Windows Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows 284 284 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.51% 9.70% 13.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 72.26% 62.83% 76.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 217 350
10th Percentile £167 £200 £140
25th Percentile £213 £319 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £470 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £608 £671 £650
South East median daily rate £421 £413 £403
% change year-on-year +2.11% +2.48% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 17
10th Percentile £16.25 - £12.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.08 £12.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +176.57% -20.45%
75th Percentile £54.13 £57.50 £21.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £80.10 £41.25
South East median hourly rate £22.55 £28.90 £19.50
% change year-on-year -21.97% +48.21% +27.87%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 393 452 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.54% 15.43% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 325 438
10th Percentile £192 £230 £145
25th Percentile £213 £363 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £575
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 23
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.13 £19.52 £12.75
Median hourly rate £38.75 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +143.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £57.13 £62.97 £46.25
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +14.29%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Berkshire +12 202 £450 -17.13% 46
Buckinghamshire -1 47 £225 -52.13% 32
Oxfordshire -1 35 £215 -46.25% 45
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 38 (13.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.41%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (1.41%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (0.70%) Confluence
3 2 (0.70%) nginx
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 52 (18.31%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.41%) LabWindows
3 2 (0.70%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 76 (26.76%) Azure
2 62 (21.83%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (7.39%) Entra ID
4 15 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
4 15 (5.28%) Azure Storage
5 12 (4.23%) OCI
6 8 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.46%) AWS
8 6 (2.11%) IaaS
9 4 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.41%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.41%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.41%) SaaS
9 4 (1.41%) Serverless
10 3 (1.06%) PaaS
11 2 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.70%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 53 (18.66%) DNS
2 45 (15.85%) DHCP
2 45 (15.85%) Firewall
3 29 (10.21%) LAN
4 22 (7.75%) VPN
5 21 (7.39%) SAN
6 19 (6.69%) WAN
7 11 (3.87%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.82%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (2.46%) VoIP
10 6 (2.11%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (1.76%) Network Security
11 5 (1.76%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (1.41%) NAS
12 4 (1.41%) RS-232
12 4 (1.41%) Skype
13 2 (0.70%) Broadband
13 2 (0.70%) WebEx
13 2 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.82%) MySQL
3 6 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.41%) Power BI
5 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.35%) GIS
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.35%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (2.11%) JIRA
2 4 (1.41%) Selenium
2 4 (1.41%) Subversion
2 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.06%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.70%) Git
5 1 (0.35%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.35%) CMake
5 1 (0.35%) MSI
General
1 141 (49.65%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.44%) Organisational Skills
3 26 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.28%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.28%) Telecoms
5 7 (2.46%) Finance
6 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.06%) Automotive
8 3 (1.06%) Electronics
8 3 (1.06%) Marketing
9 2 (0.70%) Banking
9 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Legal
9 2 (0.70%) Police
10 1 (0.35%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (18.66%) Support Engineer
2 35 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (11.62%) Desktop Engineer
4 30 (10.56%) Desktop Support
4 30 (10.56%) Windows Engineer
5 29 (10.21%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 26 (9.15%) Senior
7 21 (7.39%) Build Engineer
7 21 (7.39%) Windows Build Engineer
8 20 (7.04%) Support Specialist
9 19 (6.69%) Hardware Engineer
10 18 (6.34%) Analyst
10 18 (6.34%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
11 16 (5.63%) Active Directory Support
11 16 (5.63%) IT Support
12 15 (5.28%) Azure Specialist
13 14 (4.93%) Active Directory Specialist
13 14 (4.93%) Administrator
13 14 (4.93%) Systems Administrator
14 12 (4.23%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.93%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.11%) Itk
3 4 (1.41%) XML
4 2 (0.70%) EDI
4 2 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.70%) OLE
5 1 (0.35%) .NET
5 1 (0.35%) CNTK
5 1 (0.35%) CSS
5 1 (0.35%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.35%) OpenVINO
5 1 (0.35%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.35%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.73%) Driving Licence
2 21 (7.39%) PKI
3 18 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.93%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.23%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.46%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.11%) Video Editing
8 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.76%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.41%) Blackberry
9 4 (1.41%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.41%) Smart Meter
9 4 (1.41%) Thin Client
10 3 (1.06%) CCTV
10 3 (1.06%) NHS
10 3 (1.06%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.06%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 118 (41.55%) Windows 10
2 104 (36.62%) Windows Server
3 80 (28.17%) Linux
4 71 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 68 (23.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 54 (19.01%) Windows 7
7 43 (15.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (7.39%) Windows NT
9 16 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (4.93%) Apple iOS
11 12 (4.23%) Android
11 12 (4.23%) Windows XP
12 8 (2.82%) Mac OS
12 8 (2.82%) Unix
13 6 (2.11%) Ubuntu
14 4 (1.41%) Mac OS X
15 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (37.32%) ITIL
2 87 (30.63%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (29.93%) Customer Service
4 45 (15.85%) Release Management
5 42 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 37 (13.03%) Service Management
7 28 (9.86%) DevOps
8 27 (9.51%) Agile
9 24 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
10 23 (8.10%) Project Management
11 22 (7.75%) Customer Requirements
12 21 (7.39%) Analytics
12 21 (7.39%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (7.39%) Service Delivery
13 19 (6.69%) Software Deployment
13 19 (6.69%) Software Testing
14 18 (6.34%) Hardware Maintenance
15 17 (5.99%) Disaster Recovery
15 17 (5.99%) Migration
15 17 (5.99%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.25%) PowerShell
2 22 (7.75%) C#
2 22 (7.75%) VBScript
3 15 (5.28%) VB
4 14 (4.93%) Bicep
5 13 (4.58%) SQL
6 12 (4.23%) Python
7 8 (2.82%) C
8 5 (1.76%) C++
9 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.06%) F#
11 2 (0.70%) Java
12 1 (0.35%) Bash
12 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 144 (50.70%) Security Cleared
2 117 (41.20%) DV Cleared
3 72 (25.35%) Degree
4 55 (19.37%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (4.23%) CCNA
6 12 (4.23%) CCNP
6 12 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.76%) A+ Certification
7 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.70%) MCITP
9 1 (0.35%) ACMT
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CEH
9 1 (0.35%) CISSP
9 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.51%) QA
2 22 (7.75%) SLA
3 5 (1.76%) ISO 9000
4 4 (1.41%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.35%) COBIT
System Software
1 116 (40.85%) Active Directory
2 39 (13.73%) Firmware
3 37 (13.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (6.34%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (5.28%) Hyper-V
5 15 (5.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (3.52%) XenApp
7 8 (2.82%) XenDesktop
8 4 (1.41%) Docker
9 2 (0.70%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 126 (44.37%) SCCM
2 57 (20.07%) WSUS
3 35 (12.32%) SCOM
4 32 (11.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (7.39%) Sysprep
6 20 (7.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (6.69%) vCenter Server
8 16 (5.63%) EMC NetWorker
9 15 (5.28%) Kubernetes
9 15 (5.28%) NetBackup
10 8 (2.82%) Ansible
11 7 (2.46%) AirWatch
12 6 (2.11%) Nessus
13 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (1.41%) ZABBIX
14 3 (1.06%) Terraform
15 2 (0.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 2 (0.70%) Grafana
15 2 (0.70%) Network Intrusion Detection System
15 2 (0.70%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 168 (59.15%) Microsoft
2 73 (25.70%) HP
3 48 (16.90%) VMware
4 35 (12.32%) Cisco
5 23 (8.10%) ServiceNow
6 20 (7.04%) Apple
7 18 (6.34%) Oracle
7 18 (6.34%) Veeam
8 17 (5.99%) 3PAR
8 17 (5.99%) Citrix
9 16 (5.63%) EMC
10 14 (4.93%) Dell
10 14 (4.93%) Splunk
11 12 (4.23%) Extreme Networks
11 12 (4.23%) Juniper
11 12 (4.23%) Palo Alto
11 12 (4.23%) Red Hat
11 12 (4.23%) Symantec
12 7 (2.46%) Nimble Storage
13 6 (2.11%) SAP