Windows Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 16 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows 48 85 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.96% 9.93% 19.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.67% 75.89% 81.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 75 133
10th Percentile £175 £204 £149
25th Percentile £213 £316 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £470 £400
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +17.41% -
75th Percentile £475 £522 £520
90th Percentile £586 £560 £650
South East median daily rate £473 £388 £390
% change year-on-year +21.94% -0.64% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 11
10th Percentile - - £12.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £22.55 £19.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% +46.15% -44.68%
75th Percentile £48.75 £19.50 £20.13
90th Percentile - - £23.75
South East median hourly rate £25.04 £29.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.66% +65.71% -

All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 72 112 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.94% 13.08% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 97 156
10th Percentile £206 £210 £150
25th Percentile £244 £363 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £517 £550 £550
90th Percentile £559 £598 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 12
10th Percentile - - £12.33
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £22.58 £19.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.84% +46.15% -48.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 £19.50 £22.06
90th Percentile - - £23.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Milton Keynes +5 39 £370 -21.21% 20
High Wycombe +2 1 - - 6
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.25%) PaaS
4 2 (4.17%) AWS
4 2 (4.17%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.17%) Slack
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.08%) IaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) VPN
2 4 (8.33%) RS-232
3 3 (6.25%) DHCP
3 3 (6.25%) DNS
3 3 (6.25%) WAN
4 2 (4.17%) LAN
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.08%) Firewall
5 1 (2.08%) VoIP
5 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.08%) Power BI
1 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Subversion
1 4 (8.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.17%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Finance
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Electronics
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 7 (14.58%) Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) IT Support
3 5 (10.42%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Developer
4 4 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Windows Support Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Desktop Support
5 3 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Security Operations Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Senior
5 3 (6.25%) Service Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (4.17%) Loki
2 1 (2.08%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.17%) NHS
3 2 (4.17%) PKI
3 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.08%) iPhone
4 1 (2.08%) Smart Meter
4 1 (2.08%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 19 (39.58%) Windows 10
2 12 (25.00%) Linux
3 10 (20.83%) Windows 7
4 8 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 6 (12.50%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.08%) Unix
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (18.75%) Customer Service
3 8 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (8.33%) Business Strategy
4 4 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (8.33%) Data Acquisition
4 4 (8.33%) Information Security
4 4 (8.33%) Migration
4 4 (8.33%) Security Operations
5 3 (6.25%) Agile
5 3 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (6.25%) Design Thinking
5 3 (6.25%) Incident Response
5 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (6.25%) Service Delivery
5 3 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (4.17%) Computer Science
6 2 (4.17%) Configuration Management
6 2 (4.17%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) C
1 4 (8.33%) C#
2 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.25%) Python
3 2 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.83%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) COBIT
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.42%) AirWatch
2 5 (10.42%) SCCM
3 4 (8.33%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Argo
4 2 (4.17%) Grafana
4 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.17%) Kustomize
4 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 24 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Apple
3 7 (14.58%) HP
4 6 (12.50%) Cisco
5 4 (8.33%) F5
5 4 (8.33%) Planview
5 4 (8.33%) SAP
5 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.25%) Ariba
6 3 (6.25%) Splunk
6 3 (6.25%) VMware
7 2 (4.17%) Citrix
8 1 (2.08%) Ab Initio
8 1 (2.08%) Computacenter
8 1 (2.08%) Dell
8 1 (2.08%) McAfee
8 1 (2.08%) Oracle
8 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.08%) Remedy
8 1 (2.08%) TippingPoint