Windows Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 50 33 48
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 5.77% 15.35% 9.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.51% 94.29% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 23 32
10th Percentile £160 £192 £175
25th Percentile £448 £299 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £375 £370
Median % change year-on-year +44.67% +1.35% -21.21%
75th Percentile £610 £536 £475
90th Percentile £638 - £586
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +19.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.00
Median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year - -37.03% +18.68%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - £14.66 -
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £22.58
% change year-on-year +72.69% -16.65% -22.14%

All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 99 35 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.42% 16.28% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 25 52
10th Percentile £313 £194 £206
25th Percentile £448 £325 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £400 £444
Median % change year-on-year +34.10% -9.86% -7.55%
75th Percentile £603 £536 £517
90th Percentile £640 - £559
South East median daily rate £475 £479 £475
% change year-on-year -0.84% +0.84% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.00
Median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.58
Median % change year-on-year - -37.11% +18.84%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - £14.66 -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £25.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +90.00% -47.37% -13.64%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Windows

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -19 42 £560 +49.33% 15
Bletchley -3 3 £110 -
Marlow - 2 - -
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 14 (28.00%) AWS
3 8 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.00%) DNS
2 12 (24.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (14.00%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (14.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (12.00%) DHCP
4 6 (12.00%) Firewall
5 5 (10.00%) VSAN
6 4 (8.00%) VPN
7 3 (6.00%) IPsec
7 3 (6.00%) WAN
8 2 (4.00%) CATAPAN
8 2 (4.00%) LAN
8 2 (4.00%) Network Security
8 2 (4.00%) SSL
8 2 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.00%) Wireless
9 1 (2.00%) IPv6
9 1 (2.00%) VoIP
9 1 (2.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.00%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (2.00%) Tableau
1 1 (2.00%) Tableau Desktop
1 1 (2.00%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) JUnit
2 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.00%) Storybook
General
1 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
2 7 (14.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Retail
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Analyst
1 11 (22.00%) Senior
2 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) SOC Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Network Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) IT Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) NOC Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Desktop Support
6 4 (8.00%) Lead
7 3 (6.00%) IT Support
7 3 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.00%) CSS
2 1 (2.00%) HTML
2 1 (2.00%) React
2 1 (2.00%) Spring
2 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 10 (20.00%) PKI
3 8 (16.00%) Cyberattack
4 7 (14.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
6 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
7 3 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
8 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
9 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (58.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Debian
2 6 (12.00%) Windows 10
2 6 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) SIEM
2 13 (26.00%) Security Operations
3 11 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (22.00%) Incident Response
3 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (20.00%) ITIL
5 7 (14.00%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (12.00%) Change Management
6 6 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (12.00%) Load Balancing
6 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
7 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (10.00%) Patch Management
7 5 (10.00%) Presales
8 4 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (8.00%) DevOps
8 4 (8.00%) ITSM
8 4 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.00%) Bash
2 2 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (2.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (58.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (42.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (34.00%) DV Cleared
4 9 (18.00%) Degree
5 6 (12.00%) CCNP
5 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (10.00%) A+ Certification
6 5 (10.00%) CCSE
6 5 (10.00%) CCSM
6 5 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
6 5 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (2.00%) CCDA
8 1 (2.00%) CCDP
8 1 (2.00%) CCIE
8 1 (2.00%) CCIP
8 1 (2.00%) CCNA
8 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (18.00%) VMware NSX
4 5 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.00%) Docker
5 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) SCCM
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.00%) Nessus
2 2 (4.00%) SCOM
3 1 (2.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.00%) CASB
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
1 17 (34.00%) VMware
2 9 (18.00%) Splunk
3 8 (16.00%) CheckPoint
3 8 (16.00%) Cisco
3 8 (16.00%) Palo Alto
4 6 (12.00%) Citrix
4 6 (12.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.00%) Becrypt
7 2 (4.00%) HP
7 2 (4.00%) Snow
7 2 (4.00%) Sophos
7 2 (4.00%) Tenable
8 1 (2.00%) Arista
8 1 (2.00%) Aruba
8 1 (2.00%) Meraki
8 1 (2.00%) Tanium
8 1 (2.00%) Zscaler