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 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 12 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 2,090 3,014 4,026
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.30% 13.10% 13.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.29% 68.66% 68.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 2,093 2,680
10th Percentile £155 £160 £140
25th Percentile £205 £203 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £325
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile £663 £650 £613
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 236 350
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.13 £18.73
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% +17.03%
75th Percentile £25.00 £49.52 £28.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.46% +13.15% +23.08%

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 3,201 4,390 5,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 19.08% 19.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,133 3,041 3,829
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £263 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 316 451
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.83
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.25 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +48.25% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £49.51
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.74 £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 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 16 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 16 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 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
South East 0 672 £450 +16.13% 392
North of England -4 420 £325 -14.75% 333
South West -2 326 £500 +8.11% 238
Midlands -1 318 £338 -10.00% 269
North West -6 230 £325 -23.53% 163
West Midlands -1 182 £363 -17.14% 150
Scotland -6 172 £370 -1.86% 88
Yorkshire -2 164 £325 -7.28% 141
East of England -11 149 £290 -2.52% 208
East Midlands +4 134 £273 -16.15% 119
Wales -9 28 £288 -33.33% 28
North East +2 27 £450 +89.47% 33
Northern Ireland -10 10 £500 +194.12% 17
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
1 238 (11.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 144 (6.89%) SharePoint
3 82 (3.92%) Confluence
4 35 (1.67%) SharePoint Server
5 29 (1.39%) IIS
6 17 (0.81%) Apache
6 17 (0.81%) CMS
7 11 (0.53%) Skype for Business
8 10 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
10 7 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
11 6 (0.29%) JBoss
12 5 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2000
13 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
13 4 (0.19%) SAS
14 3 (0.14%) nginx
14 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
15 2 (0.096%) WordPress
Applications
1 260 (12.44%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.096%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.096%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.048%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.048%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.19%) LabWindows
4 2 (0.096%) Shopify
4 2 (0.096%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.048%) assyst
5 1 (0.048%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.048%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.048%) Relativity
5 1 (0.048%) RMDS
5 1 (0.048%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.048%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 540 (25.84%) Microsoft 365
2 411 (19.67%) Azure
3 109 (5.22%) Entra ID
4 108 (5.17%) AWS
5 48 (2.30%) OneDrive
6 39 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (1.77%) Azure Stack
8 32 (1.53%) Power Platform
9 31 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
10 28 (1.34%) OpenShift
11 22 (1.05%) IaaS
12 18 (0.86%) OCI
13 17 (0.81%) Azure Storage
14 16 (0.77%) SaaS
15 15 (0.72%) PaaS
16 11 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (0.53%) PowerApps
16 11 (0.53%) Serverless
17 10 (0.48%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (0.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 268 (12.82%) Firewall
2 237 (11.34%) DNS
3 178 (8.52%) DHCP
4 168 (8.04%) VPN
5 124 (5.93%) LAN
6 105 (5.02%) WAN
7 104 (4.98%) SAN
8 87 (4.16%) TCP/IP
9 57 (2.73%) Wireless
10 54 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
11 48 (2.30%) Network Security
12 38 (1.82%) VLAN
13 35 (1.67%) BGP
14 30 (1.44%) Remote Desktop
15 27 (1.29%) Internet
16 23 (1.10%) Fibre Channel
16 23 (1.10%) NAS
17 22 (1.05%) Ethernet
17 22 (1.05%) SMTP
18 21 (1.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (1.00%) Power BI
4 17 (0.81%) Big Data
4 17 (0.81%) Relational Database
5 16 (0.77%) MySQL
6 15 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.57%) RDBMS
8 10 (0.48%) Oracle Database
8 10 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.33%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.29%) DB2
11 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.14%) Tableau
12 2 (0.096%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.096%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.096%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.096%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 113 (5.41%) JIRA
2 63 (3.01%) Git
3 37 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.34%) Robot Framework
4 28 (1.34%) Visual Studio
5 24 (1.15%) Bitbucket
6 21 (1.00%) Eclipse
6 21 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 17 (0.81%) GitLab
7 17 (0.81%) MSI
8 12 (0.57%) Artifactory
9 11 (0.53%) Maven
9 11 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
9 11 (0.53%) Selenium
10 8 (0.38%) GoogleTest
10 8 (0.38%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.33%) Gradle
12 6 (0.29%) Subversion
12 6 (0.29%) TeamCity
13 5 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 662 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 198 (9.47%) Public Sector
3 186 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (6.94%) Finance
5 99 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
6 66 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 59 (2.82%) Manufacturing
8 46 (2.20%) Marketing
9 38 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (1.67%) Military
11 34 (1.63%) Legal
12 33 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (1.53%) Electronics
14 28 (1.34%) Banking
15 24 (1.15%) Retail
16 16 (0.77%) Aerospace
17 13 (0.62%) Law
18 10 (0.48%) Automotive
18 10 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 9 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 272 (13.01%) Support Engineer
2 252 (12.06%) Analyst
3 186 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 173 (8.28%) Architect
5 164 (7.85%) IT Support
6 131 (6.27%) Desktop Support
7 124 (5.93%) Senior
8 121 (5.79%) Desktop Engineer
9 115 (5.50%) IT Engineer
10 111 (5.31%) Administrator
10 111 (5.31%) Service Analyst
11 105 (5.02%) Service Desk Analyst
12 94 (4.50%) Windows Engineer
13 93 (4.45%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 91 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
15 75 (3.59%) Systems Administrator
16 71 (3.40%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 70 (3.35%) Support Analyst
18 67 (3.21%) IT Technician
19 63 (3.01%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.73%) Node.js
2 28 (1.34%) .NET
3 26 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (1.10%) REST
5 21 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
6 19 (0.91%) Middleware
6 19 (0.91%) Web Services
7 18 (0.86%) ARM Templates
8 16 (0.77%) HTML
9 15 (0.72%) XML
10 14 (0.67%) LDAP
11 13 (0.62%) CSS
11 13 (0.62%) Kafka
12 12 (0.57%) Spring Boot
13 11 (0.53%) RESTful
13 11 (0.53%) SOAP
14 9 (0.43%) SAML
15 8 (0.38%) Software Packaging
15 8 (0.38%) WPF
16 7 (0.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 148 (7.08%) PKI
2 78 (3.73%) Data Centre
3 74 (3.54%) Driving Licence
4 58 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 49 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 43 (2.06%) Clustering
7 40 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 39 (1.87%) Private Cloud
9 38 (1.82%) NHS
9 38 (1.82%) Replication
10 37 (1.77%) Client/Server
11 34 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
12 29 (1.39%) iPhone
13 25 (1.20%) Onboarding
14 23 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
15 21 (1.00%) Product Ownership
16 19 (0.91%) Cyberattack
16 19 (0.91%) iPad
17 17 (0.81%) CMDB
17 17 (0.81%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 601 (28.76%) Windows Server
2 583 (27.89%) Windows 10
3 494 (23.64%) Linux
4 148 (7.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 142 (6.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 142 (6.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 138 (6.60%) Apple iOS
6 138 (6.60%) Windows 7
7 111 (5.31%) Unix
8 88 (4.21%) Android
9 76 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 59 (2.82%) Mac OS
11 31 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
12 29 (1.39%) Ubuntu
13 20 (0.96%) Windows Vista
13 20 (0.96%) Windows XP
14 19 (0.91%) Windows NT
15 18 (0.86%) VMS
15 18 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
16 14 (0.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (18.13%) Customer Service
2 364 (17.42%) ITIL
3 340 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
4 252 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 238 (11.39%) Agile
6 173 (8.28%) DevOps
7 156 (7.46%) Migration
8 127 (6.08%) Service Management
9 125 (5.98%) CI/CD
10 116 (5.55%) Cybersecurity
11 108 (5.17%) Change Management
12 105 (5.02%) Mobile Device Management
13 96 (4.59%) Service Delivery
14 75 (3.59%) ITSM
15 73 (3.49%) Decision-Making
16 70 (3.35%) Network Management
17 69 (3.30%) Security Architecture
18 64 (3.06%) Release Management
19 62 (2.97%) Computer Science
19 62 (2.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 325 (15.55%) PowerShell
2 135 (6.46%) SQL
3 122 (5.84%) Python
4 82 (3.92%) C#
5 59 (2.82%) C++
6 49 (2.34%) VBScript
7 46 (2.20%) Java
8 40 (1.91%) JavaScript
9 36 (1.72%) Bash
10 30 (1.44%) VB
11 19 (0.91%) Perl
12 18 (0.86%) Bicep
12 18 (0.86%) Shell Script
13 17 (0.81%) C
14 8 (0.38%) R
14 8 (0.38%) Ruby
15 7 (0.33%) Groovy
16 4 (0.19%) F#
16 4 (0.19%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 765 (36.60%) Security Cleared
2 389 (18.61%) DV Cleared
3 361 (17.27%) SC Cleared
4 248 (11.87%) Degree
5 106 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 64 (3.06%) MCSE
7 49 (2.34%) CCNA
7 49 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.63%) MCSA
10 30 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
10 30 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 29 (1.39%) A+ Certification
11 29 (1.39%) MCP
12 26 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 22 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 19 (0.91%) CCNP
15 15 (0.72%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (5.98%) SLA
2 59 (2.82%) QA
3 37 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
4 35 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
5 21 (1.00%) NIST
6 16 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.72%) GDPR
7 15 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.57%) ISO 9001
10 10 (0.48%) ISO 9000
11 7 (0.33%) RMADS
12 6 (0.29%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.096%) NCSC
16 1 (0.048%) Def Stans
16 1 (0.048%) PMO
System Software
1 857 (41.00%) Active Directory
2 287 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (5.45%) Hyper-V
4 78 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
5 48 (2.30%) Firmware
6 45 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
7 43 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
8 40 (1.91%) Docker
8 40 (1.91%) vSphere
9 37 (1.77%) VMware NSX
10 36 (1.72%) XenApp
11 25 (1.20%) BitLocker
12 23 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
13 18 (0.86%) XenDesktop
14 17 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
15 10 (0.48%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.43%) iptables
16 9 (0.43%) KVM
16 9 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
17 8 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 366 (17.51%) SCCM
2 175 (8.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 102 (4.88%) WSUS
4 95 (4.55%) Ansible
5 79 (3.78%) SCOM
6 70 (3.35%) Kubernetes
7 64 (3.06%) vCenter Server
8 57 (2.73%) Terraform
9 54 (2.58%) NetBackup
10 38 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 27 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
12 25 (1.20%) EMC NetWorker
12 25 (1.20%) Puppet
13 20 (0.96%) Sysprep
14 17 (0.81%) Kibana
14 17 (0.81%) Nagios
15 16 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
15 16 (0.77%) WMI
16 15 (0.72%) Grafana
17 14 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 930 (44.50%) Microsoft
2 401 (19.19%) VMware
3 122 (5.84%) Cisco
4 119 (5.69%) Citrix
5 113 (5.41%) Apple
6 93 (4.45%) ServiceNow
7 89 (4.26%) HP
8 78 (3.73%) Oracle
9 59 (2.82%) Veeam
10 57 (2.73%) Atlassian
10 57 (2.73%) Splunk
11 50 (2.39%) Red Hat
12 47 (2.25%) SAP
13 44 (2.11%) Dell
14 43 (2.06%) NetApp
15 38 (1.82%) EMC
16 34 (1.63%) Symantec
17 29 (1.39%) Veritas
18 25 (1.20%) Google
19 24 (1.15%) Palo Alto