Windows Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows 1,196 2,049 2,773
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.76% 7.80% 7.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.98% 54.06% 53.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,524 2,056
10th Percentile £165 £179 £181
25th Percentile £250 £263 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £690 £713 £725
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 39 76
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.96 £13.88
25th Percentile £18.95 £21.94 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.71 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +7.53% -1.81%
75th Percentile £23.80 £51.70 £44.35
90th Percentile £36.93 £64.50 £59.45
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.21 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.20% +11.03% +17.65%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,099 3,790 5,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.87% 14.43% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 2,767 3,786
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 62 100
10th Percentile £14.68 £18.93 £16.13
25th Percentile £17.96 £22.75 £21.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +75.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £25.14 £68.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.30 £72.68
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.94%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in London

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Central London 0 206 £385 -3.75% 51
East London -5 34 £440 +10.00% 17
West London +6 28 £330 -5.71% 32
South London -11 14 £200 -15.79% 18
North London -4 2 £250 +8.11% 5
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 170 (14.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 46 (3.85%) IIS
4 30 (2.51%) Exchange Server 2010
5 25 (2.09%) Exchange Server 2013
6 23 (1.92%) Skype for Business
7 18 (1.51%) Confluence
8 14 (1.17%) Exchange Server 2007
9 12 (1.00%) BizTalk Server
10 11 (0.92%) Apache
11 10 (0.84%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2003
12 9 (0.75%) nginx
13 8 (0.67%) JBoss
14 6 (0.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 5 (0.42%) Oracle Self-Service HR
16 4 (0.33%) WebSphere
17 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
18 2 (0.17%) IBM Notes
19 1 (0.084%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 151 (12.63%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (4.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.084%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.75%) Loan IQ
2 6 (0.50%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.33%) SystmOne
5 3 (0.25%) Eikon
5 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.25%) OPENHousing
5 3 (0.25%) Shopify
6 2 (0.17%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.17%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.17%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.17%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.084%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.084%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.084%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.084%) thinkFolio
7 1 (0.084%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 363 (30.35%) Microsoft 365
2 345 (28.85%) Azure
3 150 (12.54%) AWS
4 118 (9.87%) Entra ID
5 41 (3.43%) PaaS
6 39 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (3.09%) OneDrive
8 36 (3.01%) IaaS
9 29 (2.42%) WhatsApp
10 27 (2.26%) SaaS
11 25 (2.09%) GitHub
12 24 (2.01%) GCP
13 22 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.59%) Mimecast
15 18 (1.51%) Azure Storage
16 14 (1.17%) Power Platform
17 12 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (1.00%) Nutanix
18 11 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 11 (0.92%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 148 (12.37%) Firewall
2 120 (10.03%) DNS
3 81 (6.77%) VPN
4 52 (4.35%) DHCP
5 51 (4.26%) SAN
6 45 (3.76%) LAN
6 45 (3.76%) WAN
7 43 (3.60%) Wireless
8 33 (2.76%) Internet
8 33 (2.76%) TCP/IP
9 26 (2.17%) NAS
9 26 (2.17%) Skype
10 24 (2.01%) Network Security
11 18 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (1.34%) MPLS
12 16 (1.34%) VLAN
13 15 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (1.25%) FTP
14 11 (0.92%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 34 (2.84%) Relational Database
3 24 (2.01%) MySQL
4 18 (1.51%) MongoDB
4 18 (1.51%) Oracle Database
5 17 (1.42%) RDBMS
6 14 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (1.00%) Hadoop
9 10 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.50%) Power BI
11 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.33%) KDB
13 4 (0.33%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.25%) DB2
15 2 (0.17%) Hazelcast
15 2 (0.17%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 52 (4.35%) Git
2 50 (4.18%) Jenkins
3 48 (4.01%) JIRA
4 30 (2.51%) TeamCity
5 18 (1.51%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.34%) Subversion
6 16 (1.34%) Visual Studio
7 15 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 15 (1.25%) GitLab
8 8 (0.67%) MSI
9 7 (0.59%) Selenium
10 5 (0.42%) Hudson
10 5 (0.42%) WiX
11 4 (0.33%) Maven
11 4 (0.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 3 (0.25%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.25%) InstallShield
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.17%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 313 (26.17%) Finance
2 284 (23.75%) Social Skills
3 126 (10.54%) Banking
4 96 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
5 92 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 54 (4.52%) Front Office
7 43 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 31 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 29 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.26%) Marketing
12 26 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.09%) Legal
14 17 (1.42%) Electronics
14 17 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.17%) French Language
15 14 (1.17%) Retail
16 11 (0.92%) Law
16 11 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 173 (14.46%) Support Engineer
2 168 (14.05%) Analyst
3 107 (8.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 97 (8.11%) Desktop Support
5 91 (7.61%) IT Support
6 79 (6.61%) Senior
7 73 (6.10%) IT Engineer
8 65 (5.43%) Desktop Engineer
8 65 (5.43%) Developer
9 60 (5.02%) Windows Engineer
10 54 (4.52%) Support Analyst
11 48 (4.01%) 2nd Line Support
12 47 (3.93%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 47 (3.93%) IT Support Engineer
13 42 (3.51%) Architect
14 40 (3.34%) Administrator
14 40 (3.34%) Applications Support
14 40 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (3.34%) Service Analyst
15 39 (3.26%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (7.36%) .NET
2 29 (2.42%) LDAP
3 26 (2.17%) .NET Framework
3 26 (2.17%) Middleware
4 24 (2.01%) ASP.NET
5 19 (1.59%) JSON
6 18 (1.51%) Web Services
6 18 (1.51%) XML
7 17 (1.42%) REST
7 17 (1.42%) WCF
8 16 (1.34%) HTML
9 14 (1.17%) WinForms
9 14 (1.17%) WPF
10 13 (1.09%) HTML5
11 12 (1.00%) SAML
12 11 (0.92%) .NET Core
13 9 (0.75%) CSS
14 8 (0.67%) Apache Camel
14 8 (0.67%) XMPP
14 8 (0.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 57 (4.77%) Data Centre
2 56 (4.68%) Management Information System
2 56 (4.68%) Video Conferencing
3 43 (3.60%) Replication
4 29 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (2.26%) PKI
6 26 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.09%) Clustering
8 24 (2.01%) iPhone
9 20 (1.67%) Blackberry
9 20 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.59%) Smartphone
11 17 (1.42%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
12 15 (1.25%) iPad
12 15 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.00%) Hedge funds
14 11 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 10 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 328 (27.42%) Windows Server
2 250 (20.90%) Linux
3 247 (20.65%) Windows 10
4 111 (9.28%) Unix
5 74 (6.19%) Windows 7
6 70 (5.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 60 (5.02%) Mac OS
7 60 (5.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 59 (4.93%) Android
9 43 (3.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 41 (3.43%) Apple iOS
11 36 (3.01%) Windows Server 2008
12 29 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 21 (1.76%) Mac OS X
14 19 (1.59%) VMS
15 13 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
16 12 (1.00%) Solaris
17 9 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
17 9 (0.75%) Windows 8
18 8 (0.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
2 156 (13.04%) Customer Service
3 152 (12.71%) Migration
4 145 (12.12%) ITIL
5 139 (11.62%) DevOps
5 139 (11.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 92 (7.69%) Agile
7 85 (7.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 66 (5.52%) CI/CD
9 54 (4.52%) Cybersecurity
10 52 (4.35%) Asset Management
11 50 (4.18%) Analytics
11 50 (4.18%) ITSM
12 47 (3.93%) Risk Management
13 45 (3.76%) Proactive Monitoring
14 44 (3.68%) Incident Management
15 42 (3.51%) Change Management
15 42 (3.51%) Information Security
15 42 (3.51%) Infrastructure as Code
15 42 (3.51%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 242 (20.23%) PowerShell
2 191 (15.97%) SQL
3 151 (12.63%) Python
4 78 (6.52%) C#
5 47 (3.93%) Java
6 40 (3.34%) T-SQL
7 37 (3.09%) Bash
8 33 (2.76%) C++
9 31 (2.59%) PL/SQL
10 26 (2.17%) VBA
11 24 (2.01%) JavaScript
12 23 (1.92%) VB
13 18 (1.51%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.17%) Go
14 14 (1.17%) Perl
15 9 (0.75%) VBScript
16 7 (0.59%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.42%) PHP
18 4 (0.33%) Bicep
18 4 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 185 (15.47%) Security Cleared
2 108 (9.03%) Degree
2 108 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 65 (5.43%) DV Cleared
4 44 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 19 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (1.09%) A+ Certification
8 13 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.09%) CISSP
9 10 (0.84%) CCNA
9 10 (0.84%) CISM
9 10 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (0.84%) MCSA
9 10 (0.84%) MCSE
10 9 (0.75%) MCP
11 7 (0.59%) CCNP
11 7 (0.59%) GIAC
12 6 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.10%) SLA
2 45 (3.76%) QA
3 18 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.09%) GDPR
4 13 (1.09%) NIST
5 9 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.42%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.25%) PMO
10 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.17%) HL7
10 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.084%) GLBA
11 1 (0.084%) IASME
11 1 (0.084%) ISAE 3402
11 1 (0.084%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 480 (40.13%) Active Directory
2 112 (9.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (3.76%) Hyper-V
4 31 (2.59%) Docker
5 28 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (2.09%) vSphere
7 16 (1.34%) NFS
8 15 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (1.25%) VMware NSX
9 14 (1.17%) Firmware
10 13 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
11 12 (1.00%) HDFS
12 5 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.33%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.25%) KVM
14 3 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.25%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
16 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 170 (14.21%) SCCM
2 102 (8.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 64 (5.35%) Ansible
4 57 (4.77%) Terraform
5 54 (4.52%) Kubernetes
6 34 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
7 27 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 26 (2.17%) SCOM
9 22 (1.84%) Puppet
10 18 (1.51%) ITRS Geneos
11 16 (1.34%) WSUS
12 13 (1.09%) Grafana
12 13 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (0.84%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.75%) BladeLogic
14 9 (0.75%) Tivoli
15 8 (0.67%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.67%) Netcool
15 8 (0.67%) SCVMM
15 8 (0.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 449 (37.54%) Microsoft
2 178 (14.88%) VMware
3 129 (10.79%) Citrix
4 92 (7.69%) Oracle
5 85 (7.11%) ServiceNow
6 78 (6.52%) Cisco
7 61 (5.10%) Apple
8 53 (4.43%) HP
9 47 (3.93%) Dell
10 42 (3.51%) IBM
11 37 (3.09%) Veeam
12 30 (2.51%) Bloomberg
13 29 (2.42%) Red Hat
14 28 (2.34%) EMC
15 27 (2.26%) Dynatrace
15 27 (2.26%) Splunk
16 26 (2.17%) SAP
17 24 (2.01%) Google
17 24 (2.01%) Qualys
18 23 (1.92%) CyberArk