Windows Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Windows
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 15 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 122 146 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 12.71% 7.73% 16.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.03% 66.36% 71.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 89 216
10th Percentile £169 £168 £160
25th Percentile £200 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £290 £313
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% -7.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £538
90th Percentile £575 £575 £631
England median daily rate £421 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +5.13% -11.11% +6.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 57
10th Percentile - £13.29 £13.22
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £22.50 £14.16 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.90% -16.71% +8.01%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £24.62
90th Percentile £65.30 £66.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £18.76 £17.72 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.85% -21.24% +12.50%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 182 220 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.96% 11.65% 23.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 127 313
10th Percentile £178 £175 £163
25th Percentile £213 £235 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £575
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
England median daily rate £475 £470 £513
% change year-on-year +1.06% -8.29% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 44 63
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £17.79 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £39.32 £36.00 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +106.07% -16.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £53.13
90th Percentile £84.75 £65.88 £65.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £37.42
% change year-on-year +2.27% -41.21% +70.09%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the East of England

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Hertfordshire +13 47 £550 +41.94% 101
Suffolk +1 31 £210 +5.66% 14
Cambridgeshire -1 22 £404 +73.66% 79
Essex +3 8 £245 +11.74% 39
Norfolk +8 7 £155 - 15
Bedfordshire -7 7 £225 -10.00% 23
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 13 (10.66%) SharePoint
2 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.10%) CMS
4 2 (1.64%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.64%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.82%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.82%) IIS
5 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.82%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (15.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.77%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (11.48%) Azure
3 13 (10.66%) Cohesity
3 13 (10.66%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.74%) OneDrive
5 5 (4.10%) Google Workspace
6 4 (3.28%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.64%) IaaS
8 1 (0.82%) AWS
8 1 (0.82%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.82%) GCP
8 1 (0.82%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.82%) PaaS
8 1 (0.82%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.82%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.82%) SaaS
8 1 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.31%) DNS
2 19 (15.57%) VPN
3 15 (12.30%) SAN
3 15 (12.30%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.38%) LAN
4 9 (7.38%) WAN
5 8 (6.56%) VLAN
6 5 (4.10%) Firewall
7 4 (3.28%) DHCP
7 4 (3.28%) Ethernet
7 4 (3.28%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (3.28%) NAS
7 4 (3.28%) Skype
7 4 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.46%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (2.46%) SMTP
8 3 (2.46%) SpaceWire
8 3 (2.46%) VoIP
9 2 (1.64%) SSL
9 2 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.64%) DB2
1 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Visual Studio
2 5 (4.10%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.82%) GitLab
4 1 (0.82%) MSI
4 1 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
General
1 58 (47.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (5.74%) Finance
2 7 (5.74%) Legal
2 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.28%) Military
5 4 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Law
6 3 (2.46%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.64%) Electronics
7 2 (1.64%) Marketing
8 1 (0.82%) Aviation
8 1 (0.82%) Avionics
8 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (19.67%) Support Engineer
2 16 (13.11%) Analyst
2 16 (13.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 16 (13.11%) Desktop Support
3 15 (12.30%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (6.56%) IT Support
5 7 (5.74%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (5.74%) Senior
6 6 (4.92%) 1st Line Support
6 6 (4.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (4.92%) Administrator
6 6 (4.92%) Deployment Engineer
6 6 (4.92%) Service Analyst
6 6 (4.92%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (4.10%) IT Engineer
7 5 (4.10%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.10%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (3.28%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.92%) LDAP
2 4 (3.28%) Node.js
2 4 (3.28%) Web Services
3 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.82%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.82%) JTAPI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (9.84%) Driving Licence
2 12 (9.84%) iPad
2 12 (9.84%) iPhone
3 5 (4.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.28%) Clustering
4 4 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.28%) Molecular Biology
4 4 (3.28%) Replication
4 4 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.46%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.64%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.64%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.64%) PKI
6 2 (1.64%) Smartcard
6 2 (1.64%) YubiKey
7 1 (0.82%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.41%) Windows Server
2 27 (22.13%) Linux
3 21 (17.21%) Windows 10
4 10 (8.20%) Windows Server 2016
4 10 (8.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (4.10%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.10%) Unix
6 4 (3.28%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.28%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.82%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.82%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (34.43%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (20.49%) Customer Service
2 25 (20.49%) ITIL
3 15 (12.30%) Agile
4 13 (10.66%) ITSM
5 11 (9.02%) Deployment Automation
5 11 (9.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (8.20%) Problem Management
6 10 (8.20%) SIEM
7 9 (7.38%) Build Automation
7 9 (7.38%) Operations Management
7 9 (7.38%) Time Management
8 8 (6.56%) CI/CD
8 8 (6.56%) Customer Requirements
8 8 (6.56%) PRINCE2
8 8 (6.56%) Proactive Maintenance
8 8 (6.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (6.56%) Validation
9 7 (5.74%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.49%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.74%) C++
3 5 (4.10%) C#
3 5 (4.10%) Python
4 4 (3.28%) Java
4 4 (3.28%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.46%) Bash
5 3 (2.46%) C
5 3 (2.46%) SQL
5 3 (2.46%) Tcl
5 3 (2.46%) VBA
6 2 (1.64%) Groovy
7 1 (0.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 50 (40.98%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.48%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.20%) DBS Check
5 8 (6.56%) Degree
6 7 (5.74%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.64%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.82%) ECDL
9 1 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) SLA
2 2 (1.64%) QA
3 1 (0.82%) GDPR
3 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (41.80%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 9 (7.38%) Virtual Servers
4 7 (5.74%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.10%) Docker
6 4 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (3.28%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (19.67%) SCCM
2 14 (11.48%) Ansible
3 13 (10.66%) WSUS
4 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (6.56%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (3.28%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (3.28%) Podman
7 3 (2.46%) AppManager
8 2 (1.64%) Nessus
9 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.82%) SCOM
9 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (54.10%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.21%) VMware
3 15 (12.30%) NetApp
4 14 (11.48%) Splunk
5 13 (10.66%) ServiceNow
6 10 (8.20%) Apple
7 7 (5.74%) McAfee
7 7 (5.74%) Red Hat
7 7 (5.74%) Samsung
7 7 (5.74%) SOTI
8 6 (4.92%) Google
9 5 (4.10%) MobileIron
9 5 (4.10%) Nexthink
10 4 (3.28%) Darktrace
10 4 (3.28%) FireEye
10 4 (3.28%) HP
10 4 (3.28%) LogicMonitor
10 4 (3.28%) LogRhythm
11 3 (2.46%) Ivanti
11 3 (2.46%) Tenable