Windows Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 11 14 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows 30 45 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 12.71% 9.45% 10.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 93.75% 60.81% 70.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 28 78
10th Percentile £190 £175 £209
25th Percentile £325 £204 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £238 £470
Median % change year-on-year +68.42% -49.47% +22.08%
75th Percentile £536 £433 £525
90th Percentile - £504 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 0
Median hourly rate £14.20 £23.17 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.70% - -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £22.55 £29.00
% change year-on-year -16.54% -22.24% +48.72%

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 32 74 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 13.56% 15.55% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 52 108
10th Percentile £195 £178 £230
25th Percentile £325 £225 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -10.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £536 £541 £550
90th Percentile - £550 £592
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 0
Median hourly rate £14.20 £23.17 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.70% - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Buckinghamshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Buckinghamshire

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 1 May 2025. 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 -2 17 £375 +66.67% 49
Iver - 5 £508 -
Bletchley - 5 - - 5
Newport Pagnell - 1 £150 -
Aylesbury - 1 £450 - 1
Buckingham - 1 £225 - 1
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) WinCC
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Google Workspace
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Firewall
1 6 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (16.67%) VLAN
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.33%) FTP
4 1 (3.33%) HTTP
4 1 (3.33%) Modbus
4 1 (3.33%) Profibus
4 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) GitLab
1 2 (6.67%) QARun
1 2 (6.67%) WinRunner
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (16.67%) IT Support
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
3 4 (13.33%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Citrix Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.33%) Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Desktop Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) IT Technician
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Desktop Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
1 2 (6.67%) Middleware
1 2 (6.67%) Web Services
2 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.33%) EDI
2 1 (3.33%) JSON
2 1 (3.33%) MSMQ
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) WCF
2 1 (3.33%) XML
2 1 (3.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows Server
2 6 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (10.00%) Linux
4 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (6.67%) Unix
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (23.33%) Customer Service
2 7 (23.33%) Time Management
3 5 (16.67%) Content Management
3 5 (16.67%) Migration
3 5 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 5 (16.67%) Post-Production
3 5 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 5 (16.67%) Workflow
4 4 (13.33%) Agile
4 4 (13.33%) DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) Integration Testing
4 4 (13.33%) Logistics
4 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 4 (13.33%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 4 (13.33%) Test Planning
4 4 (13.33%) Validation
4 4 (13.33%) Waterfall
5 3 (10.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) VB
4 1 (3.33%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.33%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) IEC 61131
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
1 2 (6.67%) SCOM
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Citrix
3 5 (16.67%) Google
4 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.67%) HP
5 2 (6.67%) IBM
6 1 (3.33%) Apple
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) Commvault
6 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.33%) F5
6 1 (3.33%) Imperva
6 1 (3.33%) McAfee
6 1 (3.33%) Netskope
6 1 (3.33%) Rockwell
6 1 (3.33%) SAP
6 1 (3.33%) Siemens