Windows Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 114 258 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.28% 16.02% 25.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.81% 76.33% 77.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 138 219
10th Percentile £296 £205 £200
25th Percentile £432 £402 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £624
90th Percentile £675 £825 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 32
10th Percentile - £14.00 £17.80
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - £17.69 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year - -51.30% +96.35%
75th Percentile - £63.13 £68.13
90th Percentile - £76.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £22.55 £29.00
% change year-on-year -16.54% -22.24% +48.72%

All Operating Systems
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 161 338 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.58% 20.99% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 172 286
10th Percentile £340 £250 £201
25th Percentile £456 £425 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £617
90th Percentile £661 £823 £691
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 45
10th Percentile £51.35 £14.37 £18.25
25th Percentile £55.38 £17.69 £21.22
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +8.11% +226.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.69 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Hampshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Hampshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Hampshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Hampshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Basingstoke +6 33 £575 -11.54% 59
Farnborough +18 27 £458 -29.62% 7
Southampton -7 12 £175 -48.15% 42
Winchester +1 5 £575 - 3
Portsmouth -14 4 £550 +33.33% 36
Andover +6 3 £300 -31.43% 1
Fleet - 3 £402 - 1
Hook 0 1 £500 -13.79% 1
Eastleigh -4 1 £500 - 1
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 17 (14.91%) Confluence
2 11 (9.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.63%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (2.63%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (2.63%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (2.63%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (2.63%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (2.63%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (2.63%) Skype for Business
4 3 (2.63%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.75%) IIS
5 2 (1.75%) JBoss
Applications
1 18 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.91%) Azure
1 17 (14.91%) OpenShift
2 15 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (10.53%) AWS
4 8 (7.02%) GCP
4 8 (7.02%) IaaS
4 8 (7.02%) PaaS
5 7 (6.14%) SaaS
6 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.75%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.67%) DNS
2 12 (10.53%) DHCP
2 12 (10.53%) VPN
3 10 (8.77%) Firewall
4 8 (7.02%) SMTP
5 4 (3.51%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (3.51%) iSCSI
5 4 (3.51%) Network Security
6 3 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (2.63%) DDNS
6 3 (2.63%) LAN
6 3 (2.63%) SAN
6 3 (2.63%) VSAN
6 3 (2.63%) WAN
7 2 (1.75%) HTTP
7 2 (1.75%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.75%) Skype
7 2 (1.75%) SSL
7 2 (1.75%) VLAN
8 1 (0.88%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.40%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.02%) Big Data
3 6 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.75%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (16.67%) JIRA
2 16 (14.04%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.63%) MSI
4 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (1.75%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (1.75%) Git
4 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 19 (16.67%) Finance
4 10 (8.77%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Law
6 2 (1.75%) Military
7 1 (0.88%) Automotive
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.88%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (20.18%) Architect
2 19 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (14.91%) Developer
4 16 (14.04%) Delphi Developer
5 15 (13.16%) Infrastructure Architect
6 14 (12.28%) Support Engineer
7 13 (11.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 12 (10.53%) Analyst
9 10 (8.77%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (8.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
11 7 (6.14%) Infrastructure Support
11 7 (6.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) Senior
11 7 (6.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) Applications Packager
12 6 (5.26%) DV Cleared Application Packager
13 5 (4.39%) Infrastructure Specialist
14 4 (3.51%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) .NET
1 3 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.75%) Middleware
2 2 (1.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) PKI
2 11 (9.65%) Clustering
3 9 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 8 (7.02%) Data Centre
5 7 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.14%) Smartphone
6 6 (5.26%) Client/Server
7 5 (4.39%) Driving Licence
8 3 (2.63%) Replication
9 2 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.88%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 42 (36.84%) Windows Server
2 40 (35.09%) Linux
3 21 (18.42%) Windows 10
4 10 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (8.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (7.89%) CentOS
5 9 (7.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (7.02%) Ubuntu
7 6 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (4.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.51%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.75%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (1.75%) Solaris
11 1 (0.88%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (24.56%) Agile
2 24 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (19.30%) DevOps
4 20 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (14.91%) Functional Testing
5 17 (14.91%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (13.16%) Application Packaging
7 11 (9.65%) Change Management
8 10 (8.77%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (7.89%) ITIL
9 9 (7.89%) Test Automation
10 8 (7.02%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (7.02%) Machine Learning
10 8 (7.02%) Software Deployment
11 7 (6.14%) Change Control
11 7 (6.14%) DevSecOps
11 7 (6.14%) Privileged Access Management
11 7 (6.14%) Process Improvement
12 6 (5.26%) Application Virtualisation
12 6 (5.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.96%) PowerShell
2 31 (27.19%) SQL
3 20 (17.54%) C#
4 17 (14.91%) PL/SQL
5 16 (14.04%) Delphi
6 11 (9.65%) Python
7 6 (5.26%) VBScript
8 4 (3.51%) Bash
9 2 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.75%) Perl
10 1 (0.88%) C
10 1 (0.88%) C++
10 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (67.54%) Security Cleared
2 51 (44.74%) DV Cleared
3 22 (19.30%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.02%) Degree
5 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.51%) MCSE
6 4 (3.51%) VCP5
6 4 (3.51%) VCP6
6 4 (3.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) SLA
2 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (41.23%) Active Directory
2 32 (28.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (13.16%) vSphere
4 14 (12.28%) Hyper-V
5 12 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (8.77%) Docker
6 10 (8.77%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (7.89%) BitLocker
8 8 (7.02%) Terminal Services
9 4 (3.51%) NFS
10 3 (2.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (2.63%) Brightmail
10 3 (2.63%) ISA Server
11 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (18.42%) vCenter Server
2 19 (16.67%) Ansible
3 17 (14.91%) Kubernetes
4 12 (10.53%) SCCM
5 8 (7.02%) Nagios
5 8 (7.02%) Puppet
5 8 (7.02%) vMotion
6 7 (6.14%) Nessus
6 7 (6.14%) SCOM
6 7 (6.14%) Terraform
7 6 (5.26%) WMI
8 5 (4.39%) WSUS
9 3 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (2.63%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (2.63%) SCSM
10 2 (1.75%) Kibana
10 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.75%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 59 (51.75%) Microsoft
2 44 (38.60%) VMware
3 19 (16.67%) Oracle
4 13 (11.40%) Red Hat
5 11 (9.65%) Symantec
6 8 (7.02%) Citrix
6 8 (7.02%) Google
6 8 (7.02%) HP
7 6 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 6 (5.26%) SolarWinds
7 6 (5.26%) Splunk
8 5 (4.39%) Cisco
9 4 (3.51%) NetApp
9 4 (3.51%) Veeam
10 3 (2.63%) ArcSight
10 3 (2.63%) F5
10 3 (2.63%) Juniper
10 3 (2.63%) NETGEAR
10 3 (2.63%) TP-LINK
11 2 (1.75%) McAfee