Windows Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 2,145 2,961 4,015
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.33% 13.03% 13.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.02% 68.62% 68.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,476 2,031 2,707
10th Percentile £156 £160 £140
25th Percentile £205 £201 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £388 £325
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile £672 £650 £606
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 221 345
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £21.31 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.99% +15.19% +16.13%
75th Percentile £28.75 £49.52 £25.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £23.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -22.85% +17.50% +24.11%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,299 4,315 5,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.88% 18.99% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 2,963 3,872
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +9.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £673 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 305 435
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.52
25th Percentile £14.64 £17.50 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.06% +93.18% +25.71%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East 0 687 £475 +22.58% 376
North of England -3 418 £325 -16.13% 360
Midlands +3 348 £350 -6.67% 279
South West 0 342 £500 +5.26% 228
North West -7 230 £350 -15.46% 195
West Midlands +1 206 £380 -10.59% 159
Scotland -4 185 £350 -5.51% 99
Yorkshire -1 165 £325 -5.52% 137
East of England -12 154 £343 +14.64% 168
East Midlands +6 140 £275 -15.38% 120
Wales -10 30 £220 -45.00% 30
North East +2 23 £463 +94.74% 31
Northern Ireland -14 11 £450 +116.87% 33
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 239 (11.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 147 (6.85%) SharePoint
3 75 (3.50%) Confluence
4 35 (1.63%) IIS
5 29 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
6 19 (0.89%) Apache
7 18 (0.84%) CMS
8 11 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.47%) Skype for Business
10 8 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
11 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
11 6 (0.28%) JBoss
12 5 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2000
13 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
13 4 (0.19%) nginx
14 2 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.093%) SAS
14 2 (0.093%) WordPress
Applications
1 253 (11.79%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.093%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.093%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.093%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.047%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.047%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.047%) Simulink
7 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.33%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.19%) LabWindows
4 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.093%) Shopify
5 2 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.047%) assyst
6 1 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.047%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.047%) Relativity
6 1 (0.047%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.047%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.047%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.047%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 546 (25.45%) Microsoft 365
2 406 (18.93%) Azure
3 116 (5.41%) Entra ID
4 101 (4.71%) AWS
5 50 (2.33%) OneDrive
6 41 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (1.77%) Power Platform
8 37 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 29 (1.35%) Azure Stack
10 25 (1.17%) OpenShift
11 20 (0.93%) Azure Storage
11 20 (0.93%) IaaS
12 18 (0.84%) OCI
13 16 (0.75%) PaaS
13 16 (0.75%) SaaS
14 14 (0.65%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.51%) Serverless
16 10 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (0.47%) Azure Functions
16 10 (0.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 256 (11.93%) Firewall
2 241 (11.24%) DNS
3 181 (8.44%) DHCP
4 170 (7.93%) VPN
5 119 (5.55%) LAN
6 104 (4.85%) WAN
7 101 (4.71%) SAN
8 87 (4.06%) TCP/IP
9 55 (2.56%) Wireless
10 52 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (2.28%) Network Security
12 37 (1.72%) VLAN
13 36 (1.68%) Remote Desktop
14 28 (1.31%) BGP
15 26 (1.21%) SMTP
16 25 (1.17%) Internet
17 23 (1.07%) NAS
18 22 (1.03%) Ethernet
18 22 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
19 21 (0.98%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (4.52%) SQL Server
2 28 (1.31%) Power BI
3 24 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (0.93%) Big Data
5 17 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 16 (0.75%) MySQL
7 14 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.56%) RDBMS
9 10 (0.47%) Oracle Database
9 10 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (0.37%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.23%) DB2
13 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.14%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.14%) Data Hub
13 3 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.14%) Tableau
14 2 (0.093%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 101 (4.71%) JIRA
2 76 (3.54%) Git
3 34 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.31%) Robot Framework
4 28 (1.31%) Visual Studio
5 25 (1.17%) Bitbucket
6 23 (1.07%) MSI
7 21 (0.98%) Eclipse
7 21 (0.98%) GitLab
7 21 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 11 (0.51%) Maven
9 11 (0.51%) Selenium
10 10 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
11 8 (0.37%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.33%) GoogleTest
12 7 (0.33%) Gradle
13 6 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 6 (0.28%) Subversion
13 6 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 649 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 215 (10.02%) Public Sector
3 188 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (6.71%) Finance
5 86 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
6 64 (2.98%) Telecoms
7 58 (2.70%) Manufacturing
8 45 (2.10%) Marketing
9 39 (1.82%) Legal
10 37 (1.72%) Military
11 35 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (1.49%) Electronics
13 31 (1.45%) Banking
14 23 (1.07%) Retail
15 15 (0.70%) Aerospace
16 12 (0.56%) Automotive
17 11 (0.51%) Law
18 9 (0.42%) French Language
18 9 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 273 (12.73%) Support Engineer
2 253 (11.79%) Analyst
3 189 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 183 (8.53%) Architect
5 167 (7.79%) IT Support
6 127 (5.92%) Desktop Support
7 121 (5.64%) Desktop Engineer
8 120 (5.59%) Senior
9 111 (5.17%) IT Engineer
9 111 (5.17%) Service Analyst
10 107 (4.99%) Administrator
11 103 (4.80%) Service Desk Analyst
12 93 (4.34%) Windows Engineer
13 92 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support
14 89 (4.15%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 72 (3.36%) Systems Administrator
16 71 (3.31%) Support Analyst
17 68 (3.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 65 (3.03%) Lead
19 63 (2.94%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.66%) Node.js
2 29 (1.35%) .NET
3 27 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
4 25 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
5 23 (1.07%) REST
6 22 (1.03%) Middleware
7 21 (0.98%) ARM Templates
7 21 (0.98%) Web Services
8 19 (0.89%) LDAP
9 16 (0.75%) HTML
9 16 (0.75%) XML
10 15 (0.70%) Kafka
11 14 (0.65%) YAML
12 12 (0.56%) CSS
12 12 (0.56%) Spring Boot
13 11 (0.51%) RESTful
13 11 (0.51%) SOAP
14 9 (0.42%) SAML
15 8 (0.37%) Software Packaging
15 8 (0.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 154 (7.18%) PKI
2 75 (3.50%) Data Centre
3 69 (3.22%) Driving Licence
4 61 (2.84%) Public Cloud
5 45 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
6 44 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.05%) Replication
7 43 (2.00%) Clustering
8 37 (1.72%) Client/Server
8 37 (1.72%) NHS
9 34 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
10 33 (1.54%) iPhone
11 30 (1.40%) Private Cloud
12 25 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
13 23 (1.07%) Onboarding
14 22 (1.03%) Product Ownership
15 20 (0.93%) iPad
16 19 (0.89%) Cyberattack
16 19 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
17 17 (0.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 612 (28.53%) Windows Server
2 584 (27.23%) Windows 10
3 519 (24.20%) Linux
4 154 (7.18%) Windows Server 2019
5 148 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 147 (6.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 140 (6.53%) Apple iOS
8 134 (6.25%) Windows 7
9 108 (5.03%) Unix
10 93 (4.34%) Android
11 91 (4.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 64 (2.98%) Mac OS
13 29 (1.35%) Ubuntu
14 28 (1.31%) Windows Server 2008
15 23 (1.07%) Windows Vista
16 20 (0.93%) Windows XP
17 19 (0.89%) VMS
18 17 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
19 16 (0.75%) Windows NT
20 15 (0.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (16.50%) Customer Service
1 354 (16.50%) ITIL
2 339 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
3 254 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 242 (11.28%) Agile
5 176 (8.21%) DevOps
6 159 (7.41%) Migration
7 126 (5.87%) CI/CD
7 126 (5.87%) Cybersecurity
8 116 (5.41%) Service Management
9 111 (5.17%) Change Management
10 102 (4.76%) Mobile Device Management
11 99 (4.62%) Service Delivery
12 80 (3.73%) Decision-Making
13 75 (3.50%) Security Architecture
14 68 (3.17%) Release Management
15 66 (3.08%) Disaster Recovery
15 66 (3.08%) ITSM
16 65 (3.03%) Computer Science
16 65 (3.03%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 360 (16.78%) PowerShell
2 136 (6.34%) SQL
3 129 (6.01%) Python
4 85 (3.96%) C#
5 60 (2.80%) C++
6 54 (2.52%) VBScript
7 45 (2.10%) Java
8 40 (1.86%) JavaScript
9 36 (1.68%) Bash
10 35 (1.63%) VB
11 21 (0.98%) Bicep
12 19 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 18 (0.84%) C
14 16 (0.75%) Perl
15 8 (0.37%) R
16 7 (0.33%) Groovy
16 7 (0.33%) Ruby
17 4 (0.19%) F#
17 4 (0.19%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.19%) VB6
Qualifications
1 822 (38.32%) Security Cleared
2 401 (18.69%) DV Cleared
3 394 (18.37%) SC Cleared
4 240 (11.19%) Degree
5 105 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 66 (3.08%) MCSE
7 44 (2.05%) CCNA
7 44 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (1.59%) MCSA
10 33 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 30 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 29 (1.35%) A+ Certification
12 29 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
13 27 (1.26%) MCP
14 22 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
15 20 (0.93%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.84%) CCNP
17 17 (0.79%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (5.41%) SLA
2 63 (2.94%) QA
3 36 (1.68%) Disclosure Scotland
4 28 (1.31%) Government Security Classifications
5 23 (1.07%) NIST
6 19 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (0.79%) GDPR
8 16 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.61%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.47%) ISO 9000
12 7 (0.33%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.33%) RMADS
13 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
15 2 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.093%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.093%) NCSC
16 1 (0.047%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 866 (40.37%) Active Directory
2 319 (14.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (5.59%) Hyper-V
4 81 (3.78%) VMware ESXi
5 69 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
6 57 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 44 (2.05%) vSphere
8 42 (1.96%) Firmware
9 37 (1.72%) Docker
10 34 (1.59%) VMware NSX
10 34 (1.59%) XenApp
11 24 (1.12%) BitLocker
12 21 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
13 16 (0.75%) XenDesktop
14 13 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (0.42%) iptables
15 9 (0.42%) Terminal Services
16 8 (0.37%) KVM
16 8 (0.37%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 363 (16.92%) SCCM
2 179 (8.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 108 (5.03%) WSUS
4 107 (4.99%) Ansible
5 78 (3.64%) SCOM
6 72 (3.36%) Terraform
7 71 (3.31%) Kubernetes
8 59 (2.75%) vCenter Server
9 53 (2.47%) NetBackup
10 40 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 38 (1.77%) Puppet
12 27 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
13 23 (1.07%) EMC NetWorker
13 23 (1.07%) Progress Chef
14 18 (0.84%) Kibana
15 17 (0.79%) Nagios
15 17 (0.79%) Sysprep
15 17 (0.79%) WMI
16 16 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.70%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 929 (43.31%) Microsoft
2 433 (20.19%) VMware
3 124 (5.78%) Citrix
4 120 (5.59%) Cisco
5 106 (4.94%) Apple
6 89 (4.15%) HP
7 88 (4.10%) ServiceNow
8 79 (3.68%) Oracle
9 70 (3.26%) Red Hat
10 64 (2.98%) Splunk
11 56 (2.61%) Veeam
12 48 (2.24%) Atlassian
13 43 (2.00%) NetApp
14 42 (1.96%) SAP
15 41 (1.91%) Dell
16 36 (1.68%) Symantec
17 34 (1.59%) EMC
18 28 (1.31%) Veritas
19 24 (1.12%) Google
19 24 (1.12%) Sophos
1,513 Windows jobs in the UK excluding London