Windows Contracts in Somerset

Microsoft Windows
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 27 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 7.19% 13.30% 13.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 90.91% 81.82% 72.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile - £134 £161
25th Percentile £140 £150 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £185 £263
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -29.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £230 £594
90th Percentile £653 £257 £646
South West median daily rate £538 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +8.59% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 6
10th Percentile - £12.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - £26.25 £26.97
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - -28.89% -4.26%
75th Percentile - - £63.03
90th Percentile - - £67.59
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £40.00 £52.21
% change year-on-year -53.73% -23.39% +7.69%

All Operating Systems
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 11 33 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 7.91% 16.26% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 22
10th Percentile - £121 £171
25th Percentile £140 £127 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £175 £425
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -58.82% +0.41%
75th Percentile £638 £238 £450
90th Percentile £653 £296 £634
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 6
10th Percentile - £12.50 £17.38
25th Percentile - - £26.97
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - -28.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile - - £63.03
90th Percentile - £46.40 £67.59
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 Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Somerset

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Somerset

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Somerset

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Somerset

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bath -4 5 £140 -24.32% 33
Street -2 2 £625 +150.00% 6
Bridgwater -1 1 - - 2
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) NUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Postman
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Service Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Network Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support
4 1 (10.00%) Network Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (10.00%) Playwright
1 1 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Time Management
4 2 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
1 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) A+ Certification
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Nessus
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys