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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 21 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 1,165 2,029 2,765
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.67% 7.83% 7.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.33% 54.47% 52.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 1,510 2,059
10th Percentile £175 £177 £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 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £719 £725
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 39 72
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.96 £13.99
25th Percentile £18.97 £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 £23.98 £50.42 £39.06
90th Percentile £36.37 £64.50 £61.80
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +21.21%

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 2,068 3,725 5,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.84% 14.37% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,475 2,718 3,785
10th Percentile £206 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £665
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 63 95
10th Percentile £14.79 £18.93 £16.35
25th Percentile £18.04 £23.13 £21.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +60.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £25.71 £67.25 £49.38
90th Percentile £60.00 £81.60 £75.79
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.80%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 0 204 £385 -3.75% 57
East London -5 33 £440 +10.00% 19
West London +2 28 £330 -5.71% 31
South London -11 14 £200 -15.79% 17
North London -4 2 £250 +8.11% 8
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
1 166 (14.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 70 (6.01%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.52%) IIS
4 30 (2.58%) Exchange Server 2010
5 25 (2.15%) Exchange Server 2013
6 23 (1.97%) Skype for Business
7 16 (1.37%) Confluence
8 14 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2007
9 12 (1.03%) BizTalk Server
10 10 (0.86%) Apache
11 9 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2003
11 9 (0.77%) nginx
11 9 (0.77%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.69%) JBoss
13 5 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 5 (0.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 4 (0.34%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 2 (0.17%) IBM Notes
17 1 (0.086%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 147 (12.62%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.77%) Loan IQ
2 6 (0.52%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.34%) SystmOne
4 3 (0.26%) Eikon
4 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.26%) OPENHousing
4 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.26%) Shopify
5 2 (0.17%) Advent Geneva
5 2 (0.17%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.17%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.17%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.086%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.086%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.086%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.086%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.086%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.086%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 355 (30.47%) Microsoft 365
2 339 (29.10%) Azure
3 142 (12.19%) AWS
4 114 (9.79%) Entra ID
5 41 (3.52%) PaaS
6 36 (3.09%) OneDrive
7 35 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (2.92%) IaaS
9 28 (2.40%) WhatsApp
10 26 (2.23%) SaaS
11 25 (2.15%) GitHub
12 23 (1.97%) GCP
13 20 (1.72%) Mimecast
14 19 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (1.55%) Azure Storage
16 15 (1.29%) Power Platform
17 11 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 10 (0.86%) Azure Functions
18 10 (0.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 143 (12.27%) Firewall
2 114 (9.79%) DNS
3 79 (6.78%) VPN
4 48 (4.12%) DHCP
5 46 (3.95%) SAN
6 43 (3.69%) LAN
6 43 (3.69%) WAN
7 41 (3.52%) Wireless
8 33 (2.83%) Internet
9 30 (2.58%) TCP/IP
10 26 (2.23%) Skype
11 23 (1.97%) NAS
12 22 (1.89%) Network Security
13 18 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (1.37%) FTP
14 16 (1.37%) MPLS
15 15 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (1.20%) VLAN
17 11 (0.94%) VoIP
18 9 (0.77%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (12.19%) SQL Server
2 34 (2.92%) Relational Database
3 24 (2.06%) MySQL
4 18 (1.55%) RDBMS
5 17 (1.46%) MongoDB
5 17 (1.46%) Oracle Database
6 14 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (1.03%) Hadoop
9 10 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (0.60%) Power BI
11 6 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.34%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.26%) DB2
14 3 (0.26%) KDB
14 3 (0.26%) NoSQL
15 2 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 50 (4.29%) Git
1 50 (4.29%) Jenkins
2 46 (3.95%) JIRA
3 29 (2.49%) TeamCity
4 20 (1.72%) Artifactory
5 16 (1.37%) Subversion
5 16 (1.37%) Visual Studio
6 14 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.20%) GitLab
7 8 (0.69%) MSI
7 8 (0.69%) Selenium
8 5 (0.43%) Hudson
8 5 (0.43%) WiX
9 4 (0.34%) Maven
9 4 (0.34%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.26%) InstallShield
10 3 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 312 (26.78%) Finance
2 280 (24.03%) Social Skills
3 122 (10.47%) Banking
4 91 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 51 (4.38%) Front Office
7 40 (3.43%) Investment Banking
8 33 (2.83%) Financial Institution
9 29 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (2.23%) Marketing
11 25 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (2.15%) Telecoms
12 23 (1.97%) Legal
13 16 (1.37%) Electronics
13 16 (1.37%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.29%) French Language
15 14 (1.20%) Retail
16 13 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (0.94%) Law
17 11 (0.94%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 169 (14.51%) Support Engineer
2 167 (14.33%) Analyst
3 103 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 91 (7.81%) Desktop Support
5 88 (7.55%) IT Support
6 81 (6.95%) Senior
7 74 (6.35%) IT Engineer
8 65 (5.58%) Developer
9 62 (5.32%) Desktop Engineer
10 58 (4.98%) Windows Engineer
11 53 (4.55%) Support Analyst
12 46 (3.95%) 2nd Line Support
12 46 (3.95%) IT Support Engineer
13 45 (3.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 40 (3.43%) Architect
14 40 (3.43%) Consultant
15 39 (3.35%) Applications Support
15 39 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
15 39 (3.35%) IT Analyst
15 39 (3.35%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (7.47%) .NET
2 27 (2.32%) Middleware
3 25 (2.15%) .NET Framework
3 25 (2.15%) LDAP
4 24 (2.06%) ASP.NET
5 19 (1.63%) JSON
6 18 (1.55%) XML
7 17 (1.46%) REST
7 17 (1.46%) WCF
7 17 (1.46%) Web Services
8 16 (1.37%) HTML
9 14 (1.20%) WinForms
9 14 (1.20%) WPF
10 13 (1.12%) HTML5
11 11 (0.94%) .NET Core
12 10 (0.86%) SAML
13 9 (0.77%) CSS
14 8 (0.69%) Apache Camel
14 8 (0.69%) XMPP
14 8 (0.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 56 (4.81%) Video Conferencing
2 55 (4.72%) Management Information System
3 51 (4.38%) Data Centre
4 40 (3.43%) Replication
5 27 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.06%) iPhone
8 23 (1.97%) Clustering
8 23 (1.97%) PKI
9 19 (1.63%) Blackberry
9 19 (1.63%) Smartphone
10 17 (1.46%) Cloud Native
10 17 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.37%) iPad
12 15 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
12 15 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.03%) Hedge funds
14 11 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 10 (0.86%) Client/Server
15 10 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 312 (26.78%) Windows Server
2 247 (21.20%) Windows 10
3 238 (20.43%) Linux
4 110 (9.44%) Unix
5 74 (6.35%) Windows 7
6 67 (5.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 61 (5.24%) Android
8 60 (5.15%) Mac OS
9 58 (4.98%) Windows Server 2016
10 43 (3.69%) Apple iOS
11 40 (3.43%) Windows Server 2019
12 35 (3.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 27 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 20 (1.72%) Mac OS X
15 18 (1.55%) VMS
16 12 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
17 10 (0.86%) Solaris
18 8 (0.69%) Windows 8
19 7 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
20 6 (0.52%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (13.39%) Customer Service
2 153 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
3 146 (12.53%) Migration
4 142 (12.19%) ITIL
5 135 (11.59%) DevOps
6 133 (11.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 88 (7.55%) Agile
8 82 (7.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 66 (5.67%) CI/CD
10 52 (4.46%) Cybersecurity
11 51 (4.38%) Analytics
12 49 (4.21%) Asset Management
13 47 (4.03%) ITSM
14 45 (3.86%) Incident Management
14 45 (3.86%) Proactive Monitoring
15 44 (3.78%) Risk Management
16 43 (3.69%) Information Security
17 42 (3.61%) Time Management
18 41 (3.52%) Vulnerability Management
19 40 (3.43%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 233 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 189 (16.22%) SQL
3 148 (12.70%) Python
4 77 (6.61%) C#
5 49 (4.21%) Java
6 42 (3.61%) T-SQL
7 33 (2.83%) C++
8 31 (2.66%) Bash
8 31 (2.66%) PL/SQL
9 25 (2.15%) VBA
10 23 (1.97%) JavaScript
11 22 (1.89%) VB
12 17 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.29%) Perl
14 14 (1.20%) Go
15 8 (0.69%) VBScript
16 7 (0.60%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.43%) PHP
18 3 (0.26%) C
18 3 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 178 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 107 (9.18%) Degree
3 103 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 20 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.12%) A+ Certification
9 13 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.03%) CISSP
11 10 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.86%) MCSA
11 10 (0.86%) MCSE
12 9 (0.77%) CCNA
12 9 (0.77%) CISM
12 9 (0.77%) MCP
13 7 (0.60%) CCNP
13 7 (0.60%) GIAC
14 5 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.27%) SLA
2 45 (3.86%) QA
3 17 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.12%) NIST
5 11 (0.94%) GDPR
6 7 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.43%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.26%) 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 (0.086%) GLBA
11 1 (0.086%) IASME
11 1 (0.086%) ISAE 3402
11 1 (0.086%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 464 (39.83%) Active Directory
2 106 (9.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.69%) Hyper-V
4 28 (2.40%) Docker
5 27 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (2.06%) vSphere
7 16 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.20%) Firmware
8 14 (1.20%) NFS
9 13 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (1.03%) HDFS
11 11 (0.94%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.34%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.26%) KVM
14 3 (0.26%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.26%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 170 (14.59%) SCCM
2 98 (8.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 62 (5.32%) Ansible
4 55 (4.72%) Terraform
5 52 (4.46%) Kubernetes
6 33 (2.83%) Jamf Pro
7 23 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (1.89%) SCOM
9 18 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
9 18 (1.55%) Puppet
10 17 (1.46%) WSUS
11 13 (1.12%) Grafana
11 13 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.86%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.77%) BladeLogic
14 7 (0.60%) SCVMM
14 7 (0.60%) Tivoli
15 6 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.52%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 447 (38.37%) Microsoft
2 172 (14.76%) VMware
3 129 (11.07%) Citrix
4 93 (7.98%) Oracle
5 83 (7.12%) ServiceNow
6 73 (6.27%) Cisco
7 62 (5.32%) Apple
8 49 (4.21%) HP
9 43 (3.69%) Dell
10 40 (3.43%) IBM
11 37 (3.18%) Veeam
12 28 (2.40%) Bloomberg
13 27 (2.32%) Dynatrace
13 27 (2.32%) Red Hat
14 25 (2.15%) EMC
14 25 (2.15%) SAP
15 24 (2.06%) Splunk
16 23 (1.97%) CyberArk
16 23 (1.97%) Google
16 23 (1.97%) Qualys