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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 4 41 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 3.03% 14.44% 21.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 78.85% 74.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 38
10th Percentile - - £196
25th Percentile £550 £400 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £413 £208
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +98.71% -52.82%
75th Percentile £675 £556 £494
90th Percentile - £564 £513
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £555 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +16.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £60.25 £64.00
25th Percentile - £60.63 £66.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +47.37%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - £71.75 £74.00
Hampshire median hourly rate - £22.60 £51.13
% change year-on-year - -55.80% +200.74%

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 20 52 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 15.15% 18.31% 28.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 47
10th Percentile £464 £367 £200
25th Percentile £538 £400 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £413 £260
Median % change year-on-year +51.76% +58.65% -42.22%
75th Percentile £660 £556 £513
90th Percentile £675 £560 £550
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 10
10th Percentile £54.23 £61.33 £54.63
25th Percentile £55.81 £62.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +21.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £69.38
90th Percentile £63.00 - £71.65
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.75 £62.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.85% +7.83% +238.24%

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

Windows
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

Windows
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) VMware