Windows Contracts in Bracknell

Microsoft Windows
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bracknell 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 19 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 1 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bracknell 1.39% 7.09% 9.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% 54.05% 46.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £309 £162
25th Percentile - £356 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £398 £350
Median % change year-on-year - +13.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile - £409 £375
90th Percentile - £458 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £523
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.13% +6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.00
Median hourly rate - - £29.00
75th Percentile - - £31.00
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £61.60 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +17.33% -19.23%

All Operating Systems
Bracknell

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 Bracknell.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6 37 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 8.33% 13.12% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 12
10th Percentile £464 £192 £188
25th Percentile £480 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £386 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.79% -13.20% +1.71%
75th Percentile £700 £409 £515
90th Percentile - £448 £592
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £514
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £29.99
25th Percentile - - £34.47
Median hourly rate - - £43.88
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.35%
75th Percentile - - £53.22
90th Percentile - - £57.66
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Bracknell

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Bracknell

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Bracknell

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bracknell 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Case
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler