Windows Server Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server 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 32 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 15 27 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.74% 4.28% 4.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 25.23% 24.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 37
10th Percentile £187 £158 £301
25th Percentile £208 £180 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £223 £188 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.35% -55.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £450 £488 £475
90th Percentile £630 £550 £638
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -7.00% +14.29% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.06 -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £29.30 £23.00
% change year-on-year +31.40% +27.39% -8.00%

All Operating Systems
Wales

Windows Server 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 Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 60 107 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 14.96% 16.96% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 87 138
10th Percentile £188 £138 £147
25th Percentile £266 £180 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £575
90th Percentile £700 £628 £665
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 14
10th Percentile £12.67 £16.14 £12.47
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.84 £14.31
Median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% -1.75% +137.50%
75th Percentile £31.18 £49.69 £47.27
90th Percentile £41.27 £54.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Wales 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
South Wales +12 13 £220 -48.24% 7
North Wales +3 2 £225 +25.00% 3
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) LAN
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) WLAN
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Burp Suite
1 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.67%) AppScan
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Subversion
2 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Database Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Field Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (13.33%) Linux
5 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (6.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Application Security
4 2 (13.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 2 (13.33%) Budget Management
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (13.33%) OWASP
4 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) PHP
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
1 2 (13.33%) SANS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (13.33%) Docker
5 1 (6.67%) Terminal Services
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Graylog
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Nagios
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (13.33%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
3 1 (6.67%) Nessus
3 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (46.67%) VMware
3 5 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) Checkmarx
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) SonicWALL
4 2 (13.33%) Splunk
4 2 (13.33%) WatchGuard
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) EMC
5 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.67%) Veracode
5 1 (6.67%) Zscaler