Windows 7 Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows 7
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Windows 7 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 7 over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 157 137
Rank change year-on-year +5 -20 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 10 45 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.79% 1.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.71% 4.43% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 52
10th Percentile - - £141
25th Percentile £158 £205 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £215 £235
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -8.51% -29.06%
75th Percentile £375 £219 £255
90th Percentile £450 £430 £386
England median daily rate £233 £210 £200
% change year-on-year +10.71% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile - £16.89 £24.11
25th Percentile - - £33.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.00 £49.94
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% -63.95% +232.90%
75th Percentile - £22.51 £65.84
90th Percentile - £22.54 £75.16
England median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +11.00% -8.11% +16.57%

All Operating Systems
South East

Windows 7 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 585 1,015 1,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 18.00% 17.75% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 641 778
10th Percentile £198 £203 £194
25th Percentile £315 £350 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £484 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +7.56% -
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £650 £663 £640
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 66 70
10th Percentile £14.48 £15.94 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.77 £21.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +214.29%
75th Percentile £28.00 £69.92 £67.13
90th Percentile £58.33 £71.88 £73.88
England median hourly rate £20.00 £24.86 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% -41.52% +88.89%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows 7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 7 in the South East

Windows 7
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 7 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Windows 7 in the South East

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 7 in the South East over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 7 in the South East

Windows 7
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 7 in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 7 in the South East

Windows 7
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Hampshire +23 4 £425 +142.86% 4
Thames Valley +2 4 £165 -23.26% 4
Berkshire +4 2 £165 -23.26% 2
Kent +2 1 - - 2
Buckinghamshire 0 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
Surrey - 1 £250 -
Windows 7
England

Windows 7
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) FTP
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Fat Client
1 2 (20.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (10.00%) VMS
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (20.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
1 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (20.00%) Ticket Management
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (10.00%) Service Design
2 1 (10.00%) Software Distribution
2 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (10.00%) XenApp
4 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Proxmox
1 2 (20.00%) SCVMM
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle