Windows Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 2,171 3,174 4,146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.49% 13.26% 13.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.19% 68.49% 69.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,498 2,217 2,766
10th Percentile £155 £158 £138
25th Percentile £205 £200 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile £664 £650 £613
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 251 372
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £18.73
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.81% +17.03%
75th Percentile £23.75 £49.52 £28.79
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £55.82
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +22.14%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,280 4,634 5,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 19.36% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,180 3,235 3,906
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £257 £250 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +7.59%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £465 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -7.74% +0.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 339 464
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.56
25th Percentile £14.24 £17.49 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +50.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £60.75 £60.98 £48.61
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.76 £63.38
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £39.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.02% +74.67% +25.80%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +1 703 £425 +6.25% 368
North of England -2 451 £340 -10.82% 325
South West -1 336 £495 +10.00% 217
Midlands +3 329 £350 -6.67% 273
North West -3 250 £350 -17.84% 177
West Midlands 0 189 £400 -9.09% 156
Yorkshire +1 172 £325 -3.70% 116
Scotland -9 169 £423 +12.07% 90
East of England -13 144 £290 -3.33% 211
East Midlands +3 136 £215 -33.85% 116
Wales -7 33 £288 -28.13% 26
North East +10 30 £431 +81.47% 36
Northern Ireland -8 10 £400 +135.29% 19
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 248 (11.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 163 (7.51%) SharePoint
3 86 (3.96%) Confluence
4 42 (1.93%) IIS
5 37 (1.70%) SharePoint Server
6 21 (0.97%) Apache
7 16 (0.74%) CMS
7 16 (0.74%) Tomcat
8 14 (0.64%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
10 7 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
11 6 (0.28%) JBoss
11 6 (0.28%) nginx
11 6 (0.28%) SAS
12 5 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2000
13 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2003
14 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 276 (12.71%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.092%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.092%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.092%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.046%) Simulink
7 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.32%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.18%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.14%) assyst
3 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.14%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.092%) Shopify
4 2 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.046%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) RMDS
5 1 (0.046%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.046%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.046%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 583 (26.85%) Microsoft 365
2 434 (19.99%) Azure
3 118 (5.44%) Entra ID
4 115 (5.30%) AWS
5 56 (2.58%) OneDrive
6 37 (1.70%) Azure Stack
7 36 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (1.43%) Power Platform
9 30 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
10 26 (1.20%) OpenShift
11 24 (1.11%) IaaS
12 20 (0.92%) SaaS
13 17 (0.78%) Azure Storage
13 17 (0.78%) OCI
14 14 (0.64%) PaaS
14 14 (0.64%) Serverless
15 13 (0.60%) PowerApps
16 11 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (0.51%) Azure Functions
16 11 (0.51%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 283 (13.04%) Firewall
2 243 (11.19%) DNS
3 175 (8.06%) DHCP
4 174 (8.01%) VPN
5 136 (6.26%) LAN
6 117 (5.39%) WAN
7 110 (5.07%) SAN
8 94 (4.33%) TCP/IP
9 62 (2.86%) Wireless
10 58 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (2.40%) Network Security
12 40 (1.84%) VLAN
13 35 (1.61%) BGP
14 32 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
15 27 (1.24%) Internet
16 25 (1.15%) NAS
17 23 (1.06%) Skype
18 22 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
18 22 (1.01%) VoIP
19 20 (0.92%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (4.56%) SQL Server
2 21 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (0.97%) MySQL
3 19 (0.88%) Power BI
4 17 (0.78%) Big Data
5 15 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (0.69%) Relational Database
6 14 (0.64%) RDBMS
7 13 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.55%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.28%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.23%) DB2
13 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.14%) Tableau
14 2 (0.092%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.092%) CouchDB
14 2 (0.092%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.092%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 125 (5.76%) JIRA
2 65 (2.99%) Git
3 39 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.29%) Bitbucket
4 28 (1.29%) Robot Framework
5 21 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
6 19 (0.88%) Eclipse
6 19 (0.88%) Visual Studio
7 16 (0.74%) MSI
8 15 (0.69%) GitLab
9 12 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
10 11 (0.51%) Artifactory
11 10 (0.46%) Maven
11 10 (0.46%) Selenium
12 9 (0.41%) GoogleTest
13 8 (0.37%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.32%) Gradle
14 7 (0.32%) Mercurial
15 6 (0.28%) Subversion
16 5 (0.23%) TeamCity
General
1 699 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 217 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 199 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (7.09%) Finance
5 106 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
6 79 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 72 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 51 (2.35%) Marketing
9 42 (1.93%) Legal
10 37 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 37 (1.70%) Electronics
11 35 (1.61%) Banking
11 35 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (1.38%) Military
13 23 (1.06%) Retail
14 16 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 16 (0.74%) Law
15 12 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (0.51%) Automotive
17 10 (0.46%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 282 (12.99%) Support Engineer
2 258 (11.88%) Analyst
3 189 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 179 (8.25%) IT Support
5 176 (8.11%) Architect
6 132 (6.08%) Desktop Support
7 130 (5.99%) Senior
8 122 (5.62%) Desktop Engineer
9 121 (5.57%) IT Engineer
10 116 (5.34%) Service Analyst
11 114 (5.25%) Administrator
12 110 (5.07%) Service Desk Analyst
13 98 (4.51%) Windows Engineer
14 97 (4.47%) 2nd Line Support
15 94 (4.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 80 (3.68%) Systems Administrator
17 75 (3.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 73 (3.36%) IT Technician
19 71 (3.27%) Support Analyst
20 66 (3.04%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (2.49%) Node.js
2 27 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (1.15%) .NET
4 22 (1.01%) Apache NiFi
5 20 (0.92%) Middleware
5 20 (0.92%) REST
6 17 (0.78%) XML
7 16 (0.74%) ARM Templates
7 16 (0.74%) LDAP
7 16 (0.74%) Web Services
8 14 (0.64%) HTML
9 13 (0.60%) Kafka
10 12 (0.55%) CSS
11 11 (0.51%) React
11 11 (0.51%) RESTful
12 9 (0.41%) Spring Boot
13 8 (0.37%) JSON
13 8 (0.37%) SAML
13 8 (0.37%) Software Packaging
14 7 (0.32%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 147 (6.77%) PKI
2 88 (4.05%) Data Centre
3 82 (3.78%) Driving Licence
4 62 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 60 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 48 (2.21%) Clustering
7 45 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (1.98%) NHS
9 39 (1.80%) Private Cloud
10 38 (1.75%) Client/Server
10 38 (1.75%) Replication
11 28 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
12 26 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.06%) iPhone
14 22 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
15 21 (0.97%) Product Ownership
16 20 (0.92%) iPad
17 18 (0.83%) CMDB
17 18 (0.83%) Cyberattack
18 17 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 617 (28.42%) Windows Server
2 610 (28.10%) Windows 10
3 506 (23.31%) Linux
4 160 (7.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 150 (6.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 147 (6.77%) Apple iOS
6 147 (6.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 145 (6.68%) Windows 7
8 119 (5.48%) Unix
9 94 (4.33%) Android
10 85 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 61 (2.81%) Mac OS
12 36 (1.66%) Windows Server 2008
13 31 (1.43%) Ubuntu
14 22 (1.01%) Windows Vista
15 21 (0.97%) Windows NT
15 21 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
16 19 (0.88%) Windows XP
17 18 (0.83%) VMS
18 15 (0.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (18.42%) Customer Service
2 375 (17.27%) ITIL
3 363 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 236 (10.87%) Agile
6 176 (8.11%) DevOps
7 167 (7.69%) Migration
8 135 (6.22%) Service Management
9 124 (5.71%) CI/CD
10 115 (5.30%) Change Management
10 115 (5.30%) Cybersecurity
11 109 (5.02%) Mobile Device Management
12 97 (4.47%) Service Delivery
13 81 (3.73%) ITSM
14 73 (3.36%) Decision-Making
15 69 (3.18%) Security Architecture
16 67 (3.09%) Computer Science
16 67 (3.09%) Network Management
16 67 (3.09%) Project Management
17 66 (3.04%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 326 (15.02%) PowerShell
2 138 (6.36%) Python
3 134 (6.17%) SQL
4 77 (3.55%) C#
5 55 (2.53%) C++
6 48 (2.21%) VBScript
7 46 (2.12%) Java
8 42 (1.93%) JavaScript
9 36 (1.66%) Bash
10 25 (1.15%) VB
11 20 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 19 (0.88%) Perl
13 16 (0.74%) Bicep
13 16 (0.74%) C
14 10 (0.46%) Ruby
15 9 (0.41%) R
16 7 (0.32%) Groovy
17 4 (0.18%) F#
17 4 (0.18%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 765 (35.24%) Security Cleared
2 388 (17.87%) DV Cleared
3 360 (16.58%) SC Cleared
4 260 (11.98%) Degree
5 105 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 58 (2.67%) MCSE
7 54 (2.49%) CCNA
7 54 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
10 32 (1.47%) MCSA
10 32 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 31 (1.43%) MCP
12 29 (1.34%) A+ Certification
13 27 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 23 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (1.01%) CCNP
15 22 (1.01%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.83%) DBS Check
17 17 (0.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (5.94%) SLA
2 61 (2.81%) QA
3 37 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 35 (1.61%) Government Security Classifications
5 21 (0.97%) NIST
6 17 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.74%) GDPR
8 15 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.60%) ISO 9001
10 10 (0.46%) ISO 9000
11 7 (0.32%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.32%) RMADS
12 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.092%) NCSC
16 1 (0.046%) Def Stans
16 1 (0.046%) PMO
System Software
1 902 (41.55%) Active Directory
2 290 (13.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 123 (5.67%) Hyper-V
4 87 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
5 52 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (2.35%) Firmware
7 45 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 41 (1.89%) Docker
8 41 (1.89%) vSphere
9 37 (1.70%) XenApp
10 35 (1.61%) VMware NSX
11 24 (1.11%) BitLocker
12 23 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
14 20 (0.92%) XenDesktop
15 13 (0.60%) KVM
16 11 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.51%) Terminal Services
17 9 (0.41%) iptables
18 8 (0.37%) NFS
Systems Management
1 374 (17.23%) SCCM
2 186 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 100 (4.61%) Ansible
4 99 (4.56%) WSUS
5 76 (3.50%) SCOM
6 68 (3.13%) Kubernetes
6 68 (3.13%) vCenter Server
7 62 (2.86%) Terraform
8 55 (2.53%) NetBackup
9 40 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 28 (1.29%) Puppet
11 26 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
11 26 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
12 21 (0.97%) Sysprep
13 19 (0.88%) Nagios
14 17 (0.78%) Kibana
14 17 (0.78%) Progress Chef
15 16 (0.74%) Grafana
15 16 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
15 16 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 978 (45.05%) Microsoft
2 416 (19.16%) VMware
3 130 (5.99%) Citrix
4 120 (5.53%) Cisco
5 118 (5.44%) Apple
6 103 (4.74%) ServiceNow
7 94 (4.33%) HP
8 74 (3.41%) Oracle
9 62 (2.86%) Atlassian
10 61 (2.81%) Veeam
11 60 (2.76%) Red Hat
11 60 (2.76%) Splunk
12 53 (2.44%) SAP
13 44 (2.03%) Dell
14 42 (1.93%) NetApp
15 41 (1.89%) EMC
16 35 (1.61%) Symantec
17 33 (1.52%) Veritas
18 27 (1.24%) Google
19 24 (1.11%) Palo Alto