Windows Contract Job Trends in Gwent

Microsoft Windows
South Wales > Gwent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gwent requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Gwent 14.29% - 40.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £166
South Wales median daily rate £290 £200 £305
% change year-on-year +45.00% -34.43% -28.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - £152.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £154.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - £156.00
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £18.22 £47.50 £23.42
% change year-on-year -61.65% +102.86% +86.20%

All Operating Systems
Gwent

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 Gwent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gwent 14.29% - 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £166
South Wales median daily rate £290 £250 £463
% change year-on-year +16.00% -45.95% +3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - £152.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 - £154.00
75th Percentile £85.00 - £156.00
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £18.22 £47.50 £23.42
% change year-on-year -61.65% +102.86% +30.08%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Gwent

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Gwent

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Gwent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gwent citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gwent citing Windows

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Gwent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gwent citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gwent citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gwent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware