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 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 11 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 2,153 2,989 3,983
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.33% 13.04% 13.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.93% 68.63% 68.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 2,054 2,684
10th Percentile £156 £160 £140
25th Percentile £205 £202 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £388 £325
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile £672 £650 £609
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 222 343
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.15 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £21.31 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.97% +15.16% +16.13%
75th Percentile £28.75 £49.52 £25.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £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
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 3,316 4,355 5,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.91% 19.00% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,200 2,993 3,840
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 307 433
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.29 £12.51
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.50 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.58 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% +92.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.05 £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 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 June 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 June 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 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
South East 0 692 £475 +22.58% 368
North of England -3 419 £325 -18.75% 356
Midlands +4 347 £350 -6.67% 267
South West -1 343 £500 +5.26% 215
North West -6 229 £338 -19.55% 193
West Midlands +1 206 £390 -8.24% 151
Scotland -3 185 £350 -6.67% 101
Yorkshire -1 166 £325 -10.34% 139
East of England -12 157 £331 +10.88% 170
East Midlands +6 139 £275 -15.38% 116
Wales -10 31 £220 -45.00% 35
North East +4 25 £441 +85.47% 28
Northern Ireland -15 11 £450 +116.87% 29
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
1 241 (11.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 148 (6.87%) SharePoint
3 74 (3.44%) Confluence
4 35 (1.63%) IIS
5 30 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
6 19 (0.88%) Apache
6 19 (0.88%) CMS
7 11 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.46%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
10 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
10 6 (0.28%) JBoss
11 5 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (0.19%) nginx
13 2 (0.093%) IBM Notes
13 2 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.093%) SAS
Applications
1 256 (11.89%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.093%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.093%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.046%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.046%) Simulink
7 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.19%) LabWindows
4 2 (0.093%) Shopify
4 2 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.046%) assyst
5 1 (0.046%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.046%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) Relativity
5 1 (0.046%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.046%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.046%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.046%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 550 (25.55%) Microsoft 365
2 412 (19.14%) Azure
3 116 (5.39%) Entra ID
4 101 (4.69%) AWS
5 51 (2.37%) OneDrive
6 41 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (1.81%) Power Platform
8 37 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 30 (1.39%) Azure Stack
10 25 (1.16%) OpenShift
11 21 (0.98%) IaaS
12 20 (0.93%) Azure Storage
13 18 (0.84%) OCI
14 16 (0.74%) PaaS
14 16 (0.74%) SaaS
15 14 (0.65%) PowerApps
16 11 (0.51%) Serverless
17 10 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (0.46%) Azure Functions
17 10 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 260 (12.08%) Firewall
2 242 (11.24%) DNS
3 182 (8.45%) DHCP
4 170 (7.90%) VPN
5 119 (5.53%) LAN
6 104 (4.83%) WAN
7 101 (4.69%) SAN
8 87 (4.04%) TCP/IP
9 55 (2.55%) Wireless
10 52 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (2.28%) Network Security
12 37 (1.72%) VLAN
13 36 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
14 29 (1.35%) BGP
15 25 (1.16%) Internet
15 25 (1.16%) SMTP
16 23 (1.07%) NAS
17 22 (1.02%) Ethernet
17 22 (1.02%) Fibre Channel
18 21 (0.98%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.46%) SQL Server
2 28 (1.30%) Power BI
3 24 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (0.93%) Big Data
5 17 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 16 (0.74%) MySQL
7 14 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.56%) RDBMS
9 10 (0.46%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (0.37%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.23%) DB2
13 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.14%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.14%) Data Hub
13 3 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.14%) Tableau
14 2 (0.093%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 100 (4.64%) JIRA
2 76 (3.53%) Git
3 34 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.30%) Robot Framework
4 28 (1.30%) Visual Studio
5 23 (1.07%) Bitbucket
5 23 (1.07%) MSI
6 21 (0.98%) Eclipse
6 21 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 20 (0.93%) GitLab
8 13 (0.60%) Artifactory
9 11 (0.51%) Maven
9 11 (0.51%) Selenium
10 10 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
11 8 (0.37%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.33%) GoogleTest
12 7 (0.33%) Gradle
13 6 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.28%) Subversion
13 6 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 653 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 213 (9.89%) Public Sector
3 187 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (6.64%) Finance
5 88 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
6 64 (2.97%) Telecoms
7 58 (2.69%) Manufacturing
8 45 (2.09%) Marketing
9 39 (1.81%) Legal
10 37 (1.72%) Military
11 35 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (1.49%) Electronics
13 29 (1.35%) Banking
14 23 (1.07%) Retail
15 15 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.56%) Automotive
17 11 (0.51%) Law
18 9 (0.42%) French Language
18 9 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 273 (12.68%) Support Engineer
2 255 (11.84%) Analyst
3 189 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 183 (8.50%) Architect
5 168 (7.80%) IT Support
6 129 (5.99%) Desktop Support
7 123 (5.71%) Senior
8 122 (5.67%) Desktop Engineer
9 113 (5.25%) IT Engineer
10 111 (5.16%) Service Analyst
11 110 (5.11%) Administrator
12 103 (4.78%) Service Desk Analyst
13 94 (4.37%) Windows Engineer
14 92 (4.27%) 2nd Line Support
15 90 (4.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 74 (3.44%) Systems Administrator
17 72 (3.34%) Support Analyst
18 68 (3.16%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 65 (3.02%) Lead
20 64 (2.97%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.65%) Node.js
2 29 (1.35%) .NET
3 27 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
4 25 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
5 23 (1.07%) REST
6 22 (1.02%) Middleware
7 21 (0.98%) ARM Templates
7 21 (0.98%) Web Services
8 19 (0.88%) LDAP
9 16 (0.74%) HTML
9 16 (0.74%) XML
10 15 (0.70%) Kafka
11 14 (0.65%) YAML
12 12 (0.56%) CSS
12 12 (0.56%) Spring Boot
13 11 (0.51%) RESTful
13 11 (0.51%) SOAP
14 9 (0.42%) SAML
15 8 (0.37%) Software Packaging
15 8 (0.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 156 (7.25%) PKI
2 75 (3.48%) Data Centre
3 69 (3.20%) Driving Licence
4 61 (2.83%) Public Cloud
5 45 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
6 44 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.04%) Replication
7 43 (2.00%) Clustering
8 37 (1.72%) Client/Server
8 37 (1.72%) NHS
9 34 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
10 33 (1.53%) iPhone
11 31 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 26 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
13 25 (1.16%) Onboarding
14 22 (1.02%) Product Ownership
15 20 (0.93%) iPad
16 19 (0.88%) Cyberattack
16 19 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
17 17 (0.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 615 (28.56%) Windows Server
2 588 (27.31%) Windows 10
3 518 (24.06%) Linux
4 155 (7.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 149 (6.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 148 (6.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 141 (6.55%) Apple iOS
8 134 (6.22%) Windows 7
9 107 (4.97%) Unix
10 93 (4.32%) Android
11 91 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 65 (3.02%) Mac OS
13 29 (1.35%) Ubuntu
14 28 (1.30%) Windows Server 2008
15 23 (1.07%) Windows Vista
16 20 (0.93%) Windows XP
17 19 (0.88%) VMS
18 17 (0.79%) Windows NT
18 17 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
19 15 (0.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (16.67%) Customer Service
1 359 (16.67%) ITIL
2 340 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 254 (11.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 243 (11.29%) Agile
5 176 (8.17%) DevOps
6 159 (7.39%) Migration
7 126 (5.85%) CI/CD
7 126 (5.85%) Cybersecurity
8 119 (5.53%) Service Management
9 109 (5.06%) Change Management
10 104 (4.83%) Mobile Device Management
11 99 (4.60%) Service Delivery
12 79 (3.67%) Decision-Making
13 75 (3.48%) Security Architecture
14 69 (3.20%) Release Management
15 67 (3.11%) ITSM
16 66 (3.07%) Disaster Recovery
16 66 (3.07%) Network Management
17 65 (3.02%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 362 (16.81%) PowerShell
2 136 (6.32%) SQL
3 129 (5.99%) Python
4 85 (3.95%) C#
5 60 (2.79%) C++
6 54 (2.51%) VBScript
7 45 (2.09%) Java
8 40 (1.86%) JavaScript
9 36 (1.67%) Bash
10 35 (1.63%) VB
11 21 (0.98%) Bicep
12 19 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 18 (0.84%) C
14 16 (0.74%) Perl
15 8 (0.37%) R
16 7 (0.33%) Groovy
16 7 (0.33%) Ruby
17 4 (0.19%) F#
17 4 (0.19%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 824 (38.27%) Security Cleared
2 402 (18.67%) DV Cleared
3 396 (18.39%) SC Cleared
4 242 (11.24%) Degree
5 106 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 67 (3.11%) MCSE
7 45 (2.09%) CCNA
7 45 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.58%) MCSA
10 33 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 30 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
11 30 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 29 (1.35%) A+ Certification
13 28 (1.30%) MCP
14 22 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.93%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.84%) CCNP
17 17 (0.79%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (5.48%) SLA
2 64 (2.97%) QA
3 37 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
4 29 (1.35%) Government Security Classifications
5 23 (1.07%) NIST
6 19 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.79%) GDPR
8 16 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.60%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.46%) ISO 9000
12 7 (0.33%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.33%) RMADS
13 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.093%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.093%) NCSC
16 1 (0.046%) COBIT
System Software
1 874 (40.59%) Active Directory
2 318 (14.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (5.57%) Hyper-V
4 81 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
5 70 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
6 57 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 44 (2.04%) vSphere
8 43 (2.00%) Firmware
9 35 (1.63%) Docker
10 34 (1.58%) VMware NSX
10 34 (1.58%) XenApp
11 24 (1.11%) BitLocker
12 21 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
13 16 (0.74%) XenDesktop
14 13 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (0.42%) iptables
15 9 (0.42%) Terminal Services
16 8 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 8 (0.37%) KVM
Systems Management
1 366 (17.00%) SCCM
2 183 (8.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 109 (5.06%) WSUS
4 107 (4.97%) Ansible
5 78 (3.62%) SCOM
6 72 (3.34%) Terraform
7 71 (3.30%) Kubernetes
8 60 (2.79%) vCenter Server
9 53 (2.46%) NetBackup
10 40 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 38 (1.76%) Puppet
12 28 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
13 23 (1.07%) EMC NetWorker
13 23 (1.07%) Progress Chef
14 18 (0.84%) Kibana
14 18 (0.84%) Sysprep
15 17 (0.79%) Nagios
15 17 (0.79%) WMI
16 16 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
17 14 (0.65%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 937 (43.52%) Microsoft
2 431 (20.02%) VMware
3 124 (5.76%) Citrix
4 120 (5.57%) Cisco
5 108 (5.02%) Apple
6 89 (4.13%) HP
7 88 (4.09%) ServiceNow
8 79 (3.67%) Oracle
9 69 (3.20%) Red Hat
10 64 (2.97%) Splunk
11 56 (2.60%) Veeam
12 47 (2.18%) Atlassian
13 44 (2.04%) SAP
14 42 (1.95%) NetApp
15 41 (1.90%) Dell
16 36 (1.67%) Symantec
17 34 (1.58%) EMC
18 28 (1.30%) Veritas
19 24 (1.11%) Google
19 24 (1.11%) Palo Alto