Windows Contracts in Winchester

Microsoft Windows
Hampshire > Winchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Winchester 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 5 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 5 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Winchester 15.15% 15.22% 40.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.33% 38.89% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £535 - £141
25th Percentile £550 - £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £185
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.78%
75th Percentile £618 - £195
90th Percentile £644 - £273
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate - £17.69 £36.33
% change year-on-year - -51.30% +96.35%

All Operating Systems
Winchester

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 Winchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6 18 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Winchester 18.18% 39.13% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £535 £462 £141
25th Percentile £550 £462 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £502 £185
Median % change year-on-year +14.66% +171.08% +2.78%
75th Percentile £618 £555 £195
90th Percentile £644 £605 £273
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
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 Winchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Winchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Winchester

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Winchester

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Winchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Winchester

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Winchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Winchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Winchester 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 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) VSAN
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Power Management
2 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) NETGEAR
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (40.00%) Symantec
2 2 (40.00%) TP-LINK