Windows Contracts in Suffolk

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 1 5 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows 30 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 40.54% 18.03% 4.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 100.00% 77.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 3
10th Percentile £170 £168 -
25th Percentile £179 £177 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £199 £225
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -11.67% -52.33%
75th Percentile £225 £220 £238
90th Percentile £238 £223 -
East of England median daily rate £225 £295 £300
% change year-on-year -23.73% -1.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £17.79 £17.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +3.03% +4.76%
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £14.16 £17.00
% change year-on-year +177.68% -16.71% +8.01%

All Operating Systems
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 30 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 40.54% 18.03% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 4
10th Percentile £170 £168 -
25th Percentile £179 £177 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £199 £225
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -11.67% -53.85%
75th Percentile £225 £220 £284
90th Percentile £238 £223 £369
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £17.79 £17.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +3.03% +4.76%
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
% change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Suffolk

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Suffolk

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Suffolk

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Suffolk

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich +5 15 £186 - 31
Leiston 0 14 £225 +2.27%
Windows
East of England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 10 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) PaaS
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (43.33%) VPN
2 6 (20.00%) DNS
2 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 23 (76.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Legal
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Desktop Support
3 9 (30.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 7 (23.33%) Analyst
5 5 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (13.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Service Analyst
6 4 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) IT Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) IT Support
7 3 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) SharePoint Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) SharePoint Support
7 3 (10.00%) Support Analyst
8 2 (6.67%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Windows Deployment Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Driving Licence
1 7 (23.33%) iPad
1 7 (23.33%) iPhone
1 7 (23.33%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) ITIL
2 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (26.67%) Customer Service
4 7 (23.33%) Antivirus Management
4 7 (23.33%) Inventory Management
4 7 (23.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (23.33%) Time Management
5 6 (20.00%) ITSM
6 1 (3.33%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security
6 1 (3.33%) Cost Management
6 1 (3.33%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.33%) Decision-Making
6 1 (3.33%) DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) High Availability
6 1 (3.33%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (3.33%) Line Management
6 1 (3.33%) Migration
6 1 (3.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) Bicep
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (16.67%) DBS Check
5 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) McAfee
2 7 (23.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.67%) ZyXEL
4 1 (3.33%) Apple
4 1 (3.33%) Okta
4 1 (3.33%) Zscaler