Windows Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft Windows
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 21 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows 19 25 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 8.92% 7.44% 12.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.88% 64.10% 78.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 43
10th Percentile £220 £113 £225
25th Percentile £318 £183 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £667 £444 £481
90th Percentile £687 £519 £559
South Wales median daily rate £365 £438 £427
% change year-on-year -16.57% +2.46% +17.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.35 £12.84
25th Percentile £12.25 £18.84 £13.75
Median hourly rate £12.50 £20.28 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.36% +30.84% +10.48%
75th Percentile £12.75 £22.34 £17.56
90th Percentile - £23.18 £18.65
South Wales median hourly rate £12.50 £47.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -73.68% +2.70% +129.81%

All Operating Systems
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 34 39 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 15.96% 11.61% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 32 54
10th Percentile £272 £160 £225
25th Percentile £463 £219 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £505 £513
90th Percentile £680 £551 £599
South Wales median daily rate £540 £470 £427
% change year-on-year +14.89% +10.04% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.35 £12.84
25th Percentile £12.25 £18.84 £13.75
Median hourly rate £12.50 £20.28 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.36% +30.84% +10.48%
75th Percentile £12.75 £22.34 £17.56
90th Percentile - £23.18 £18.65
South Wales median hourly rate £14.36 £47.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -69.77% +2.70% +129.81%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Cardiff

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Cardiff

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Cardiff over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Cardiff

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Cardiff

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (36.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.26%) GCP
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) Firewall
2 6 (31.58%) VPN
3 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.53%) LAN
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security
4 2 (10.53%) SAN
4 2 (10.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) MySQL
2 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
3 4 (21.05%) RDBMS
3 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Burp Suite
1 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) AppScan
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Subversion
2 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Digital Economy
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Administrator
1 5 (26.32%) DBA
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Desktop Support
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) MySQL DBA
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Database Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Field Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (10.53%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (10.53%) Unix
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (5.26%) AIX
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Change Control
2 6 (31.58%) Migration
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Project Management
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Project Governance
6 2 (10.53%) Application Security
6 2 (10.53%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 2 (10.53%) Budget Management
6 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
6 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
6 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) PHP
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
1 2 (10.53%) SANS
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Docker
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Ansible
1 7 (36.84%) Grafana
1 7 (36.84%) Nagios
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 5 (26.32%) Graylog
2 5 (26.32%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.53%) NetBackup
4 2 (10.53%) SCCM
5 1 (5.26%) HP Fortify
5 1 (5.26%) Nessus
5 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) Cisco
3 5 (26.32%) Splunk
4 4 (21.05%) Dell
5 3 (15.79%) VMware
6 2 (10.53%) Brocade
6 2 (10.53%) Checkmarx
6 2 (10.53%) NetApp
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle
6 2 (10.53%) SonicWALL
6 2 (10.53%) Veritas
6 2 (10.53%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.26%) Citrix
7 1 (5.26%) EMC
7 1 (5.26%) New Relic
7 1 (5.26%) PagerDuty
7 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
7 1 (5.26%) Rackspace
7 1 (5.26%) Veracode
7 1 (5.26%) Zscaler