Windows Vista Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Vista
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows Vista skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Vista over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 356 419
Rank change year-on-year -6 +63 +86
Contract jobs citing Windows Vista 11 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.081% 0.036%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.44% 0.48% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile - £130 £123
25th Percentile £200 - £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £150 £175
Median % change year-on-year +178.33% -14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £657 - £195
90th Percentile £670 - £216
UK median daily rate £418 £150 £183
% change year-on-year +178.33% -17.81% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.05
25th Percentile - £19.25 £18.54
Median hourly rate - £22.09 £19.86
Median % change year-on-year - +11.23% -47.04%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £21.68
90th Percentile - - £22.47
UK median hourly rate - £22.09 £19.86
% change year-on-year - +11.23% -47.04%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows Vista 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,491 3,095 3,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.29% 16.72% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,576 2,018 2,647
10th Percentile £178 £182 £165
25th Percentile £250 £310 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% +1.75%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 294 299
10th Percentile £15.35 £12.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.63 £17.74
Median hourly rate £22.53 £47.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.57% +37.68% +72.50%
75th Percentile £57.80 £67.88 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £28.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.52% -32.35% +88.89%

Windows Vista
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows Vista as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Vista in the UK excluding London

Windows Vista
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Vista in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Vista in the UK excluding London

Windows Vista
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Vista in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Vista in the UK excluding London

Windows Vista
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Vista in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Vista in the UK excluding London

Windows Vista
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Vista within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 August 2025. 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
South West - 7 £653 - 4
East Midlands -12 4 £200 +33.33%
Midlands -19 4 £200 +33.33%
Windows Vista
UK

Windows Vista
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Remote Desktop
General
1 3 (27.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Implementation Specialist
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Break/Fix
1 4 (36.36%) Programme Management
2 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft