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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 426 450
Rank change year-on-year +45 +24 -59
Contract jobs citing Windows XP 20 4 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.018% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.59% 0.094% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 29
10th Percentile - - £140
25th Percentile £603 - £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -49.04%
75th Percentile £608 - £238
90th Percentile - - £308
UK median daily rate £605 £175 £200
% change year-on-year +245.71% -12.50% -50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £13.87
25th Percentile £26.25 £66.25 £13.90
Median hourly rate £27.50 £67.50 £15.80
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +327.22% +21.54%
75th Percentile £28.75 £68.75 £17.61
90th Percentile - - £43.81
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £15.92
% change year-on-year -31.25% +151.34% +22.42%

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 3,391 4,276 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.84% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 2,930 3,824
10th Percentile £176 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 307 426
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.70 £15.05
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

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 12 June 2024.

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 12 June 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
South East +27 14 £605 - 5
South West +4 3 - -
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £160 - 2
Midlands - 1 £160 - 2
North West - 1 - - 1
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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 14 (70.00%) OCI
3 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) Firewall
2 14 (70.00%) DHCP
2 14 (70.00%) DNS
2 14 (70.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) PBX
3 1 (5.00%) PSTN
3 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (85.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Server Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) PowerShell Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Test Leader
4 3 (15.00%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Test Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support
6 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) BYOD
2 2 (10.00%) iPad
2 2 (10.00%) iPhone
2 2 (10.00%) PDA
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (85.00%) Windows 10
3 14 (70.00%) Linux
3 14 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (70.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (70.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (70.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (15.00%) Unix
4 3 (15.00%) VMS
4 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000
5 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (5.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (70.00%) Break/Fix
2 14 (70.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 14 (70.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (70.00%) ITIL
2 14 (70.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 14 (70.00%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (70.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 14 (70.00%) Project Management
2 14 (70.00%) Server Management
2 14 (70.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.00%) Business Case
5 1 (5.00%) Inventory Management
5 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 16 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (70.00%) CCNA
2 14 (70.00%) CCNP
2 14 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (70.00%) Degree
2 14 (70.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (70.00%) Hyper-V
3 14 (70.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (75.00%) SCCM
2 14 (70.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (70.00%) NetBackup
2 14 (70.00%) SCOM
2 14 (70.00%) vCenter Server
2 14 (70.00%) WSUS
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 3 (15.00%) Terraform
4 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Juniper
1 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (80.00%) VMware
3 15 (75.00%) Dell
3 15 (75.00%) HP
4 14 (70.00%) 3PAR
4 14 (70.00%) Cisco
4 14 (70.00%) EMC
4 14 (70.00%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (70.00%) Oracle
4 14 (70.00%) Palo Alto
4 14 (70.00%) Symantec
4 14 (70.00%) Veeam
5 3 (15.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (10.00%) Intel
7 1 (5.00%) Peregrine
7 1 (5.00%) Remedy