Windows Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Microsoft Windows
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Exeter 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 14 10 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -17
Contract jobs citing Windows 5 14 9
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 6.33% 13.86% 6.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.33% 53.85% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 8
10th Percentile £158 - £148
25th Percentile £169 £129 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £153 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.55% -74.50% +47.06%
75th Percentile £219 £330 £675
90th Percentile £253 £563 -
Devon median daily rate £275 £195 £475
% change year-on-year +41.03% -58.95% +14.05%

All Operating Systems
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6 26 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Exeter 7.59% 25.74% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 25
10th Percentile £158 £129 £161
25th Percentile £169 £143 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £330 £500
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% -34.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £219 £600 £575
90th Percentile £253 £664 £645
Devon median daily rate £275 £443 £500
% change year-on-year -37.85% -11.50% +5.26%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Exeter

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Windows

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Windows

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Field Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) VMware