Windows Contracts in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Windows
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 48 110 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 11.54% 22.92% 16.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.76% 67.07% 61.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 91 59
10th Percentile £172 £200 £115
25th Percentile £208 £281 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £440 £260
Median % change year-on-year -23.30% +69.23% -36.97%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £463
90th Percentile £636 £600 £510
South West median daily rate £495 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +10.00% +12.50% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile - - £14.96
25th Percentile - £11.00 £16.59
Median hourly rate £14.00 £12.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -36.00% +33.64%
75th Percentile £19.25 £13.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £21.00 - £48.00
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £52.36 £49.47
% change year-on-year -23.60% +5.83% +167.41%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 79 164 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.99% 34.17% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 125 94
10th Percentile £200 £200 £144
25th Percentile £213 £363 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £550
90th Percentile £753 £695 £623
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile - £43.85 -
25th Percentile £14.00 £70.50 £11.17
Median hourly rate £17.50 £78.00 £16.62
Median % change year-on-year -77.56% +369.31% +18.46%
75th Percentile £22.94 - £30.00
90th Percentile £30.63 - £77.10
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +124.49%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Gloucestershire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Gloucestershire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Gloucestershire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Gloucestershire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Gloucester -3 17 £325 -18.75% 7
Cirencester - 8 £438 - 1
Tewkesbury +2 6 £220 +33.33% 3
Filton - 6 £220 -
Cheltenham -10 5 £600 +35.21% 10
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 4 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (25.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.25%) AWS
4 3 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.08%) DNS
3 1 (2.08%) NAS
3 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.08%) SAN
3 1 (2.08%) Skype
3 1 (2.08%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 4 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) MSI
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Desktop Support
2 8 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Administrator
4 6 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) IT Technician
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Service Desk Technician
5 4 (8.33%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 3 (6.25%) 3rd Line Server Support
6 3 (6.25%) Active Directory Administrator
6 3 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Active Directory Support
6 3 (6.25%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Onboarding
1 5 (10.42%) Replication
2 4 (8.33%) CMDB
2 4 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.25%) IoT
4 2 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 15 (31.25%) Linux
3 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 4 (8.33%) Mac OS
5 4 (8.33%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (14.58%) Analytics
2 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (12.50%) Migration
3 5 (10.42%) Customer Service
3 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (10.42%) DevOps
3 5 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (10.42%) Patch Management
3 5 (10.42%) Performance Monitoring
3 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (8.33%) Antivirus Management
4 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (8.33%) Information Security
4 4 (8.33%) Line Management
4 4 (8.33%) Preventative Maintenance
4 4 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 4 (8.33%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (6.25%) Agile
5 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (6.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) PowerShell
2 7 (14.58%) Python
3 5 (10.42%) Bash
4 4 (8.33%) C
5 2 (4.17%) SQL
6 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Accessibility
2 4 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.42%) vSphere
3 4 (8.33%) Docker
3 4 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (14.58%) SCCM
2 6 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (10.42%) Ansible
3 5 (10.42%) Terraform
4 3 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.17%) Grafana
5 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (2.08%) Packer
6 1 (2.08%) Puppet
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) VMware
3 4 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.08%) CA
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle