Windows Contracts in Bracknell

Microsoft Windows
Berkshire > Bracknell

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bracknell with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 14 23 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bracknell 5.69% 13.94% 9.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.85% 54.76% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £370 £162 £223
25th Percentile £380 £173 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £350 £319
Median % change year-on-year +13.93% +9.80% -30.14%
75th Percentile £416 £375 £383
90th Percentile £429 - £419
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £520 £475
% change year-on-year +5.77% +9.47% +18.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.00 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.05 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.08% -7.69% +317.87%

All Operating Systems
Bracknell

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 26 42 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 10.57% 25.45% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 5
10th Percentile £265 £203 £290
25th Percentile £363 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -2.78% -1.37%
75th Percentile £409 £515 £700
90th Percentile £426 £583 £764
Berkshire median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £29.99 -
25th Percentile - £34.47 £68.08
Median hourly rate - £43.88 £68.17
Median % change year-on-year - -35.63% +12.67%
75th Percentile - £53.22 £68.25
90th Percentile - £57.66 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £58.75 £66.58
% change year-on-year +4.85% -11.76% +104.87%

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

Windows
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

Windows
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
2 5 (35.71%) SD-WAN
2 5 (35.71%) WAN
3 4 (28.57%) NAS
3 4 (28.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) WAN Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Fat Client
1 4 (28.57%) PKI
1 4 (28.57%) Thin Client
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
1 9 (64.29%) Windows Server
2 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (35.71%) Network Monitoring
1 5 (35.71%) Proactive Monitoring
1 5 (35.71%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 2 (14.29%) OO
3 2 (14.29%) OOP
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Scrum
3 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity
4 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.14%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) F#
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) ISO 9000
2 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Nessus
1 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
1 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
1 4 (28.57%) WSUS
1 4 (28.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 4 (28.57%) Veeam
4 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu