Windows Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Microsoft Windows
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 31.58% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £255 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
Somerset median daily rate £275 £243 £198
% change year-on-year +13.40% +22.78% -34.17%

All Operating Systems
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 31.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £255 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
Somerset median daily rate £275 £250 £190
% change year-on-year +10.00% +31.58% -54.87%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Windows job vacancy trend in Taunton

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Taunton over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Taunton

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) DKIM
3 1 (16.67%) DMARC
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Military
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
1 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Architect
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
1 1 (16.67%) DBA
1 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Lead
1 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
1 1 (16.67%) Express.js
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) WCF
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) BCP
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Information Assurance
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) MODAF
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) MVVM
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) ESRI
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle