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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 27 32 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 23.48% 14.29% 20.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.14% 94.12% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 38
10th Percentile £205 £158 £158
25th Percentile £220 £203 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £205 £205
Median % change year-on-year +82.93% - +3.80%
75th Percentile £603 £354 £210
90th Percentile £623 £394 £419
South East median daily rate £490 £490 £390
% change year-on-year +0.10% +25.51% -4.29%

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 35 34 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 30.43% 15.18% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 32 38
10th Percentile £160 £158 £158
25th Percentile £205 £203 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £205 £205
Median % change year-on-year +82.93% - -1.20%
75th Percentile £603 £378 £210
90th Percentile £623 £394 £419
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +1 8 £615 +241.67% 9
Dover - 5 £375 - 1
Dartford 0 1 £520 +225.00% 6
Canterbury - 1 £200 -
Chatham - 1 £500 - 2
Tonbridge - 1 £155 - 3
West Malling - 1 £615 - 4
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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) IaaS
3 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (18.52%) PaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (55.56%) DNS
2 14 (51.85%) DHCP
3 10 (37.04%) Firewall
4 9 (33.33%) SAN
5 6 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (22.22%) VPN
6 5 (18.52%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (18.52%) SSL
6 5 (18.52%) VLAN
7 2 (7.41%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (3.70%) Internet
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) JIRA
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Electronics
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.41%) Legal
3 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.41%) Marketing
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (44.44%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (44.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
3 9 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) VMware Support Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Desktop Support
7 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.41%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) CMDB
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows 10
1 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.70%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (44.44%) ITIL
3 9 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (29.63%) Security Patching
5 7 (25.93%) DevOps
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.11%) ITSM
8 2 (7.41%) Analytics
8 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (7.41%) Computer Science
8 2 (7.41%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (7.41%) Incident Management
8 2 (7.41%) Knowledge Management
8 2 (7.41%) Preventative Maintenance
8 2 (7.41%) Process Improvement
8 2 (7.41%) Programme Management
9 1 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (3.70%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (7.41%) A+ Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Active Directory
1 14 (51.85%) vSphere
2 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (33.33%) DFS Replication
4 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.70%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Tivoli
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.41%) SCCM
4 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (55.56%) VMware
3 6 (22.22%) Citrix
4 5 (18.52%) SolarWinds
4 5 (18.52%) Veeam
5 2 (7.41%) SAP
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow