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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 3,115 4,815 6,577
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.48% 10.09% 9.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.65% 62.17% 60.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,158 3,429 4,624
10th Percentile £163 £170 £153
25th Percentile £213 £231 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +5.00%
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 259 250 373
10th Percentile £11.65 £13.14 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £25.00 £50.42 £27.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £23.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -22.85% +17.50% +23.23%

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 5,053 7,745 10,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.76% 16.23% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,427 5,458 7,576
10th Percentile £185 £195 £175
25th Percentile £300 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +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 369 358 505
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.86 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -7 1,146 £400 -20.00% 405
South East 0 692 £475 +22.58% 366
North of England -4 417 £325 -18.75% 356
Midlands +3 347 £350 -6.67% 263
South West -1 341 £500 +5.26% 212
North West -7 227 £350 -16.57% 193
West Midlands +1 206 £390 -8.24% 151
Yorkshire -2 166 £325 -8.84% 139
East of England -12 154 £331 +10.88% 168
East Midlands +6 139 £275 -15.38% 112
North East +4 25 £441 +85.47% 28
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 (11.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 204 (6.55%) SharePoint
3 84 (2.70%) Confluence
4 78 (2.50%) IIS
5 32 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2010
6 30 (0.96%) Apache
6 30 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
7 29 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
8 27 (0.87%) Skype for Business
9 21 (0.67%) CMS
10 20 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2007
11 19 (0.61%) Tomcat
12 15 (0.48%) JBoss
13 14 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2003
13 14 (0.45%) 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%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 351 (11.27%) Microsoft Office
2 92 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.29%) 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 8 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.22%) Teamcenter
2 7 (0.22%) 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%) Primavera
7 1 (0.032%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.032%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 830 (26.65%) Microsoft 365
2 705 (22.63%) Azure
3 226 (7.26%) AWS
4 212 (6.81%) Entra ID
5 73 (2.34%) OneDrive
6 63 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (1.93%) PaaS
8 54 (1.73%) IaaS
9 46 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (1.41%) SaaS
11 42 (1.35%) Power Platform
12 41 (1.32%) Azure Storage
13 36 (1.16%) WhatsApp
14 33 (1.06%) GCP
15 30 (0.96%) Azure Stack
15 30 (0.96%) GitHub
16 27 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
17 22 (0.71%) Serverless
18 21 (0.67%) Mimecast
19 19 (0.61%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 366 (11.75%) Firewall
2 332 (10.66%) DNS
3 227 (7.29%) VPN
4 210 (6.74%) DHCP
5 153 (4.91%) LAN
6 142 (4.56%) WAN
7 136 (4.37%) SAN
8 113 (3.63%) TCP/IP
9 90 (2.89%) Wireless
10 71 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
11 64 (2.05%) Network Security
12 54 (1.73%) Internet
13 49 (1.57%) VLAN
14 40 (1.28%) NAS
15 37 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
15 37 (1.19%) Skype
16 33 (1.06%) BGP
17 32 (1.03%) VoIP
18 27 (0.87%) FTP
19 24 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (8.03%) SQL Server
2 46 (1.48%) Relational Database
3 39 (1.25%) MySQL
4 34 (1.09%) Power BI
5 33 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 33 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (0.96%) RDBMS
7 28 (0.90%) Oracle Database
8 24 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 20 (0.64%) Big Data
10 18 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (0.45%) Hadoop
12 9 (0.29%) DB2
12 9 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.22%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 146 (4.69%) JIRA
2 112 (3.60%) Git
3 74 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 37 (1.19%) Bitbucket
6 35 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 33 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 32 (1.03%) GitLab
8 32 (1.03%) MSI
9 28 (0.90%) Robot Framework
10 22 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (0.71%) Subversion
11 21 (0.67%) Eclipse
12 18 (0.58%) Selenium
13 10 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
14 9 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 8 (0.26%) InstallShield
15 8 (0.26%) SonarQube
16 7 (0.22%) GoogleTest
17 6 (0.19%) Hudson
General
1 856 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 411 (13.19%) Finance
3 262 (8.41%) Public Sector
4 259 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
5 147 (4.72%) Banking
6 104 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
7 88 (2.83%) Telecoms
8 70 (2.25%) Marketing
9 67 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 58 (1.86%) Legal
11 53 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (1.54%) Front Office
13 46 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
14 45 (1.44%) Electronics
15 43 (1.38%) Retail
16 42 (1.35%) Investment Banking
17 40 (1.28%) Military
18 24 (0.77%) Financial Institution
19 21 (0.67%) Law
20 20 (0.64%) French Language
Job Titles
1 422 (13.55%) Support Engineer
2 391 (12.55%) Analyst
3 264 (8.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 236 (7.58%) IT Support
5 225 (7.22%) Architect
6 197 (6.32%) Desktop Support
7 190 (6.10%) Senior
8 181 (5.81%) IT Engineer
9 158 (5.07%) Desktop Engineer
10 144 (4.62%) Service Analyst
11 140 (4.49%) Administrator
12 139 (4.46%) Windows Engineer
13 132 (4.24%) Service Desk Analyst
14 127 (4.08%) 2nd Line Support
15 120 (3.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 107 (3.43%) IT Support Engineer
17 104 (3.34%) Support Analyst
18 94 (3.02%) Systems Administrator
19 92 (2.95%) Lead
20 89 (2.86%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (3.76%) .NET
2 62 (1.99%) Node.js
3 49 (1.57%) Middleware
4 43 (1.38%) LDAP
5 35 (1.12%) .NET Framework
5 35 (1.12%) Web Services
6 34 (1.09%) HTML
7 33 (1.06%) XML
8 29 (0.93%) REST
9 26 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
10 25 (0.80%) ARM Templates
10 25 (0.80%) ASP.NET
11 24 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (0.74%) CSS
13 22 (0.71%) JSON
14 21 (0.67%) SAML
15 20 (0.64%) WCF
16 19 (0.61%) WPF
16 19 (0.61%) YAML
17 18 (0.58%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 170 (5.46%) PKI
2 112 (3.60%) Data Centre
3 96 (3.08%) Management Information System
4 80 (2.57%) Replication
4 80 (2.57%) Video Conferencing
5 73 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 67 (2.15%) Driving Licence
7 66 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 63 (2.02%) Clustering
9 49 (1.57%) Client/Server
10 48 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 44 (1.41%) NHS
12 39 (1.25%) iPhone
13 34 (1.09%) iPad
14 33 (1.06%) Private Cloud
15 31 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
16 29 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
16 29 (0.93%) Smartphone
17 27 (0.87%) Product Ownership
18 26 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 878 (28.19%) Windows Server
2 773 (24.82%) Windows 10
3 727 (23.34%) Linux
4 206 (6.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 193 (6.20%) Unix
6 188 (6.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 186 (5.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 185 (5.94%) Windows 7
9 171 (5.49%) Apple iOS
10 147 (4.72%) Android
11 117 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 114 (3.66%) Mac OS
13 53 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
14 37 (1.19%) VMS
15 33 (1.06%) Ubuntu
16 28 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
17 26 (0.83%) Mac OS X
18 23 (0.74%) Solaris
18 23 (0.74%) Windows Vista
18 23 (0.74%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (15.15%) Customer Service
2 446 (14.32%) ITIL
2 446 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
3 341 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 298 (9.57%) Agile
5 292 (9.37%) Migration
6 277 (8.89%) DevOps
7 176 (5.65%) CI/CD
8 162 (5.20%) Cybersecurity
9 148 (4.75%) Disaster Recovery
10 143 (4.59%) Change Management
11 141 (4.53%) Service Management
12 137 (4.40%) Mobile Device Management
13 117 (3.76%) Analytics
14 116 (3.72%) Service Delivery
15 109 (3.50%) ITSM
16 105 (3.37%) Release Management
17 100 (3.21%) Infrastructure as Code
18 98 (3.15%) Software Engineering
19 97 (3.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 563 (18.07%) PowerShell
2 327 (10.50%) SQL
3 235 (7.54%) Python
4 162 (5.20%) C#
5 90 (2.89%) C++
6 85 (2.73%) Java
7 63 (2.02%) JavaScript
8 59 (1.89%) Bash
8 59 (1.89%) VBScript
9 58 (1.86%) VB
10 47 (1.51%) T-SQL
11 37 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 33 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 29 (0.93%) VBA
14 26 (0.83%) Perl
15 24 (0.77%) Bicep
16 21 (0.67%) C
17 11 (0.35%) Go
17 11 (0.35%) R
17 11 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 938 (30.11%) Security Cleared
2 451 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 447 (14.35%) DV Cleared
4 326 (10.47%) Degree
5 142 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 61 (1.96%) MCSE
7 58 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (1.73%) CCNA
9 52 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (1.44%) Azure Certification
11 43 (1.38%) MCSA
12 34 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
12 34 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 32 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 29 (0.93%) MCP
15 26 (0.83%) CCNP
16 25 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
17 24 (0.77%) A+ Certification
17 24 (0.77%) AWS Certification
18 22 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (5.75%) SLA
2 102 (3.27%) QA
3 31 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (0.96%) NIST
5 29 (0.93%) GDPR
6 28 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
7 27 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
8 20 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 13 (0.42%) ISO 9001
11 12 (0.39%) Accessibility
12 11 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.32%) ISO 9000
14 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.22%) RMADS
14 7 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) COBIT
System Software
1 1,235 (39.65%) Active Directory
2 413 (13.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 149 (4.78%) Hyper-V
4 103 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
5 84 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
6 73 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 72 (2.31%) vSphere
8 57 (1.83%) Firmware
9 53 (1.70%) Docker
10 45 (1.44%) VMware NSX
11 38 (1.22%) XenApp
12 36 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.67%) XenDesktop
14 19 (0.61%) BitLocker
15 16 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
16 15 (0.48%) NFS
17 14 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
18 13 (0.42%) HDFS
19 10 (0.32%) iptables
20 9 (0.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 490 (15.73%) SCCM
2 263 (8.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 160 (5.14%) Ansible
4 116 (3.72%) WSUS
5 115 (3.69%) Terraform
6 106 (3.40%) Kubernetes
7 101 (3.24%) SCOM
8 59 (1.89%) vCenter Server
9 57 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 55 (1.77%) NetBackup
11 54 (1.73%) Puppet
12 52 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
13 36 (1.16%) Progress Chef
14 28 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
14 28 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
15 19 (0.61%) Grafana
15 19 (0.61%) Kibana
15 19 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
16 18 (0.58%) Nessus
16 18 (0.58%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 1,305 (41.89%) Microsoft
2 583 (18.72%) VMware
3 224 (7.19%) Citrix
4 167 (5.36%) Oracle
5 164 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 160 (5.14%) Cisco
7 154 (4.94%) Apple
8 118 (3.79%) HP
9 91 (2.92%) Veeam
10 86 (2.76%) Red Hat
11 84 (2.70%) Dell
12 68 (2.18%) Splunk
13 65 (2.09%) SAP
14 57 (1.83%) EMC
15 47 (1.51%) Atlassian
15 47 (1.51%) Google
16 44 (1.41%) NetApp
17 41 (1.32%) IBM
18 40 (1.28%) Palo Alto
19 36 (1.16%) Symantec