Windows Contract Job Trends in Andover

Microsoft Windows
Hampshire > Andover

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Andover requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 9 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Windows 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Andover 8.65% 6.67% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 90.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.63 - -
90th Percentile £24.63 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% -27.27% -31.25%

All Operating Systems
Andover

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Andover.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Andover 9.62% 6.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £455 £288 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% - -
75th Percentile £465 £313 -
90th Percentile £468 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.63 - -
90th Percentile £24.63 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +93.72% -64.07% +21.74%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Andover

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Andover.

Windows job vacancy trend in Andover

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Andover

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Andover citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Andover citing Windows

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Andover

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Andover citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Andover citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Andover by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) IIS
1 3 (33.33%) nginx
1 3 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) BIG-IP
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) IT Support
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Deskside Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Deskside Support
4 1 (11.11%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) LAMP
1 3 (33.33%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) CentOS
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (11.11%) Android
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) User Experience
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Server Building
2 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Dovecot
2 3 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Clonezilla
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) HAProxy
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) F5
2 3 (33.33%) Juniper
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Apple