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 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 17 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 3,112 4,859 6,613
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.55% 10.03% 9.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.48% 61.88% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,171 3,468 4,610
10th Percentile £163 £164 £150
25th Percentile £213 £231 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.43% +3.75%
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 261 265 393
10th Percentile £11.80 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £25.00 £50.05 £28.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.50 £55.72
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +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 4,981 7,852 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.68% 16.20% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,407 5,542 7,575
10th Percentile £185 £193 £173
25th Percentile £300 £325 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £639 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £466 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 370 527
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.89 £13.33
25th Percentile £15.21 £17.73 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +22.86%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.50 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +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 20 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 20 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 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
London -6 1,154 £400 -20.00% 524
South East +1 681 £450 +20.00% 465
North of England -2 420 £325 -13.33% 376
South West -1 332 £500 +9.59% 249
Midlands +1 321 £338 -10.00% 291
North West -5 230 £325 -23.53% 175
West Midlands -1 183 £363 -17.61% 166
Yorkshire -1 167 £325 -3.70% 171
East of England -10 152 £305 +1.67% 221
East Midlands +5 136 £273 -16.15% 125
North East +4 24 £450 +89.47% 34
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
1 377 (12.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 204 (6.56%) SharePoint
3 94 (3.02%) Confluence
4 67 (2.15%) IIS
5 35 (1.12%) SharePoint Server
6 33 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2010
7 31 (1.00%) Skype for Business
8 30 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
9 27 (0.87%) Apache
10 22 (0.71%) Exchange Server 2007
11 19 (0.61%) CMS
11 19 (0.61%) Tomcat
12 15 (0.48%) JBoss
13 14 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2003
14 12 (0.39%) nginx
15 11 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
16 9 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 6 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
18 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
18 4 (0.13%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 380 (12.21%) Microsoft Office
2 96 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.35%) 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%) Simulink
8 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.29%) 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%) Loan IQ
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
Cloud Services
1 849 (27.28%) Microsoft 365
2 718 (23.07%) Azure
3 240 (7.71%) AWS
4 212 (6.81%) Entra ID
5 76 (2.44%) OneDrive
6 63 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (1.90%) PaaS
8 56 (1.80%) IaaS
9 45 (1.45%) SaaS
10 39 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
11 37 (1.19%) Azure Stack
12 36 (1.16%) Azure Storage
12 36 (1.16%) Power Platform
13 34 (1.09%) GCP
14 33 (1.06%) WhatsApp
15 31 (1.00%) GitHub
16 29 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
17 24 (0.77%) Mimecast
17 24 (0.77%) Serverless
18 20 (0.64%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 378 (12.15%) Firewall
2 333 (10.70%) DNS
3 231 (7.42%) VPN
4 211 (6.78%) DHCP
5 165 (5.30%) LAN
6 151 (4.85%) WAN
7 139 (4.47%) SAN
8 118 (3.79%) TCP/IP
9 95 (3.05%) Wireless
10 74 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
11 69 (2.22%) Network Security
12 57 (1.83%) Internet
13 51 (1.64%) VLAN
14 42 (1.35%) NAS
14 42 (1.35%) Skype
15 40 (1.29%) BGP
16 32 (1.03%) VoIP
17 28 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
18 27 (0.87%) FTP
19 24 (0.77%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 45 (1.45%) Relational Database
3 38 (1.22%) MySQL
4 33 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (0.90%) RDBMS
7 27 (0.87%) Power BI
8 25 (0.80%) Oracle Database
9 24 (0.77%) MongoDB
10 20 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (0.55%) Big Data
13 14 (0.45%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.26%) DB2
15 7 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.19%) BigQuery
16 6 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
18 4 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
18 4 (0.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 154 (4.95%) JIRA
2 98 (3.15%) Git
3 77 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.22%) Visual Studio
5 37 (1.19%) Bitbucket
6 35 (1.12%) TeamCity
7 33 (1.06%) Artifactory
8 28 (0.90%) GitLab
8 28 (0.90%) Robot Framework
9 26 (0.84%) MSI
10 22 (0.71%) Eclipse
10 22 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (0.71%) Subversion
11 18 (0.58%) Selenium
12 11 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
13 8 (0.26%) GoogleTest
13 8 (0.26%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.22%) Hudson
15 5 (0.16%) WiX
General
1 883 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 429 (13.79%) Finance
3 262 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (8.32%) Public Sector
5 147 (4.72%) Banking
6 117 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
7 91 (2.92%) Telecoms
8 72 (2.31%) Marketing
9 70 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 60 (1.93%) Legal
10 60 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 54 (1.74%) Front Office
12 48 (1.54%) Electronics
13 45 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
14 42 (1.35%) Investment Banking
15 38 (1.22%) Military
15 38 (1.22%) Retail
16 30 (0.96%) Financial Institution
17 24 (0.77%) Law
18 22 (0.71%) French Language
Job Titles
1 427 (13.72%) Support Engineer
2 400 (12.85%) Analyst
3 263 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 236 (7.58%) IT Support
5 217 (6.97%) Architect
6 203 (6.52%) Desktop Support
7 196 (6.30%) Senior
8 178 (5.72%) IT Engineer
9 166 (5.33%) Desktop Engineer
10 146 (4.69%) Administrator
10 146 (4.69%) Service Analyst
11 143 (4.60%) Windows Engineer
12 137 (4.40%) Service Desk Analyst
13 130 (4.18%) 2nd Line Support
14 129 (4.15%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 104 (3.34%) IT Support Engineer
16 103 (3.31%) Support Analyst
17 95 (3.05%) Systems Administrator
18 91 (2.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 91 (2.92%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (3.63%) .NET
2 62 (1.99%) Node.js
3 47 (1.51%) Middleware
4 36 (1.16%) LDAP
5 35 (1.12%) Web Services
6 32 (1.03%) .NET Framework
6 32 (1.03%) XML
7 31 (1.00%) HTML
8 29 (0.93%) REST
9 25 (0.80%) ASP.NET
10 24 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
11 23 (0.74%) JSON
12 22 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
12 22 (0.71%) ARM Templates
12 22 (0.71%) CSS
13 21 (0.67%) SAML
14 19 (0.61%) WCF
15 18 (0.58%) WPF
16 17 (0.55%) WinForms
17 15 (0.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 163 (5.24%) PKI
2 115 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 103 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 82 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
5 78 (2.51%) Replication
6 72 (2.31%) Driving Licence
7 67 (2.15%) Public Cloud
8 66 (2.12%) Clustering
8 66 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 47 (1.51%) NHS
11 46 (1.48%) Client/Server
12 42 (1.35%) iPhone
13 41 (1.32%) Private Cloud
14 31 (1.00%) iPad
14 31 (1.00%) Smartphone
15 30 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
16 29 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 27 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 26 (0.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 875 (28.12%) Windows Server
2 786 (25.26%) Windows 10
3 723 (23.23%) Linux
4 210 (6.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 196 (6.30%) Windows 7
6 195 (6.27%) Unix
7 187 (6.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 178 (5.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 172 (5.53%) Apple iOS
10 149 (4.79%) Android
11 116 (3.73%) Mac OS
12 99 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 57 (1.83%) Windows Server 2008
14 36 (1.16%) VMS
15 34 (1.09%) Ubuntu
16 30 (0.96%) Mac OS X
17 28 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
18 24 (0.77%) Solaris
19 23 (0.74%) Windows XP
20 20 (0.64%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (16.13%) Customer Service
2 469 (15.07%) ITIL
3 452 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
4 347 (11.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 297 (9.54%) Agile
6 286 (9.19%) Migration
7 281 (9.03%) DevOps
8 183 (5.88%) CI/CD
9 159 (5.11%) Cybersecurity
10 150 (4.82%) Service Management
11 141 (4.53%) Change Management
12 140 (4.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 139 (4.47%) Mobile Device Management
14 114 (3.66%) ITSM
14 114 (3.66%) Service Delivery
15 105 (3.37%) Analytics
16 103 (3.31%) Release Management
16 103 (3.31%) Risk Management
17 101 (3.25%) Software Engineering
18 93 (2.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 532 (17.10%) PowerShell
2 320 (10.28%) SQL
3 243 (7.81%) Python
4 157 (5.04%) C#
5 92 (2.96%) C++
6 86 (2.76%) Java
7 64 (2.06%) JavaScript
8 61 (1.96%) Bash
9 56 (1.80%) VBScript
10 49 (1.57%) VB
11 44 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 35 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 30 (0.96%) Shell Script
14 26 (0.84%) VBA
15 23 (0.74%) Perl
16 22 (0.71%) Bicep
17 20 (0.64%) C
18 14 (0.45%) Go
19 11 (0.35%) R
20 10 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 910 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 443 (14.24%) DV Cleared
3 434 (13.95%) SC Cleared
4 336 (10.80%) Degree
5 143 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 63 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 62 (1.99%) MCSE
8 59 (1.90%) CCNA
9 53 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 41 (1.32%) MCSA
12 36 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
13 32 (1.03%) MCP
13 32 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 31 (1.00%) A+ Certification
15 30 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 27 (0.87%) CCNP
17 25 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
18 24 (0.77%) Master's Degree
19 23 (0.74%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (6.04%) SLA
2 101 (3.25%) QA
3 36 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
5 33 (1.06%) NIST
6 29 (0.93%) GDPR
7 27 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
8 22 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.51%) Accessibility
10 15 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.39%) ISO 9001
12 10 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.32%) ISO 9000
13 8 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.22%) RMADS
15 5 (0.16%) ISO 15022
15 5 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.13%) NCSC
16 4 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1,254 (40.30%) Active Directory
2 383 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 142 (4.56%) Hyper-V
4 77 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 77 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
5 66 (2.12%) vSphere
6 64 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 62 (1.99%) Firmware
8 59 (1.90%) Docker
9 48 (1.54%) VMware NSX
10 38 (1.22%) XenApp
11 34 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.64%) XenDesktop
13 18 (0.58%) BitLocker
14 17 (0.55%) NFS
14 17 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
15 13 (0.42%) HDFS
16 10 (0.32%) iptables
17 9 (0.29%) Terminal Services
18 8 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 490 (15.75%) SCCM
2 264 (8.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 146 (4.69%) Ansible
4 113 (3.63%) WSUS
5 106 (3.41%) Kubernetes
6 103 (3.31%) SCOM
7 100 (3.21%) Terraform
8 62 (1.99%) vCenter Server
9 60 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
10 55 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 54 (1.74%) NetBackup
12 41 (1.32%) Puppet
13 32 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
14 31 (1.00%) EMC NetWorker
15 22 (0.71%) Progress Chef
16 21 (0.67%) Grafana
17 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
17 20 (0.64%) Sysprep
18 19 (0.61%) Kibana
19 18 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1,314 (42.22%) Microsoft
2 556 (17.87%) VMware
3 227 (7.29%) Citrix
4 176 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 166 (5.33%) Cisco
6 163 (5.24%) Oracle
7 157 (5.04%) Apple
8 127 (4.08%) HP
9 97 (3.12%) Veeam
10 80 (2.57%) Dell
11 72 (2.31%) SAP
12 70 (2.25%) Red Hat
12 70 (2.25%) Splunk
13 59 (1.90%) EMC
14 57 (1.83%) Atlassian
15 48 (1.54%) Google
16 47 (1.51%) IBM
17 41 (1.32%) Palo Alto
18 40 (1.29%) NetApp
19 34 (1.09%) Symantec