Windows Contract Job Trends in Devon

Microsoft Windows
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 -15
Contract jobs citing Windows 17 26 14
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 10.37% 11.93% 7.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 89.47% 59.09% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 13
10th Percentile £158 £129 £130
25th Percentile £200 £143 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £195 £475
Median % change year-on-year +41.03% -58.95% +14.05%
75th Percentile - £563 £600
90th Percentile £289 £600 £675
South West median daily rate £363 £470 £471
% change year-on-year -22.87% -0.11% +10.71%

All Operating Systems
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 19 44 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 11.59% 20.18% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 31
10th Percentile £160 £129 £155
25th Percentile £200 £159 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £443 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.85% -11.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £600 £575
90th Percentile £411 £664 £600
South West median daily rate £425 £515 £516
% change year-on-year -17.48% -0.24% +8.68%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Devon

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Devon over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Devon

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Windows

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Devon region over the 6 months to 1 October 2025. 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
Plymouth +1 5 £238 -40.25% 4
Exeter -4 5 £188 +22.55% 4
Dartmouth - 5 £275 -
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Field Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows 10
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (47.06%) Customer Service
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.76%) High Availability
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 1 (5.88%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.88%) Change Management
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.88%) Information Management
4 1 (5.88%) Information Security
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (5.88%) ITSM
4 1 (5.88%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) A+ Certification
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Tanium
3 1 (5.88%) VMware