Windows Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Windows
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 14 6 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 33 93 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 8.23% 14.74% 16.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.00% 86.92% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 74 120
10th Percentile £168 £135 £149
25th Percentile £200 £180 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £388 £425
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% -8.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £667 £629 £665
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 14
10th Percentile - £16.14 £12.47
25th Percentile £12.25 £18.84 £14.31
Median hourly rate £12.50 £35.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% -1.75% +145.44%
75th Percentile £12.75 £49.69 £47.27
90th Percentile - £54.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
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 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
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Wales

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
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 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 -7 26 £365 -14.12% 18
North Wales 0 4 £219 +21.53% 5
West Wales -3 1 £200 +11.11% 3
Windows
UK

Windows
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 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (15.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (24.24%) AWS
4 7 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.09%) OneDrive
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.03%) GCP
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub
8 1 (3.03%) IaaS
8 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) Firewall
2 8 (24.24%) VPN
3 5 (15.15%) TCP/IP
4 3 (9.09%) SAN
5 2 (6.06%) LAN
5 2 (6.06%) Network Security
5 2 (6.06%) WLAN
6 1 (3.03%) DHCP
6 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) MySQL
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.12%) RDBMS
3 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Burp Suite
1 2 (6.06%) Git
1 2 (6.06%) GitLab
1 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.03%) AppScan
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) Subversion
2 1 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Digital Economy
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.03%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) Administrator
1 5 (15.15%) DBA
1 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (15.15%) IT Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Desktop Support
2 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (9.09%) MySQL DBA
3 3 (9.09%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Support Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) IT Support
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.03%) WPF
2 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
2 9 (27.27%) Linux
3 8 (24.24%) Windows 10
4 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (6.06%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (6.06%) Mac OS
7 2 (6.06%) Unix
8 1 (3.03%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) DevOps
2 8 (24.24%) Migration
2 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (18.18%) Change Control
3 6 (18.18%) Project Management
4 5 (15.15%) Agile
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (12.12%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 3 (9.09%) ITIL
6 3 (9.09%) Project Governance
7 2 (6.06%) Application Security
7 2 (6.06%) Blue-Green Deployment
7 2 (6.06%) Budget Management
7 2 (6.06%) Data Extraction
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.06%) OWASP
7 2 (6.06%) Project Delivery
7 2 (6.06%) Security Testing
7 2 (6.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.06%) Python
2 2 (6.06%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) Bash
3 1 (3.03%) C#
3 1 (3.03%) C++
3 1 (3.03%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) PHP
3 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) DBS Check
1 2 (6.06%) Degree
1 2 (6.06%) SANS
1 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.06%) Docker
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.03%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Ansible
1 7 (21.21%) Grafana
1 7 (21.21%) Nagios
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Graylog
2 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.12%) SCCM
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.06%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.03%) HP Fortify
6 1 (3.03%) Nessus
6 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) VMware
3 7 (21.21%) Cisco
4 5 (15.15%) Dell
4 5 (15.15%) Splunk
5 2 (6.06%) Brocade
5 2 (6.06%) Checkmarx
5 2 (6.06%) NetApp
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle
5 2 (6.06%) SonicWALL
5 2 (6.06%) Veritas
5 2 (6.06%) WatchGuard
6 1 (3.03%) Citrix
6 1 (3.03%) EMC
6 1 (3.03%) HP
6 1 (3.03%) New Relic
6 1 (3.03%) Rackspace
6 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) Veracode
6 1 (3.03%) Zscaler