Windows Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 704 858 1,101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 12.69% 14.70% 14.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.84% 70.04% 70.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 599 760
10th Percentile £181 £180 £148
25th Percentile £213 £213 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £554
90th Percentile £650 £662 £638
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 51 82
10th Percentile £14.56 £17.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.33 £18.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.55 £28.90 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.97% +48.21% +25.36%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £63.38 £75.00 £61.46
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.21 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.20% +11.03% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
South East

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 980 1,225 1,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.66% 20.99% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 842 1,014
10th Percentile £200 £200 £150
25th Percentile £263 £263 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +6.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £674 £650
England median daily rate £463 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.11% +2.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 70 111
10th Percentile £15.98 £18.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.31 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62.25 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £75.00 £64.25
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.24% +63.05% +20.21%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the South East

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the South East

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the South East

Windows
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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +3 286 £375 -20.18% 113
Hampshire -3 257 £550 +10.00% 101
Berkshire +12 204 £480 -11.60% 42
Surrey -5 59 £425 +84.78% 37
Buckinghamshire +2 47 £225 -52.38% 33
Kent +2 44 £205 - 39
West Sussex +8 39 £425 +25.28% 30
Oxfordshire -1 35 £215 -46.25% 38
East Sussex +1 8 £420 +107.41% 16
Middlesex +6 4 £275 -15.38% 1
Home Counties +6 3 - -
Sussex -3 2 £600 +54.84%
Windows
England

Windows
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 60 (8.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (4.26%) Confluence
3 20 (2.84%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) nginx
5 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 73 (10.37%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.57%) LabWindows
2 4 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.28%) assyst
3 2 (0.28%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 157 (22.30%) Microsoft 365
2 121 (17.19%) Azure
3 36 (5.11%) Entra ID
4 25 (3.55%) AWS
5 18 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (2.27%) Azure Storage
7 13 (1.85%) OCI
8 8 (1.14%) IaaS
9 7 (0.99%) WhatsApp
10 6 (0.85%) OneDrive
10 6 (0.85%) SaaS
11 5 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.71%) PaaS
12 4 (0.57%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.57%) Azure Functions
12 4 (0.57%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.57%) Serverless
13 3 (0.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 108 (15.34%) DNS
2 88 (12.50%) DHCP
3 72 (10.23%) Firewall
4 40 (5.68%) LAN
5 38 (5.40%) SAN
6 30 (4.26%) WAN
7 29 (4.12%) VPN
7 29 (4.12%) Wireless
8 23 (3.27%) TCP/IP
9 17 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (1.56%) NAS
10 11 (1.56%) Network Security
10 11 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
11 10 (1.42%) Software-Defined Radio
12 9 (1.28%) SNMP
13 8 (1.14%) VoIP
14 7 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
14 7 (0.99%) VLAN
15 6 (0.85%) Skype
16 5 (0.71%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.56%) MySQL
3 10 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.57%) Power BI
6 4 (0.57%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.43%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.28%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.14%) GIS
9 1 (0.14%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.14%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 40 (5.68%) JIRA
2 29 (4.12%) Git
3 28 (3.98%) Robot Framework
4 21 (2.98%) Bitbucket
5 14 (1.99%) MSI
5 14 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (1.56%) Eclipse
7 10 (1.42%) Jenkins
7 10 (1.42%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (1.42%) Selenium
8 9 (1.28%) GoogleTest
9 6 (0.85%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.71%) Subversion
11 4 (0.57%) GitLab
11 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.28%) JMeter
13 1 (0.14%) MagicDraw
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle APEX
13 1 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 219 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 67 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
3 61 (8.66%) Public Sector
4 58 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (5.68%) Finance
6 35 (4.97%) Telecoms
7 31 (4.40%) Marketing
8 26 (3.69%) Manufacturing
9 22 (3.13%) Electronics
10 17 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.28%) Military
12 9 (1.28%) Retail
13 7 (0.99%) Automotive
14 6 (0.85%) Legal
15 5 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.71%) French Language
16 4 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.43%) Banking
17 3 (0.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 100 (14.20%) Support Engineer
2 76 (10.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 74 (10.51%) Architect
4 69 (9.80%) Senior
5 55 (7.81%) Desktop Support
6 52 (7.39%) Desktop Engineer
6 52 (7.39%) IT Support
7 51 (7.24%) Infrastructure Architect
8 46 (6.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 39 (5.54%) Windows Engineer
10 36 (5.11%) Analyst
11 35 (4.97%) Administrator
12 32 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
13 30 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
13 30 (4.26%) IT Engineer
14 23 (3.27%) Build Engineer
15 22 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
15 22 (3.13%) Software Engineer
16 21 (2.98%) Windows Build Engineer
17 20 (2.84%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.13%) ARM Templates
2 13 (1.85%) HTML
3 12 (1.70%) CSS
4 9 (1.28%) XML
5 8 (1.14%) .NET
6 6 (0.85%) Itk
6 6 (0.85%) RESTful
7 5 (0.71%) SOAP
8 4 (0.57%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.57%) XMPP
9 3 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.43%) Node.js
9 3 (0.43%) React
10 2 (0.28%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.28%) EDI
10 2 (0.28%) Kafka
10 2 (0.28%) LDAP
10 2 (0.28%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.28%) REST
10 2 (0.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.24%) PKI
2 45 (6.39%) Driving Licence
3 31 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 28 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.98%) Client/Server
5 21 (2.98%) NHS
6 14 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.85%) CCTV
7 13 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (1.14%) Blog
8 8 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.14%) Smartphone
9 6 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.85%) Digital Signage
9 6 (0.85%) Product Ownership
9 6 (0.85%) Video Editing
10 5 (0.71%) Device Driver
10 5 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (0.71%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.71%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 239 (33.95%) Windows 10
2 215 (30.54%) Windows Server
3 203 (28.84%) Linux
4 107 (15.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 83 (11.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 82 (11.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 72 (10.23%) Windows 7
8 49 (6.96%) Apple iOS
9 47 (6.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 33 (4.69%) Unix
11 21 (2.98%) Windows NT
12 17 (2.41%) Mac OS
12 17 (2.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 16 (2.27%) Android
14 13 (1.85%) Windows XP
15 12 (1.70%) Ubuntu
16 8 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
17 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
18 5 (0.71%) Mac OS X
19 3 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (20.03%) ITIL
2 133 (18.89%) Customer Service
3 129 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
4 114 (16.19%) Agile
5 103 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 59 (8.38%) Prototyping
7 56 (7.95%) Release Management
8 53 (7.53%) DevOps
8 53 (7.53%) Service Management
9 44 (6.25%) Migration
9 44 (6.25%) Scrum
10 34 (4.83%) Software Engineering
11 33 (4.69%) Deployment Automation
12 32 (4.55%) Customer Requirements
12 32 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
13 31 (4.40%) Software Deployment
14 30 (4.26%) Project Management
14 30 (4.26%) Test Automation
15 29 (4.12%) Computer Science
15 29 (4.12%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 149 (21.16%) PowerShell
2 54 (7.67%) SQL
3 52 (7.39%) Python
4 47 (6.68%) VBScript
5 41 (5.82%) C#
6 35 (4.97%) C++
7 23 (3.27%) VB
8 16 (2.27%) Java
9 15 (2.13%) Bicep
10 14 (1.99%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.42%) Bash
11 10 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.28%) C
13 4 (0.57%) F#
13 4 (0.57%) Perl
13 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.14%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.14%) R
Qualifications
1 293 (41.62%) Security Cleared
2 191 (27.13%) DV Cleared
3 118 (16.76%) Degree
4 95 (13.49%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 14 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (1.99%) MCSE
9 13 (1.85%) CCNA
9 13 (1.85%) CCNP
9 13 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.42%) MCSA
12 9 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (1.14%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.99%) A+ Certification
15 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
16 4 (0.57%) MCTS
17 3 (0.43%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.82%) SLA
2 30 (4.26%) QA
3 13 (1.85%) ISO 9001
3 13 (1.85%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.56%) GDPR
6 7 (0.99%) RMADS
7 5 (0.71%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.14%) COBIT
8 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA
8 1 (0.14%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 301 (42.76%) Active Directory
2 132 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (6.82%) Firmware
4 37 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 31 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.69%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (3.27%) XenApp
8 19 (2.70%) vSphere
9 17 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (1.14%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.85%) VirtualBox
12 5 (0.71%) Docker
13 4 (0.57%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.28%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.14%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.14%) LXC
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.14%) UAG
15 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 180 (25.57%) SCCM
2 81 (11.51%) WSUS
3 65 (9.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (5.54%) SCOM
5 27 (3.84%) Ansible
6 24 (3.41%) vCenter Server
7 23 (3.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (3.13%) Kubernetes
9 21 (2.98%) Sysprep
10 20 (2.84%) Terraform
11 17 (2.41%) EMC NetWorker
12 16 (2.27%) NetBackup
13 15 (2.13%) WMI
14 10 (1.42%) Nessus
15 9 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (1.14%) AirWatch
17 5 (0.71%) IBM BigFix
17 5 (0.71%) Tivoli
18 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
18 4 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 342 (48.58%) Microsoft
2 161 (22.87%) VMware
3 74 (10.51%) HP
4 59 (8.38%) Apple
5 42 (5.97%) Cisco
6 38 (5.40%) Oracle
7 35 (4.97%) Citrix
8 34 (4.83%) ServiceNow
9 26 (3.69%) SAP
10 22 (3.13%) Veeam
11 20 (2.84%) Symantec
12 19 (2.70%) Dell
12 19 (2.70%) EMC
12 19 (2.70%) Red Hat
13 18 (2.56%) 3PAR
14 17 (2.41%) Ivanti
15 15 (2.13%) Splunk
16 14 (1.99%) ArcSight
16 14 (1.99%) Juniper
17 13 (1.85%) Palo Alto