Windows Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Microsoft Windows
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 17 17 30
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 6.77% 14.41% 13.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.83% 53.13% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 25
10th Percentile £185 £172 £143
25th Percentile £190 £189 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £256 £200 £325
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -38.46% -15.58%
75th Percentile £488 £484 £469
90th Percentile £625 £738 £533
South East median daily rate £403 £425 £378
% change year-on-year -5.29% +12.43% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
South East median hourly rate £19.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -30.36% -41.05% +126.19%

All Operating Systems
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 24 32 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 9.56% 27.12% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 33
10th Percentile £185 £184 £153
25th Percentile £206 £193 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £223 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% -47.65% -
75th Percentile £494 £434 £488
90th Percentile £576 £738 £518
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.83 -
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.00% +5.00% +131.19%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Windows job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in West Sussex over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in West Sussex

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Windows

Windows
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. 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
Worthing 0 12 £350 +9.38% 4
Crawley -10 2 £344 -52.59%
Haywards Heath - 1 £213 -
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DHCP
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) BIG-IP
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) Toad
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Deployment Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Developer
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) NHS
1 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.88%) Android
4 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (17.65%) High Availability
2 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
3 2 (11.76%) Capacity Management
3 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (11.76%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (5.88%) Clean Code
4 1 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (5.88%) Design Patterns
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.88%) Runbook
4 1 (5.88%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (5.88%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (5.88%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Java
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) C++
2 1 (5.88%) Perl
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.88%) ISEB
1 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (5.88%) VCAP
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
4 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) SCCM
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Qualys
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.88%) F5
4 1 (5.88%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) webMethods
4 1 (5.88%) Zscaler