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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 3,096 4,846 6,585
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.51% 10.06% 9.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.62% 61.94% 59.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,153 3,469 4,582
10th Percentile £163 £165 £150
25th Percentile £213 £230 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +5.00%
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 260 266 389
10th Percentile £11.73 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £22.57 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.47% +12.83% +21.21%
75th Percentile £24.39 £50.33 £33.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.46% +13.15% +23.08%

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 4,944 7,824 10,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.59% 16.24% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 5,533 7,535
10th Percentile £185 £193 £175
25th Percentile £300 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 370 532
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.89 £13.38
25th Percentile £14.83 £17.73 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.94%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.88 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 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
London -6 1,159 £400 -20.00% 447
South East 0 672 £450 +16.13% 388
North of England -4 420 £325 -14.75% 338
South West -2 326 £500 +8.11% 237
Midlands -1 318 £338 -10.00% 282
North West -6 230 £325 -23.53% 165
West Midlands -1 182 £363 -17.14% 156
Yorkshire -2 164 £325 -7.28% 144
East of England -11 149 £290 -2.52% 203
East Midlands +4 134 £273 -16.15% 126
North East +2 27 £450 +89.47% 33
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
1 380 (12.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 205 (6.62%) SharePoint
3 94 (3.04%) Confluence
4 66 (2.13%) IIS
5 35 (1.13%) SharePoint Server
6 33 (1.07%) Exchange Server 2010
7 31 (1.00%) Skype for Business
8 30 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2013
9 27 (0.87%) Apache
10 22 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
11 19 (0.61%) Tomcat
12 17 (0.55%) CMS
13 15 (0.48%) JBoss
14 14 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2003
15 13 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
16 12 (0.39%) nginx
17 9 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
18 6 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
19 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
19 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 372 (12.02%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.097%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.065%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.065%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.032%) Simulink
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.23%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.16%) Shopify
4 4 (0.13%) LabWindows
4 4 (0.13%) SystmOne
5 3 (0.097%) Eikon
5 3 (0.097%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.097%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.097%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.065%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.065%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.065%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.065%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.065%) Relativity
6 2 (0.065%) Remedy AR System
6 2 (0.065%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.065%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.032%) Primavera
7 1 (0.032%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 853 (27.55%) Microsoft 365
2 714 (23.06%) Azure
3 245 (7.91%) AWS
4 212 (6.85%) Entra ID
5 74 (2.39%) OneDrive
6 64 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (1.91%) PaaS
8 56 (1.81%) IaaS
9 45 (1.45%) SaaS
10 39 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
11 38 (1.23%) Azure Stack
12 37 (1.20%) Azure Storage
12 37 (1.20%) Power Platform
13 34 (1.10%) GCP
14 33 (1.07%) GitHub
14 33 (1.07%) WhatsApp
15 26 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
15 26 (0.84%) Serverless
16 25 (0.81%) Mimecast
17 22 (0.71%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 379 (12.24%) Firewall
2 332 (10.72%) DNS
3 229 (7.40%) VPN
4 210 (6.78%) DHCP
5 161 (5.20%) LAN
6 145 (4.68%) WAN
7 138 (4.46%) SAN
8 115 (3.71%) TCP/IP
9 96 (3.10%) Wireless
10 71 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
11 70 (2.26%) Network Security
12 54 (1.74%) Internet
13 50 (1.61%) VLAN
14 41 (1.32%) BGP
14 41 (1.32%) NAS
14 41 (1.32%) Skype
15 32 (1.03%) VoIP
16 30 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
17 27 (0.87%) FTP
18 26 (0.84%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (7.75%) SQL Server
2 46 (1.49%) Relational Database
3 38 (1.23%) MySQL
4 33 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (0.90%) RDBMS
7 27 (0.87%) Power BI
8 26 (0.84%) MongoDB
9 24 (0.78%) Oracle Database
10 21 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (0.55%) Big Data
13 14 (0.45%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.26%) DB2
15 7 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.19%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
18 4 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
18 4 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 155 (5.01%) JIRA
2 99 (3.20%) Git
3 78 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.23%) Visual Studio
5 37 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 35 (1.13%) TeamCity
7 33 (1.07%) Artifactory
8 31 (1.00%) GitLab
9 28 (0.90%) Robot Framework
10 26 (0.84%) MSI
11 22 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
11 22 (0.71%) Subversion
12 21 (0.68%) Eclipse
13 18 (0.58%) Selenium
14 11 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
15 8 (0.26%) GoogleTest
15 8 (0.26%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 7 (0.23%) Hudson
17 5 (0.16%) WiX
General
1 876 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 437 (14.11%) Finance
3 262 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 148 (4.78%) Banking
6 118 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 87 (2.81%) Telecoms
8 73 (2.36%) Marketing
9 72 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 62 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 61 (1.97%) Legal
12 56 (1.81%) Front Office
13 49 (1.58%) Electronics
14 47 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
15 43 (1.39%) Investment Banking
16 38 (1.23%) Military
16 38 (1.23%) Retail
17 30 (0.97%) Financial Institution
18 24 (0.78%) Law
19 23 (0.74%) French Language
Job Titles
1 421 (13.60%) Support Engineer
2 400 (12.92%) Analyst
3 259 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 233 (7.53%) IT Support
5 217 (7.01%) Architect
6 203 (6.56%) Desktop Support
7 197 (6.36%) Senior
8 175 (5.65%) IT Engineer
9 165 (5.33%) Desktop Engineer
10 147 (4.75%) Service Analyst
11 146 (4.72%) Administrator
12 139 (4.49%) Service Desk Analyst
13 136 (4.39%) Windows Engineer
14 129 (4.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 128 (4.13%) 2nd Line Support
16 104 (3.36%) IT Support Engineer
16 104 (3.36%) Support Analyst
17 95 (3.07%) Systems Administrator
18 92 (2.97%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 90 (2.91%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (3.68%) .NET
2 62 (2.00%) Node.js
3 45 (1.45%) Middleware
4 36 (1.16%) LDAP
4 36 (1.16%) Web Services
5 33 (1.07%) XML
6 31 (1.00%) .NET Framework
6 31 (1.00%) HTML
7 29 (0.94%) REST
8 25 (0.81%) ASP.NET
9 24 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
9 24 (0.78%) JSON
10 22 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
10 22 (0.71%) ARM Templates
10 22 (0.71%) CSS
11 21 (0.68%) SAML
12 18 (0.58%) WCF
13 17 (0.55%) WPF
14 16 (0.52%) .NET Core
14 16 (0.52%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 161 (5.20%) PKI
2 114 (3.68%) Data Centre
3 100 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 83 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
5 78 (2.52%) Replication
6 72 (2.33%) Driving Licence
7 65 (2.10%) Clustering
7 65 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 65 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 48 (1.55%) NHS
9 46 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 43 (1.39%) Client/Server
11 41 (1.32%) iPhone
11 41 (1.32%) Private Cloud
12 31 (1.00%) iPad
12 31 (1.00%) Smartphone
13 29 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 27 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
15 26 (0.84%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 871 (28.13%) Windows Server
2 784 (25.32%) Windows 10
3 713 (23.03%) Linux
4 206 (6.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 197 (6.36%) Windows 7
6 196 (6.33%) Unix
7 183 (5.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 176 (5.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 173 (5.59%) Apple iOS
10 151 (4.88%) Android
11 114 (3.68%) Mac OS
12 100 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 58 (1.87%) Windows Server 2008
14 35 (1.13%) VMS
15 34 (1.10%) Ubuntu
16 29 (0.94%) Mac OS X
17 28 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
18 23 (0.74%) Solaris
18 23 (0.74%) Windows XP
19 20 (0.65%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (16.18%) Customer Service
2 472 (15.25%) ITIL
3 454 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
4 345 (11.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 296 (9.56%) Agile
6 284 (9.17%) DevOps
6 284 (9.17%) Migration
7 186 (6.01%) CI/CD
8 155 (5.01%) Cybersecurity
9 150 (4.84%) Service Management
10 142 (4.59%) Change Management
10 142 (4.59%) Mobile Device Management
11 139 (4.49%) Disaster Recovery
12 117 (3.78%) ITSM
12 117 (3.78%) Service Delivery
13 105 (3.39%) Analytics
14 104 (3.36%) Risk Management
15 103 (3.33%) Release Management
16 101 (3.26%) Software Engineering
17 92 (2.97%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 531 (17.15%) PowerShell
2 316 (10.21%) SQL
3 247 (7.98%) Python
4 156 (5.04%) C#
5 93 (3.00%) C++
6 85 (2.75%) Java
7 66 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 63 (2.03%) Bash
9 56 (1.81%) VBScript
10 48 (1.55%) VB
11 45 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 36 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 30 (0.97%) Shell Script
14 25 (0.81%) VBA
15 24 (0.78%) Perl
16 22 (0.71%) Bicep
17 20 (0.65%) C
18 16 (0.52%) Go
19 11 (0.36%) R
20 10 (0.32%) F#
Qualifications
1 900 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 439 (14.18%) DV Cleared
3 431 (13.92%) SC Cleared
4 334 (10.79%) Degree
5 139 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 63 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
7 61 (1.97%) MCSE
8 59 (1.91%) CCNA
9 53 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 39 (1.26%) MCSA
12 36 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
13 34 (1.10%) MCP
14 32 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 31 (1.00%) A+ Certification
16 29 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 27 (0.87%) CCNP
18 25 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
19 24 (0.78%) AWS Certification
19 24 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (6.10%) SLA
2 97 (3.13%) QA
3 35 (1.13%) Government Security Classifications
4 33 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.03%) NIST
6 27 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
7 26 (0.84%) GDPR
8 20 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.32%) ISO 9000
12 8 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.23%) RMADS
14 5 (0.16%) ISO 15022
14 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 4 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1,249 (40.34%) Active Directory
2 379 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 138 (4.46%) Hyper-V
4 77 (2.49%) VMware ESXi
5 76 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
6 64 (2.07%) vSphere
7 62 (2.00%) Firmware
8 61 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 60 (1.94%) Docker
10 47 (1.52%) VMware NSX
11 38 (1.23%) XenApp
12 35 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.68%) XenDesktop
14 18 (0.58%) BitLocker
15 17 (0.55%) NFS
15 17 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
16 13 (0.42%) HDFS
17 10 (0.32%) iptables
18 9 (0.29%) Terminal Services
19 8 (0.26%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 490 (15.83%) SCCM
2 261 (8.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 148 (4.78%) Ansible
4 112 (3.62%) WSUS
5 110 (3.55%) Kubernetes
6 101 (3.26%) SCOM
6 101 (3.26%) Terraform
7 62 (2.00%) vCenter Server
8 59 (1.91%) Jamf Pro
9 55 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 54 (1.74%) NetBackup
11 43 (1.39%) Puppet
12 31 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
13 30 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
14 22 (0.71%) Progress Chef
15 21 (0.68%) Grafana
16 20 (0.65%) Sysprep
17 19 (0.61%) Kibana
17 19 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
18 18 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,305 (42.15%) Microsoft
2 551 (17.80%) VMware
3 229 (7.40%) Citrix
4 171 (5.52%) ServiceNow
5 170 (5.49%) Cisco
6 163 (5.26%) Oracle
7 159 (5.14%) Apple
8 127 (4.10%) HP
9 97 (3.13%) Veeam
10 81 (2.62%) Dell
11 73 (2.36%) SAP
12 71 (2.29%) Red Hat
13 69 (2.23%) Splunk
14 59 (1.91%) EMC
15 57 (1.84%) Atlassian
16 47 (1.52%) IBM
17 46 (1.49%) Google
18 40 (1.29%) NetApp
19 39 (1.26%) Palo Alto
20 34 (1.10%) Symantec