Windows Contracts in London

Microsoft Windows
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 21 30
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing Windows 1,154 2,053 2,766
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 6.60% 7.89% 7.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.67% 54.78% 52.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 1,526 2,058
10th Percentile £175 £179 £181
25th Percentile £250 £265 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £400 £450 £415
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.43% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 40 72
10th Percentile £16.15 £16.04 £13.99
25th Percentile £18.97 £22.29 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.71 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +7.53% -1.81%
75th Percentile £23.98 £50.42 £39.06
90th Percentile £36.37 £64.50 £61.85
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +21.21%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,073 3,748 5,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.86% 14.41% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,734 3,792
10th Percentile £205 £213 £228
25th Percentile £350 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 62 92
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.93 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.94 £21.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £36.17 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.18% +49.15% -43.60%
75th Percentile £27.00 £64.50 £48.62
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.30 £62.95
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +22.86%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in London

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London -2 208 £400 - 61
East London -4 32 £440 +10.00% 90
West London +2 27 £400 +21.21% 28
South London -13 14 £200 -13.51% 18
North London -4 2 £250 +5.26% 6
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 160 (13.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (5.98%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.73%) IIS
4 28 (2.43%) Exchange Server 2010
5 23 (1.99%) Exchange Server 2013
5 23 (1.99%) Skype for Business
6 16 (1.39%) Confluence
7 14 (1.21%) Exchange Server 2007
8 11 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
9 10 (0.87%) Apache
10 9 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2003
10 9 (0.78%) nginx
10 9 (0.78%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.69%) JBoss
12 6 (0.52%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 5 (0.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 4 (0.35%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 2 (0.17%) IBM Notes
17 1 (0.087%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 148 (12.82%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.43%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.087%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.52%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.35%) SystmOne
3 3 (0.26%) Eikon
3 3 (0.26%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.26%) OPENHousing
3 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.26%) Shopify
4 2 (0.17%) Advent Geneva
4 2 (0.17%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.17%) ION MarketView
4 2 (0.17%) Remedy AR System
5 1 (0.087%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.087%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.087%) Relativity
5 1 (0.087%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.087%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.087%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 347 (30.07%) Microsoft 365
2 341 (29.55%) Azure
3 139 (12.05%) AWS
4 114 (9.88%) Entra ID
5 40 (3.47%) PaaS
6 38 (3.29%) OneDrive
7 33 (2.86%) IaaS
8 32 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (2.43%) WhatsApp
10 26 (2.25%) SaaS
11 24 (2.08%) GCP
12 23 (1.99%) GitHub
13 22 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
14 19 (1.65%) Azure Storage
14 19 (1.65%) Mimecast
15 14 (1.21%) Power Platform
16 11 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 10 (0.87%) Azure Functions
17 10 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 141 (12.22%) Firewall
2 111 (9.62%) DNS
3 80 (6.93%) VPN
4 47 (4.07%) DHCP
5 46 (3.99%) WAN
6 45 (3.90%) SAN
7 44 (3.81%) LAN
8 40 (3.47%) Wireless
9 36 (3.12%) Internet
10 31 (2.69%) TCP/IP
11 26 (2.25%) Skype
12 23 (1.99%) NAS
13 20 (1.73%) Network Security
13 20 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
14 16 (1.39%) FTP
15 15 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (1.21%) VLAN
17 13 (1.13%) MPLS
18 11 (0.95%) VoIP
19 10 (0.87%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 25 (2.17%) MySQL
4 18 (1.56%) Oracle Database
4 18 (1.56%) RDBMS
5 16 (1.39%) MongoDB
6 15 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (1.04%) Hadoop
8 10 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.61%) Power BI
10 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.35%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.35%) DB2
13 3 (0.26%) KDB
13 3 (0.26%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.17%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 49 (4.25%) Jenkins
2 48 (4.16%) Git
3 46 (3.99%) JIRA
4 29 (2.51%) TeamCity
5 20 (1.73%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.39%) Subversion
6 16 (1.39%) Visual Studio
7 14 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.95%) GitLab
9 8 (0.69%) MSI
9 8 (0.69%) Selenium
10 5 (0.43%) Hudson
10 5 (0.43%) WiX
11 4 (0.35%) Maven
11 4 (0.35%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.26%) InstallShield
12 3 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 301 (26.08%) Finance
2 276 (23.92%) Social Skills
3 122 (10.57%) Banking
4 90 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 51 (4.42%) Front Office
7 42 (3.64%) Investment Banking
8 29 (2.51%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.34%) Financial Institution
9 27 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.17%) Marketing
11 23 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (1.82%) Legal
13 15 (1.30%) Electronics
13 15 (1.30%) French Language
13 15 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.30%) Retail
14 12 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.95%) Law
15 11 (0.95%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 175 (15.16%) Support Engineer
2 163 (14.12%) Analyst
3 102 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 92 (7.97%) Desktop Support
5 88 (7.63%) IT Support
6 79 (6.85%) Senior
7 77 (6.67%) IT Engineer
8 64 (5.55%) Developer
9 63 (5.46%) Desktop Engineer
9 63 (5.46%) Windows Engineer
10 51 (4.42%) Support Analyst
11 46 (3.99%) 2nd Line Support
11 46 (3.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 46 (3.99%) IT Support Engineer
12 39 (3.38%) IT Analyst
12 39 (3.38%) Service Analyst
13 38 (3.29%) Architect
13 38 (3.29%) Consultant
14 37 (3.21%) Applications Support
14 37 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (7.63%) .NET
2 28 (2.43%) Middleware
3 26 (2.25%) .NET Framework
3 26 (2.25%) LDAP
4 24 (2.08%) ASP.NET
5 18 (1.56%) WCF
6 17 (1.47%) JSON
6 17 (1.47%) REST
7 16 (1.39%) HTML
7 16 (1.39%) Web Services
7 16 (1.39%) XML
8 15 (1.30%) WinForms
8 15 (1.30%) WPF
9 13 (1.13%) HTML5
10 11 (0.95%) .NET Core
10 11 (0.95%) SAML
11 9 (0.78%) CSS
12 8 (0.69%) Blazor
12 8 (0.69%) XMPP
12 8 (0.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 58 (5.03%) Management Information System
2 55 (4.77%) Video Conferencing
3 52 (4.51%) Data Centre
4 40 (3.47%) Replication
5 27 (2.34%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.17%) iPhone
7 24 (2.08%) Clustering
8 23 (1.99%) PKI
9 19 (1.65%) Blackberry
9 19 (1.65%) Smartphone
10 18 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.47%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.39%) iPad
13 15 (1.30%) Hedge funds
14 14 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
14 14 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.13%) Client/Server
16 11 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 10 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 307 (26.60%) Windows Server
2 244 (21.14%) Windows 10
3 236 (20.45%) Linux
4 108 (9.36%) Unix
5 71 (6.15%) Windows 7
6 66 (5.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 61 (5.29%) Mac OS
8 59 (5.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 58 (5.03%) Android
10 41 (3.55%) Apple iOS
11 40 (3.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 32 (2.77%) Windows Server 2008
13 26 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 20 (1.73%) Mac OS X
15 18 (1.56%) VMS
16 12 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
17 9 (0.78%) Solaris
18 8 (0.69%) Windows 8
19 7 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
20 6 (0.52%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (13.34%) Customer Service
2 148 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
3 140 (12.13%) ITIL
4 139 (12.05%) Migration
5 131 (11.35%) DevOps
5 131 (11.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 83 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
7 82 (7.11%) Agile
8 59 (5.11%) CI/CD
9 51 (4.42%) Asset Management
9 51 (4.42%) Cybersecurity
10 50 (4.33%) Analytics
11 48 (4.16%) Incident Management
12 47 (4.07%) ITSM
13 45 (3.90%) Information Security
14 44 (3.81%) Proactive Monitoring
15 43 (3.73%) Vulnerability Management
16 42 (3.64%) Risk Management
17 41 (3.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (3.55%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 228 (19.76%) PowerShell
2 188 (16.29%) SQL
3 141 (12.22%) Python
4 78 (6.76%) C#
5 45 (3.90%) Java
6 42 (3.64%) T-SQL
7 32 (2.77%) C++
8 31 (2.69%) PL/SQL
9 29 (2.51%) Bash
10 26 (2.25%) VBA
11 23 (1.99%) JavaScript
11 23 (1.99%) VB
12 17 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.21%) Perl
14 12 (1.04%) Go
15 8 (0.69%) VBScript
16 7 (0.61%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.43%) PHP
18 3 (0.26%) C
18 3 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 176 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 110 (9.53%) Degree
3 104 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.37%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 20 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.13%) A+ Certification
10 13 (1.13%) MCSA
11 11 (0.95%) MCSE
12 10 (0.87%) CCNA
12 10 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (0.78%) CISSP
13 9 (0.78%) MCP
14 8 (0.69%) CCNP
14 8 (0.69%) CISM
15 6 (0.52%) GIAC
16 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.33%) SLA
2 46 (3.99%) QA
3 18 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.13%) GDPR
5 12 (1.04%) NIST
6 7 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.52%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.43%) ISO 15022
8 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.26%) COBIT
9 3 (0.26%) PMO
10 2 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.17%) HL7
10 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.17%) NCSC
11 1 (0.087%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.087%) MiFID
System Software
1 461 (39.95%) Active Directory
2 102 (8.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (3.73%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (2.34%) Docker
6 24 (2.08%) vSphere
7 15 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.21%) Firmware
8 14 (1.21%) NFS
9 13 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
10 12 (1.04%) HDFS
11 11 (0.95%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.35%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.26%) KVM
14 3 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.26%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.17%) XenApp
15 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 173 (14.99%) SCCM
2 99 (8.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 61 (5.29%) Ansible
4 54 (4.68%) Terraform
5 48 (4.16%) Kubernetes
6 35 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
7 23 (1.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (1.91%) SCOM
9 18 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
10 17 (1.47%) WSUS
11 16 (1.39%) Puppet
11 16 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (1.13%) Grafana
13 10 (0.87%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.78%) BladeLogic
15 7 (0.61%) SCVMM
15 7 (0.61%) Tivoli
16 6 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (0.52%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 446 (38.65%) Microsoft
2 168 (14.56%) VMware
3 126 (10.92%) Citrix
4 93 (8.06%) Oracle
5 89 (7.71%) ServiceNow
6 71 (6.15%) Cisco
7 61 (5.29%) Apple
8 49 (4.25%) HP
9 43 (3.73%) Dell
10 37 (3.21%) Veeam
11 34 (2.95%) IBM
12 27 (2.34%) Bloomberg
12 27 (2.34%) Dynatrace
13 26 (2.25%) Red Hat
14 25 (2.17%) CyberArk
14 25 (2.17%) EMC
15 24 (2.08%) Google
16 23 (1.99%) Qualys
16 23 (1.99%) SAP
17 22 (1.91%) Splunk