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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows 60 58 49
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 6.75% 18.77% 12.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.00% 98.31% 56.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 37
10th Percentile £145 £197 £223
25th Percentile £357 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £413 £395
Median % change year-on-year +24.85% +4.43% -1.25%
75th Percentile £610 £537 £440
90th Percentile £625 £545 £527
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £465
% change year-on-year -3.06% +5.38% +27.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £23.98 - £15.66
25th Percentile £33.70 - £16.32
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% -19.48% -15.01%
75th Percentile £43.75 £14.66 £22.58
90th Percentile - £15.12 £31.08
South East median hourly rate £36.97 £18.87 £27.50
% change year-on-year +95.92% -31.38% -31.25%

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 100 59 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.25% 19.09% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 29 69
10th Percentile £195 £198 £234
25th Percentile £456 £325 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £375 £415
Median % change year-on-year +43.04% -9.64% -11.70%
75th Percentile £610 £536 £488
90th Percentile £638 £544 £561
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £473
% change year-on-year - +0.37% +11.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £23.98 - £15.99
25th Percentile £33.70 - £16.32
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £26.29
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% -45.99% +26.70%
75th Percentile £43.75 £14.66 £36.19
90th Percentile - £15.12 £37.12
South East median hourly rate £42.71 £18.87 £57.25
% change year-on-year +126.31% -67.04% +4.09%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -18 51 £540 +44.00% 9
Bletchley -2 3 £110 - 2
High Wycombe - 2 £190 - 2
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 4 (6.67%) FactoryTalk
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) Azure Monitor
3 12 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 11 (18.33%) AWS
5 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 9 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (35.00%) Firewall
2 18 (30.00%) DNS
3 15 (25.00%) DHCP
4 13 (21.67%) TCP/IP
4 13 (21.67%) VPN
5 11 (18.33%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (18.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (15.00%) Network Security
7 6 (10.00%) IPsec
7 6 (10.00%) SSL
8 5 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (8.33%) SSH
8 5 (8.33%) VSAN
9 4 (6.67%) LAN
9 4 (6.67%) NGFW
9 4 (6.67%) VLAN
9 4 (6.67%) WAN
10 3 (5.00%) CATAPAN
11 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (1.67%) Tableau
1 1 (1.67%) Tableau Desktop
1 1 (1.67%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) MSI
General
1 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Manufacturing
3 7 (11.67%) Finance
4 6 (10.00%) Retail
5 5 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (31.67%) Senior
2 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Network Engineer
4 10 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) IT Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Automation Specialist
7 5 (8.33%) Citrix Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Monitoring Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) NOC Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Support Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Analyst
8 4 (6.67%) Desktop Support
8 4 (6.67%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.67%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 13 (21.67%) PKI
2 11 (18.33%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.00%) ARM Cortex
3 6 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (6.67%) Life Science
4 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.67%) Operational Technology
4 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.67%) SCADA
4 4 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.67%) EPoS
6 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (46.67%) Linux
2 21 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.00%) Debian
3 6 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (30.00%) ITIL
3 16 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (20.00%) Analytics
5 12 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 12 (20.00%) Log Analytics
6 11 (18.33%) Network Monitoring
6 11 (18.33%) Security Operations
7 10 (16.67%) Validation
8 9 (15.00%) Network Virtualisation
8 9 (15.00%) SIEM
9 8 (13.33%) DevOps
9 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 8 (13.33%) Project Delivery
10 7 (11.67%) Task Automation
10 7 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (10.00%) Observability
11 6 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.00%) Bash
3 8 (13.33%) Bicep
4 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (38.33%) DV Cleared
3 17 (28.33%) SC Cleared
4 11 (18.33%) Degree
5 5 (8.33%) A+ Certification
5 5 (8.33%) CCNP
5 5 (8.33%) CCSE
5 5 (8.33%) CCSM
5 5 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.00%) DBS Check
7 2 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.67%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
2 4 (6.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (6.67%) GxP
2 4 (6.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 22 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 21 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (21.67%) VMware NSX
4 5 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) SCCM
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (13.33%) Terraform
3 5 (8.33%) SCOM
4 4 (6.67%) Ansible
4 4 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.67%) Nessus
Vendors
1 28 (46.67%) Microsoft
1 28 (46.67%) VMware
2 11 (18.33%) Cisco
2 11 (18.33%) Palo Alto
3 7 (11.67%) CheckPoint
3 7 (11.67%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (10.00%) Citrix
4 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 6 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 5 (8.33%) Fortinet
6 4 (6.67%) Becrypt
6 4 (6.67%) Rockwell
7 2 (3.33%) Sophos
8 1 (1.67%) Apple
8 1 (1.67%) Dell
8 1 (1.67%) HP
8 1 (1.67%) SAP
8 1 (1.67%) Snow
8 1 (1.67%) Splunk
8 1 (1.67%) Tanium