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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 20 17 22
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 8.20% 13.18% 10.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.92% 56.67% 75.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 19
10th Percentile £185 £173 £142
25th Percentile £199 £190 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £200 £225
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.11% -40.79%
75th Percentile £488 £503 £338
90th Percentile £655 £738 £498
South East median daily rate £381 £400 £340
% change year-on-year -4.69% +17.65% -15.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £30.25 £48.40
% change year-on-year -33.88% -37.50% +161.62%

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 26 30 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 10.66% 23.26% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 24
10th Percentile £185 £184 £143
25th Percentile £206 £200 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £423 £290
Median % change year-on-year -29.12% +45.95% -28.92%
75th Percentile £500 £463 £488
90th Percentile £617 £738 -
South East median daily rate £447 £430 £400
% change year-on-year +3.95% +7.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -63.52% -0.87% +210.81%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +1 13 £355 -11.25% 1
Crawley -12 3 £400 -17.53% 1
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 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DHCP
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) BIG-IP
3 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Toad
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Back Office
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Electronics
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Support
3 2 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Nutanix Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Principal Developer
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Android
5 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (15.00%) High Availability
2 3 (15.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (10.00%) Agile
3 2 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (10.00%) Fit Analysis
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (5.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.00%) ISEB
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (5.00%) VCAP
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) VMware
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 2 (10.00%) Qualys
4 2 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) Veeam
5 1 (5.00%) webMethods
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler