Windows Contracts in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 28 28 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 20.74% 11.38% 17.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 87.50% 68.29% 62.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 35
10th Percentile £160 £128 £175
25th Percentile £185 £142 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £187 £300
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -37.81% +57.89%
75th Percentile £269 £388 £400
90th Percentile £328 £439 £504
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +3.16% +18.75% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 £16.00 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +17.94% -11.50% +10.24%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £36.93
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £24.50 £41.88
% change year-on-year -23.18% -41.49% +146.32%

All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 32 41 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 23.70% 16.67% 28.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 33 43
10th Percentile £160 £128 £176
25th Percentile £185 £143 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +59.09%
75th Percentile £288 £456 £475
90th Percentile £380 £500 £575
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £19.07 £22.05 -
25th Percentile £19.37 £31.13 -
Median hourly rate £20.39 £47.50 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year -57.08% +162.72% -2.27%
75th Percentile £21.93 £49.38 -
90th Percentile £22.54 £49.75 £36.93
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +223.53%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Oxfordshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Oxfordshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Oxfordshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Oxfordshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Oxford -3 7 £213 -32.00% 22
Abingdon +2 3 £363 +150.00% 8
Carterton - 3 £153 - 2
Witney - 3 £160 - 2
Wantage - 3 £275 -
Kidlington +1 1 £200 -4.34% 1
Henley-on-Thames - 1 £325 -
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (21.43%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DHCP
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.57%) IP Telephony
2 1 (3.57%) LAN
2 1 (3.57%) MPLS
2 1 (3.57%) NAS
2 1 (3.57%) NetScaler
2 1 (3.57%) SAN
2 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.57%) Skype
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
2 1 (3.57%) WAN
2 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.57%) Wireless
General
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Desktop Engineer
1 9 (32.14%) Support Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Desktop Support
3 4 (14.29%) Deskside Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Deskside Support
3 4 (14.29%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Build Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Desktop Build Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Field Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) iPad
3 1 (3.57%) iPhone
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows 10
2 3 (10.71%) Mac OS
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Android
4 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.57%) Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Rocky
4 1 (3.57%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 4 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
5 2 (7.14%) Logistics
5 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
5 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (7.14%) Ticket Management
5 2 (7.14%) Time Management
5 2 (7.14%) User Experience
5 2 (7.14%) Workflow
5 2 (7.14%) Workflow Management
6 1 (3.57%) Application Packaging
6 1 (3.57%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Management
6 1 (3.57%) Service Management
6 1 (3.57%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) DBS Check
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) A+ Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) SLA
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) vSphere
2 1 (3.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) SCCM
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Citrix
3 1 (3.57%) F5
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow