Windows Contract Job Trends in Blandford Forum

Microsoft Windows
Dorset > Blandford Forum

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Blandford Forum requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Blandford Forum 16.67% - 33.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £525 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 - £513
90th Percentile - - £528
Dorset median daily rate £540 £380 £450
% change year-on-year +42.11% -15.56% +24.14%

All Operating Systems
Blandford Forum

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Blandford Forum.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 16.67% 100.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £525 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £513
90th Percentile - - £528
Dorset median daily rate £540 £463 £478
% change year-on-year +16.76% -3.14% +19.38%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Blandford Forum

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum.

Windows job vacancy trend in Blandford Forum

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Blandford Forum

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blandford Forum citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blandford Forum citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blandford Forum by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware