Windows Contracts in Northampton

Microsoft Windows
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 43 12 5
Rank change year-on-year -31 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 6 23 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 2.10% 10.80% 16.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.15% 67.65% 80.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 12
10th Percentile £440 £356 £165
25th Percentile £463 £387 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £431 £199
Median % change year-on-year +15.21% +116.60% -43.21%
75th Percentile £528 £490 £234
90th Percentile £533 £515 £238
Northamptonshire median daily rate £496 £406 £198
% change year-on-year +22.32% +105.32% -15.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 - £14.52
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.50 £24.20 £14.52
% change year-on-year -40.08% +66.67% -32.47%

All Operating Systems
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13 34 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 4.55% 15.96% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 15
10th Percentile £350 £356 £173
25th Percentile £365 £381 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £215
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% +106.98% -45.22%
75th Percentile £490 £489 £238
90th Percentile £525 £507 £518
Northamptonshire median daily rate £437 £440 £215
% change year-on-year -0.68% +104.65% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.48%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.50 £24.20 £14.52
% change year-on-year -40.08% +66.67% -32.47%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Northampton

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Northampton

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 1 (16.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) IT Support
1 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Rocky
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
2 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Microservices
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (16.67%) Apple
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk