Windows Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 6 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 260 330 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.06% 25.48% 15.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 74.07% 78.20% 61.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 198 152
10th Percentile £229 £200 £175
25th Percentile £411 £240 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +1.05% +15.15%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £600
90th Percentile £825 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £388 £400
% change year-on-year +16.13% -3.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 31 49
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.23 £12.50
25th Percentile - £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.69 £43.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.57% +157.35% +17.24%
75th Percentile £63.44 £68.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £53.05
South East median hourly rate £22.55 £36.38 £18.25
% change year-on-year -38.01% +99.32% +4.29%

All Operating Systems
Hampshire

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 Hampshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 351 422 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.68% 32.59% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 258 246
10th Percentile £250 £201 £255
25th Percentile £427 £264 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £647 £600 £613
90th Percentile £800 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £463 £466 £450
% change year-on-year -0.75% +3.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 43 67
10th Percentile £14.74 £16.75 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.69 £19.86 £14.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% +238.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £62.15
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +197.30% -7.50%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Hampshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Hampshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Hampshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Hampshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Hampshire

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Hampshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Hampshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke -7 71 £650 +8.33% 22
Southampton +7 62 £388 +58.97% 8
Portsmouth -2 39 £413 +101.04% 12
Romsey -1 8 £650 +4.00% 1
Winchester -3 8 £484 +176.57% 8
Hook +3 7 £580 -9.02% 3
Havant +6 6 £324 -41.14% 3
Farnborough -17 5 £650 +52.94% 11
Fareham -5 2 - - 5
Eastleigh - 2 £500 - 3
Andover +2 1 £438 +4.17%
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 21 (8.08%) Confluence
2 13 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (20.77%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (6.54%) Azure
3 10 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.31%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.92%) AWS
6 3 (1.15%) GitHub
7 2 (0.77%) IaaS
7 2 (0.77%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.38%) GCP
8 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (11.54%) DNS
2 19 (7.31%) DHCP
3 15 (5.77%) Wireless
4 10 (3.85%) Software-Defined Radio
4 10 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (3.46%) SNMP
6 6 (2.31%) LAN
6 6 (2.31%) WAN
7 5 (1.92%) Firewall
7 5 (1.92%) SAN
8 3 (1.15%) VSAN
9 2 (0.77%) VLAN
10 1 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.38%) MPLS
10 1 (0.38%) PBX
10 1 (0.38%) Skype
10 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.38%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.15%) MySQL
2 3 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.77%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.38%) Power BI
4 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (9.62%) Robot Framework
2 23 (8.85%) JIRA
3 15 (5.77%) Git
4 14 (5.38%) MSI
4 14 (5.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (4.62%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.85%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.08%) GoogleTest
8 4 (1.54%) GitLab
9 3 (1.15%) Selenium
10 1 (0.38%) MagicDraw
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.38%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 45 (17.31%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (8.08%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (3.85%) Military
5 7 (2.69%) Retail
6 5 (1.92%) French Language
7 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.15%) Finance
8 2 (0.77%) Automotive
8 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.77%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Spanish Language
8 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.38%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 66 (25.38%) Architect
2 50 (19.23%) Infrastructure Architect
3 24 (9.23%) IT Support
4 23 (8.85%) Integration Engineer
5 12 (4.62%) Security Architect
5 12 (4.62%) Software Engineer
5 12 (4.62%) Support Engineer
6 11 (4.23%) Support Technician
6 11 (4.23%) Test Engineer
7 10 (3.85%) Administrator
7 10 (3.85%) Developer
7 10 (3.85%) Senior
7 10 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
8 9 (3.46%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (3.46%) IT Support Technician
8 9 (3.46%) IT Technician
8 9 (3.46%) Senior Technician
8 9 (3.46%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 8 (3.08%) IT Administrator
9 8 (3.08%) IT Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.62%) CSS
1 12 (4.62%) HTML
2 3 (1.15%) Node.js
2 3 (1.15%) React
3 2 (0.77%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.77%) Vue
4 1 (0.38%) .NET
4 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.38%) JSP
4 1 (0.38%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.38%) LDAP
4 1 (0.38%) REST
4 1 (0.38%) SOAP
4 1 (0.38%) Web Services
4 1 (0.38%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.38%) PKI
2 13 (5.00%) Client/Server
3 9 (3.46%) CCTV
4 7 (2.69%) Digital Signage
5 5 (1.92%) Device Driver
6 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.15%) Clustering
7 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.15%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.77%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.38%) CMDB
9 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) Replication
9 1 (0.38%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 84 (32.31%) Linux
2 81 (31.15%) Windows Server
3 69 (26.54%) Windows 10
4 30 (11.54%) Apple iOS
5 28 (10.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (10.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (9.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.46%) Windows 7
9 8 (3.08%) Unix
10 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.77%) Android
11 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.38%) VMS
12 1 (0.38%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (29.62%) Agile
2 58 (22.31%) Prototyping
3 23 (8.85%) Customer Service
4 22 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (8.46%) Scrum
4 22 (8.46%) Software Engineering
5 19 (7.31%) Test Automation
6 15 (5.77%) Patch Management
7 13 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (4.62%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (4.62%) DevOps
8 12 (4.62%) Service Management
8 12 (4.62%) SIEM
9 11 (4.23%) Application Packaging
9 11 (4.23%) Application Virtualisation
9 11 (4.23%) Test Scripting
10 10 (3.85%) Critical Thinking
10 10 (3.85%) Regression Testing
10 10 (3.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (3.85%) UML
Programming Languages
1 81 (31.15%) PowerShell
2 30 (11.54%) Python
3 21 (8.08%) C++
3 21 (8.08%) SQL
4 18 (6.92%) VBScript
5 14 (5.38%) Java
6 12 (4.62%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.23%) C#
8 7 (2.69%) VB
9 6 (2.31%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.15%) Bash
11 1 (0.38%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.38%) C
11 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 146 (56.15%) Security Cleared
2 78 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 33 (12.69%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.38%) MCSE
6 10 (3.85%) MCSA
6 10 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.54%) MCTS
8 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.77%) Degree
9 1 (0.38%) CISM
9 1 (0.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.46%) ISO 9001
1 9 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.08%) SLA
3 7 (2.69%) RMADS
4 1 (0.38%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.38%) MISRA
4 1 (0.38%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 122 (46.92%) Active Directory
2 71 (27.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (6.15%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.46%) Firmware
5 5 (1.92%) BitLocker
5 5 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.92%) vSphere
6 2 (0.77%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.38%) UAG
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (15.77%) SCCM
2 22 (8.46%) WSUS
3 18 (6.92%) Ansible
4 17 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (6.54%) Terraform
5 16 (6.15%) WMI
6 4 (1.54%) IBM BigFix
6 4 (1.54%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.15%) Nessus
7 3 (1.15%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.77%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.77%) SCOM
8 2 (0.77%) vRealize
8 2 (0.77%) VxRail
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.38%) Packer
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.38%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 112 (43.08%) Microsoft
2 79 (30.38%) VMware
3 23 (8.85%) Apple
4 12 (4.62%) ArcSight
5 10 (3.85%) MobileIron
6 9 (3.46%) Google
7 8 (3.08%) Atlassian
8 7 (2.69%) Oracle
9 5 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.54%) Remedy
10 4 (1.54%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.15%) Dell
11 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.15%) Veeam
12 2 (0.77%) EMC
13 1 (0.38%) Juniper
13 1 (0.38%) NetApp
13 1 (0.38%) NetIQ
13 1 (0.38%) Symantec
13 1 (0.38%) Veritas