Windows XP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows XP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows XP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows XP 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 324 380 451
Rank change year-on-year +56 +71 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 12 19 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.091% 0.046%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.55% 0.58% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 2
10th Percentile £191 - -
25th Percentile £197 £603 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £605 £150
Median % change year-on-year -42.07% +303.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £516 £608 -
90th Percentile £520 - -
UK median daily rate £351 £605 £163
% change year-on-year -42.07% +272.31% -14.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £16.33
25th Percentile - £26.25 £18.17
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% +42.95%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £46.25
90th Percentile - - £59.75
UK median hourly rate - £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +22.22% +41.87%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows XP 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 2,195 3,275 4,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.19% 15.77% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,176 3,246
10th Percentile £178 £173 £163
25th Percentile £241 £256 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 320 334
10th Percentile £15.72 £12.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.94 £22.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -29.60% +56.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Windows XP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows XP in the UK excluding London

Windows XP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows XP in the UK excluding London

Windows XP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows XP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows XP in the UK excluding London

Windows XP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows XP in the UK excluding London

Windows XP
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 XP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +25 7 - -
North West +23 7 - -
Midlands +24 3 £512 +220.00%
West Midlands - 3 £512 -
Scotland - 1 £200 -
Wales - 1 £200 -
Windows XP
UK

Windows XP
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (8.33%) Acrobat
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) VPN
2 5 (41.67%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (8.33%) Internet
4 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) WebEx
General
1 7 (58.33%) Manufacturing
2 6 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 6 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 6 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Blackberry
3 1 (8.33%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (83.33%) Windows 10
3 7 (58.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (58.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (41.67%) Windows 8
5 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
6 3 (25.00%) Windows 7
7 1 (8.33%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Asset Management
2 5 (41.67%) Business Case
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 5 (41.67%) Proactive Maintenance
2 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Analysis
2 5 (41.67%) Time Management
3 3 (25.00%) Change Control
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Change Management
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (16.67%) CCNA
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
4 1 (8.33%) MCP
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (8.33%) Terminal Services
4 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (8.33%) Sysprep
2 1 (8.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Canon
3 4 (33.33%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Adobe
4 1 (8.33%) Bomgar
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) HP
4 1 (8.33%) Peregrine
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy