Windows Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Windows
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 25 71 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 7.51% 13.73% 15.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 78.89% 83.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 56 92
10th Percentile £156 £138 £163
25th Percentile £213 £184 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £450 £427
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +5.39% +13.87%
75th Percentile £632 £541 £575
90th Percentile £673 £628 £652
Wales median daily rate £350 £413 £425
% change year-on-year -15.15% -2.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £19.32 £12.24
25th Percentile £12.25 £21.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £12.50 £47.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -73.68% +2.70% +129.81%
75th Percentile £12.75 £50.00 £47.40
90th Percentile - £55.25 -
Wales median hourly rate £12.50 £35.00 £35.63
% change year-on-year -64.29% -1.75% +145.44%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 50 90 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 15.02% 17.41% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 72 110
10th Percentile £203 £143 £162
25th Percentile £371 £245 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £481 £435
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% +10.62% +12.27%
75th Percentile £640 £550 £575
90th Percentile £703 £637 £652
Wales median daily rate £513 £431 £425
% change year-on-year +18.84% +1.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 11
10th Percentile £12.67 £19.32 £12.24
25th Percentile £13.31 £21.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £14.36 £47.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -69.77% +2.70% +129.81%
75th Percentile £31.18 £50.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £41.27 £55.25 -
Wales median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £35.63
% change year-on-year -58.97% -1.75% +137.50%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in South Wales over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in South Wales

Windows
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Cardiff +3 19 £575 +58.62% 12
Newport -15 4 £278 -48.37% 2
Rhondda Cynon Taff +8 1 £135 -3.57% 1
Gwent 0 1 £166 +0.61%
Windows
Wales

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (32.00%) AWS
4 7 (28.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (4.00%) GCP
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub
8 1 (4.00%) IaaS
8 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
8 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) VPN
3 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (12.00%) SAN
5 2 (8.00%) LAN
5 2 (8.00%) Network Security
5 2 (8.00%) WLAN
6 1 (4.00%) DHCP
6 1 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) MySQL
2 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.00%) AppScan
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Subversion
2 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Digital Economy
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Administrator
1 5 (20.00%) DBA
2 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (12.00%) Desktop Support
3 3 (12.00%) MySQL DBA
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Database Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Field Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (36.00%) Linux
3 6 (24.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (8.00%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
7 2 (8.00%) Unix
8 1 (4.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Change Control
3 6 (24.00%) Migration
3 6 (24.00%) Project Management
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (12.00%) Customer Service
6 3 (12.00%) ITIL
6 3 (12.00%) Project Governance
7 2 (8.00%) Analytics
7 2 (8.00%) Application Security
7 2 (8.00%) Budget Management
7 2 (8.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.00%) Data Analytics
7 2 (8.00%) OWASP
7 2 (8.00%) Security Testing
7 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) PHP
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) DBS Check
1 2 (8.00%) SANS
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) Docker
3 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.00%) Terminal Services
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Ansible
1 7 (28.00%) Grafana
1 7 (28.00%) Nagios
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) Graylog
2 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (8.00%) SCCM
5 1 (4.00%) HP Fortify
5 1 (4.00%) Nessus
5 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco
3 6 (24.00%) VMware
4 5 (20.00%) Dell
4 5 (20.00%) Splunk
5 2 (8.00%) Brocade
5 2 (8.00%) Checkmarx
5 2 (8.00%) NetApp
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle
5 2 (8.00%) SonicWALL
5 2 (8.00%) Veritas
5 2 (8.00%) WatchGuard
6 1 (4.00%) Citrix
6 1 (4.00%) EMC
6 1 (4.00%) New Relic
6 1 (4.00%) PagerDuty
6 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.00%) Rackspace
6 1 (4.00%) Veracode
6 1 (4.00%) Zscaler