Windows Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Windows
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 334 503 567
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.55% 13.81% 15.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.75% 69.67% 74.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 382 334
10th Percentile £150 £163 £145
25th Percentile £205 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £398
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +13.21% +22.31%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £534
90th Percentile £625 £669 £638
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 42 56
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.28 £16.83
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.56 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.36 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +7.70% +162.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.63 £66.01
90th Percentile £74.44 £70.93 £75.00
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 493 722 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.57% 19.83% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 523 448
10th Percentile £170 £167 £153
25th Percentile £238 £270 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.14%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 87 78
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.20 £16.34
25th Percentile £40.00 £49.86 £21.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £54.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.80% +118.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the South West

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the South West

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Wiltshire 0 133 £550 +15.79% 37
Gloucestershire -7 51 £350 -22.22% 37
Bristol -18 46 £300 -40.00% 70
Devon +8 37 £162 -35.20% 22
Somerset +2 27 £185 -17.78% 30
Dorset -2 23 £185 -58.93% 13
Cornwall 0 7 £150 -25.00% 7
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 48 (14.37%) Confluence
1 48 (14.37%) SharePoint
2 44 (13.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (10.48%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (2.10%) Skype for Business
5 4 (1.20%) Apache
6 3 (0.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 30 (8.98%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.30%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 101 (30.24%) Azure
2 78 (23.35%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (10.18%) Azure Stack
4 18 (5.39%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.40%) AWS
6 6 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.80%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.50%) OneDrive
8 3 (0.90%) Serverless
8 3 (0.90%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.60%) IaaS
9 2 (0.60%) SaaS
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.30%) GitHub
10 1 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.30%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (17.96%) Firewall
2 35 (10.48%) BGP
3 32 (9.58%) DNS
4 29 (8.68%) LAN
5 28 (8.38%) DHCP
6 25 (7.49%) SAN
6 25 (7.49%) WAN
7 18 (5.39%) Network Security
8 14 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (3.59%) Skype
10 11 (3.29%) TCP/IP
11 8 (2.40%) MPLS
12 7 (2.10%) VPN
13 6 (1.80%) FTP
14 5 (1.50%) 4G
14 5 (1.50%) 5G
14 5 (1.50%) VLAN
15 4 (1.20%) Internet
15 4 (1.20%) VoIP
15 4 (1.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (16.17%) JIRA
2 5 (1.50%) Artifactory
2 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket
2 5 (1.50%) GitLab
3 3 (0.90%) Git
4 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.30%) GoCD
5 1 (0.30%) MSI
5 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 134 (40.12%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
4 21 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.39%) Finance
6 13 (3.89%) Military
7 12 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 11 (3.29%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.80%) Legal
9 6 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.50%) Electronics
10 5 (1.50%) Marketing
10 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Banking
11 3 (0.90%) Retail
12 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (14.67%) Administrator
2 44 (13.17%) Support Engineer
3 42 (12.57%) Systems Administrator
3 42 (12.57%) Wintel Administrator
3 42 (12.57%) Wintel Systems Administrator
4 40 (11.98%) Analyst
5 26 (7.78%) Desktop Support
6 23 (6.89%) Desktop Engineer
7 21 (6.29%) IT Support
8 20 (5.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 19 (5.69%) Technical Support
10 18 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.39%) IT Engineer
10 18 (5.39%) Microsoft Engineer
11 17 (5.09%) IT Analyst
12 15 (4.49%) Architect
13 14 (4.19%) IT Support Engineer
14 13 (3.89%) Integration Engineer
14 13 (3.89%) Service Analyst
15 12 (3.59%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.40%) REST
2 5 (1.50%) Middleware
3 4 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (0.90%) .NET
5 2 (0.60%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.60%) ADO
5 2 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.60%) Node.js
5 2 (0.60%) Web Services
6 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.30%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 71 (21.26%) PKI
2 37 (11.08%) Private Cloud
3 18 (5.39%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.19%) Clustering
5 13 (3.89%) Replication
6 11 (3.29%) NHS
7 9 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.40%) Client/Server
8 8 (2.40%) CMDB
9 7 (2.10%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.90%) Blog
12 3 (0.90%) BYOD
12 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.90%) IoT
12 3 (0.90%) iPhone
12 3 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.86%) Windows Server
2 55 (16.47%) Linux
2 55 (16.47%) Windows 10
3 20 (5.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (3.89%) Unix
5 12 (3.59%) Windows 7
6 10 (2.99%) Mac OS
6 10 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.80%) Android
8 5 (1.50%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.90%) VMS
9 3 (0.90%) Windows 2000
9 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.90%) Windows XP
10 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (25.45%) ITIL
2 60 (17.96%) Network Management
3 49 (14.67%) Service Management
4 45 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (12.57%) Capacity Management
6 40 (11.98%) ITSM
7 36 (10.78%) Security Monitoring
8 34 (10.18%) Customer Service
8 34 (10.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (8.68%) Agile
10 28 (8.38%) Change Management
11 26 (7.78%) Migration
12 23 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (6.59%) DevOps
14 18 (5.39%) Data Migration
15 17 (5.09%) Decision-Making
16 16 (4.79%) CI/CD
16 16 (4.79%) Security Patching
16 16 (4.79%) Server Management
17 14 (4.19%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.77%) PowerShell
2 21 (6.29%) SQL
3 13 (3.89%) Python
4 8 (2.40%) Bash
5 4 (1.20%) C
5 4 (1.20%) C#
5 4 (1.20%) Java
6 3 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.60%) C++
7 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 193 (57.78%) Security Cleared
2 124 (37.13%) DV Cleared
3 72 (21.56%) SC Cleared
4 41 (12.28%) Degree
5 15 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.59%) MCSE
7 9 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.40%) MCSA
8 8 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.50%) MCP
11 4 (1.20%) CCNA
11 4 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.20%) HND
12 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.48%) Government Security Classifications
2 22 (6.59%) SLA
3 15 (4.49%) QA
4 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.20%) NIST
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.30%) NCSC
7 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 119 (35.63%) Active Directory
2 44 (13.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (7.49%) VMware ESXi
4 22 (6.59%) VMware NSX
5 14 (4.19%) Virtual Servers
6 11 (3.29%) vSphere
7 9 (2.69%) VMware Workstation
8 8 (2.40%) Docker
9 7 (2.10%) Hyper-V
10 5 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.90%) Firmware
13 2 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.60%) XenApp
13 2 (0.60%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.30%) NFS
14 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 46 (13.77%) SCCM
2 30 (8.98%) SCOM
3 22 (6.59%) Ansible
4 17 (5.09%) Kubernetes
4 17 (5.09%) vCenter Server
5 15 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (4.19%) Terraform
7 11 (3.29%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (2.40%) Nagios
8 8 (2.40%) NetBackup
9 7 (2.10%) Puppet
10 6 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.90%) Grafana
11 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.90%) WSUS
12 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.60%) OPNET
13 1 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 146 (43.71%) Microsoft
2 74 (22.16%) VMware
3 44 (13.17%) Atlassian
4 24 (7.19%) Veeam
5 14 (4.19%) Citrix
6 13 (3.89%) Cisco
7 8 (2.40%) Hitachi
7 8 (2.40%) NetApp
8 7 (2.10%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.80%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.80%) Dell
10 5 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.50%) SAP
10 5 (1.50%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.50%) Splunk
11 4 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.20%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.20%) Juniper
12 3 (0.90%) HP