Windows Contracts in Kent

Microsoft Windows
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 3 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 20 44 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 19.05% 21.78% 19.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.33% 97.78% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 43 38
10th Percentile £204 £195 £171
25th Percentile £206 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £205 £205
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% - +7.19%
75th Percentile £603 £378 £234
90th Percentile £623 £391 £397
South East median daily rate £500 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -0.62%

All Operating Systems
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 24 45 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 22.86% 22.28% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 44 38
10th Percentile £160 £196 £171
25th Percentile £201 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £205 £205
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% - +6.49%
75th Percentile £585 £378 £234
90th Percentile £621 £394 £397
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Kent

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Kent

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Kent

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Kent

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Kent 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
Maidstone +2 7 £615 +215.38% 34
Canterbury - 1 £200 - 3
Chatham - 1 £500 - 1
Dartford - 1 £520 - 30
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) IaaS
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.00%) PaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DHCP
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
1 6 (30.00%) SAN
2 3 (15.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Electronics
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 7 (35.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Desktop Support
4 4 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) VMware Support Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.00%) NHS
3 1 (5.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Security Patching
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) ITSM
4 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
5 2 (10.00%) Analytics
5 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
5 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 1 (5.00%) Antivirus Management
6 1 (5.00%) Inventory Management
6 1 (5.00%) Preventative Maintenance
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.00%) A+ Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) DFS Replication
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (30.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) SAP
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow