Windows Contracts in Southampton

Microsoft Windows
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 8 1 5
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Windows 12 64 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 11.11% 37.87% 14.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.16% 90.14% 59.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 28 18
10th Percentile - £200 £212
25th Percentile - £250 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £338 £244
Median % change year-on-year -48.15% +38.46% -46.87%
75th Percentile £194 £550 £284
90th Percentile £288 £575 £525
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £66.50 £21.61
25th Percentile - £68.75 £22.18
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £23.79
Median % change year-on-year - +215.26% +39.94%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £25.08
90th Percentile - £79.50 -
Hampshire median hourly rate - £17.69 £36.33
% change year-on-year - -51.30% +96.35%

All Operating Systems
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 19 71 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 17.59% 42.01% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 30
10th Percentile - £200 £225
25th Percentile £175 £250 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £344
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +23.64% -25.68%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £547
90th Percentile £498 £680 £550
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £66.50 £21.61
25th Percentile - £68.75 £22.18
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £23.79
Median % change year-on-year - +215.26% +39.94%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £25.08
90th Percentile - £79.50 -
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 Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Southampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Southampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Southampton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Southampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) VLAN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Smartphone
2 4 (33.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 4 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (25.00%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) WMI
2 2 (16.67%) Proxmox
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft