Windows XP Contracts

Microsoft Windows XP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows XP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows XP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 697 782
Rank change year-on-year +130 +85 -151
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 24 8 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.056% 0.014% 0.075%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.42% 0.085% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 3 36
10th Percentile £246 £155 £137
25th Percentile £451 £163 £147
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £175 £200
Median % change year-on-year +245.71% -12.50% -56.76%
75th Percentile £608 £238 £233
90th Percentile - £275 £250
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £150 £200
% change year-on-year +303.33% -25.00% -49.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £13.87
25th Percentile £26.25 £66.25 £13.90
Median hourly rate £27.50 £67.50 £15.80
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +327.22% +21.54%
75th Percentile £28.75 £68.75 £19.40
90th Percentile - - £45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £67.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -59.26% +328.84% +21.08%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows XP is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,729 9,462 13,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.31% 16.31% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,874 6,626 8,882
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £340 £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 418 613
10th Percentile £12.73 £13.89 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.72 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%

Windows XP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows XP in the UK

Windows XP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows XP in the UK

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows XP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows XP in the UK

Windows XP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows XP in the UK

Windows XP
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +132 23 £605 +168.89% 6
UK excluding London +65 20 £605 +303.33% 5
South East +38 14 £605 - 3
Work from Home - 5 £300 -
London +91 4 £288 -4.17% 1
South West +17 3 - - 1
Midlands +34 1 £160 - 1
North of England +29 1 - -
Northern Ireland +5 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £160 - 1

Windows XP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.17%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (4.17%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 14 (58.33%) OCI
3 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (75.00%) Firewall
2 14 (58.33%) DHCP
2 14 (58.33%) DNS
2 14 (58.33%) SAN
3 3 (12.50%) VPN
3 3 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (4.17%) LAN
4 1 (4.17%) PBX
4 1 (4.17%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Server Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 3 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Test Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Test Automation Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Field Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 17 (70.83%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) iPad
3 2 (8.33%) BYOD
3 2 (8.33%) iPhone
3 2 (8.33%) PDA
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.33%) Smartphone
3 2 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (79.17%) Windows 10
3 15 (62.50%) Windows Server
4 14 (58.33%) Linux
4 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (20.83%) Windows 7
6 3 (12.50%) Unix
6 3 (12.50%) VMS
6 3 (12.50%) Windows 2000
7 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (4.17%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
1 16 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (62.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (62.50%) Project Management
3 14 (58.33%) Break/Fix
3 14 (58.33%) Converged Infrastructure
3 14 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (58.33%) ITIL
3 14 (58.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 14 (58.33%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (58.33%) Server Management
3 14 (58.33%) Storage Management
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (8.33%) Business Case
5 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (58.33%) CCNA
2 14 (58.33%) CCNP
2 14 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (58.33%) Degree
2 14 (58.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (70.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (58.33%) Hyper-V
3 14 (58.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.33%) vSphere
5 1 (4.17%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) SCCM
2 14 (58.33%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (58.33%) NetBackup
2 14 (58.33%) SCOM
2 14 (58.33%) vCenter Server
2 14 (58.33%) WSUS
3 3 (12.50%) Ansible
3 3 (12.50%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.17%) Avamar
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (70.83%) Dell
2 17 (70.83%) HP
2 17 (70.83%) Juniper
2 17 (70.83%) VMware
3 15 (62.50%) Cisco
3 15 (62.50%) EMC
3 15 (62.50%) Oracle
4 14 (58.33%) 3PAR
4 14 (58.33%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (58.33%) Palo Alto
4 14 (58.33%) Symantec
4 14 (58.33%) Veeam
5 4 (16.67%) Fortinet
6 2 (8.33%) Intel
7 1 (4.17%) Altiris
7 1 (4.17%) Citrix
7 1 (4.17%) Peregrine
7 1 (4.17%) Remedy
7 1 (4.17%) Sage