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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 146 254 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.29% 16.54% 22.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.25% 70.95% 77.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 150 158
10th Percentile £200 £348 £200
25th Percentile £486 £463 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £564
90th Percentile £650 £675 £604
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £386
% change year-on-year +3.16% +23.06% -4.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 29
10th Percentile - - £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.69 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.58 £27.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% -52.17% +238.24%
75th Percentile £25.15 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - £76.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.85 £27.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.47% -43.18% +184.71%

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 189 358 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.79% 23.31% 29.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 206 212
10th Percentile £250 £360 £205
25th Percentile £438 £450 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £478 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.63% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 43
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.97 £26.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.07% +21.74% +238.24%
75th Percentile £57.80 - £69.38
90th Percentile £58.74 £74.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £52.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.23% -4.09% +223.53%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +1 65 £600 +4.35% 27
Southampton -4 17 £350 - 23
Portsmouth -11 15 £300 -27.27% 14
Farnborough -8 8 £458 -25.91% 9
Eastleigh +4 7 £500 - 3
Fleet - 6 £515 - 2
Romsey +6 5 £508 +155.35%
Fareham 0 4 £275 -38.89% 12
Winchester -1 1 £200 -61.17% 2
Aldershot - 1 - -
Andover - 1 £300 - 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 26 (17.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (7.53%) Exchange Server 2003
2 11 (7.53%) Exchange Server 2007
2 11 (7.53%) Exchange Server 2010
2 11 (7.53%) Exchange Server 2013
2 11 (7.53%) Office Communications Server
2 11 (7.53%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.53%) SharePoint Server
2 11 (7.53%) Skype for Business
3 4 (2.74%) Apache
4 3 (2.05%) Confluence
5 2 (1.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.68%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (8.90%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.27%) Azure
1 15 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (8.90%) AWS
3 10 (6.85%) GCP
3 10 (6.85%) OpenShift
4 8 (5.48%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.48%) IaaS
4 8 (5.48%) PaaS
5 4 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (17.81%) DNS
2 23 (15.75%) DHCP
3 19 (13.01%) VPN
4 16 (10.96%) Fibre Channel
4 16 (10.96%) iSCSI
5 11 (7.53%) DDNS
5 11 (7.53%) SAN
6 10 (6.85%) Firewall
7 8 (5.48%) SMTP
8 4 (2.74%) LAN
8 4 (2.74%) WAN
9 3 (2.05%) Network Security
10 2 (1.37%) VLAN
10 2 (1.37%) VSAN
11 1 (0.68%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.68%) 4G
11 1 (0.68%) 5G
11 1 (0.68%) HTTP
11 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.85%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.48%) Big Data
3 4 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.37%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (10.27%) MSI
2 6 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (3.42%) JIRA
4 4 (2.74%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.37%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (1.37%) Git
5 2 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.37%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.96%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.79%) Finance
5 6 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.37%) Law
6 2 (1.37%) Military
7 1 (0.68%) Automotive
7 1 (0.68%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (22.60%) Architect
2 28 (19.18%) Support Engineer
3 20 (13.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure Architect
4 16 (10.96%) Analyst
4 16 (10.96%) Exchange Engineer
4 16 (10.96%) VMware Architect
5 13 (8.90%) 3rd Line Support
5 13 (8.90%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 13 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.53%) Exchange Support
7 8 (5.48%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.48%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (4.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 7 (4.79%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (4.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 7 (4.79%) IT Engineer
8 7 (4.79%) IT Support
8 7 (4.79%) Windows Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.74%) Middleware
2 3 (2.05%) .NET
3 2 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.37%) JSON
3 2 (1.37%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.64%) PKI
2 11 (7.53%) Replication
3 8 (5.48%) Clustering
3 8 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.79%) Smartphone
5 5 (3.42%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.74%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 54 (36.99%) Windows Server
2 34 (23.29%) Windows 10
3 31 (21.23%) Linux
4 27 (18.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (9.59%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (4.79%) CentOS
8 5 (3.42%) Windows 7
8 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.05%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.05%) Unix
11 2 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (1.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (13.01%) DevOps
2 19 (13.01%) ITIL
3 18 (12.33%) Agile
4 17 (11.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (10.27%) Change Management
5 15 (10.27%) Migration
6 14 (9.59%) High Availability
6 14 (9.59%) Test Automation
7 12 (8.22%) Edge Virtualization
7 12 (8.22%) Performance Analysis
8 11 (7.53%) Architectural Design
8 11 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (7.53%) Content Management
8 11 (7.53%) Enterprise Content Management
8 11 (7.53%) Enterprise Search
8 11 (7.53%) Security Patching
9 10 (6.85%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (6.16%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (5.48%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 46 (31.51%) PowerShell
2 33 (22.60%) SQL
3 14 (9.59%) C#
4 7 (4.79%) Python
4 7 (4.79%) VB
5 4 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.74%) PHP
6 3 (2.05%) Bash
6 3 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.37%) Delphi
7 2 (1.37%) Perl
8 1 (0.68%) C
8 1 (0.68%) C++
8 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (58.90%) Security Cleared
2 66 (45.21%) DV Cleared
3 20 (13.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (13.70%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.96%) MCSE
5 13 (8.90%) Degree
6 12 (8.22%) VCP5
6 12 (8.22%) VCP6
6 12 (8.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.05%) Citrix Certification
7 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.37%) CASP
8 2 (1.37%) CISSP
8 2 (1.37%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (1.37%) GCIH
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.11%) SLA
2 3 (2.05%) ECSS
2 3 (2.05%) GDPR
2 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.37%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 53 (36.30%) Active Directory
2 33 (22.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (17.12%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (13.70%) vSphere
5 19 (13.01%) NFS
6 11 (7.53%) Brightmail
6 11 (7.53%) Hyper-V
6 11 (7.53%) ISA Server
7 10 (6.85%) Docker
8 9 (6.16%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (5.48%) BitLocker
9 8 (5.48%) Terminal Services
10 5 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.68%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 22 (15.07%) SCCM
2 18 (12.33%) Ansible
3 11 (7.53%) Microsoft Clustering
3 11 (7.53%) vCenter Server
4 10 (6.85%) Kubernetes
4 10 (6.85%) WMI
5 8 (5.48%) Nagios
5 8 (5.48%) Puppet
5 8 (5.48%) vMotion
6 7 (4.79%) SCOM
6 7 (4.79%) Terraform
7 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.74%) WSUS
8 3 (2.05%) VxRail
9 2 (1.37%) Kibana
9 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.37%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (49.32%) Microsoft
2 42 (28.77%) VMware
3 18 (12.33%) Splunk
4 16 (10.96%) NetApp
4 16 (10.96%) Veeam
5 11 (7.53%) Citrix
5 11 (7.53%) Google
6 9 (6.16%) Red Hat
7 8 (5.48%) HP
7 8 (5.48%) Symantec
8 7 (4.79%) SolarWinds
9 6 (4.11%) ServiceNow
10 5 (3.42%) Oracle
11 4 (2.74%) ArcSight
11 4 (2.74%) MuleSoft
12 3 (2.05%) Cisco
13 2 (1.37%) AppDynamics
13 2 (1.37%) Dell
13 2 (1.37%) EMC
13 2 (1.37%) McAfee