Windows Contracts in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Windows
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 14 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -14
Contract jobs citing Windows 17 37 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.83% 9.49% 9.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 89.47% 57.81% 66.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 62
10th Percentile £207 £175 £231
25th Percentile £325 £213 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £225 £470
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -52.13% +25.33%
75th Percentile £438 £475 £519
90th Percentile £528 £550 £590
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £400 £238 £470
% change year-on-year +68.42% -49.47% +22.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £23.17 -
% change year-on-year -38.70% - -

All Operating Systems
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 19 64 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.98% 16.41% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 45 91
10th Percentile £224 £207 £246
25th Percentile £325 £225 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £480 £505
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -4.95% +15.43%
75th Percentile £432 £550 £550
90th Percentile £505 - £592
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £421 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -6.56% -10.00% +20.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £23.17 -
% change year-on-year -38.70% - -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Milton Keynes

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Milton Keynes

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Milton Keynes

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Milton Keynes

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 2 (11.76%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) FTP
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) QARun
1 2 (11.76%) WinRunner
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Test Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Citrix Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) BizTalk Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Desktop Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) EDI
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) MSMQ
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) WCF
2 1 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows 10
1 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Unix
4 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Integration Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Logistics
3 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
3 4 (23.53%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Test Planning
3 4 (23.53%) Validation
3 4 (23.53%) Waterfall
4 3 (17.65%) Security Hardening
4 3 (17.65%) Server Building
5 2 (11.76%) Case Management
5 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.76%) Defect Management
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Microservices
5 2 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) VB
3 1 (5.88%) ActionScript
3 1 (5.88%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) SCOM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Citrix
3 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
4 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
4 2 (11.76%) HP
4 2 (11.76%) IBM
4 2 (11.76%) VMware
5 1 (5.88%) Apple
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) Commvault
5 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.88%) F5
5 1 (5.88%) Imperva
5 1 (5.88%) McAfee
5 1 (5.88%) Netskope
5 1 (5.88%) SAP