Windows Server Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 65 45
Rank change year-on-year +42 -20 -8
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 34 24 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 7.57% 2.54% 4.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.01% 13.71% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 24 41
10th Percentile £513 £274 £300
25th Percentile £525 £325 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £613 £584 £588
90th Percentile £664 £694 £638
South West median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - £63.60
South West median hourly rate - £72.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +21.25% -13.11%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

Windows Server 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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 103 175 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 22.94% 18.54% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 165 173
10th Percentile £220 £325 £182
25th Percentile £324 £463 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £669
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.76%
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £102.50
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Wiltshire

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Wiltshire

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Wiltshire

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Wiltshire

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Corsham +45 33 £575 +6.98% 2
Windows Server
South West

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 16 (47.06%) Confluence
2 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (26.47%) SharePoint
3 9 (26.47%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (35.29%) DNS
2 10 (29.41%) DHCP
2 10 (29.41%) Skype
3 5 (14.71%) Unified Communications
4 4 (11.76%) VPN
5 2 (5.88%) iSCSI
5 2 (5.88%) SAN
5 2 (5.88%) SSL
6 1 (2.94%) Firewall
6 1 (2.94%) LAN
6 1 (2.94%) SMTP
6 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) JIRA
2 13 (38.24%) Bitbucket
3 10 (29.41%) Git
3 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (32.35%) Public Sector
2 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Wintel Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Server Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Test Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) HP Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) SCCM Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Service Architect
5 1 (2.94%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) REST
2 9 (26.47%) SOAP
3 2 (5.88%) Flash
4 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) PKI
2 2 (5.88%) Clustering
2 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (29.41%) Linux
3 9 (26.47%) Windows 10
4 8 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 8 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) Agile
2 16 (47.06%) Service Management
3 15 (44.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (44.12%) System Testing
4 14 (41.18%) NsoIT
5 12 (35.29%) Validation
6 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (29.41%) Configuration Management
7 10 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (26.47%) Critical Thinking
8 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Automation
8 9 (26.47%) Reverse Engineering
9 8 (23.53%) ITIL
10 5 (14.71%) Waterfall
11 4 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
12 3 (8.82%) Change Management
12 3 (8.82%) Information Security
12 3 (8.82%) ITSM
12 3 (8.82%) Performance Monitoring
12 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) PowerShell
2 10 (29.41%) Python
3 9 (26.47%) Bash
3 9 (26.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (97.06%) Security Cleared
2 25 (73.53%) SC Cleared
3 15 (44.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (32.35%) CCNP
4 11 (32.35%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (32.35%) DV Cleared
5 10 (29.41%) Degree
5 10 (29.41%) OCA
5 10 (29.41%) Oracle Certification
6 9 (26.47%) RHCA
6 9 (26.47%) RHCE
7 8 (23.53%) MCSA
7 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (20.59%) MCSE
9 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
10 2 (5.88%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 17 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (32.35%) Hyper-V
4 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (17.65%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) vCenter Server
2 10 (29.41%) Ansible
3 9 (26.47%) Progress Chef
3 9 (26.47%) Puppet
4 6 (17.65%) SCCM
5 5 (14.71%) WSUS
6 3 (8.82%) SCOM
7 2 (5.88%) OPNET
8 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (2.94%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) Microsoft
2 18 (52.94%) VMware
3 14 (41.18%) Atlassian
4 11 (32.35%) Cisco
5 10 (29.41%) Oracle
6 6 (17.65%) Veeam
7 3 (8.82%) Remedy
8 2 (5.88%) HP
8 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.94%) Fujitsu