Windows Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 2,190 2,933 3,947
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.27% 12.92% 12.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.58% 68.59% 68.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,009 2,651
10th Percentile £160 £160 £140
25th Percentile £205 £203 £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £325
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £488
90th Percentile £668 £650 £606
UK median daily rate £420 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 222 337
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £16.20 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.69 £22.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +20.32% +17.39%
75th Percentile £28.75 £51.60 £27.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £69.88 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -26.36% +23.10% +23.08%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,391 4,276 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.84% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 2,930 3,824
10th Percentile £176 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 307 426
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.70 £15.05
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 0 696 £500 +33.33% 387
North of England -5 432 £345 -13.75% 353
Midlands +4 368 £350 -6.67% 251
South West -1 336 £500 +6.67% 222
North West -5 245 £369 -12.07% 180
West Midlands +2 219 £400 -5.88% 146
Scotland -2 180 £340 -10.05% 111
Yorkshire -2 164 £310 -17.33% 141
East of England -11 158 £350 +16.67% 163
East Midlands +6 146 £308 -5.38% 105
Wales -10 29 £220 -45.00% 34
North East -1 23 £463 +94.74% 36
Northern Ireland -8 21 £200 +5.96% 15
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
1 243 (11.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 146 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 84 (3.84%) Confluence
4 35 (1.60%) IIS
5 28 (1.28%) SharePoint Server
6 20 (0.91%) Apache
7 17 (0.78%) CMS
8 11 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.46%) Skype for Business
10 7 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
11 6 (0.27%) JBoss
12 4 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.14%) nginx
14 2 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.091%) SAS
14 2 (0.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 259 (11.83%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.091%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.091%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.046%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.046%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.046%) Simulink
7 1 (0.046%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.32%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.18%) LabWindows
4 3 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.091%) Shopify
6 1 (0.046%) assyst
6 1 (0.046%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.046%) Primavera
6 1 (0.046%) Relativity
6 1 (0.046%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.046%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.046%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.046%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.046%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 547 (24.98%) Microsoft 365
2 408 (18.63%) Azure
3 116 (5.30%) Entra ID
4 103 (4.70%) AWS
5 50 (2.28%) OneDrive
6 42 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (1.78%) Power Platform
8 38 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
9 28 (1.28%) Azure Stack
10 22 (1.00%) OpenShift
11 21 (0.96%) Azure Storage
12 20 (0.91%) IaaS
13 17 (0.78%) OCI
14 16 (0.73%) PaaS
15 15 (0.68%) PowerApps
15 15 (0.68%) SaaS
16 13 (0.59%) Serverless
17 11 (0.50%) GitHub
18 10 (0.46%) Azure Functions
18 10 (0.46%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 264 (12.05%) Firewall
2 247 (11.28%) DNS
3 184 (8.40%) DHCP
4 179 (8.17%) VPN
5 121 (5.53%) LAN
6 103 (4.70%) WAN
7 97 (4.43%) SAN
8 90 (4.11%) TCP/IP
9 60 (2.74%) Wireless
10 54 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
11 49 (2.24%) Network Security
12 39 (1.78%) VLAN
13 37 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
14 28 (1.28%) Internet
14 28 (1.28%) SMTP
15 27 (1.23%) BGP
16 22 (1.00%) Ethernet
16 22 (1.00%) NAS
17 21 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
17 21 (0.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (4.38%) SQL Server
2 29 (1.32%) Power BI
3 24 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (0.91%) Big Data
5 18 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 16 (0.73%) MySQL
7 15 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 10 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 10 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (0.41%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.14%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.14%) Data Hub
13 3 (0.14%) DB2
13 3 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.091%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.091%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 110 (5.02%) JIRA
2 77 (3.52%) Git
3 35 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 29 (1.32%) Robot Framework
6 28 (1.28%) Visual Studio
7 26 (1.19%) MSI
8 23 (1.05%) GitLab
9 22 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (0.96%) Eclipse
11 14 (0.64%) Maven
12 13 (0.59%) Artifactory
13 11 (0.50%) Selenium
14 10 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (0.41%) Gradle
16 8 (0.37%) SonarQube
17 7 (0.32%) GoogleTest
18 6 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 6 (0.27%) Subversion
18 6 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 652 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 230 (10.50%) Public Sector
3 201 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (7.49%) Finance
5 83 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
6 72 (3.29%) Telecoms
7 68 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 53 (2.42%) Marketing
9 40 (1.83%) Electronics
9 40 (1.83%) Legal
10 36 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.60%) Military
12 33 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.37%) Banking
14 23 (1.05%) Retail
15 14 (0.64%) Aerospace
15 14 (0.64%) Automotive
16 12 (0.55%) Law
17 9 (0.41%) French Language
17 9 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 274 (12.51%) Support Engineer
2 252 (11.51%) Analyst
3 189 (8.63%) Architect
3 189 (8.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 176 (8.04%) IT Support
5 124 (5.66%) Desktop Support
5 124 (5.66%) Senior
6 119 (5.43%) Desktop Engineer
7 113 (5.16%) IT Engineer
8 109 (4.98%) Service Analyst
9 105 (4.79%) Administrator
10 101 (4.61%) Service Desk Analyst
11 92 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
12 91 (4.16%) Windows Engineer
13 85 (3.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 72 (3.29%) Lead
15 70 (3.20%) Support Analyst
15 70 (3.20%) Systems Administrator
16 69 (3.15%) IT Technician
17 67 (3.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (2.60%) Node.js
2 30 (1.37%) .NET
3 26 (1.19%) REST
4 25 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
6 23 (1.05%) Middleware
7 22 (1.00%) ARM Templates
7 22 (1.00%) Web Services
8 21 (0.96%) LDAP
9 15 (0.68%) HTML
9 15 (0.68%) Kafka
9 15 (0.68%) XML
10 14 (0.64%) YAML
11 13 (0.59%) Spring Boot
12 12 (0.55%) CSS
13 11 (0.50%) RESTful
13 11 (0.50%) SOAP
14 10 (0.46%) SAML
15 8 (0.37%) Software Packaging
15 8 (0.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 154 (7.03%) PKI
2 76 (3.47%) Data Centre
3 67 (3.06%) Driving Licence
4 62 (2.83%) Public Cloud
5 48 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 45 (2.05%) Clustering
7 43 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 43 (1.96%) Replication
8 35 (1.60%) iPhone
8 35 (1.60%) NHS
9 33 (1.51%) Client/Server
9 33 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
10 29 (1.32%) Private Cloud
11 24 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
12 22 (1.00%) Cyberattack
13 21 (0.96%) Product Ownership
14 20 (0.91%) iPad
14 20 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 616 (28.13%) Windows Server
2 593 (27.08%) Windows 10
3 532 (24.29%) Linux
4 156 (7.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 149 (6.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 146 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 141 (6.44%) Apple iOS
8 129 (5.89%) Windows 7
9 121 (5.53%) Unix
10 95 (4.34%) Android
11 91 (4.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 66 (3.01%) Mac OS
13 31 (1.42%) Ubuntu
14 25 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.96%) Windows Vista
16 20 (0.91%) VMS
16 20 (0.91%) Windows XP
17 16 (0.73%) Solaris
17 16 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
18 15 (0.68%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (16.16%) Customer Service
2 347 (15.84%) ITIL
3 344 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
4 253 (11.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 248 (11.32%) Agile
6 180 (8.22%) DevOps
7 163 (7.44%) Migration
8 135 (6.16%) Cybersecurity
9 127 (5.80%) CI/CD
10 118 (5.39%) Change Management
11 113 (5.16%) Service Management
12 106 (4.84%) Mobile Device Management
13 96 (4.38%) Service Delivery
14 81 (3.70%) Decision-Making
15 76 (3.47%) Security Architecture
16 70 (3.20%) Computer Science
17 68 (3.11%) Release Management
18 66 (3.01%) Disaster Recovery
19 65 (2.97%) ITSM
19 65 (2.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 372 (16.99%) PowerShell
2 133 (6.07%) SQL
3 130 (5.94%) Python
4 87 (3.97%) C#
5 62 (2.83%) C++
6 55 (2.51%) VBScript
7 48 (2.19%) Java
8 39 (1.78%) JavaScript
9 36 (1.64%) Bash
9 36 (1.64%) VB
10 22 (1.00%) Bicep
11 20 (0.91%) C
12 19 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.64%) Perl
14 8 (0.37%) R
15 7 (0.32%) Groovy
15 7 (0.32%) Ruby
16 4 (0.18%) F#
16 4 (0.18%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.18%) VB6
Qualifications
1 843 (38.49%) Security Cleared
2 403 (18.40%) DV Cleared
2 403 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 254 (11.60%) Degree
4 108 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 67 (3.06%) MCSE
6 45 (2.05%) CCNA
6 45 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
7 36 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 33 (1.51%) MCSA
10 30 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
10 30 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 27 (1.23%) A+ Certification
12 25 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.10%) MCP
14 20 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.87%) CCNP
16 17 (0.78%) Azure Certification
17 14 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (5.34%) SLA
2 63 (2.88%) QA
3 37 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
4 27 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
5 23 (1.05%) NIST
6 20 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.82%) GDPR
8 16 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.64%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.46%) ISO 9000
12 7 (0.32%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.32%) RMADS
13 6 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 5 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.091%) HIPAA
17 1 (0.046%) Def Stans
17 1 (0.046%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 876 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 327 (14.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (5.66%) Hyper-V
4 83 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
5 72 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
6 63 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 48 (2.19%) vSphere
8 44 (2.01%) Docker
9 42 (1.92%) Firmware
10 34 (1.55%) VMware NSX
10 34 (1.55%) XenApp
11 25 (1.14%) BitLocker
12 20 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
13 17 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
13 17 (0.78%) XenDesktop
14 14 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (0.41%) iptables
15 9 (0.41%) Terminal Services
16 8 (0.37%) KVM
16 8 (0.37%) VMFS
Systems Management
1 363 (16.58%) SCCM
2 179 (8.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 112 (5.11%) WSUS
4 109 (4.98%) Ansible
5 81 (3.70%) SCOM
6 76 (3.47%) Terraform
7 72 (3.29%) Kubernetes
8 59 (2.69%) vCenter Server
9 51 (2.33%) NetBackup
10 40 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 38 (1.74%) Puppet
12 28 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
13 25 (1.14%) Progress Chef
14 23 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
15 18 (0.82%) Kibana
15 18 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
15 18 (0.82%) WMI
16 17 (0.78%) MAILsweeper
16 17 (0.78%) Nagios
17 16 (0.73%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 939 (42.88%) Microsoft
2 445 (20.32%) VMware
3 125 (5.71%) Citrix
4 118 (5.39%) Cisco
5 107 (4.89%) Apple
6 87 (3.97%) ServiceNow
7 84 (3.84%) HP
8 81 (3.70%) Oracle
9 77 (3.52%) Red Hat
10 63 (2.88%) Splunk
11 59 (2.69%) Atlassian
12 57 (2.60%) Veeam
13 52 (2.37%) Dell
14 49 (2.24%) SAP
15 41 (1.87%) NetApp
16 37 (1.69%) Symantec
17 32 (1.46%) EMC
18 26 (1.19%) Palo Alto
18 26 (1.19%) Sophos
19 25 (1.14%) Veritas