Windows Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 19 30
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Windows 1,160 2,058 2,704
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.56% 8.18% 7.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.87% 55.92% 52.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 1,526 2,024
10th Percentile £175 £181 £180
25th Percentile £256 £300 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £560 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £725
England median daily rate £421 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -6.40% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 38 60
10th Percentile £16.18 £15.25 £13.74
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.71 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +7.53% +3.96%
75th Percentile £23.80 £50.42 £33.75
90th Percentile £27.71 £61.35 £50.15
England median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% +25.00% +17.99%

All Operating Systems
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,114 3,680 5,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.96% 14.63% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 2,681 3,729
10th Percentile £210 £215 £225
25th Percentile £350 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £669
90th Percentile £750 £775 £761
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 61 82
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.75 £21.13
Median hourly rate £22.00 £47.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -53.68% +98.66% -40.23%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.50 £45.16
90th Percentile £60.43 £83.00 £62.38
England median hourly rate £22.50 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.57% +103.49% +21.13%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 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
Central London -4 201 £400 -5.88% 69
East London +1 40 £380 +1.33% 18
West London +5 28 £260 -15.10% 35
South London -13 11 £200 -33.33% 14
North London -2 2 £250 +5.26% 6
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
1 149 (12.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 67 (5.78%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.31%) IIS
4 26 (2.24%) Exchange Server 2010
5 21 (1.81%) Exchange Server 2013
6 19 (1.64%) Skype for Business
7 15 (1.29%) Confluence
8 14 (1.21%) Exchange Server 2007
9 12 (1.03%) Apache
10 11 (0.95%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.86%) nginx
12 9 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2003
13 8 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
13 8 (0.69%) JBoss
14 6 (0.52%) Oracle Self-Service HR
15 4 (0.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 4 (0.34%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.26%) CMS
16 3 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 137 (11.81%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.17%) Maya
8 2 (0.17%) NUKE
8 2 (0.17%) Trello
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.086%) DaVinci Resolve
Business Applications
1 6 (0.52%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.34%) SystmOne
3 3 (0.26%) Eikon
3 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.26%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.26%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) Advent Geneva
4 2 (0.17%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.17%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.086%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.086%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.086%) Relativity
5 1 (0.086%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.086%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.086%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 340 (29.31%) Azure
2 329 (28.36%) Microsoft 365
3 129 (11.12%) AWS
4 113 (9.74%) Entra ID
5 44 (3.79%) PaaS
6 37 (3.19%) IaaS
7 34 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (2.93%) OneDrive
8 30 (2.59%) WhatsApp
9 29 (2.50%) SaaS
10 22 (1.90%) GCP
11 21 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
12 20 (1.72%) Azure Storage
12 20 (1.72%) GitHub
13 19 (1.64%) Mimecast
14 14 (1.21%) Power Platform
15 10 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (0.86%) Nutanix
16 8 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 142 (12.24%) Firewall
2 114 (9.83%) DNS
3 79 (6.81%) VPN
4 49 (4.22%) DHCP
5 44 (3.79%) SAN
6 40 (3.45%) WAN
7 38 (3.28%) LAN
8 37 (3.19%) Internet
9 35 (3.02%) Wireless
10 28 (2.41%) TCP/IP
11 21 (1.81%) NAS
11 21 (1.81%) Skype
12 20 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (1.38%) Network Security
14 14 (1.21%) FTP
15 13 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (1.12%) MPLS
15 13 (1.12%) VoIP
16 12 (1.03%) VLAN
17 11 (0.95%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (13.45%) SQL Server
2 35 (3.02%) Relational Database
3 27 (2.33%) MySQL
4 26 (2.24%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.81%) RDBMS
6 17 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 12 (1.03%) Hadoop
9 10 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.69%) Power BI
12 7 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.52%) DB2
14 4 (0.34%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.26%) KDB
15 3 (0.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (4.48%) JIRA
2 50 (4.31%) Git
2 50 (4.31%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.33%) TeamCity
4 21 (1.81%) Artifactory
5 16 (1.38%) Visual Studio
6 15 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.12%) GitLab
7 13 (1.12%) Subversion
8 8 (0.69%) MSI
8 8 (0.69%) Selenium
9 5 (0.43%) WiX
10 4 (0.34%) Maven
11 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.26%) Hudson
11 3 (0.26%) InstallShield
11 3 (0.26%) NUnit
11 3 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.17%) MSTest
General
1 293 (25.26%) Finance
2 278 (23.97%) Social Skills
3 124 (10.69%) Banking
4 85 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.79%) Front Office
7 42 (3.62%) Investment Banking
8 33 (2.84%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.24%) Marketing
11 19 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 18 (1.55%) Legal
12 18 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.47%) Retail
14 16 (1.38%) Electronics
14 16 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.12%) German Language
17 10 (0.86%) French Language
17 10 (0.86%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 170 (14.66%) Support Engineer
2 154 (13.28%) Analyst
3 101 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 93 (8.02%) IT Support
5 92 (7.93%) Desktop Support
6 83 (7.16%) IT Engineer
7 75 (6.47%) Senior
8 64 (5.52%) Developer
8 64 (5.52%) Windows Engineer
9 59 (5.09%) Desktop Engineer
10 52 (4.48%) IT Support Engineer
11 49 (4.22%) Support Analyst
12 43 (3.71%) 2nd Line Support
12 43 (3.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 41 (3.53%) Architect
14 40 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
14 40 (3.45%) Consultant
15 37 (3.19%) Applications Support
16 35 (3.02%) Administrator
17 34 (2.93%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (8.10%) .NET
2 34 (2.93%) .NET Framework
3 32 (2.76%) Middleware
4 28 (2.41%) LDAP
5 25 (2.16%) ASP.NET
6 20 (1.72%) WCF
7 19 (1.64%) REST
8 17 (1.47%) HTML
8 17 (1.47%) WinForms
8 17 (1.47%) WPF
8 17 (1.47%) XML
9 16 (1.38%) JSON
10 15 (1.29%) HTML5
11 14 (1.21%) Web Services
12 13 (1.12%) SAML
13 12 (1.03%) CSS
14 8 (0.69%) .NET Core
14 8 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (0.69%) XMPP
14 8 (0.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 58 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
2 56 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 52 (4.48%) Data Centre
4 35 (3.02%) Replication
4 35 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.07%) Clustering
7 22 (1.90%) PKI
8 21 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.64%) iPhone
10 18 (1.55%) Blackberry
10 18 (1.55%) iPad
11 15 (1.29%) Client/Server
12 14 (1.21%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.21%) Hedge funds
12 14 (1.21%) Smartphone
13 12 (1.03%) Public Cloud
14 11 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 11 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 309 (26.64%) Windows Server
2 246 (21.21%) Windows 10
3 233 (20.09%) Linux
4 108 (9.31%) Unix
5 67 (5.78%) Windows 7
6 63 (5.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 57 (4.91%) Android
7 57 (4.91%) Mac OS
7 57 (4.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 41 (3.53%) Apple iOS
9 35 (3.02%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (2.59%) Windows Server 2008
11 28 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 19 (1.64%) Mac OS X
12 19 (1.64%) VMS
13 12 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
14 10 (0.86%) Solaris
15 7 (0.60%) CentOS
15 7 (0.60%) Windows 8
16 6 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (12.76%) Customer Service
1 148 (12.76%) Migration
2 146 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
3 135 (11.64%) DevOps
4 134 (11.55%) ITIL
5 126 (10.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 89 (7.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 84 (7.24%) Agile
8 59 (5.09%) CI/CD
9 55 (4.74%) Analytics
10 54 (4.66%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (3.88%) Asset Management
12 43 (3.71%) ITSM
13 42 (3.62%) Time Management
14 41 (3.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (3.53%) Vulnerability Management
15 40 (3.45%) Incident Management
16 38 (3.28%) Information Security
16 38 (3.28%) Service Delivery
16 38 (3.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 230 (19.83%) PowerShell
2 200 (17.24%) SQL
3 131 (11.29%) Python
4 85 (7.33%) C#
5 45 (3.88%) Java
5 45 (3.88%) T-SQL
6 34 (2.93%) VBA
7 32 (2.76%) PL/SQL
8 31 (2.67%) VB
9 29 (2.50%) Bash
10 28 (2.41%) C++
11 22 (1.90%) JavaScript
12 21 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.47%) Perl
14 9 (0.78%) VB.NET
15 8 (0.69%) Go
16 6 (0.52%) PHP
16 6 (0.52%) VBScript
17 3 (0.26%) C
17 3 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 171 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 112 (9.66%) Degree
3 98 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 61 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 18 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.29%) MCSA
10 14 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (0.86%) A+ Certification
11 10 (0.86%) CCNA
12 9 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (0.78%) MCSE
13 8 (0.69%) CCNP
13 8 (0.69%) CISSP
13 8 (0.69%) MCP
14 7 (0.60%) CISM
14 7 (0.60%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.86%) SLA
2 48 (4.14%) QA
3 13 (1.12%) GDPR
4 12 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.86%) NIST
6 7 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.43%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.26%) COBIT
10 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.26%) PMO
11 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.17%) HL7
11 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.17%) NCSC
12 1 (0.086%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.086%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 450 (38.79%) Active Directory
2 105 (9.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (4.31%) Hyper-V
4 30 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (2.33%) vSphere
6 25 (2.16%) Docker
7 18 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
9 14 (1.21%) Firmware
10 13 (1.12%) NFS
11 12 (1.03%) HDFS
12 11 (0.95%) VMware NSX
13 8 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
14 7 (0.60%) XenDesktop
15 6 (0.52%) XenApp
16 5 (0.43%) BitLocker
17 4 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
18 3 (0.26%) KVM
18 3 (0.26%) Terminal Services
19 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 178 (15.34%) SCCM
2 101 (8.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 66 (5.69%) Ansible
4 54 (4.66%) Terraform
5 43 (3.71%) Kubernetes
6 26 (2.24%) Jamf Pro
7 24 (2.07%) SCOM
8 20 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 17 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
9 17 (1.47%) Puppet
10 15 (1.29%) WSUS
11 14 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
12 12 (1.03%) Grafana
13 11 (0.95%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.78%) BladeLogic
15 8 (0.69%) SCVMM
16 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.60%) Nessus
16 7 (0.60%) NetBackup
17 6 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 457 (39.40%) Microsoft
2 171 (14.74%) VMware
3 127 (10.95%) Citrix
4 103 (8.88%) Oracle
5 83 (7.16%) ServiceNow
6 69 (5.95%) Cisco
7 58 (5.00%) Apple
8 49 (4.22%) Dell
9 48 (4.14%) HP
10 33 (2.84%) Veeam
11 29 (2.50%) IBM
12 27 (2.33%) CyberArk
13 25 (2.16%) Dynatrace
13 25 (2.16%) EMC
14 23 (1.98%) Red Hat
14 23 (1.98%) SAP
15 22 (1.90%) Avaya
15 22 (1.90%) Qualys
16 21 (1.81%) Adobe
17 20 (1.72%) CA