Windows Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Windows
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 18 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing Windows 199 359 352
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.31% 9.62% 7.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.58% 65.15% 60.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 251 287
10th Percentile £157 £140 £157
25th Percentile £250 £200 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +9.68% -13.89%
75th Percentile £574 £560 £550
90th Percentile £675 £656 £638
London median daily rate £400 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile - - £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £26.50
75th Percentile £27.00 - £50.00
90th Percentile £28.43 - £91.50
London median hourly rate £22.00 £25.71 £23.91
% change year-on-year -14.43% +7.53% +0.99%

All Operating Systems
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 313 551 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.06% 14.77% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 384 451
10th Percentile £195 £158 £175
25th Percentile £308 £250 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £651 £652 £600
90th Percentile £726 £738 £688
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile - £28.00 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £16.13
Median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.88% +60.38% +87.61%
75th Percentile £27.00 £60.31 £45.75
90th Percentile £28.43 £74.38 £78.75
London median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% +108.33% -48.39%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Central London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Central London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London -1 175 £400 -15.34% 39
City of Westminster -7 6 £400 +7.38% 2
West End of London -10 4 £147 -60.41% 2
Lambeth 0 1 £188 -1.32% 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - - 2
Windows
London

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 41 (20.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (8.04%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.52%) IIS
4 6 (3.02%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (2.01%) Apache
5 4 (2.01%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (1.51%) nginx
6 3 (1.51%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.01%) Confluence
7 2 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (1.01%) JBoss
8 1 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (10.05%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.51%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.50%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.50%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 69 (34.67%) Azure
2 58 (29.15%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (12.06%) AWS
4 23 (11.56%) Entra ID
5 13 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.53%) Azure Storage
7 10 (5.03%) OneDrive
7 10 (5.03%) PaaS
8 9 (4.52%) IaaS
8 9 (4.52%) Mimecast
9 6 (3.02%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.02%) GitHub
9 6 (3.02%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.02%) Serverless
10 5 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (2.51%) GCP
11 4 (2.01%) WhatsApp
12 3 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 39 (19.60%) Firewall
2 17 (8.54%) SAN
3 13 (6.53%) DNS
3 13 (6.53%) VPN
4 9 (4.52%) WAN
5 8 (4.02%) Internet
6 6 (3.02%) LAN
7 5 (2.51%) FTP
7 5 (2.51%) Network Security
8 4 (2.01%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.51%) DHCP
9 3 (1.51%) H.323
9 3 (1.51%) Skype
10 2 (1.01%) MPLS
10 2 (1.01%) NAS
10 2 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.01%) SSL
10 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.58%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.02%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.51%) MySQL
5 4 (2.01%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.01%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.01%) KDB
7 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.01%) Power BI
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.50%) Metadata
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (6.53%) JIRA
2 12 (6.03%) Git
3 10 (5.03%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.02%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.51%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.51%) GitLab
6 4 (2.01%) Hudson
7 3 (1.51%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.01%) Subversion
9 1 (0.50%) AppScan
9 1 (0.50%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Maven
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (25.13%) Finance
2 49 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.09%) Banking
4 12 (6.03%) Investment Banking
5 11 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.52%) Front Office
6 7 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.02%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.02%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.51%) Retail
9 4 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.01%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.01%) French Language
9 4 (2.01%) Law
10 3 (1.51%) Legal
11 2 (1.01%) Advertising
11 2 (1.01%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.50%) German Language
12 1 (0.50%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.50%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 41 (20.60%) Support Engineer
2 30 (15.08%) Analyst
3 21 (10.55%) IT Support
4 17 (8.54%) Desktop Engineer
4 17 (8.54%) IT Engineer
5 15 (7.54%) Desktop Support
5 15 (7.54%) Developer
6 14 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.03%) IT Analyst
8 11 (5.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 11 (5.53%) IT Support Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Windows Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Architect
10 7 (3.52%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.02%) Deployment Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Full Stack Developer
11 6 (3.02%) Operations Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Senior
11 6 (3.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.55%) .NET
2 8 (4.02%) .NET Core
3 7 (3.52%) ASP.NET
4 6 (3.02%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.02%) Blazor
4 6 (3.02%) Web Services
5 4 (2.01%) LDAP
6 2 (1.01%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.01%) HTML
6 2 (1.01%) HTML5
6 2 (1.01%) IBM Integration Bus
6 2 (1.01%) XML
7 1 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.50%) JSON
7 1 (0.50%) OAuth
7 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.50%) XSD
7 1 (0.50%) XSLT
7 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.05%) Video Conferencing
2 14 (7.04%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.03%) Blackberry
4 11 (5.53%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.02%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.02%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.51%) iPhone
6 5 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.01%) Replication
7 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.51%) Clustering
8 3 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.51%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.01%) IoT
9 2 (1.01%) iPad
9 2 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.10%) Windows 10
2 39 (19.60%) Linux
2 39 (19.60%) Windows Server
3 19 (9.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (9.05%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (7.04%) Unix
6 13 (6.53%) Mac OS
7 12 (6.03%) Android
8 8 (4.02%) Windows 7
9 7 (3.52%) Apple iOS
9 7 (3.52%) Mac OS X
10 4 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.51%) VMS
11 3 (1.51%) Windows 8
12 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.50%) CentOS
13 1 (0.50%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (14.57%) DevOps
2 25 (12.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (11.56%) Customer Service
4 22 (11.06%) Migration
5 20 (10.05%) Agile
6 19 (9.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (8.04%) CI/CD
8 16 (8.04%) Information Security
8 16 (8.04%) ITIL
9 15 (7.54%) SDLC
9 15 (7.54%) Software Engineering
10 13 (6.53%) Asset Management
11 12 (6.03%) Business Continuity
12 10 (5.03%) Analytics
13 9 (4.52%) Computer Science
13 9 (4.52%) Incident Management
13 9 (4.52%) Service Delivery
13 9 (4.52%) Test Automation
14 8 (4.02%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.10%) PowerShell
2 31 (15.58%) Python
2 31 (15.58%) SQL
3 15 (7.54%) C#
4 11 (5.53%) T-SQL
5 10 (5.03%) C++
6 7 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.52%) PL/SQL
6 7 (3.52%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.02%) Java
8 5 (2.51%) Bash
8 5 (2.51%) Go
9 3 (1.51%) Perl
10 1 (0.50%) PHP
10 1 (0.50%) VB
10 1 (0.50%) VBScript
10 1 (0.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (9.55%) Degree
2 8 (4.02%) Azure Certification
3 7 (3.52%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.51%) GCIA
4 3 (1.51%) GCIH
4 3 (1.51%) GIAC
4 3 (1.51%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.01%) CCNA
5 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.01%) ISEB
5 2 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.53%) QA
2 5 (2.51%) SLA
3 4 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.51%) COBIT
4 3 (1.51%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.01%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (38.69%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.03%) Hyper-V
3 10 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.01%) Docker
4 4 (2.01%) HDFS
4 4 (2.01%) NFS
4 4 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) iptables
5 1 (0.50%) KVM
5 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (17.59%) SCCM
2 17 (8.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (5.53%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.52%) Ansible
4 7 (3.52%) Terraform
5 5 (2.51%) Puppet
6 4 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.01%) Nessus
7 3 (1.51%) CASB
7 3 (1.51%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.51%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.51%) QRadar
7 3 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.01%) Grafana
8 2 (1.01%) Graylog
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (1.01%) Nagios
8 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.01%) SCOrch
8 2 (1.01%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (36.18%) Microsoft
2 36 (18.09%) Citrix
3 26 (13.07%) Oracle
4 22 (11.06%) Cisco
5 21 (10.55%) VMware
6 16 (8.04%) HP
7 14 (7.04%) Apple
7 14 (7.04%) Avaya
7 14 (7.04%) ServiceNow
8 12 (6.03%) CheckPoint
8 12 (6.03%) EMC
9 9 (4.52%) Adobe
10 7 (3.52%) Bloomberg
11 6 (3.02%) IBM
12 5 (2.51%) MuleSoft
12 5 (2.51%) Red Hat
12 5 (2.51%) Reuters
13 4 (2.01%) iManage
13 4 (2.01%) Isilon
13 4 (2.01%) Ivanti