Windows Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 23 32
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows 851 1,860 2,703
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.78% 7.76% 6.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.73% 57.23% 50.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 1,323 1,937
10th Percentile £185 £200 £200
25th Percentile £313 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +5.41% +2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £410 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 63 92
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.19 £13.18
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.28 £16.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £53.35 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.01% +137.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £17.69 £70.00 £56.38
90th Percentile £22.51 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £18.07 £23.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year -24.18% +19.13% +23.23%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,555 3,250 5,374
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.57% 13.57% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,088 2,279 3,831
10th Percentile £229 £243 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +2.44% +10.22%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £618
90th Percentile £681 £731 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 110 128
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.85
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £27.68 £69.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.51 £43.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -48.55% +98.86% +25.71%

Windows
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows.

Windows daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Windows daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows.

Windows hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Windows hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 125 (14.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 42 (4.94%) Confluence
4 27 (3.17%) IIS
5 14 (1.65%) Exchange Server 2010
5 14 (1.65%) SharePoint Server
6 12 (1.41%) Exchange Server 2007
6 12 (1.41%) Skype for Business
7 11 (1.29%) Exchange Server 2003
7 11 (1.29%) Exchange Server 2013
8 8 (0.94%) JBoss
9 6 (0.71%) nginx
10 5 (0.59%) Apache
10 5 (0.59%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 5 (0.59%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) IBM Notes
12 2 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 78 (9.17%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.59%) Trello
4 3 (0.35%) Acrobat
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (1.53%) Elite 3E
2 6 (0.71%) Shopify
3 3 (0.35%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.24%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) SystmOne
4 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.12%) assyst
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.12%) MFGPRO
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) Relativity
5 1 (0.12%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.12%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 295 (34.67%) Azure
2 218 (25.62%) Microsoft 365
3 108 (12.69%) Entra ID
4 92 (10.81%) AWS
5 39 (4.58%) PaaS
6 32 (3.76%) SaaS
7 29 (3.41%) Azure Storage
8 26 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
8 26 (3.06%) IaaS
9 22 (2.59%) OneDrive
10 21 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.65%) Azure Stack
11 14 (1.65%) GCP
11 14 (1.65%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.53%) GitHub
12 13 (1.53%) OpenShift
13 11 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.06%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 152 (17.86%) Firewall
2 91 (10.69%) DNS
3 65 (7.64%) VPN
4 60 (7.05%) DHCP
5 41 (4.82%) SAN
5 41 (4.82%) TCP/IP
6 23 (2.70%) LAN
7 22 (2.59%) Network Security
8 20 (2.35%) WAN
9 16 (1.88%) BGP
9 16 (1.88%) NAS
10 15 (1.76%) Internet
10 15 (1.76%) VLAN
11 13 (1.53%) Skype
12 11 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
13 10 (1.18%) Wireless
14 8 (0.94%) FTP
14 8 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (0.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.12%) MySQL
3 16 (1.88%) Relational Database
4 11 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (1.29%) Hadoop
4 11 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.18%) RDBMS
6 8 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (0.94%) MongoDB
6 8 (0.94%) Oracle Database
7 7 (0.82%) Power BI
8 6 (0.71%) DB2
9 5 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.47%) Apache Hive
10 4 (0.47%) Big Data
10 4 (0.47%) Tableau
11 3 (0.35%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.24%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (7.76%) JIRA
2 49 (5.76%) Git
3 39 (4.58%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.35%) TeamCity
4 20 (2.35%) Visual Studio
5 18 (2.12%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.65%) Artifactory
7 8 (0.94%) MSI
7 8 (0.94%) Subversion
8 7 (0.82%) Maven
9 6 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 5 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.59%) Selenium
10 5 (0.59%) WiX
11 4 (0.47%) GitLab
11 4 (0.47%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.35%) CA Release Automation
General
1 239 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 167 (19.62%) Finance
3 79 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 50 (5.88%) Banking
6 22 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.23%) Marketing
8 19 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 16 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 15 (1.76%) Front Office
11 13 (1.53%) Retail
12 11 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.29%) Legal
13 9 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.82%) Electronics
15 6 (0.71%) Law
15 6 (0.71%) Local Government
15 6 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 83 (9.75%) Analyst
1 83 (9.75%) Senior
2 81 (9.52%) Support Engineer
3 75 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 53 (6.23%) Architect
5 36 (4.23%) Applications Support
5 36 (4.23%) Consultant
6 33 (3.88%) IT Support
7 32 (3.76%) Service Analyst
8 31 (3.64%) Administrator
9 30 (3.53%) IT Engineer
9 30 (3.53%) Service Desk Analyst
10 29 (3.41%) Windows Engineer
11 27 (3.17%) Applications Engineer
12 25 (2.94%) Security Engineer
13 24 (2.82%) Support Specialist
14 23 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (2.70%) Lead
14 23 (2.70%) Microsoft Engineer
14 23 (2.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.88%) .NET
2 31 (3.64%) Middleware
3 23 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 23 (2.70%) REST
4 18 (2.12%) LDAP
5 16 (1.88%) XML
6 14 (1.65%) ASP.NET
7 12 (1.41%) Node.js
8 11 (1.29%) .NET Framework
8 11 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (1.29%) SAML
9 10 (1.18%) HTML
9 10 (1.18%) JSON
10 9 (1.06%) SOAP
11 8 (0.94%) Entity Framework
11 8 (0.94%) Spring Boot
12 7 (0.82%) OAuth
12 7 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (0.82%) Web Services
12 7 (0.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.70%) Data Centre
2 40 (4.70%) Replication
3 34 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (3.88%) PKI
5 28 (3.29%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.82%) Clustering
6 24 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
7 20 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.12%) NHS
10 14 (1.65%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.41%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.18%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 9 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.06%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.06%) Product Ownership
14 8 (0.94%) Client/Server
15 7 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 246 (28.91%) Windows Server
2 236 (27.73%) Linux
3 142 (16.69%) Windows 10
4 76 (8.93%) Unix
5 68 (7.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 58 (6.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 46 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 36 (4.23%) Apple iOS
9 30 (3.53%) Windows 7
10 29 (3.41%) Android
11 23 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 20 (2.35%) Mac OS
12 20 (2.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 19 (2.23%) Windows Server 2003
14 16 (1.88%) VMS
15 14 (1.65%) Solaris
16 6 (0.71%) AIX
16 6 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (0.59%) CentOS
17 5 (0.59%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (15.28%) DevOps
2 127 (14.92%) ITIL
3 126 (14.81%) Migration
4 113 (13.28%) Agile
5 111 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (11.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 85 (9.99%) CI/CD
8 82 (9.64%) Customer Service
9 61 (7.17%) Analytics
10 60 (7.05%) Disaster Recovery
11 52 (6.11%) Service Management
12 50 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 47 (5.52%) Computer Science
14 45 (5.29%) High Availability
15 43 (5.05%) Cybersecurity
16 39 (4.58%) Release Management
17 37 (4.35%) Information Security
18 36 (4.23%) Test Automation
19 35 (4.11%) Vulnerability Management
20 34 (4.00%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 169 (19.86%) PowerShell
2 143 (16.80%) SQL
3 76 (8.93%) Python
4 68 (7.99%) C#
5 30 (3.53%) Bash
5 30 (3.53%) VB
6 28 (3.29%) C++
7 27 (3.17%) VBScript
8 23 (2.70%) Java
9 22 (2.59%) Bicep
10 16 (1.88%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.88%) Perl
11 12 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 9 (1.06%) F#
14 8 (0.94%) C
14 8 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.94%) VBA
15 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 176 (20.68%) Security Cleared
2 130 (15.28%) SC Cleared
3 117 (13.75%) Degree
4 65 (7.64%) DV Cleared
5 38 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (2.00%) MCSE
8 15 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.41%) MCSA
11 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.59%) GIAC
13 5 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.47%) CCNA
14 4 (0.47%) CCNP
14 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.11%) SLA
2 35 (4.11%) QA
3 15 (1.76%) GDPR
4 14 (1.65%) Government Security Classifications
5 12 (1.41%) NIST
6 11 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
8 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.47%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.12%) GLBA
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISAE 3402
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 9000
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 335 (39.37%) Active Directory
2 76 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (6.23%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 31 (3.64%) Docker
5 31 (3.64%) Hyper-V
6 25 (2.94%) vSphere
7 19 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (1.76%) VMware NSX
9 13 (1.53%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (1.53%) XenApp
10 8 (0.94%) XenDesktop
11 7 (0.82%) HDFS
11 7 (0.82%) NFS
12 5 (0.59%) Snort
12 5 (0.59%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.35%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.35%) VMFS
13 3 (0.35%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 125 (14.69%) SCCM
2 73 (8.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 65 (7.64%) Ansible
4 59 (6.93%) Kubernetes
5 47 (5.52%) SCOM
6 46 (5.41%) Terraform
7 31 (3.64%) WSUS
8 24 (2.82%) Puppet
9 23 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (1.53%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.18%) Kibana
11 10 (1.18%) Nessus
11 10 (1.18%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.82%) Prometheus
14 7 (0.82%) Tivoli
15 6 (0.71%) Grafana
15 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 347 (40.78%) Microsoft
2 133 (15.63%) VMware
3 60 (7.05%) Oracle
4 58 (6.82%) Citrix
5 45 (5.29%) ServiceNow
6 40 (4.70%) Cisco
6 40 (4.70%) HP
7 36 (4.23%) Splunk
8 23 (2.70%) Atlassian
9 20 (2.35%) CyberArk
9 20 (2.35%) IBM
9 20 (2.35%) Qualys
10 19 (2.23%) Dell
10 19 (2.23%) EMC
11 18 (2.12%) Red Hat
12 17 (2.00%) Veeam
13 16 (1.88%) Apple
13 16 (1.88%) CheckPoint
13 16 (1.88%) SAP
14 15 (1.76%) CA