Windows Server Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft Windows Server
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 64 46 39
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 26 47 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.73% 4.25% 4.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.69% 23.04% 22.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 39 24
10th Percentile £263 £415 £333
25th Percentile £325 £463 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +15.79% +15.22%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £538
90th Percentile £681 £640 £657
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - -13.11% -
South West median hourly rate £72.75 £40.50 £69.05
% change year-on-year +79.63% -41.35% +132.77%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 177 204 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.59% 18.43% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 175 126
10th Percentile £282 £189 £150
25th Percentile £463 £263 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £575
90th Percentile £700 £669 £638
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £63.50 £15.79
25th Percentile - £68.75 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +38.10%
75th Percentile - £100.00 -
90th Percentile - £107.50 £75.10
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +124.49%

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 23 April 2024.

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 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
Corsham -26 18 £538 -2.27% 5
Salisbury +8 2 £275 -54.55%
Swindon +10 1 £225 -10.00% 5
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 14 (53.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (30.77%) Confluence
3 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
4 2 (7.69%) Skype for Business
5 1 (3.85%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) DHCP
1 11 (42.31%) DNS
2 6 (23.08%) Skype
3 3 (11.54%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) LAN
3 3 (11.54%) SAN
3 3 (11.54%) WAN
4 2 (7.69%) SMTP
4 2 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.69%) Unified Communications
4 2 (7.69%) VSAN
5 1 (3.85%) NAS
5 1 (3.85%) Network Security
5 1 (3.85%) VPN
5 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Military
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Integration Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Test and Integration Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Test Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (7.69%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Support Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) IT Support
5 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Wintel Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) .NET
1 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) PKI
2 4 (15.38%) Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.69%) Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Windows 7
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Critical Thinking
3 6 (23.08%) ITIL
3 6 (23.08%) Regression Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
4 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Project Management
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (15.38%) Service Management
6 2 (7.69%) Change Management
6 2 (7.69%) ITSM
6 2 (7.69%) Matrix Management
6 2 (7.69%) Office Automation
6 2 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (7.69%) PRINCE2
6 2 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (7.69%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (7.69%) System Testing
6 2 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (96.15%) Security Cleared
2 16 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 12 (46.15%) DV Cleared
4 11 (42.31%) MCSE
4 11 (42.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (26.92%) MCSA
7 4 (15.38%) Degree
8 2 (7.69%) CCNA
8 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (3.85%) CCNP
9 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (3.85%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 17 (65.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (15.38%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (15.38%) VMware NSX
3 4 (15.38%) vSphere
4 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.85%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) SCCM
1 4 (15.38%) vCenter Server
2 3 (11.54%) SCOM
3 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) OPNET
3 2 (7.69%) WSUS
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (80.77%) VMware
2 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (19.23%) SolarWinds
4 4 (15.38%) Veeam
5 3 (11.54%) HP
6 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
6 2 (7.69%) Remedy
6 2 (7.69%) Splunk
7 1 (3.85%) BEA
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco
7 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto