Windows Server Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft Windows Server
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 27 39 27
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 8 6 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.76% 1.79% 5.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.53% 16.67% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 23
10th Percentile £215 £168 £353
25th Percentile £220 £180 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £275 £425
Median % change year-on-year +26.36% -35.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £607 £438 £450
90th Percentile £668 - £558
South Wales median daily rate £220 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -48.24% - +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.06 -
South Wales median hourly rate - £18.06 -

All Operating Systems
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 34 36 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 15.96% 10.71% 16.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 56
10th Percentile £272 £160 £225
25th Percentile £463 £208 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £516
90th Percentile £680 £551 £594
South Wales median daily rate £540 £460 £427
% change year-on-year +17.39% +7.72% +13.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £18.35 £12.84
25th Percentile £12.25 £18.84 £13.75
Median hourly rate £12.50 £20.28 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.36% +30.84% +10.48%
75th Percentile £12.75 £22.34 £17.56
90th Percentile - £23.18 £18.65
South Wales median hourly rate £14.36 £47.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -69.77% +2.70% +129.81%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Cardiff

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Cardiff

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Cardiff

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Cardiff

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) LAN
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) AppScan
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Database Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Field Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (12.50%) AIX
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Project Governance
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Application Security
3 2 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (25.00%) OWASP
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) PHP
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 2 (25.00%) SANS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Graylog
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Nagios
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) HP Fortify
3 1 (12.50%) Nessus
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Checkmarx
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) SonicWALL
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) WatchGuard
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) Veracode
4 1 (12.50%) Zscaler