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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 3,111 4,813 6,547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.54% 10.06% 9.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.06% 62.02% 60.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 3,429 4,563
10th Percentile £163 £165 £150
25th Percentile £213 £231 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
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 264 262 392
10th Percentile £11.80 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.24 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.57 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.23% +12.83% +21.21%
75th Percentile £25.00 £50.42 £28.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.77
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.57 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.23% +12.83% +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 5,013 7,761 10,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.76% 16.22% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,426 5,466 7,490
10th Percentile £185 £193 £174
25th Percentile £300 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £640 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.05% +0.05% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 370 524
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.89 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.76 £15.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £39.80 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.47% +85.12% +22.86%
75th Percentile £61.80 £65.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £40.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.16% +79.09% +28.57%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 1,156 £400 -20.00% 421
South East 0 676 £450 +16.88% 390
North of England -4 420 £325 -17.46% 350
South West -3 330 £500 +8.11% 240
Midlands +1 321 £338 -10.00% 282
North West -4 228 £325 -23.53% 170
West Midlands -1 182 £350 -18.13% 158
Yorkshire -1 168 £325 -3.70% 154
East of England -9 158 £325 +8.33% 196
East Midlands +5 136 £270 -16.92% 124
North East +5 25 £441 +85.47% 30
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
1 366 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 201 (6.46%) SharePoint
3 88 (2.83%) Confluence
4 69 (2.22%) IIS
5 33 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2010
6 30 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
6 30 (0.96%) Skype for Business
7 28 (0.90%) Apache
7 28 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2013
8 21 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 20 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2007
10 19 (0.61%) CMS
11 15 (0.48%) JBoss
12 14 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2003
13 12 (0.39%) nginx
14 10 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
15 8 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 6 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
17 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
17 4 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 371 (11.93%) Microsoft Office
2 94 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.096%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.064%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.064%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.032%) DaVinci Resolve
8 1 (0.032%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.032%) Simulink
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
8 1 (0.032%) Windchill
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 (0.096%) Eikon
5 3 (0.096%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.096%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.064%) Advent Geneva
6 2 (0.064%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.064%) Front Arena
6 2 (0.064%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.064%) Relativity
6 2 (0.064%) Remedy AR System
6 2 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.064%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.032%) Primavera
7 1 (0.032%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 838 (26.94%) Microsoft 365
2 711 (22.85%) Azure
3 237 (7.62%) AWS
4 209 (6.72%) Entra ID
5 79 (2.54%) OneDrive
6 66 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (1.93%) PaaS
8 56 (1.80%) IaaS
9 44 (1.41%) SaaS
10 41 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
11 40 (1.29%) Power Platform
12 37 (1.19%) Azure Storage
13 34 (1.09%) GCP
13 34 (1.09%) WhatsApp
14 32 (1.03%) Azure Stack
15 31 (1.00%) GitHub
16 29 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
17 23 (0.74%) Serverless
18 21 (0.68%) Mimecast
19 19 (0.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 374 (12.02%) Firewall
2 338 (10.86%) DNS
3 230 (7.39%) VPN
4 213 (6.85%) DHCP
5 159 (5.11%) LAN
6 146 (4.69%) WAN
7 136 (4.37%) SAN
8 120 (3.86%) TCP/IP
9 93 (2.99%) Wireless
10 73 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
11 69 (2.22%) Network Security
12 57 (1.83%) Internet
13 51 (1.64%) VLAN
14 41 (1.32%) NAS
15 40 (1.29%) Skype
16 35 (1.13%) BGP
17 32 (1.03%) VoIP
18 29 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
19 28 (0.90%) FTP
20 23 (0.74%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (7.94%) SQL Server
2 45 (1.45%) Relational Database
3 38 (1.22%) MySQL
4 33 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 31 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (1.00%) Power BI
6 28 (0.90%) RDBMS
7 25 (0.80%) Oracle Database
8 23 (0.74%) MongoDB
9 20 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (0.51%) Big Data
12 14 (0.45%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.26%) DB2
13 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.19%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
17 4 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
17 4 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 147 (4.73%) JIRA
2 99 (3.18%) Git
3 77 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.22%) Bitbucket
4 38 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 36 (1.16%) TeamCity
6 35 (1.13%) Artifactory
7 31 (1.00%) GitLab
8 28 (0.90%) MSI
8 28 (0.90%) Robot Framework
9 22 (0.71%) Eclipse
9 22 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
9 22 (0.71%) Subversion
10 18 (0.58%) Selenium
11 11 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
12 9 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.26%) GoogleTest
13 8 (0.26%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.19%) Hudson
15 5 (0.16%) WiX
General
1 874 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 418 (13.44%) Finance
3 260 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 145 (4.66%) Banking
6 110 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
7 91 (2.93%) Telecoms
8 72 (2.31%) Marketing
9 68 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 61 (1.96%) Legal
11 57 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 52 (1.67%) Front Office
13 46 (1.48%) Electronics
14 45 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
15 43 (1.38%) Investment Banking
16 42 (1.35%) Retail
17 38 (1.22%) Military
18 28 (0.90%) Financial Institution
19 23 (0.74%) Law
20 19 (0.61%) French Language
Job Titles
1 431 (13.85%) Support Engineer
2 402 (12.92%) Analyst
3 256 (8.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 236 (7.59%) IT Support
5 218 (7.01%) Architect
6 199 (6.40%) Desktop Support
7 196 (6.30%) Senior
8 182 (5.85%) IT Engineer
9 161 (5.18%) Desktop Engineer
10 147 (4.73%) Windows Engineer
11 144 (4.63%) Service Analyst
12 143 (4.60%) Administrator
13 134 (4.31%) Service Desk Analyst
14 132 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support
15 124 (3.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 107 (3.44%) Support Analyst
17 106 (3.41%) IT Support Engineer
18 93 (2.99%) Systems Administrator
19 92 (2.96%) Lead
20 90 (2.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (3.63%) .NET
2 62 (1.99%) Node.js
3 47 (1.51%) Middleware
4 38 (1.22%) LDAP
5 37 (1.19%) Web Services
6 34 (1.09%) XML
7 33 (1.06%) HTML
8 32 (1.03%) .NET Framework
9 31 (1.00%) REST
10 25 (0.80%) ASP.NET
11 24 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (0.74%) ARM Templates
12 23 (0.74%) CSS
12 23 (0.74%) JSON
13 22 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
14 21 (0.68%) SAML
15 19 (0.61%) WCF
16 18 (0.58%) WPF
17 17 (0.55%) WinForms
18 16 (0.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 162 (5.21%) PKI
2 114 (3.66%) Data Centre
3 100 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 78 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
5 77 (2.48%) Replication
6 70 (2.25%) Driving Licence
7 69 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 65 (2.09%) Clustering
8 65 (2.09%) Public Cloud
9 50 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 49 (1.58%) Client/Server
11 48 (1.54%) NHS
12 42 (1.35%) iPhone
13 36 (1.16%) Private Cloud
14 31 (1.00%) iPad
14 31 (1.00%) Smartphone
15 30 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
15 30 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
16 27 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 27 (0.87%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 879 (28.25%) Windows Server
2 785 (25.23%) Windows 10
3 715 (22.98%) Linux
4 206 (6.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 192 (6.17%) Unix
5 192 (6.17%) Windows 7
6 185 (5.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 175 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 173 (5.56%) Apple iOS
9 145 (4.66%) Android
10 116 (3.73%) Mac OS
11 99 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 57 (1.83%) Windows Server 2008
13 37 (1.19%) VMS
14 34 (1.09%) Ubuntu
15 28 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
16 27 (0.87%) Mac OS X
17 24 (0.77%) Solaris
18 23 (0.74%) Windows Vista
18 23 (0.74%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (15.88%) Customer Service
2 458 (14.72%) ITIL
3 451 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
4 337 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 296 (9.51%) Agile
6 291 (9.35%) Migration
7 284 (9.13%) DevOps
8 180 (5.79%) CI/CD
9 155 (4.98%) Cybersecurity
10 146 (4.69%) Service Management
11 142 (4.56%) Change Management
12 140 (4.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 138 (4.44%) Mobile Device Management
14 115 (3.70%) ITSM
14 115 (3.70%) Service Delivery
15 107 (3.44%) Analytics
16 106 (3.41%) Release Management
17 105 (3.38%) Risk Management
18 101 (3.25%) Software Engineering
19 96 (3.09%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 540 (17.36%) PowerShell
2 327 (10.51%) SQL
3 246 (7.91%) Python
4 157 (5.05%) C#
5 92 (2.96%) C++
6 86 (2.76%) Java
7 65 (2.09%) JavaScript
8 60 (1.93%) Bash
9 59 (1.90%) VBScript
10 52 (1.67%) VB
11 45 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 35 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 32 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 26 (0.84%) VBA
15 25 (0.80%) Perl
16 23 (0.74%) Bicep
17 21 (0.68%) C
18 12 (0.39%) Go
19 11 (0.35%) R
20 10 (0.32%) F#
Qualifications
1 907 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 439 (14.11%) DV Cleared
3 431 (13.85%) SC Cleared
4 334 (10.74%) Degree
5 140 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 62 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
7 60 (1.93%) MCSE
8 58 (1.86%) CCNA
9 54 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.45%) Azure Certification
11 42 (1.35%) MCSA
12 34 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
13 32 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 31 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 30 (0.96%) A+ Certification
15 30 (0.96%) MCP
16 26 (0.84%) CCNP
17 25 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 25 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
18 24 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (5.95%) SLA
2 103 (3.31%) QA
3 35 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.03%) NIST
5 30 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
6 29 (0.93%) GDPR
7 27 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
8 22 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 14 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.42%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.32%) ISO 9000
13 8 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.23%) RMADS
15 5 (0.16%) ISO 15022
15 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1,245 (40.02%) Active Directory
2 386 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 144 (4.63%) Hyper-V
4 83 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
5 78 (2.51%) VMware ESXi
6 69 (2.22%) vSphere
7 68 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 60 (1.93%) Firmware
9 58 (1.86%) Docker
10 48 (1.54%) VMware NSX
11 40 (1.29%) XenApp
12 35 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
13 22 (0.71%) XenDesktop
14 17 (0.55%) BitLocker
14 17 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
15 16 (0.51%) NFS
16 13 (0.42%) HDFS
17 10 (0.32%) iptables
17 10 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
18 9 (0.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 490 (15.75%) SCCM
2 267 (8.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 145 (4.66%) Ansible
4 112 (3.60%) WSUS
5 108 (3.47%) Kubernetes
6 101 (3.25%) Terraform
7 98 (3.15%) SCOM
8 61 (1.96%) vCenter Server
9 57 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
10 55 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 54 (1.74%) NetBackup
12 40 (1.29%) Puppet
13 30 (0.96%) EMC NetWorker
14 29 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
15 21 (0.68%) Grafana
15 21 (0.68%) Progress Chef
16 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
17 19 (0.61%) Kibana
17 19 (0.61%) Nessus
17 19 (0.61%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,306 (41.98%) Microsoft
2 555 (17.84%) VMware
3 227 (7.30%) Citrix
4 173 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 163 (5.24%) Oracle
6 162 (5.21%) Cisco
7 160 (5.14%) Apple
8 119 (3.83%) HP
9 94 (3.02%) Veeam
10 84 (2.70%) Dell
11 70 (2.25%) Red Hat
11 70 (2.25%) SAP
12 69 (2.22%) Splunk
13 57 (1.83%) EMC
14 50 (1.61%) Atlassian
15 48 (1.54%) Google
16 45 (1.45%) IBM
17 42 (1.35%) NetApp
18 41 (1.32%) Palo Alto
19 35 (1.13%) Symantec