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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Windows 76 77 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 34.70% 20.75% 29.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 90.48% 92.77% 98.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 45 13
10th Percentile £500 - £475
25th Percentile £556 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 £683 £685
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £19.44
90th Percentile - - £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.58 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.91% -31.25% +100.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 84 83 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 38.36% 22.37% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 46 13
10th Percentile £490 - £475
25th Percentile £531 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £650 £681 £685
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +118.75% -49.37%
75th Percentile - - £19.44
90th Percentile - - £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -64.07% +21.74% +187.50%

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

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Basingstoke

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Windows

Windows
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 23 (30.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (17.11%) Exchange Server 2003
2 13 (17.11%) Exchange Server 2007
2 13 (17.11%) Exchange Server 2010
2 13 (17.11%) Exchange Server 2013
2 13 (17.11%) Office Communications Server
2 13 (17.11%) SharePoint
2 13 (17.11%) SharePoint Server
2 13 (17.11%) Skype for Business
3 4 (5.26%) Apache
4 2 (2.63%) Documentum
Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.53%) AWS
1 8 (10.53%) GCP
1 8 (10.53%) IaaS
1 8 (10.53%) OpenShift
1 8 (10.53%) PaaS
2 2 (2.63%) Azure
2 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (27.63%) DHCP
1 21 (27.63%) DNS
1 21 (27.63%) VPN
2 16 (21.05%) Fibre Channel
2 16 (21.05%) iSCSI
3 13 (17.11%) DDNS
3 13 (17.11%) SAN
4 9 (11.84%) Firewall
5 8 (10.53%) SMTP
6 5 (6.58%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (6.58%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (6.58%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (6.58%) Junos
7 3 (3.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (10.53%) Big Data
1 8 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) MSI
2 4 (5.26%) Robot Framework
2 4 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.32%) Git
General
1 16 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (40.79%) Support Engineer
2 27 (35.53%) Architect
3 25 (32.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 19 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 18 (23.68%) 3rd Line Support
5 18 (23.68%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 16 (21.05%) VMware Architect
7 13 (17.11%) Exchange Engineer
7 13 (17.11%) Exchange Support
8 8 (10.53%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (9.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Support
9 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (9.21%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) Cloud Network Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) Network Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) Network Support
10 5 (6.58%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) JSON
2 1 (1.32%) REST
2 1 (1.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.05%) PKI
2 13 (17.11%) Replication
3 8 (10.53%) Clustering
3 8 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.32%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.32%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 36 (47.37%) Windows Server
2 20 (26.32%) Windows Server 2019
3 16 (21.05%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (19.74%) Linux
5 6 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (6.58%) Windows 10
7 4 (5.26%) CentOS
8 1 (1.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.63%) DevOps
2 19 (25.00%) Agile
3 13 (17.11%) Architectural Design
3 13 (17.11%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (17.11%) Content Management
3 13 (17.11%) Enterprise Content Management
3 13 (17.11%) Enterprise Search
3 13 (17.11%) High Availability
3 13 (17.11%) ITIL
4 12 (15.79%) Edge Virtualization
4 12 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (15.79%) ITSM
4 12 (15.79%) Performance Analysis
5 9 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (10.53%) Machine Learning
6 8 (10.53%) Service Management
6 8 (10.53%) Software Deployment
6 8 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 7 (9.21%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.26%) SQL
2 21 (27.63%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.58%) Python
4 4 (5.26%) PHP
5 2 (2.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 75 (98.68%) Security Cleared
2 71 (93.42%) DV Cleared
3 16 (21.05%) MCSE
3 16 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (15.79%) VCP5
4 12 (15.79%) VCP6
4 12 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (10.53%) Degree
6 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 40 (52.63%) Active Directory
2 28 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (31.58%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (21.05%) NFS
4 16 (21.05%) vSphere
5 13 (17.11%) Brightmail
5 13 (17.11%) ISA Server
6 8 (10.53%) BitLocker
6 8 (10.53%) Docker
6 8 (10.53%) Hyper-V
6 8 (10.53%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (10.53%) Terminal Services
7 5 (6.58%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (21.05%) vCenter Server
2 14 (18.42%) Ansible
3 13 (17.11%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 8 (10.53%) Nagios
4 8 (10.53%) Puppet
4 8 (10.53%) vMotion
5 7 (9.21%) SCCM
5 7 (9.21%) SCOM
5 7 (9.21%) WMI
6 4 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (61.84%) Microsoft
2 32 (42.11%) VMware
3 16 (21.05%) NetApp
3 16 (21.05%) Splunk
3 16 (21.05%) Veeam
4 12 (15.79%) SolarWinds
5 8 (10.53%) Citrix
5 8 (10.53%) Google
5 8 (10.53%) HP
5 8 (10.53%) Symantec
6 5 (6.58%) Cisco
6 5 (6.58%) Juniper
7 2 (2.63%) McAfee
7 2 (2.63%) Red Hat