Windows Contracts in Bristol

Microsoft Windows
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 29 15
Rank change year-on-year +15 -14 -8
Contract jobs citing Windows 52 46 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 9.68% 4.35% 9.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 49.06% 42.20% 61.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 84
10th Percentile £144 £174 £163
25th Percentile £200 £185 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -40.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £605 £500 £675
90th Percentile £721 £598 £719
South West median daily rate £538 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +8.59% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 16
10th Percentile - £12.86 £12.37
25th Percentile £18.13 £45.46 £17.45
Median hourly rate £18.51 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.52% +85.71% -44.00%
75th Percentile £23.53 £74.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.25 £77.19 £66.88
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £40.00 £52.21
% change year-on-year -53.73% -23.39% +7.69%

All Operating Systems
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 106 109 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 19.74% 10.31% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 46 115
10th Percentile £188 £185 £163
25th Percentile £213 £215 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £397 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -24.38% +31.25%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £669
90th Percentile £663 £593 £719
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 44 48
10th Percentile £18.13 £48.00 £19.27
25th Percentile £18.51 £59.94 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile - £70.88 £71.71
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (9.62%) AWS
2 5 (9.62%) Azure
3 3 (5.77%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.92%) GCP
4 1 (1.92%) IaaS
4 1 (1.92%) PaaS
4 1 (1.92%) SaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) LAN
2 2 (3.85%) WAN
3 1 (1.92%) DHCP
3 1 (1.92%) DNS
3 1 (1.92%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.92%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) GitLab
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) MLflow
2 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (19.23%) Public Sector
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Legal
3 5 (9.62%) Law
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Electronics
5 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.85%) Marketing
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Aviation
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.92%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Analyst
1 12 (23.08%) IT Support
2 11 (21.15%) IT Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Service Analyst
3 9 (17.31%) Service Desk Analyst
4 7 (13.46%) Support Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Architect
5 6 (11.54%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Desktop Support
6 3 (5.77%) Field Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Server Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Service Desk Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Windows Server Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Windows Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Service Desk Support
7 2 (3.85%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) Web Services
2 1 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.92%) Node.js
2 1 (1.92%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.92%) REST
2 1 (1.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
1 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
1 2 (3.85%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (1.92%) Clustering
2 1 (1.92%) PKI
2 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Windows 10
2 13 (25.00%) Linux
2 13 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.92%) Android
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.15%) Break/Fix
1 11 (21.15%) ITIL
2 10 (19.23%) Customer Service
3 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (13.46%) ITSM
5 6 (11.54%) DevOps
5 6 (11.54%) Privileged Access Management
6 5 (9.62%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 4 (7.69%) Ticket Management
7 4 (7.69%) User Experience
8 3 (5.77%) CI/CD
8 3 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (5.77%) Incident Management
8 3 (5.77%) Migration
8 3 (5.77%) Requirements Gathering
9 2 (3.85%) Agile
9 2 (3.85%) Digital Marketing
9 2 (3.85%) Process Improvement
9 2 (3.85%) Software Engineering
9 2 (3.85%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.85%) Bash
2 2 (3.85%) Python
3 1 (1.92%) C#
3 1 (1.92%) C++
3 1 (1.92%) Java
3 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.92%) Perl
3 1 (1.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.77%) A+ Certification
6 2 (3.85%) Degree
7 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.92%) MCITP
7 1 (1.92%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 21 (40.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) Docker
4 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.85%) Ansible
2 2 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.92%) Puppet
3 1 (1.92%) SCCM
3 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (65.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.15%) VMware
3 5 (9.62%) iManage
3 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) Apple
5 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.92%) Veritas