Windows Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 3,127 4,814 6,530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.47% 10.08% 9.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.69% 62.16% 59.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,164 3,428 4,590
10th Percentile £163 £170 £153
25th Percentile £213 £231 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 250 371
10th Percentile £11.80 £13.14 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £25.00 £50.42 £26.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £23.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% +23.23%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,069 7,744 10,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.73% 16.22% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,437 5,457 7,522
10th Percentile £185 £195 £175
25th Percentile £300 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 358 503
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.86 £15.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%
75th Percentile £62.38 £65.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in England

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in England

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in England

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in England

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in England

Windows
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London -6 1,151 £400 -20.00% 403
South East 0 692 £475 +22.58% 368
North of England -3 419 £325 -18.75% 355
Midlands +4 347 £350 -6.67% 268
South West -1 343 £500 +5.26% 214
North West -6 229 £338 -19.55% 192
West Midlands +1 206 £390 -8.24% 153
Yorkshire -1 166 £325 -10.34% 139
East of England -12 157 £331 +10.88% 169
East Midlands +6 139 £275 -15.38% 115
North East +4 25 £441 +85.47% 28
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 367 (11.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 205 (6.56%) SharePoint
3 85 (2.72%) Confluence
4 78 (2.49%) IIS
5 32 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2010
6 30 (0.96%) Apache
6 30 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
6 30 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
7 28 (0.90%) Skype for Business
8 22 (0.70%) CMS
9 20 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2007
10 19 (0.61%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.48%) JBoss
12 14 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2003
12 14 (0.45%) nginx
13 10 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
14 8 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 6 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
16 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
16 4 (0.13%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 355 (11.35%) Microsoft Office
2 94 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.064%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.064%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.032%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.032%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.032%) Simulink
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
8 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.22%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.22%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.16%) Shopify
4 4 (0.13%) LabWindows
4 4 (0.13%) SystmOne
5 3 (0.096%) Eikon
5 3 (0.096%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.096%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.064%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.064%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.064%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.064%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.064%) Relativity
6 2 (0.064%) Remedy AR System
6 2 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.064%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.032%) Primavera
7 1 (0.032%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.032%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 835 (26.70%) Microsoft 365
2 706 (22.58%) Azure
3 226 (7.23%) AWS
4 212 (6.78%) Entra ID
5 74 (2.37%) OneDrive
6 63 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (1.92%) PaaS
8 54 (1.73%) IaaS
9 46 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (1.41%) SaaS
11 42 (1.34%) Power Platform
12 41 (1.31%) Azure Storage
13 36 (1.15%) WhatsApp
14 33 (1.06%) GCP
15 31 (0.99%) Azure Stack
16 30 (0.96%) GitHub
17 27 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
18 22 (0.70%) Serverless
19 21 (0.67%) Mimecast
20 19 (0.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 367 (11.74%) Firewall
2 332 (10.62%) DNS
3 227 (7.26%) VPN
4 210 (6.72%) DHCP
5 153 (4.89%) LAN
6 142 (4.54%) WAN
7 136 (4.35%) SAN
8 113 (3.61%) TCP/IP
9 90 (2.88%) Wireless
10 71 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
11 64 (2.05%) Network Security
12 55 (1.76%) Internet
13 49 (1.57%) VLAN
14 40 (1.28%) NAS
15 38 (1.22%) Skype
16 37 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
17 34 (1.09%) BGP
18 32 (1.02%) VoIP
19 28 (0.90%) FTP
20 24 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (7.99%) SQL Server
2 46 (1.47%) Relational Database
3 39 (1.25%) MySQL
4 34 (1.09%) Power BI
5 33 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 33 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (0.96%) RDBMS
7 28 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 24 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 20 (0.64%) Big Data
10 18 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (0.45%) Hadoop
12 9 (0.29%) DB2
12 9 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.22%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 147 (4.70%) JIRA
2 112 (3.58%) Git
3 74 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 37 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 35 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 33 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 32 (1.02%) GitLab
8 32 (1.02%) MSI
9 28 (0.90%) Robot Framework
10 22 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (0.70%) Subversion
11 21 (0.67%) Eclipse
12 18 (0.58%) Selenium
13 10 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
14 9 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.26%) InstallShield
15 8 (0.26%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.22%) GoogleTest
17 6 (0.19%) Hudson
General
1 862 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 414 (13.24%) Finance
3 262 (8.38%) Public Sector
4 260 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
5 148 (4.73%) Banking
6 106 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
7 88 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 70 (2.24%) Marketing
9 67 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 59 (1.89%) Legal
11 53 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.54%) Front Office
13 46 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
14 45 (1.44%) Electronics
15 43 (1.38%) Retail
16 42 (1.34%) Investment Banking
17 40 (1.28%) Military
18 24 (0.77%) Financial Institution
19 21 (0.67%) Law
20 20 (0.64%) French Language
Job Titles
1 426 (13.62%) Support Engineer
2 394 (12.60%) Analyst
3 264 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 237 (7.58%) IT Support
5 225 (7.20%) Architect
6 199 (6.36%) Desktop Support
7 192 (6.14%) Senior
8 182 (5.82%) IT Engineer
9 160 (5.12%) Desktop Engineer
10 145 (4.64%) Service Analyst
11 142 (4.54%) Administrator
12 141 (4.51%) Windows Engineer
13 133 (4.25%) Service Desk Analyst
14 129 (4.13%) 2nd Line Support
15 122 (3.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 107 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
17 105 (3.36%) Support Analyst
18 95 (3.04%) Systems Administrator
19 92 (2.94%) Lead
20 89 (2.85%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (3.74%) .NET
2 62 (1.98%) Node.js
3 49 (1.57%) Middleware
4 43 (1.38%) LDAP
5 35 (1.12%) .NET Framework
5 35 (1.12%) Web Services
6 34 (1.09%) HTML
7 33 (1.06%) XML
8 29 (0.93%) REST
9 26 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
10 25 (0.80%) ARM Templates
10 25 (0.80%) ASP.NET
11 24 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (0.74%) CSS
13 22 (0.70%) JSON
14 21 (0.67%) SAML
15 20 (0.64%) WCF
16 19 (0.61%) WPF
16 19 (0.61%) YAML
17 18 (0.58%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 171 (5.47%) PKI
2 112 (3.58%) Data Centre
3 98 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 80 (2.56%) Replication
4 80 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
5 73 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (2.14%) Driving Licence
7 66 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 63 (2.01%) Clustering
9 49 (1.57%) Client/Server
10 48 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 44 (1.41%) NHS
12 42 (1.34%) iPhone
13 34 (1.09%) iPad
13 34 (1.09%) Private Cloud
14 31 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
15 30 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
15 30 (0.96%) Smartphone
16 27 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 27 (0.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 880 (28.14%) Windows Server
2 777 (24.85%) Windows 10
3 728 (23.28%) Linux
4 206 (6.59%) Windows Server 2012
5 193 (6.17%) Unix
6 188 (6.01%) Windows Server 2016
7 186 (5.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 185 (5.92%) Windows 7
9 173 (5.53%) Apple iOS
10 147 (4.70%) Android
11 117 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 115 (3.68%) Mac OS
13 53 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
14 37 (1.18%) VMS
15 33 (1.06%) Ubuntu
16 28 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
17 26 (0.83%) Mac OS X
18 23 (0.74%) Solaris
18 23 (0.74%) Windows Vista
18 23 (0.74%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (15.25%) Customer Service
2 452 (14.45%) ITIL
3 447 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 341 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 298 (9.53%) Agile
6 292 (9.34%) Migration
7 277 (8.86%) DevOps
8 176 (5.63%) CI/CD
9 163 (5.21%) Cybersecurity
10 148 (4.73%) Disaster Recovery
11 143 (4.57%) Change Management
11 143 (4.57%) Service Management
12 137 (4.38%) Mobile Device Management
13 117 (3.74%) Analytics
14 116 (3.71%) Service Delivery
15 111 (3.55%) ITSM
16 105 (3.36%) Release Management
17 100 (3.20%) Infrastructure as Code
18 98 (3.13%) Software Engineering
19 97 (3.10%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 564 (18.04%) PowerShell
2 327 (10.46%) SQL
3 235 (7.52%) Python
4 162 (5.18%) C#
5 90 (2.88%) C++
6 85 (2.72%) Java
7 63 (2.01%) JavaScript
8 59 (1.89%) Bash
8 59 (1.89%) VBScript
9 58 (1.85%) VB
10 47 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.18%) PL/SQL
12 33 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 29 (0.93%) VBA
14 26 (0.83%) Perl
15 24 (0.77%) Bicep
16 21 (0.67%) C
17 11 (0.35%) Go
17 11 (0.35%) R
17 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 942 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 453 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 449 (14.36%) DV Cleared
4 329 (10.52%) Degree
5 142 (4.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 61 (1.95%) MCSE
7 59 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 55 (1.76%) CCNA
9 52 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.44%) Azure Certification
11 43 (1.38%) MCSA
12 35 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
13 34 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 32 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 30 (0.96%) MCP
16 26 (0.83%) CCNP
17 25 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
18 24 (0.77%) A+ Certification
18 24 (0.77%) AWS Certification
19 22 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.82%) SLA
2 102 (3.26%) QA
3 31 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (0.96%) NIST
5 29 (0.93%) GDPR
5 29 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
6 27 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
7 20 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 12 (0.38%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.32%) ISO 9000
13 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.22%) RMADS
13 7 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.16%) ISO 15022
14 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.13%) COBIT
System Software
1 1,240 (39.65%) Active Directory
2 413 (13.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 149 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 103 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
5 84 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
6 73 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 72 (2.30%) vSphere
8 57 (1.82%) Firmware
9 53 (1.69%) Docker
10 45 (1.44%) VMware NSX
11 38 (1.22%) XenApp
12 36 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.67%) XenDesktop
14 19 (0.61%) BitLocker
15 16 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
16 15 (0.48%) NFS
17 14 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
18 13 (0.42%) HDFS
19 10 (0.32%) iptables
20 9 (0.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 493 (15.77%) SCCM
2 264 (8.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 160 (5.12%) Ansible
4 116 (3.71%) WSUS
5 115 (3.68%) Terraform
6 106 (3.39%) Kubernetes
7 102 (3.26%) SCOM
8 59 (1.89%) vCenter Server
9 57 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 55 (1.76%) NetBackup
11 54 (1.73%) Puppet
12 53 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
13 36 (1.15%) Progress Chef
14 28 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
14 28 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
15 19 (0.61%) Grafana
15 19 (0.61%) Kibana
15 19 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
16 18 (0.58%) Nessus
16 18 (0.58%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,311 (41.93%) Microsoft
2 583 (18.64%) VMware
3 226 (7.23%) Citrix
4 167 (5.34%) Oracle
4 167 (5.34%) ServiceNow
5 160 (5.12%) Cisco
6 156 (4.99%) Apple
7 118 (3.77%) HP
8 91 (2.91%) Veeam
9 86 (2.75%) Red Hat
10 84 (2.69%) Dell
11 68 (2.17%) Splunk
12 65 (2.08%) SAP
13 57 (1.82%) EMC
14 48 (1.54%) Atlassian
15 47 (1.50%) Google
16 44 (1.41%) NetApp
17 41 (1.31%) IBM
18 40 (1.28%) Palo Alto
19 36 (1.15%) Symantec