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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 11 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows 31 49 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.09% 10.29% 10.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 93.94% 68.06% 76.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 76
10th Percentile £192 £175 £204
25th Percentile £325 £211 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £310 £458
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -32.24% +15.09%
75th Percentile £536 £470 £519
90th Percentile - £586 £555
South East median daily rate £490 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +8.89% +20.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £22.58 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.11% +18.84% +46.15%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £22.55 £36.38
% change year-on-year -16.54% -38.01% +107.86%

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 33 72 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 15.00% 15.13% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 52 98
10th Percentile £197 £178 £211
25th Percentile £325 £225 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £431 £478
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -9.69% +9.14%
75th Percentile £536 £517 £550
90th Percentile - £559 £592
South East median daily rate £490 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +5.95% - +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £22.58 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.11% +18.84% +46.15%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -13.64% +205.56%

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 20 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 20 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 +1 19 £375 +20.97% 28
Iver - 5 £508 -
Bletchley - 5 - - 7
Aylesbury - 1 £450 - 1
Newport Pagnell - 1 £150 - 2
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 3 (9.68%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (9.68%) IIS
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) WinCC
Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
1 5 (16.13%) Google Workspace
2 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.23%) Mimecast
3 1 (3.23%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Firewall
1 6 (19.35%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (16.13%) VLAN
3 2 (6.45%) DHCP
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 2 (6.45%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.23%) FTP
4 1 (3.23%) HTTP
4 1 (3.23%) Modbus
4 1 (3.23%) Profibus
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.68%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) QARun
1 2 (6.45%) WinRunner
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 20 (64.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
3 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (16.13%) IT Support
2 5 (16.13%) Lead
2 5 (16.13%) Test Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Citrix Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) BizTalk Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) BizTalk Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Coordinator
6 1 (3.23%) Desktop Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) IT Technician
6 1 (3.23%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Desktop Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) .NET
1 3 (9.68%) Middleware
1 3 (9.68%) Web Services
2 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.23%) EDI
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) MSMQ
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) SOAP
3 1 (3.23%) WCF
3 1 (3.23%) XML
3 1 (3.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.45%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Windows Server
2 6 (19.35%) Windows 10
2 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (9.68%) Unix
4 2 (6.45%) Linux
4 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (22.58%) Customer Service
2 7 (22.58%) Time Management
3 6 (19.35%) Agile
3 6 (19.35%) Logistics
3 6 (19.35%) Migration
4 5 (16.13%) Content Management
4 5 (16.13%) Integration Testing
4 5 (16.13%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (16.13%) Post-Production
4 5 (16.13%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (16.13%) Software Testing
4 5 (16.13%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (16.13%) Test Planning
4 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
4 5 (16.13%) Workflow
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Security Hardening
5 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
5 4 (12.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) C#
3 2 (6.45%) VB
4 1 (3.23%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.23%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.23%) PMP
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) IEC 61131
2 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) SCOM
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Citrix
3 5 (16.13%) Google
4 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
5 3 (9.68%) Dynatrace
5 3 (9.68%) IBM
6 2 (6.45%) HP
6 2 (6.45%) VMware
7 1 (3.23%) Apple
7 1 (3.23%) Cisco
7 1 (3.23%) Commvault
7 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (3.23%) F5
7 1 (3.23%) Imperva
7 1 (3.23%) McAfee
7 1 (3.23%) Netskope
7 1 (3.23%) Rockwell
7 1 (3.23%) SAP
7 1 (3.23%) Siemens