Windows Contracts in Basingstoke

Microsoft Windows
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 10 3
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 33 64 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 24.44% 14.95% 31.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.57% 87.67% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 36 32
10th Percentile £490 £500 £464
25th Percentile £544 £525 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £825 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £713
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £16.18
25th Percentile - - £17.19
Median hourly rate - - £18.75
75th Percentile - - £25.56
90th Percentile - - £36.48
Hampshire median hourly rate - £17.69 £36.33
% change year-on-year - -51.30% +96.35%

All Operating Systems
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 42 73 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 31.11% 17.06% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 34
10th Percentile £490 £500 £463
25th Percentile £550 £525 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £825 £675
90th Percentile £650 - £713
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £16.18
25th Percentile - - £17.19
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - +86.67% +1.35%
75th Percentile - - £25.56
90th Percentile - - £36.48
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% +8.11% +226.47%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Basingstoke

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Basingstoke

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Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Basingstoke

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Basingstoke

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (9.09%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.09%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (9.09%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) AWS
1 8 (24.24%) GCP
1 8 (24.24%) IaaS
1 8 (24.24%) OpenShift
1 8 (24.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (42.42%) DNS
2 11 (33.33%) DHCP
2 11 (33.33%) VPN
3 8 (24.24%) Firewall
3 8 (24.24%) SMTP
4 4 (12.12%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (12.12%) iSCSI
5 3 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (9.09%) DDNS
5 3 (9.09%) Network Security
5 3 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (24.24%) Big Data
1 8 (24.24%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) MSI
General
1 12 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 13 (39.39%) Architect
2 11 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) 3rd Line Support
3 10 (30.30%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (24.24%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Architect
4 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (21.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Support
5 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Active Directory Architect
6 4 (12.12%) VMware Architect
7 3 (9.09%) Exchange Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Exchange Support
7 3 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Platform Manager
7 3 (9.09%) Systems Manager
7 3 (9.09%) Wintel Administrator
7 3 (9.09%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) PKI
2 8 (24.24%) Clustering
2 8 (24.24%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
2 9 (27.27%) Linux
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) DevOps
2 8 (24.24%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (24.24%) Machine Learning
2 8 (24.24%) Software Deployment
3 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) Change Management
5 5 (15.15%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (12.12%) Edge Virtualization
6 4 (12.12%) Performance Analysis
6 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
7 3 (9.09%) Architectural Design
7 3 (9.09%) Content Management
7 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Content Management
7 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Search
7 3 (9.09%) High Availability
7 3 (9.09%) ITIL
7 3 (9.09%) ITSM
7 3 (9.09%) Network Management
7 3 (9.09%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 10 (30.30%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (84.85%) DV Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) Degree
4 4 (12.12%) MCSE
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (12.12%) VCP5
4 4 (12.12%) VCP6
4 4 (12.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 22 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (24.24%) BitLocker
3 8 (24.24%) Docker
3 8 (24.24%) Hyper-V
3 8 (24.24%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (24.24%) Terminal Services
4 4 (12.12%) NFS
4 4 (12.12%) vSphere
5 3 (9.09%) Brightmail
5 3 (9.09%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Ansible
1 11 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (24.24%) Nagios
2 8 (24.24%) Puppet
2 8 (24.24%) vMotion
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (9.09%) SCCM
3 3 (9.09%) SCOM
3 3 (9.09%) WMI
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 13 (39.39%) VMware
3 8 (24.24%) Citrix
3 8 (24.24%) Google
3 8 (24.24%) HP
3 8 (24.24%) Symantec
4 4 (12.12%) NetApp
4 4 (12.12%) Splunk
4 4 (12.12%) Veeam
5 3 (9.09%) Cisco
5 3 (9.09%) F5
5 3 (9.09%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.06%) McAfee