Windows Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 22 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows 18 18 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 8.04% 7.29% 11.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.55% 69.23% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 27
10th Percentile £100 £158 £140
25th Percentile £145 £179 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £230 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% -42.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile £369 £572 £525
90th Percentile £550 £775 £575
East of England median daily rate £331 £298 £325
% change year-on-year +11.34% -8.46% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £13.73 £21.96 £23.81
25th Percentile £15.04 £22.96 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £24.62 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -13.34% +4.81%
75th Percentile £36.38 - -
90th Percentile £59.55 - £38.36
East of England median hourly rate £14.41 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year -9.94% - -9.86%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 33 26 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 14.73% 10.53% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 60
10th Percentile £103 £160 £153
25th Percentile £188 £179 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £288 £456
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -36.99% +1.39%
75th Percentile £456 £583 £556
90th Percentile £550 £738 £631
East of England median daily rate £363 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -14.71% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £13.73 £21.96 £24.58
25th Percentile £15.04 £22.96 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £24.62 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -13.34% +4.81%
75th Percentile £36.38 - £40.85
90th Percentile £59.55 - £50.00
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £18.26 £21.50
% change year-on-year +214.98% -15.09% +21.13%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Essex

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Essex

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Essex over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Essex

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Essex

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Essex over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Essex

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Essex region over the 6 months to 31 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
Colchester +1 5 £550 +205.56% 1
Basildon - 5 £100 - 1
Chelmsford +1 3 £190 - 2
Saffron Walden - 2 £213 - 1
Brentwood - 1 - - 1
Windows
East of England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 5 (27.78%) IIS
2 4 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
1 4 (22.22%) Wireshark
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (5.56%) RTMP
3 1 (5.56%) RTP
3 1 (5.56%) RTSP
3 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Fiddler
2 1 (5.56%) CMake
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.56%) Legal
2 1 (5.56%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Administrator
1 4 (22.22%) SharePoint Administrator
2 2 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Deskside Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) ICT Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) ICT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (5.56%) Remote Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
2 4 (22.22%) SAML
3 1 (5.56%) FFmpeg
3 1 (5.56%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) MPEG
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 8
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) Load Balancing
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 3 (16.67%) Employee Productivity
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.56%) Coaching
6 1 (5.56%) Commercial Awareness
6 1 (5.56%) Network Management
6 1 (5.56%) Prototyping
6 1 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.56%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) C
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) C++
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (16.67%) A+ Certification
4 3 (16.67%) CCNA
4 3 (16.67%) CCNP
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (16.67%) MCSA
5 2 (11.11%) ECDL
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SCOM
2 4 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.11%) SCCM
4 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) F5
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) Apple
5 1 (5.56%) Google