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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -26 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 50 63 50
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 5.74% 22.03% 11.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.08% 98.44% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 29
10th Percentile £155 £200 £211
25th Percentile £400 £325 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £400 £420
Median % change year-on-year +28.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £537 £475
90th Percentile £638 £550 £597
South East median daily rate £475 £496 £475
% change year-on-year -4.23% +4.42% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 15
10th Percentile £20.74 - £16.05
25th Percentile £25.60 - £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 £42.75
90th Percentile - £15.12 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £24.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -23.18% -44.00%

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 96 64 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 11.02% 22.38% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 32 50
10th Percentile £303 £201 £225
25th Percentile £415 £325 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £445
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -12.92% -5.32%
75th Percentile £599 £537 £539
90th Percentile £640 £549 £594
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 16
10th Percentile £20.74 - £16.10
25th Percentile £25.60 - £17.58
Median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +172.68% -36.92% +8.48%
75th Percentile £43.75 £14.66 £39.75
90th Percentile - £15.12 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £33.86 £18.87 £47.50
% change year-on-year +79.44% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -23 40 £560 +49.33% 13
Bletchley -2 3 £110 - 1
High Wycombe - 2 £190 - 4
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 2 (4.00%) FactoryTalk
1 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.00%) Azure
2 13 (26.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.00%) IaaS
7 1 (2.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) DNS
1 12 (24.00%) Firewall
2 10 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 10 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (16.00%) DHCP
3 8 (16.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (14.00%) VPN
5 6 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (12.00%) IPsec
6 5 (10.00%) Network Security
6 5 (10.00%) SSL
6 5 (10.00%) VSAN
6 5 (10.00%) WAN
7 4 (8.00%) LAN
8 3 (6.00%) CATAPAN
8 3 (6.00%) NGFW
9 2 (4.00%) VLAN
9 2 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (4.00%) Wireless
10 1 (2.00%) Multicast
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%) MSI
2 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.00%) Storybook
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Manufacturing
3 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Retail
5 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Senior
2 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) NOC Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Automation Specialist
5 4 (8.00%) Desktop Support
5 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Project 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%) Software Packaging
2 1 (2.00%) Spring
2 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) PKI
2 7 (14.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (8.00%) Cyberattack
4 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.00%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) Life Science
6 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
6 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
6 2 (4.00%) SCADA
7 1 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (50.00%) Linux
2 9 (18.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (12.00%) Debian
3 6 (12.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.00%) VMS
6 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) SIEM
2 11 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (22.00%) ITIL
2 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.00%) Security Operations
3 10 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (14.00%) Project Delivery
4 7 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (12.00%) Change Management
5 6 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (12.00%) Incident Response
5 6 (12.00%) Load Balancing
6 5 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (10.00%) High Availability
6 5 (10.00%) Migration
6 5 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (10.00%) Presales
7 4 (8.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) 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 25 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (30.00%) 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
7 3 (6.00%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (6.00%) DBS Check
8 2 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.00%) CCDA
9 1 (2.00%) CCDP
9 1 (2.00%) CCIP
9 1 (2.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) SLA
2 4 (8.00%) NIST
3 2 (4.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.00%) GxP
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (28.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (24.00%) 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 4 (8.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.00%) SCCM
3 2 (4.00%) Nessus
3 2 (4.00%) SCOM
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) CASB
4 1 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (44.00%) VMware
2 18 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (22.00%) Cisco
3 11 (22.00%) Palo Alto
4 8 (16.00%) CheckPoint
5 6 (12.00%) Citrix
5 6 (12.00%) Fortinet
5 6 (12.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (10.00%) ServiceNow
7 4 (8.00%) Becrypt
7 4 (8.00%) Splunk
8 2 (4.00%) HP
8 2 (4.00%) Rockwell
8 2 (4.00%) Snow
8 2 (4.00%) Sophos
8 2 (4.00%) Tenable
9 1 (2.00%) Arista
9 1 (2.00%) Dell
9 1 (2.00%) Tanium
9 1 (2.00%) Zscaler