Windows Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Microsoft Windows
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 10 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 27 5 43
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 15.79% 5.56% 20.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.50% 38.46% 81.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 1 37
10th Percentile £190 - £128
25th Percentile £206 £463 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £475 £205
Median % change year-on-year -44.74% +131.71% -48.75%
75th Percentile £288 £488 £388
90th Percentile £411 - £493
South East median daily rate £400 £425 £378
% change year-on-year -5.88% +12.43% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £16.95 - -
25th Percentile £19.54 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.18 - £17.50
75th Percentile £25.00 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -32.14% -30.00% +90.48%

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 40 13 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 23.39% 14.44% 25.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 42
10th Percentile £190 £399 £128
25th Percentile £213 £463 £149
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £513 £250
Median % change year-on-year -46.34% +105.00% -43.18%
75th Percentile £338 £575 £442
90th Percentile £408 £601 £549
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £17.81 - -
25th Percentile £19.54 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.83%
75th Percentile £24.25 - £49.06
90th Percentile £25.00 - £49.63
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £59.13 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.84% +7.50% +131.19%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Windows job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Oxfordshire

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Windows

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 8 February 2026. 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 6 £400 - 4
Kidlington - 5 £231 - 2
Banbury - 3 £190 -
Carterton - 2 - -
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.93%) Entra ID
3 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) VPN
1 6 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (11.11%) DHCP
2 3 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (11.11%) LAN
2 3 (11.11%) VLAN
3 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.70%) Firewall
4 1 (3.70%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 17 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Legal
3 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Support Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) IT Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) IT Support
2 8 (29.63%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 1st Line Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (11.11%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Build Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Desktop Migration Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support
4 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Head of IT
4 2 (7.41%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Onboarding
2 5 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (11.11%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows 10
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Linux
3 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Customer Service
2 7 (25.93%) Asset Management
3 5 (18.52%) Break/Fix
3 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (18.52%) Inventory Management
3 5 (18.52%) Process Improvement
4 4 (14.81%) Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Workflow
5 3 (11.11%) Workflow Management
6 2 (7.41%) Customer Experience
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (7.41%) Project Management
6 2 (7.41%) Service Delivery
6 2 (7.41%) SIEM
7 1 (3.70%) Change Management
7 1 (3.70%) Incident Management
7 1 (3.70%) ITIL
7 1 (3.70%) Logistics
7 1 (3.70%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (18.52%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (7.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Ariba
4 1 (3.70%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.70%) SAP