Wind River Contract Job Trends

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 20 December 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 536 587
Rank change year-on-year -48 +51 -
Contract jobs citing Wind River 7 5 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.015% 0.023%
As % of the Vendors category 0.040% 0.032% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £463 - £405
25th Percentile £522 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £600 - £445
90th Percentile £628 - £578
UK excluding London median daily rate - £350 £425
% change year-on-year - -17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £73.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £73.75 -

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 17,425 15,570 19,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.27% 45.69% 45.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,076 9,288 12,626
10th Percentile £294 £283 £252
25th Percentile £408 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 866 465 664
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.62 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.01 £19.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -35.71% +76.74%
75th Percentile £44.40 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.01 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.81 £45.21
% change year-on-year -17.95% -40.69% +104.02%

Wind River
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Wind River relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Wind River job vacancy trend in the UK

Wind River
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wind River.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wind River

Wind River
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wind River over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wind River in the UK

Wind River
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wind River.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Wind River

Wind River
Top 3 Contract Job 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 20 December 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 -40 6 £563 +60.71% 1
London - 6 £563 - 1
Work from Home -3 2 £600 +71.43%

Wind River
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (42.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) 3GPP
1 2 (28.57%) Anycast
1 2 (28.57%) BGP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (28.57%) VXLAN
2 1 (14.29%) Calico
2 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Automation Tester
1 4 (57.14%) Tester
2 3 (42.86%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Network Design Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Telecoms Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Network Design
2 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCIE
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) JNCIE
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Arista
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) VMware