Windows Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 16 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 279 277 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.53% 9.73% 12.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 73.04% 63.68% 75.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 208 336
10th Percentile £175 £196 £140
25th Percentile £213 £300 £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £456 £391
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +16.61% -2.19%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £550
90th Percentile £608 £638 £650
South East median daily rate £425 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 14
10th Percentile £16.25 - £12.48
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.08 £13.81
Median hourly rate £26.88 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.47% +142.00% +5.65%
75th Percentile £56.81 £57.50 £23.19
90th Percentile £61.60 £80.10 £54.38
South East median hourly rate £22.55 £28.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.97% +44.50% +26.10%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 382 435 597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.42% 15.28% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 308 426
10th Percentile £193 £213 £145
25th Percentile £216 £350 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £570
90th Percentile £608 £638 £650
South East median daily rate £461 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.89% +5.56% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 19
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.52 £14.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +143.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.97 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.65
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £53.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -11.21% +167.50% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the Thames Valley

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +10 196 £501 -3.65% 52
Buckinghamshire +5 48 £250 -46.81% 30
Oxfordshire -1 35 £215 -38.57% 36
Windows
South East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 37 (13.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (0.72%) Confluence
3 2 (0.72%) nginx
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 46 (16.49%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.15%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.43%) LabWindows
3 2 (0.72%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 79 (28.32%) Azure
2 62 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (7.53%) Entra ID
4 16 (5.73%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (5.73%) Azure Storage
5 14 (5.02%) OCI
6 9 (3.23%) AWS
7 8 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.15%) IaaS
9 4 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.43%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.43%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.43%) SaaS
9 4 (1.43%) Serverless
10 3 (1.08%) PaaS
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.72%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 55 (19.71%) DNS
2 48 (17.20%) DHCP
2 48 (17.20%) Firewall
3 26 (9.32%) LAN
4 23 (8.24%) SAN
5 22 (7.89%) VPN
6 18 (6.45%) WAN
7 11 (3.94%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.51%) VoIP
9 6 (2.15%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (1.79%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.43%) NAS
11 4 (1.43%) Network Security
11 4 (1.43%) RS-232
12 2 (0.72%) Broadband
12 2 (0.72%) Skype
12 2 (0.72%) WebEx
12 2 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.87%) MySQL
3 6 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.43%) Power BI
5 3 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.36%) GIS
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.36%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (2.15%) JIRA
2 4 (1.43%) Selenium
2 4 (1.43%) Subversion
2 4 (1.43%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.08%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.72%) Git
5 1 (0.36%) CMake
5 1 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 137 (49.10%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.26%) Organisational Skills
3 24 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.02%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.87%) Finance
7 6 (2.15%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.08%) Automotive
9 3 (1.08%) Electronics
9 3 (1.08%) Marketing
9 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Law
11 1 (0.36%) Police
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (18.28%) Support Engineer
2 36 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (10.75%) Desktop Engineer
4 28 (10.04%) Windows Engineer
5 27 (9.68%) Desktop Support
6 26 (9.32%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 25 (8.96%) Senior
8 20 (7.17%) Build Engineer
8 20 (7.17%) Support Specialist
8 20 (7.17%) Windows Build Engineer
9 18 (6.45%) Active Directory Support
9 18 (6.45%) Analyst
10 17 (6.09%) Hardware Engineer
11 16 (5.73%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
12 14 (5.02%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (5.02%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (5.02%) IT Support
13 12 (4.30%) Administrator
13 12 (4.30%) Systems Administrator
14 11 (3.94%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.73%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.15%) Itk
3 4 (1.43%) XML
4 2 (0.72%) EDI
4 2 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.36%) .NET
5 1 (0.36%) CNTK
5 1 (0.36%) CSS
5 1 (0.36%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.36%) OpenVINO
5 1 (0.36%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.36%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.19%) Driving Licence
2 22 (7.89%) PKI
3 19 (6.81%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (5.73%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.30%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.51%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.15%) Video Editing
8 5 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.43%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.43%) Smart Meter
9 4 (1.43%) Thin Client
10 3 (1.08%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.08%) CCTV
10 3 (1.08%) NHS
10 3 (1.08%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.72%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 117 (41.94%) Windows 10
2 105 (37.63%) Windows Server
3 81 (29.03%) Linux
4 74 (26.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 71 (25.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 50 (17.92%) Windows 7
7 44 (15.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 20 (7.17%) Windows NT
9 16 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (5.02%) Apple iOS
10 14 (5.02%) Windows XP
11 12 (4.30%) Android
12 9 (3.23%) Mac OS
13 8 (2.87%) Unix
14 6 (2.15%) Ubuntu
15 3 (1.08%) Mac OS X
15 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (36.92%) ITIL
2 82 (29.39%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (29.03%) Customer Service
4 45 (16.13%) Release Management
5 43 (15.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 37 (13.26%) Service Management
7 30 (10.75%) DevOps
8 28 (10.04%) Agile
9 25 (8.96%) Project Management
10 23 (8.24%) User Acceptance Testing
11 22 (7.89%) Analytics
12 20 (7.17%) Deployment Automation
12 20 (7.17%) Service Delivery
13 19 (6.81%) Customer Requirements
13 19 (6.81%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (6.81%) Proactive Monitoring
14 18 (6.45%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (6.45%) Server Management
15 17 (6.09%) Software Deployment
15 17 (6.09%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 23 (8.24%) C#
2 23 (8.24%) VBScript
3 16 (5.73%) Bicep
3 16 (5.73%) VB
4 13 (4.66%) SQL
5 12 (4.30%) Python
6 8 (2.87%) C
7 5 (1.79%) C++
8 4 (1.43%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.08%) F#
10 2 (0.72%) Java
11 1 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 142 (50.90%) Security Cleared
2 114 (40.86%) DV Cleared
3 71 (25.45%) Degree
4 59 (21.15%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (5.02%) CCNA
6 14 (5.02%) CCNP
6 14 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.08%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.36%) ACMT
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CEH
10 1 (0.36%) CISSP
10 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.32%) QA
2 22 (7.89%) SLA
3 5 (1.79%) ISO 9000
4 4 (1.43%) GDPR
5 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) COBIT
System Software
1 115 (41.22%) Active Directory
2 39 (13.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (12.90%) Firmware
4 20 (7.17%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (6.81%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (6.45%) Hyper-V
7 16 (5.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (3.58%) XenApp
9 8 (2.87%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.72%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.72%) Docker
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 123 (44.09%) SCCM
2 59 (21.15%) WSUS
3 36 (12.90%) SCOM
4 34 (12.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (7.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (7.53%) vCenter Server
6 20 (7.17%) Sysprep
7 17 (6.09%) NetBackup
8 16 (5.73%) EMC NetWorker
8 16 (5.73%) Kubernetes
9 8 (2.87%) Ansible
10 7 (2.51%) AirWatch
11 6 (2.15%) Nessus
12 4 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.43%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.08%) Terraform
14 2 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.72%) Grafana
14 2 (0.72%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 2 (0.72%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 166 (59.50%) Microsoft
2 71 (25.45%) HP
3 48 (17.20%) VMware
4 36 (12.90%) Cisco
5 21 (7.53%) Apple
6 20 (7.17%) Oracle
6 20 (7.17%) ServiceNow
6 20 (7.17%) Veeam
7 19 (6.81%) 3PAR
8 17 (6.09%) Dell
9 16 (5.73%) EMC
10 15 (5.38%) Citrix
11 14 (5.02%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (5.02%) Juniper
11 14 (5.02%) Palo Alto
11 14 (5.02%) Symantec
12 13 (4.66%) Splunk
13 12 (4.30%) Red Hat
14 7 (2.51%) Nimble Storage
15 6 (2.15%) SAP