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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -23 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 55 63 49
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 6.24% 20.86% 11.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.46% 98.44% 65.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 29
10th Percentile £158 £200 £211
25th Percentile £413 £325 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £420
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £537 £475
90th Percentile £636 £550 £597
South East median daily rate £475 £492 £480
% change year-on-year -3.46% +2.50% +23.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 14
10th Percentile £22.36 - £16.01
25th Percentile £29.65 - £16.74
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% -29.88% -2.41%
75th Percentile £43.75 £14.66 £33.21
90th Percentile - £15.12 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £26.00
% change year-on-year +72.69% -27.62% -40.57%

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 101 64 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.46% 21.19% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 32 51
10th Percentile £305 £201 £225
25th Percentile £425 £325 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £440
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -11.93% -6.38%
75th Percentile £610 £537 £539
90th Percentile £638 £549 £590
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 15
10th Percentile £22.36 - £16.05
25th Percentile £29.65 - £17.16
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% -36.89% +8.43%
75th Percentile £43.75 £14.66 £33.37
90th Percentile - £15.12 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £35.22 £18.87 £47.50
% change year-on-year +86.65% -60.27% -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 18 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 July 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 -21 45 £560 +49.33% 10
Bletchley -2 3 £110 - 1
High Wycombe - 2 £190 - 1
Marlow - 2 - - 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 3 (5.45%) FactoryTalk
2 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (49.09%) Azure
2 13 (23.64%) AWS
3 10 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (16.36%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (14.55%) Entra ID
6 7 (12.73%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.64%) GCP
8 1 (1.82%) GitHub
8 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.82%) IaaS
8 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.82%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (34.55%) Firewall
2 16 (29.09%) DNS
3 14 (25.45%) DHCP
4 13 (23.64%) VPN
5 12 (21.82%) TCP/IP
6 11 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (14.55%) Network Security
8 7 (12.73%) IPsec
9 6 (10.91%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (10.91%) SSL
10 5 (9.09%) VSAN
10 5 (9.09%) WAN
11 4 (7.27%) LAN
11 4 (7.27%) NGFW
11 4 (7.27%) SSH
12 3 (5.45%) CATAPAN
12 3 (5.45%) VLAN
13 2 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (3.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.82%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (1.82%) Tableau
1 1 (1.82%) Tableau Desktop
1 1 (1.82%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) JUnit
2 1 (1.82%) MSI
2 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.82%) Storybook
General
1 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Finance
5 5 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.09%) Retail
6 4 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Senior
2 14 (25.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Analyst
6 5 (9.09%) Automation Specialist
6 5 (9.09%) Citrix Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) IT Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) NOC Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Desktop Support
7 4 (7.27%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Project Manager
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.45%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.82%) CSS
3 1 (1.82%) HTML
3 1 (1.82%) React
3 1 (1.82%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.82%) Spring
3 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.82%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) PKI
2 10 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 8 (14.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (12.73%) Data Centre
5 5 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (7.27%) Fibre Optics
6 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
6 4 (7.27%) Public Cloud
7 3 (5.45%) ARM Cortex
7 3 (5.45%) Life Science
7 3 (5.45%) Operational Technology
7 3 (5.45%) SCADA
8 2 (3.64%) Cyberattack
8 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (50.91%) Linux
2 15 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.91%) Debian
3 6 (10.91%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.82%) VMS
6 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (25.45%) ITIL
3 13 (23.64%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (21.82%) Security Operations
5 11 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (18.18%) Customer Service
6 10 (18.18%) SIEM
7 8 (14.55%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (14.55%) Validation
8 7 (12.73%) Analytics
8 7 (12.73%) DevOps
8 7 (12.73%) Project Delivery
9 6 (10.91%) Change Management
9 6 (10.91%) High Availability
9 6 (10.91%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (10.91%) Load Balancing
9 6 (10.91%) Log Analytics
10 5 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.45%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.73%) Bash
3 5 (9.09%) Bicep
4 2 (3.64%) Python
5 1 (1.82%) Java
5 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (52.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 15 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 11 (20.00%) Degree
5 6 (10.91%) CCNP
5 6 (10.91%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (9.09%) A+ Certification
6 5 (9.09%) CCSE
6 5 (9.09%) CCSM
7 3 (5.45%) DBS Check
8 2 (3.64%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.82%) CCDA
9 1 (1.82%) CCDP
9 1 (1.82%) CCIP
9 1 (1.82%) CCNA
9 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) SLA
2 4 (7.27%) NIST
3 3 (5.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (5.45%) GxP
4 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.82%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 17 (30.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (23.64%) VMware NSX
4 5 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.82%) Docker
5 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (10.91%) SCCM
1 6 (10.91%) Terraform
2 5 (9.09%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (7.27%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) Nessus
4 2 (3.64%) SCOM
5 1 (1.82%) CASB
5 1 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) VMware
2 23 (41.82%) Microsoft
3 12 (21.82%) Cisco
3 12 (21.82%) Palo Alto
4 8 (14.55%) CheckPoint
5 7 (12.73%) SolarWinds
6 6 (10.91%) Citrix
6 6 (10.91%) Fortinet
7 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
8 4 (7.27%) Becrypt
8 4 (7.27%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (5.45%) Rockwell
10 2 (3.64%) HP
10 2 (3.64%) Snow
10 2 (3.64%) Sophos
10 2 (3.64%) Splunk
10 2 (3.64%) Tenable
11 1 (1.82%) Dell
11 1 (1.82%) SAP
11 1 (1.82%) Tanium