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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 672 799 1,042
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 12.36% 14.30% 13.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.07% 69.90% 69.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 553 703
10th Percentile £193 £180 £149
25th Percentile £224 £206 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £588 £560 £547
90th Percentile £663 £650 £638
England median daily rate £400 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 48 76
10th Percentile £14.19 £16.01 £12.38
25th Percentile £16.61 £18.21 £13.47
Median hourly rate £22.55 £36.38 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.01% +99.32% +4.29%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £63.63 £75.00 £53.01
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.57 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.47% +12.83% +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 959 1,143 1,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.63% 20.45% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 776 958
10th Percentile £200 £196 £155
25th Percentile £285 £254 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £466 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% +3.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £575
90th Percentile £648 £650 £650
England median daily rate £471 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 66 105
10th Percentile £15.95 £17.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +197.30% -7.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £60.79
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.94%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +3 261 £400 -11.11% 120
Hampshire -3 260 £550 +14.58% 94
Berkshire +5 183 £529 -2.58% 48
Surrey -8 52 £500 +100.00% 43
Buckinghamshire +5 49 £310 -33.99% 30
West Sussex +18 41 £438 +59.09% 30
Kent +2 41 £205 - 37
Oxfordshire -1 29 £193 -41.47% 42
East Sussex -1 6 £475 +90.00% 20
Middlesex +4 4 £275 -15.38% 1
Home Counties +6 3 - -
Sussex - 2 £600 - 1
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 54 (8.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (4.32%) Confluence
3 16 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 61 (9.08%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.60%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) Relativity
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 142 (21.13%) Microsoft 365
2 118 (17.56%) Azure
3 35 (5.21%) Entra ID
4 31 (4.61%) AWS
5 18 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (2.53%) Azure Storage
7 14 (2.08%) OCI
8 7 (1.04%) IaaS
8 7 (1.04%) PaaS
8 7 (1.04%) SaaS
9 6 (0.89%) Power Platform
10 5 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (0.60%) Azure Functions
11 4 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (0.60%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.60%) Serverless
12 3 (0.45%) GitHub
12 3 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 108 (16.07%) DNS
2 91 (13.54%) DHCP
3 68 (10.12%) Firewall
4 36 (5.36%) LAN
5 34 (5.06%) SAN
6 27 (4.02%) VPN
6 27 (4.02%) WAN
6 27 (4.02%) Wireless
7 20 (2.98%) TCP/IP
8 18 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.64%) NAS
10 10 (1.49%) Software-Defined Radio
11 9 (1.34%) Network Security
11 9 (1.34%) SNMP
12 8 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
12 8 (1.19%) VoIP
13 6 (0.89%) VLAN
14 5 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.74%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.19%) MySQL
4 6 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (0.89%) Power BI
5 5 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.74%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.45%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.30%) CouchDB
8 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.15%) GIS
9 1 (0.15%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.15%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (5.65%) JIRA
2 30 (4.46%) Git
3 28 (4.17%) Robot Framework
4 18 (2.68%) Bitbucket
5 15 (2.23%) MSI
6 14 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (1.79%) Jenkins
8 10 (1.49%) Eclipse
8 10 (1.49%) Selenium
9 9 (1.34%) Rational DOORS
10 8 (1.19%) GoogleTest
11 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.74%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.74%) Subversion
13 4 (0.60%) GitLab
13 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 2 (0.30%) JMeter
15 1 (0.15%) CMake
15 1 (0.15%) MagicDraw
15 1 (0.15%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 199 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 62 (9.23%) Public Sector
3 57 (8.48%) Organisational Skills
4 54 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (5.51%) Finance
6 29 (4.32%) Telecoms
7 27 (4.02%) Marketing
8 21 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 18 (2.68%) Electronics
10 17 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.49%) Military
12 10 (1.49%) Retail
13 6 (0.89%) Automotive
14 5 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.74%) French Language
15 4 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.45%) Front Office
17 2 (0.30%) Back Office
17 2 (0.30%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 88 (13.10%) Support Engineer
2 75 (11.16%) Architect
2 75 (11.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 65 (9.67%) Senior
4 52 (7.74%) Infrastructure Architect
5 47 (6.99%) IT Support
6 46 (6.85%) Desktop Support
7 43 (6.40%) Desktop Engineer
8 38 (5.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 34 (5.06%) Windows Engineer
10 33 (4.91%) Administrator
11 32 (4.76%) Analyst
12 30 (4.46%) IT Engineer
12 30 (4.46%) Systems Administrator
13 29 (4.32%) Integration Engineer
14 21 (3.13%) Build Engineer
14 21 (3.13%) Software Engineer
15 20 (2.98%) Active Directory Support
15 20 (2.98%) IT Support Engineer
16 19 (2.83%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.53%) ARM Templates
2 13 (1.93%) CSS
2 13 (1.93%) HTML
3 8 (1.19%) .NET
3 8 (1.19%) XML
4 6 (0.89%) Itk
4 6 (0.89%) RESTful
4 6 (0.89%) SOAP
5 4 (0.60%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.60%) XMPP
6 3 (0.45%) LDAP
6 3 (0.45%) Node.js
6 3 (0.45%) React
7 2 (0.30%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.30%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (0.30%) Kafka
7 2 (0.30%) Loki
7 2 (0.30%) REST
7 2 (0.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.74%) PKI
2 38 (5.65%) Driving Licence
3 28 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 26 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.13%) Client/Server
6 17 (2.53%) NHS
7 13 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.49%) CCTV
10 8 (1.19%) Blog
10 8 (1.19%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.04%) Digital Signage
11 7 (1.04%) Smartphone
12 6 (0.89%) Product Ownership
12 6 (0.89%) Video Editing
13 5 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.74%) Device Driver
13 5 (0.74%) Smart Meter
14 4 (0.60%) Clustering
14 4 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 221 (32.89%) Windows Server
2 219 (32.59%) Windows 10
3 194 (28.87%) Linux
4 102 (15.18%) Windows Server 2019
5 81 (12.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 79 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
7 66 (9.82%) Windows 7
8 43 (6.40%) Apple iOS
9 41 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 32 (4.76%) Unix
11 19 (2.83%) Windows NT
12 16 (2.38%) Mac OS
13 14 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
13 14 (2.08%) Windows XP
14 13 (1.93%) Android
15 8 (1.19%) Ubuntu
16 7 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
17 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
18 4 (0.60%) Mac OS X
19 3 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (18.75%) ITIL
2 123 (18.30%) Customer Service
3 119 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (17.26%) Agile
5 101 (15.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 60 (8.93%) Prototyping
7 57 (8.48%) DevOps
8 54 (8.04%) Release Management
9 51 (7.59%) Service Management
10 42 (6.25%) Scrum
11 41 (6.10%) Migration
12 33 (4.91%) Software Engineering
13 31 (4.61%) Deployment Automation
14 30 (4.46%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (4.32%) Proactive Monitoring
15 29 (4.32%) Project Management
15 29 (4.32%) Test Automation
16 28 (4.17%) Customer Requirements
16 28 (4.17%) Software Deployment
17 26 (3.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 162 (24.11%) PowerShell
2 54 (8.04%) SQL
3 53 (7.89%) Python
4 48 (7.14%) VBScript
5 41 (6.10%) C#
6 34 (5.06%) C++
7 24 (3.57%) VB
8 17 (2.53%) Bicep
9 16 (2.38%) Java
10 13 (1.93%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.79%) Bash
12 9 (1.34%) C
13 8 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.60%) F#
14 4 (0.60%) Perl
14 4 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.45%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.15%) Assembly Language
16 1 (0.15%) Groovy
16 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 291 (43.30%) Security Cleared
2 191 (28.42%) DV Cleared
3 108 (16.07%) Degree
4 97 (14.43%) SC Cleared
5 25 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (2.53%) Master's Degree
8 15 (2.23%) MCSE
9 14 (2.08%) CCNA
9 14 (2.08%) CCNP
9 14 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.64%) MCSA
12 10 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (0.74%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.60%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.60%) MCTS
15 2 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.65%) SLA
2 27 (4.02%) QA
3 13 (1.93%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.79%) ISO 9001
5 11 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.49%) GDPR
7 7 (1.04%) RMADS
8 5 (0.74%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.15%) COBIT
10 1 (0.15%) GxP
10 1 (0.15%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.15%) MISRA
10 1 (0.15%) MISRA C
10 1 (0.15%) PMO
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 294 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 139 (20.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (6.40%) Firmware
3 43 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 31 (4.61%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (3.87%) VMware ESXi
6 24 (3.57%) XenApp
7 19 (2.83%) vSphere
8 17 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (1.04%) BitLocker
9 7 (1.04%) XenDesktop
10 6 (0.89%) VirtualBox
11 5 (0.74%) Docker
12 4 (0.60%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.30%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.15%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.15%) LXC
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
14 1 (0.15%) UAG
14 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 171 (25.45%) SCCM
2 85 (12.65%) WSUS
3 62 (9.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (5.80%) SCOM
5 28 (4.17%) Ansible
6 26 (3.87%) Kubernetes
7 24 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 23 (3.42%) vCenter Server
9 22 (3.27%) Terraform
10 20 (2.98%) Sysprep
11 16 (2.38%) EMC NetWorker
11 16 (2.38%) WMI
12 15 (2.23%) NetBackup
13 10 (1.49%) Nessus
14 9 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (1.19%) AirWatch
16 5 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
17 4 (0.60%) IBM BigFix
17 4 (0.60%) Tivoli
17 4 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 331 (49.26%) Microsoft
2 165 (24.55%) VMware
3 63 (9.38%) HP
4 54 (8.04%) Apple
5 40 (5.95%) Cisco
6 39 (5.80%) Oracle
7 33 (4.91%) Citrix
8 27 (4.02%) ServiceNow
9 22 (3.27%) SAP
9 22 (3.27%) Veeam
10 21 (3.13%) Symantec
11 20 (2.98%) Dell
12 19 (2.83%) Ivanti
13 18 (2.68%) EMC
14 16 (2.38%) 3PAR
15 15 (2.23%) Juniper
16 14 (2.08%) Extreme Networks
16 14 (2.08%) Palo Alto
17 13 (1.93%) ArcSight
17 13 (1.93%) Splunk