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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 45 31 51
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 5.27% 14.22% 10.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 49.45% 93.94% 68.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 22 34
10th Percentile £152 £192 £175
25th Percentile £448 £325 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £388 £360
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +7.64% -21.31%
75th Percentile £610 £536 £473
90th Percentile £638 - £578
South East median daily rate £475 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 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 - - -
South East median hourly rate £33.86 £18.82 £22.58
% change year-on-year +79.91% -16.65% -37.92%

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 91 33 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.66% 15.14% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 24 54
10th Percentile £317 £197 £183
25th Percentile £433 £325 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £410 £431
Median % change year-on-year +30.75% -4.87% -9.69%
75th Percentile £608 £536 £517
90th Percentile £640 - £557
South East median daily rate £475 £488 £463
% change year-on-year -2.66% +5.51% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 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 - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -41.05% -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 21 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 21 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 -16 37 £568 +51.33% 18
Bletchley -1 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 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) AWS
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) IaaS
6 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.22%) PaaS
6 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (31.11%) DNS
2 12 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (11.11%) DHCP
3 5 (11.11%) Firewall
4 4 (8.89%) VSAN
5 3 (6.67%) VPN
6 2 (4.44%) IPsec
6 2 (4.44%) WAN
6 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (4.44%) Wireless
7 1 (2.22%) BGP
7 1 (2.22%) Internet
7 1 (2.22%) LAN
7 1 (2.22%) MPLS
7 1 (2.22%) OSPF
7 1 (2.22%) SAN
7 1 (2.22%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.22%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (2.22%) Tableau
1 1 (2.22%) Tableau Desktop
1 1 (2.22%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) JUnit
2 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.22%) Storybook
General
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Retail
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Analyst
2 10 (22.22%) Senior
3 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Citrix Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Desktop Support
5 4 (8.89%) IT Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) NOC Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.22%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) HTML
2 1 (2.22%) React
2 1 (2.22%) Spring
2 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.22%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (17.78%) Cyberattack
2 8 (17.78%) PKI
3 6 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 6 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (57.78%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.11%) Debian
4 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
5 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.22%) VMS
7 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) SIEM
2 13 (28.89%) Security Operations
3 11 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (24.44%) Incident Response
3 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (17.78%) ITIL
6 5 (11.11%) Change Management
6 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (11.11%) Load Balancing
6 5 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (11.11%) Patch Management
6 5 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 4 (8.89%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (8.89%) DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) ITSM
7 4 (8.89%) Presales
8 3 (6.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.44%) Bash
2 2 (4.44%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) Java
3 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 9 (20.00%) Degree
5 5 (11.11%) A+ Certification
5 5 (11.11%) CCNP
5 5 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (11.11%) CompTIA CySA+
5 5 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (8.89%) CCSE
6 4 (8.89%) CCSM
7 2 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (2.22%) CCDA
8 1 (2.22%) CCDP
8 1 (2.22%) CCIE
8 1 (2.22%) CCIP
8 1 (2.22%) CCNA
8 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) SLA
2 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (15.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (8.89%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.22%) Docker
5 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) SCCM
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.44%) Nessus
2 2 (4.44%) SCOM
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) CASB
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (31.11%) VMware
3 9 (20.00%) Splunk
4 7 (15.56%) CheckPoint
5 6 (13.33%) Cisco
5 6 (13.33%) Palo Alto
6 5 (11.11%) Citrix
6 5 (11.11%) Fortinet
7 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.44%) HP
8 2 (4.44%) Snow
8 2 (4.44%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.44%) Sophos
8 2 (4.44%) Tenable
9 1 (2.22%) Apple
9 1 (2.22%) Arista
9 1 (2.22%) Aruba
9 1 (2.22%) Dell
9 1 (2.22%) Juniper
9 1 (2.22%) SAP