Windows Contracts in Portsmouth

Microsoft Windows
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 24 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 4 43 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 3.25% 14.38% 15.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.00% 84.31% 68.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 31
10th Percentile £411 - £180
25th Percentile £484 £400 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £204
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +102.21% -54.67%
75th Percentile £556 £556 £325
90th Percentile £568 - £513
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £32.35 £64.00
25th Percentile - £50.13 £66.25
Median hourly rate - £61.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +40.00%
75th Percentile - £62.81 £72.50
90th Percentile - £63.38 £74.00
Hampshire median hourly rate - £17.69 £36.33
% change year-on-year - -51.30% +96.35%

All Operating Systems
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 25 51 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 20.33% 17.06% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 38
10th Percentile £463 £243 £184
25th Percentile £510 £400 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £208
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +98.71% -53.87%
75th Percentile £626 £556 £492
90th Percentile £657 - £514
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 10
10th Percentile £52.50 £51.55 £52.68
25th Percentile £55.81 £60.31 £53.31
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +8.26% +21.05%
75th Percentile £63.13 £64.69 £69.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £71.65
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% +8.11% +226.47%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Portsmouth

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Military
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat