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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 684 809 1,049
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 12.50% 14.38% 13.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.73% 70.23% 69.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 558 707
10th Percentile £193 £180 £149
25th Percentile £213 £207 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £387 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.59% -3.19% -
75th Percentile £575 £560 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £640
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 52 76
10th Percentile £14.19 £16.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.61 £18.22 £13.50
Median hourly rate £22.55 £26.35 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +35.10% +11.43%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £63.63 £75.00 £55.13
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +21.21%

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 967 1,152 1,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.68% 20.48% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 781 963
10th Percentile £200 £195 £155
25th Percentile £281 £250 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 70 105
10th Percentile £15.94 £17.63 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.31 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +176.32% -8.43%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £60.79
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.80%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +4 272 £398 -11.67% 118
Hampshire -3 260 £550 +11.68% 97
Berkshire +9 194 £501 -4.57% 51
Surrey -8 53 £475 +93.88% 39
Buckinghamshire +7 47 £250 -46.77% 30
West Sussex +16 41 £438 +50.86% 34
Kent +2 41 £205 - 42
Oxfordshire -1 31 £193 -41.47% 37
East Sussex -3 6 £475 +108.79% 24
Middlesex +3 4 £275 -15.38% 1
Home Counties +6 3 - -
Sussex - 2 £600 - 5
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 55 (8.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (4.24%) Confluence
3 17 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.29%) Apache
5 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 64 (9.36%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.58%) LabWindows
2 4 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.15%) Relativity
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.15%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 143 (20.91%) Microsoft 365
2 120 (17.54%) Azure
3 35 (5.12%) Entra ID
4 30 (4.39%) AWS
5 18 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (2.49%) Azure Storage
7 14 (2.05%) OCI
8 8 (1.17%) IaaS
9 7 (1.02%) SaaS
10 6 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (0.88%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.73%) PaaS
12 4 (0.58%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.58%) Azure Functions
12 4 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.58%) OneDrive
12 4 (0.58%) Serverless
13 3 (0.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 111 (16.23%) DNS
2 94 (13.74%) DHCP
3 71 (10.38%) Firewall
4 38 (5.56%) LAN
5 36 (5.26%) SAN
6 29 (4.24%) VPN
7 28 (4.09%) WAN
8 27 (3.95%) Wireless
9 23 (3.36%) TCP/IP
10 18 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (1.61%) NAS
12 10 (1.46%) Software-Defined Radio
13 9 (1.32%) Network Security
13 9 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
13 9 (1.32%) SNMP
14 8 (1.17%) VoIP
15 7 (1.02%) VLAN
16 5 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
16 5 (0.73%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.73%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.24%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.32%) MySQL
2 9 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (0.88%) Power BI
4 5 (0.73%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.58%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.44%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.44%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.29%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.15%) GIS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.15%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (5.56%) JIRA
2 28 (4.09%) Git
2 28 (4.09%) Robot Framework
3 18 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 15 (2.19%) MSI
5 14 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (1.46%) Eclipse
6 10 (1.46%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.46%) Selenium
7 9 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (1.17%) GoogleTest
9 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.73%) Subversion
11 4 (0.58%) GitLab
11 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.29%) JMeter
13 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.15%) MagicDraw
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
General
1 205 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 60 (8.77%) Public Sector
3 59 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
4 55 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (5.56%) Finance
6 30 (4.39%) Telecoms
7 28 (4.09%) Marketing
8 22 (3.22%) Manufacturing
9 19 (2.78%) Electronics
10 17 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.46%) Military
12 10 (1.46%) Retail
13 6 (0.88%) Automotive
14 5 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.73%) French Language
15 4 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.44%) Front Office
17 2 (0.29%) Back Office
17 2 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 90 (13.16%) Support Engineer
2 77 (11.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 75 (10.96%) Architect
4 64 (9.36%) Senior
5 52 (7.60%) Infrastructure Architect
6 48 (7.02%) Desktop Support
6 48 (7.02%) IT Support
7 45 (6.58%) Desktop Engineer
8 40 (5.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 36 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
10 35 (5.12%) Analyst
11 33 (4.82%) Administrator
12 30 (4.39%) IT Engineer
12 30 (4.39%) Systems Administrator
13 29 (4.24%) Integration Engineer
14 22 (3.22%) Build Engineer
15 21 (3.07%) Software Engineer
16 20 (2.92%) Active Directory Support
16 20 (2.92%) IT Support Engineer
16 20 (2.92%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.49%) ARM Templates
2 13 (1.90%) CSS
2 13 (1.90%) HTML
3 8 (1.17%) .NET
3 8 (1.17%) XML
4 6 (0.88%) Itk
4 6 (0.88%) RESTful
4 6 (0.88%) SOAP
5 4 (0.58%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.58%) XMPP
6 3 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.44%) LDAP
6 3 (0.44%) Node.js
6 3 (0.44%) React
7 2 (0.29%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.29%) Kafka
7 2 (0.29%) Middleware
7 2 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.29%) REST
7 2 (0.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.60%) PKI
2 40 (5.85%) Driving Licence
3 29 (4.24%) Data Centre
4 26 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.07%) Client/Server
6 18 (2.63%) NHS
7 13 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
8 12 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.46%) CCTV
10 9 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.17%) Blog
12 7 (1.02%) Digital Signage
12 7 (1.02%) Smartphone
13 6 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.88%) Product Ownership
13 6 (0.88%) Video Editing
14 5 (0.73%) Device Driver
14 5 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (0.73%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.73%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 225 (32.89%) Windows 10
2 223 (32.60%) Windows Server
3 198 (28.95%) Linux
4 105 (15.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 84 (12.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 82 (11.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 68 (9.94%) Windows 7
8 44 (6.43%) Apple iOS
8 44 (6.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 33 (4.82%) Unix
10 20 (2.92%) Windows NT
11 16 (2.34%) Mac OS
12 14 (2.05%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (2.05%) Windows XP
13 13 (1.90%) Android
14 8 (1.17%) Ubuntu
15 7 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
16 6 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.58%) Mac OS X
18 3 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (19.30%) ITIL
2 129 (18.86%) Customer Service
3 121 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (17.11%) Agile
5 105 (15.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 60 (8.77%) Prototyping
7 57 (8.33%) Release Management
8 56 (8.19%) DevOps
9 53 (7.75%) Service Management
10 43 (6.29%) Migration
10 43 (6.29%) Scrum
11 33 (4.82%) Software Engineering
12 32 (4.68%) Deployment Automation
13 30 (4.39%) Cybersecurity
13 30 (4.39%) Project Management
14 29 (4.24%) Customer Requirements
14 29 (4.24%) Proactive Monitoring
14 29 (4.24%) Software Deployment
14 29 (4.24%) Test Automation
15 27 (3.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (23.25%) PowerShell
2 55 (8.04%) SQL
3 51 (7.46%) Python
4 48 (7.02%) VBScript
5 41 (5.99%) C#
6 34 (4.97%) C++
7 24 (3.51%) VB
8 17 (2.49%) Bicep
9 16 (2.34%) Java
10 13 (1.90%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.46%) Bash
11 10 (1.46%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.32%) C
13 4 (0.58%) F#
13 4 (0.58%) Perl
13 4 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.15%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.15%) Groovy
15 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 295 (43.13%) Security Cleared
2 192 (28.07%) DV Cleared
3 111 (16.23%) Degree
4 99 (14.47%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (2.49%) Master's Degree
8 15 (2.19%) MCSE
9 14 (2.05%) CCNA
9 14 (2.05%) CCNP
9 14 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.61%) MCSA
12 10 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.58%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.58%) MCTS
15 2 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.70%) SLA
2 29 (4.24%) QA
3 13 (1.90%) ISO 9001
3 13 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.46%) GDPR
6 7 (1.02%) RMADS
7 5 (0.73%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.15%) COBIT
8 1 (0.15%) GxP
8 1 (0.15%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.15%) MISRA
8 1 (0.15%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.15%) PMO
8 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 295 (43.13%) Active Directory
2 140 (20.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (6.58%) Firmware
4 43 (6.29%) Hyper-V
5 32 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (3.51%) XenApp
8 19 (2.78%) vSphere
9 17 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (1.02%) XenDesktop
11 6 (0.88%) BitLocker
11 6 (0.88%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.58%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.44%) Docker
14 2 (0.29%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.15%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.15%) LXC
15 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.15%) UAG
15 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 175 (25.58%) SCCM
2 87 (12.72%) WSUS
3 62 (9.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (5.70%) SCOM
5 27 (3.95%) Ansible
6 24 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (3.51%) Kubernetes
6 24 (3.51%) vCenter Server
7 21 (3.07%) Sysprep
7 21 (3.07%) Terraform
8 17 (2.49%) NetBackup
9 16 (2.34%) EMC NetWorker
9 16 (2.34%) WMI
10 10 (1.46%) Nessus
11 9 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (1.17%) AirWatch
13 5 (0.73%) IBM BigFix
13 5 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.73%) Tivoli
14 4 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 335 (48.98%) Microsoft
2 166 (24.27%) VMware
3 69 (10.09%) HP
4 55 (8.04%) Apple
5 40 (5.85%) Cisco
5 40 (5.85%) Oracle
6 33 (4.82%) Citrix
7 29 (4.24%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.36%) SAP
9 22 (3.22%) Veeam
10 21 (3.07%) Dell
10 21 (3.07%) Symantec
11 19 (2.78%) 3PAR
11 19 (2.78%) Ivanti
12 18 (2.63%) EMC
13 15 (2.19%) Juniper
13 15 (2.19%) Red Hat
14 14 (2.05%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (2.05%) Palo Alto
14 14 (2.05%) Splunk