Windows Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 10 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Windows 18 28 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 8.00% 11.62% 9.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 43.90% 75.68% 37.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 22
10th Percentile £101 £150 £136
25th Percentile £165 £160 £151
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £219 £210 £288
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -26.96% +30.68%
75th Percentile £475 £334 £494
90th Percentile £543 £650 £525
East of England median daily rate £290 £300 £325
% change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% +10.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £13.73 £20.04 £20.21
25th Percentile £15.04 £20.85 -
Median hourly rate £28.04 £23.31 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% -17.95% -3.69%
75th Percentile £48.98 £24.62 -
90th Percentile £64.59 - £38.36
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £17.00 £15.62
% change year-on-year -16.71% +8.83% -5.33%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 41 37 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 18.22% 15.35% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 58
10th Percentile £121 £153 £153
25th Percentile £194 £160 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £220 £485
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -54.64% +7.78%
75th Percentile £475 £522 £609
90th Percentile £547 £648 £631
East of England median daily rate £344 £419 £400
% change year-on-year -17.91% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £13.73 £20.04 £21.58
25th Percentile £15.04 £20.85 -
Median hourly rate £28.04 £23.31 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% -17.95% -6.08%
75th Percentile £48.98 £24.62 £40.85
90th Percentile £64.59 - £50.00
East of England median hourly rate £17.00 £17.75 £20.20
% change year-on-year -4.23% -12.13% +22.42%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Essex

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Essex

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Essex over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Essex

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Essex

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Essex over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Essex

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Essex region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Basildon 0 4 £100 -37.50% 3
Colchester -3 4 £550 -8.33% 3
Chelmsford +1 3 £190 -52.02%
Saffron Walden 0 2 £213 +41.67% 3
Brentwood - 1 - - 1
Windows
East of England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 5 (27.78%) IIS
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 3 (16.67%) Wireshark
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (5.56%) RTMP
3 1 (5.56%) RTP
3 1 (5.56%) RTSP
3 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Fiddler
2 1 (5.56%) CMake
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.56%) Legal
2 1 (5.56%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Administrator
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint Administrator
2 2 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Web Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) C/C++ Developer
3 1 (5.56%) ICT Support
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (5.56%) Remote Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 3 (16.67%) SAML
3 1 (5.56%) FFmpeg
3 1 (5.56%) GStreamer
3 1 (5.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) MPEG
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 8
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Load Balancing
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 3 (16.67%) Employee Productivity
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Coaching
5 1 (5.56%) Commercial Awareness
5 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.56%) Network Management
5 1 (5.56%) Prototyping
5 1 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Software Testing
5 1 (5.56%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (22.22%) A+ Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (16.67%) CCNA
3 3 (16.67%) CCNP
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (16.67%) MCSA
4 2 (11.11%) ECDL
5 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.56%) MCSE
5 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SCOM
2 4 (22.22%) SCCM
3 3 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) F5
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) Apple
5 1 (5.56%) Google