Wind River Contracts

Wind River
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Wind River products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Wind River over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Wind River Systems.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 592 -
Rank change year-on-year +77 - -
Contract jobs citing Wind River 4 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.018% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.029% 0.043% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £405 -
25th Percentile £613 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% - -
75th Percentile £638 £428 -
90th Percentile - £436 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £66.88 - -
25th Percentile £67.81 - -
Median hourly rate £71.25 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £75.31 - -
90th Percentile £76.63 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.25 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

All Vendors
UK

Wind River falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Wind River as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wind River in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wind River.

Daily rate trend for Wind River in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wind River.

Hourly rate trend for Wind River in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wind River within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +59 4 £625 +47.06% 4
UK excluding London +49 3 - - 3
East of England - 2 - -
Work from Home +49 1 - - 1
South West +45 1 - - 3
London - 1 £625 - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Aviation
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) VxWorks
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Management
3 1 (25.00%) Co-Creation
3 1 (25.00%) Records Management
3 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Istio
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) VMware