Windows Server Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 37 34
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 19 25 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.66% 3.90% 4.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 29.69% 23.58% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 35
10th Percentile £191 £158 £286
25th Percentile £201 £175 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £184 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -56.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £405 £450 £454
90th Percentile £583 £550 £613
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.06 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.92% +30.22% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
Wales

Windows Server 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 Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 64 106 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 15.69% 16.54% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 86 137
10th Percentile £194 £138 £146
25th Percentile £216 £180 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - +7.94%
75th Percentile £611 £538 £568
90th Percentile £695 £628 £659
UK median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £12.67 £13.46 £12.59
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.14 £15.25
Median hourly rate £14.36 £22.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.18% -51.35% +218.64%
75th Percentile £31.18 £49.38 £47.40
90th Percentile £41.27 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -41.33% +68.31% +25.38%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Wales over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Wales region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
South Wales +16 15 £220 -48.24% 9
North Wales +3 2 £225 +25.00% 5
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) IaaS
4 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
1 4 (21.05%) SAN
2 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.53%) LAN
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 2 (10.53%) VPN
3 2 (10.53%) WLAN
4 1 (5.26%) DHCP
4 1 (5.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Burp Suite
1 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) AppScan
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Subversion
2 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Legal
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (15.79%) Product Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Database Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Field Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (10.53%) Linux
6 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
7 1 (5.26%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) DevOps
1 6 (31.58%) Project Management
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (26.32%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) Service Delivery
3 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (21.05%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Change Management
4 3 (15.79%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (15.79%) Project Governance
5 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
5 2 (10.53%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (10.53%) OWASP
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Security Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Service Management
5 2 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) PHP
3 1 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
2 2 (10.53%) SANS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) SLA
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 6 (31.58%) Hyper-V
3 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (10.53%) Docker
5 1 (5.26%) Terminal Services
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.79%) NetBackup
2 3 (15.79%) VxRail
3 2 (10.53%) Grafana
3 2 (10.53%) Graylog
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Nagios
3 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.53%) SCCM
4 1 (5.26%) HP Fortify
4 1 (5.26%) Nessus
4 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) VMware
2 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (26.32%) Cisco
3 5 (26.32%) Dell
4 3 (15.79%) 3PAR
4 3 (15.79%) Brocade
4 3 (15.79%) HP
5 2 (10.53%) Checkmarx
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle
5 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
5 2 (10.53%) SonicWALL
5 2 (10.53%) Splunk
5 2 (10.53%) WatchGuard
6 1 (5.26%) Citrix
6 1 (5.26%) EMC
6 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.26%) Veracode
6 1 (5.26%) Zscaler