 (6.86%) CheckPoint
9 12 (6.86%) EMC
10 11 (6.29%) ServiceNow
11 9 (5.14%) Adobe
12 6 (3.43%) IBM
13 5 (2.86%) Bloomberg
13 5 (2.86%) MuleSoft
13 5 (2.86%) Red Hat
14 4 (2.29%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (2.29%) iManage
14 4 (2.29%) Isilon
14 4 (2.29%) Okta