Windows Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 18 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 10.00% 8.11% 11.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.14% 43.90% 75.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 19
10th Percentile £210 £101 £150
25th Percentile £234 £165 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £219 £210
Median % change year-on-year +11.74% +4.40% -26.96%
75th Percentile £356 £475 £334
90th Percentile £494 £543 £650
East of England median daily rate £225 £295 £300
% change year-on-year -23.73% -1.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £13.73 £20.04
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.04 £20.85
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.04 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +20.27% -17.95%
75th Percentile £23.75 £48.98 £24.62
90th Percentile - £64.59 -
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £14.16 £17.00
% change year-on-year +177.68% -16.71% +8.01%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14 41 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 17.50% 18.47% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 22
10th Percentile £231 £121 £153
25th Percentile £243 £194 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 £220
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +36.36% -54.64%
75th Percentile £400 £475 £522
90th Percentile £438 £547 £648
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £13.73 £20.04
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.04 £20.85
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.04 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year -19.74% +20.27% -17.95%
75th Percentile £23.75 £48.98 £24.62
90th Percentile - £64.59 -
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
% change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 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
Basildon +1 1 £375 +275.00% 42
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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) OneDrive
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (37.50%) DHCP
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
2 3 (37.50%) VLAN
2 3 (37.50%) VoIP
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Desktop Support
2 3 (37.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Mac Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Remote Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) FreeBSD
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) AppManager
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Ivanti
4 1 (12.50%) Apple
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat