Windows Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Windows
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 28 65 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 8.12% 12.33% 15.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.85% 81.25% 82.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 51 96
10th Percentile £166 £135 £158
25th Percentile £200 £180 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% - +21.43%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £569
90th Percentile £667 £631 £651
Wales median daily rate £223 £363 £425
% change year-on-year -38.62% -14.71% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 11
10th Percentile - £15.16 £12.24
25th Percentile £12.25 £18.84 £16.69
Median hourly rate £12.50 £35.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% -24.32% +184.62%
75th Percentile £12.75 £49.69 £47.40
90th Percentile - £54.38 -
Wales median hourly rate £12.50 £22.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -44.44% -51.35% +229.65%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 52 80 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 15.07% 15.18% 18.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 65 116
10th Percentile £200 £148 £158
25th Percentile £350 £185 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £427
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +2.46% +13.87%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £569
90th Percentile £703 £629 £651
Wales median daily rate £500 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +17.65% - +7.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £12.67 £15.16 £12.24
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.84 £16.69
Median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% -24.32% +184.62%
75th Percentile £31.18 £49.69 £47.40
90th Percentile £41.27 £54.38 -
Wales median hourly rate £14.36 £22.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -36.18% -51.35% +218.64%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in South Wales over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 23 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
Cardiff +8 20 £575 +58.62% 12
Newport -11 6 £200 -62.79% 2
Rhondda Cynon Taff +7 1 £135 -3.57%
Gwent 0 1 £166 +0.61%
Windows
Wales

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) Azure
2 14 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (32.14%) AWS
4 8 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.57%) GCP
8 1 (3.57%) GitHub
8 1 (3.57%) IaaS
8 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
8 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) Firewall
2 9 (32.14%) VPN
3 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (10.71%) SAN
5 2 (7.14%) LAN
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security
5 2 (7.14%) WLAN
6 1 (3.57%) DHCP
6 1 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) MySQL
2 6 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 5 (17.86%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Burp Suite
1 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.57%) AppScan
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Subversion
2 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Digital Economy
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.57%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) DBA
2 5 (17.86%) Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Desktop Support
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) MySQL DBA
4 3 (10.71%) Support Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Database Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Field Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (53.57%) Windows Server
2 9 (32.14%) Linux
3 6 (21.43%) Windows 10
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (17.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (7.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.57%) AIX
7 1 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) Project Management
3 7 (25.00%) Change Control
3 7 (25.00%) Migration
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 4 (14.29%) ITIL
5 4 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) Customer Service
6 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Project Governance
6 3 (10.71%) Service Delivery
7 2 (7.14%) Budget Management
7 2 (7.14%) Data Analytics
7 2 (7.14%) OWASP
7 2 (7.14%) Security Testing
7 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) PHP
3 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) DBS Check
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) SANS
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) SLA
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.14%) Docker
5 1 (3.57%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Ansible
1 9 (32.14%) Terraform
2 8 (28.57%) Grafana
2 8 (28.57%) Nagios
3 6 (21.43%) Graylog
3 6 (21.43%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 2 (7.14%) NetBackup
5 2 (7.14%) SCCM
6 1 (3.57%) HP Fortify
6 1 (3.57%) Nessus
6 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.57%) Puppet
6 1 (3.57%) VxRail
6 1 (3.57%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.00%) VMware
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco
3 6 (21.43%) Splunk
4 5 (17.86%) Dell
5 2 (7.14%) Brocade
5 2 (7.14%) Checkmarx
5 2 (7.14%) HP
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle
5 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.14%) SonicWALL
5 2 (7.14%) WatchGuard
6 1 (3.57%) 3PAR
6 1 (3.57%) EMC
6 1 (3.57%) New Relic
6 1 (3.57%) PagerDuty
6 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.57%) Rackspace
6 1 (3.57%) Veracode
6 1 (3.57%) Zscaler