Windows Contracts in Swindon

Microsoft Windows
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 13 12 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 13.83% 9.60% 15.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.00% 85.71% 97.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 30
10th Percentile £200 £120 £162
25th Percentile £209 £131 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £145 £200
Median % change year-on-year +106.90% -27.50% -45.76%
75th Percentile £323 £149 £372
90th Percentile £365 £242 £494
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £475
% change year-on-year - +15.79% -5.00%

All Operating Systems
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 20 14 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 21.28% 11.20% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 31
10th Percentile £202 £120 £163
25th Percentile £224 £137 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £145 £200
Median % change year-on-year +117.24% -27.50% -58.97%
75th Percentile £478 £208 £406
90th Percentile £600 £397 £550
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £515
% change year-on-year - +6.80% +3.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Swindon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Swindon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Swindon over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Swindon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Swindon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Build Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Build Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Deskside Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Deskside Support
4 1 (7.69%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Application Packaging
2 4 (30.77%) Asset Management
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.69%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) A+ Certification
1 1 (7.69%) MCP
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft