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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 3,141 4,756 6,525
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.44% 10.10% 9.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.22% 62.42% 59.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 3,381 4,565
10th Percentile £163 £170 £153
25th Percentile £225 £231 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £410 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 249 371
10th Percentile £11.58 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.86 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% +25.00% +17.99%
75th Percentile £25.00 £52.13 £27.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -26.89% +23.10% +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 5,131 7,619 10,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.79% 16.19% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,449 5,362 7,512
10th Percentile £188 £194 £175
25th Percentile £304 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 358 501
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.16 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.50 £43.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.78% +104.33% +22.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £45.06 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.06% +102.49% +27.14%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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
London -8 1,149 £400 -20.00% 379
South East 0 690 £482 +28.53% 383
North of England -5 425 £340 -15.00% 351
Midlands +3 362 £350 -6.67% 262
South West +1 337 £500 +8.11% 230
North West -6 240 £350 -16.57% 185
West Midlands +2 216 £400 -5.88% 151
Yorkshire -1 161 £323 -12.54% 136
East of England -12 158 £350 +17.15% 172
East Midlands +5 143 £295 -9.23% 111
North East +4 24 £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
1 367 (11.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 201 (6.40%) SharePoint
3 92 (2.93%) Confluence
4 79 (2.52%) IIS
5 31 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2010
6 30 (0.96%) Apache
7 29 (0.92%) Exchange Server 2013
8 28 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
9 26 (0.83%) Skype for Business
10 21 (0.67%) CMS
11 20 (0.64%) Tomcat
12 18 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2007
13 15 (0.48%) JBoss
14 14 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2003
15 13 (0.41%) nginx
16 8 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
16 8 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 6 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
18 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
18 4 (0.13%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 352 (11.21%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.064%) Acrobat
8 2 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.064%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.032%) DaVinci Resolve
9 1 (0.032%) Maya
9 1 (0.032%) NUKE
9 1 (0.032%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.032%) Simulink
9 1 (0.032%) Trello
9 1 (0.032%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.22%) Teamcenter
1 7 (0.22%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.16%) Shopify
3 4 (0.13%) LabWindows
3 4 (0.13%) SystmOne
4 3 (0.096%) Eikon
4 3 (0.096%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.096%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.064%) Advent Geneva
5 2 (0.064%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.064%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.064%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.064%) Relativity
5 2 (0.064%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.032%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.032%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.032%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.032%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.032%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 827 (26.33%) Microsoft 365
2 707 (22.51%) Azure
3 224 (7.13%) AWS
4 213 (6.78%) Entra ID
5 73 (2.32%) OneDrive
6 64 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (1.97%) PaaS
8 57 (1.81%) IaaS
9 46 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
9 46 (1.46%) SaaS
10 43 (1.37%) Power Platform
11 40 (1.27%) Azure Storage
12 37 (1.18%) WhatsApp
13 33 (1.05%) GCP
14 30 (0.96%) GitHub
15 29 (0.92%) Azure Stack
16 27 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
17 22 (0.70%) Mimecast
18 21 (0.67%) Serverless
19 19 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 370 (11.78%) Firewall
2 335 (10.67%) DNS
3 231 (7.35%) VPN
4 208 (6.62%) DHCP
5 150 (4.78%) LAN
6 139 (4.43%) WAN
7 135 (4.30%) SAN
8 112 (3.57%) TCP/IP
9 93 (2.96%) Wireless
10 72 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
11 65 (2.07%) Network Security
12 58 (1.85%) Internet
13 51 (1.62%) VLAN
14 39 (1.24%) NAS
15 37 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
16 33 (1.05%) Skype
16 33 (1.05%) VoIP
17 31 (0.99%) BGP
18 28 (0.89%) FTP
19 24 (0.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (7.96%) SQL Server
2 47 (1.50%) Relational Database
3 39 (1.24%) MySQL
4 35 (1.11%) Power BI
5 33 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
5 33 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 31 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 23 (0.73%) MongoDB
8 20 (0.64%) Big Data
9 18 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (0.45%) Hadoop
12 11 (0.35%) DB2
13 9 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.22%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 155 (4.93%) JIRA
2 114 (3.63%) Git
3 75 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 45 (1.43%) Bitbucket
5 38 (1.21%) Visual Studio
6 35 (1.11%) Artifactory
7 34 (1.08%) MSI
8 33 (1.05%) GitLab
8 33 (1.05%) TeamCity
9 29 (0.92%) Robot Framework
10 23 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 22 (0.70%) Subversion
12 21 (0.67%) Eclipse
13 18 (0.57%) Selenium
14 10 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 8 (0.25%) InstallShield
16 8 (0.25%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.22%) GoogleTest
18 6 (0.19%) Maven
General
1 856 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 421 (13.40%) Finance
3 266 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
3 266 (8.47%) Public Sector
4 153 (4.87%) Banking
5 102 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
6 90 (2.87%) Telecoms
7 71 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 71 (2.26%) Marketing
8 59 (1.88%) Legal
9 51 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 49 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 47 (1.50%) Electronics
12 46 (1.46%) Front Office
13 42 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 41 (1.31%) Retail
15 37 (1.18%) Military
16 24 (0.76%) Financial Institution
17 22 (0.70%) Law
18 20 (0.64%) French Language
Job Titles
1 419 (13.34%) Support Engineer
2 393 (12.51%) Analyst
3 263 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 235 (7.48%) IT Support
5 229 (7.29%) Architect
6 193 (6.14%) Desktop Support
7 187 (5.95%) Senior
8 178 (5.67%) IT Engineer
9 155 (4.93%) Desktop Engineer
10 144 (4.58%) Service Analyst
11 139 (4.43%) Administrator
11 139 (4.43%) Windows Engineer
12 132 (4.20%) Service Desk Analyst
13 127 (4.04%) 2nd Line Support
14 117 (3.72%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 108 (3.44%) IT Support Engineer
16 104 (3.31%) Support Analyst
17 98 (3.12%) Lead
18 93 (2.96%) Systems Administrator
19 90 (2.87%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (3.79%) .NET
2 62 (1.97%) Node.js
3 52 (1.66%) Middleware
4 45 (1.43%) LDAP
5 38 (1.21%) .NET Framework
6 36 (1.15%) Web Services
7 35 (1.11%) HTML
8 34 (1.08%) REST
8 34 (1.08%) XML
9 26 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
9 26 (0.83%) ASP.NET
10 25 (0.80%) ARM Templates
11 24 (0.76%) CSS
12 23 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (0.73%) SAML
13 22 (0.70%) JSON
14 21 (0.67%) WCF
15 20 (0.64%) WPF
16 19 (0.60%) WinForms
16 19 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 166 (5.28%) PKI
2 112 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 96 (3.06%) Management Information System
4 78 (2.48%) Replication
4 78 (2.48%) Video Conferencing
5 75 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 66 (2.10%) Driving Licence
6 66 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 64 (2.04%) Clustering
8 49 (1.56%) Client/Server
9 47 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 44 (1.40%) NHS
11 38 (1.21%) iPhone
12 34 (1.08%) iPad
13 32 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
14 31 (0.99%) Private Cloud
15 28 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
16 27 (0.86%) Cyberattack
16 27 (0.86%) Product Ownership
16 27 (0.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 880 (28.02%) Windows Server
2 766 (24.39%) Windows 10
3 739 (23.53%) Linux
4 206 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 203 (6.46%) Unix
6 186 (5.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 184 (5.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 180 (5.73%) Windows 7
9 171 (5.44%) Apple iOS
10 149 (4.74%) Android
11 118 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 115 (3.66%) Mac OS
13 50 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 38 (1.21%) VMS
15 33 (1.05%) Ubuntu
16 27 (0.86%) Windows Server 2003
17 25 (0.80%) Mac OS X
18 24 (0.76%) Solaris
19 23 (0.73%) Windows XP
20 21 (0.67%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (14.68%) Customer Service
2 449 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 438 (13.94%) ITIL
4 338 (10.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 301 (9.58%) Agile
6 296 (9.42%) Migration
7 281 (8.95%) DevOps
8 177 (5.64%) CI/CD
9 173 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
10 150 (4.78%) Disaster Recovery
11 146 (4.65%) Change Management
12 139 (4.43%) Mobile Device Management
13 134 (4.27%) Service Management
14 119 (3.79%) Analytics
15 113 (3.60%) Service Delivery
16 105 (3.34%) Computer Science
17 103 (3.28%) ITSM
18 101 (3.22%) Infrastructure as Code
18 101 (3.22%) Release Management
19 97 (3.09%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 568 (18.08%) PowerShell
2 329 (10.47%) SQL
3 234 (7.45%) Python
4 165 (5.25%) C#
5 88 (2.80%) C++
6 87 (2.77%) Java
7 62 (1.97%) JavaScript
8 60 (1.91%) Bash
8 60 (1.91%) VB
9 59 (1.88%) VBScript
10 46 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 33 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 32 (1.02%) VBA
14 26 (0.83%) Perl
15 24 (0.76%) Bicep
16 22 (0.70%) C
17 12 (0.38%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.35%) R
19 10 (0.32%) F#
Qualifications
1 936 (29.80%) Security Cleared
2 446 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 441 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 339 (10.79%) Degree
5 141 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (1.91%) MCSE
7 58 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (1.72%) CCNA
9 51 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.43%) Azure Certification
11 42 (1.34%) MCSA
12 35 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
13 34 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 32 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 29 (0.92%) MCP
16 28 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
17 27 (0.86%) CCNP
18 24 (0.76%) A+ Certification
18 24 (0.76%) AWS Certification
19 21 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (5.48%) SLA
2 102 (3.25%) QA
3 31 (0.99%) GDPR
3 31 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (0.99%) NIST
4 27 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
4 27 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
5 20 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 18 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
7 14 (0.45%) ISO 9001
8 11 (0.35%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.32%) ISO 9000
10 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.22%) RMADS
10 7 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.16%) ISO 15022
12 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1,235 (39.32%) Active Directory
2 419 (13.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 153 (4.87%) Hyper-V
4 105 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
5 84 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
6 75 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 72 (2.29%) vSphere
8 62 (1.97%) Docker
9 56 (1.78%) Firmware
10 44 (1.40%) VMware NSX
11 39 (1.24%) XenApp
12 34 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
13 23 (0.73%) XenDesktop
14 20 (0.64%) BitLocker
15 17 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
16 16 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
17 15 (0.48%) NFS
18 13 (0.41%) HDFS
19 10 (0.32%) iptables
20 9 (0.29%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 488 (15.54%) SCCM
2 265 (8.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 163 (5.19%) Ansible
4 117 (3.72%) WSUS
5 115 (3.66%) Terraform
6 104 (3.31%) Kubernetes
7 101 (3.22%) SCOM
8 57 (1.81%) vCenter Server
9 54 (1.72%) NetBackup
9 54 (1.72%) Puppet
10 53 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 51 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
12 37 (1.18%) Progress Chef
13 29 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
14 28 (0.89%) EMC NetWorker
15 19 (0.60%) Grafana
15 19 (0.60%) Kibana
15 19 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
15 19 (0.60%) Nessus
16 17 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,307 (41.61%) Microsoft
2 595 (18.94%) VMware
3 228 (7.26%) Citrix
4 170 (5.41%) Oracle
5 163 (5.19%) ServiceNow
6 157 (5.00%) Cisco
7 150 (4.78%) Apple
8 113 (3.60%) HP
9 90 (2.87%) Red Hat
9 90 (2.87%) Veeam
10 85 (2.71%) Dell
11 68 (2.16%) Splunk
12 65 (2.07%) SAP
13 58 (1.85%) EMC
14 56 (1.78%) Atlassian
15 45 (1.43%) Google
15 45 (1.43%) NetApp
16 42 (1.34%) IBM
17 40 (1.27%) Palo Alto
18 37 (1.18%) Symantec