Windows Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Microsoft Windows
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 83 84 131
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 11.87% 19.13% 14.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.00% 84.85% 80.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 79 114
10th Percentile £230 £212 £202
25th Percentile £506 £220 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £538 £506
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% +6.17% +1.25%
75th Percentile £670 £588 £575
90th Percentile £725 £681 £675
South West median daily rate £425 £444 £470
% change year-on-year -4.23% -5.59% +6.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.50 - -
South West median hourly rate £33.00 £15.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +118.43% -62.23% -32.98%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

Windows 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 100 99 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 14.31% 22.55% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 87 140
10th Percentile £255 £211 £224
25th Percentile £511 £263 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £609 £575
90th Percentile £715 £714 £664
South West median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £12.50 - -
75th Percentile £15.66 - -
90th Percentile £25.15 - -
South West median hourly rate £39.47 £67.50 £53.60
% change year-on-year -41.53% +25.93% -17.53%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Windows job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Wiltshire

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Windows

Windows
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 within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 14 February 2026. 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 -14 41 £575 - 6
Salisbury -5 7 £220 - 5
Swindon -5 6 £500 +138.10% 2
Chippenham - 4 £574 -
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.82%) Confluence
3 4 (4.82%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.02%) IaaS
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.61%) Azure
4 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.41%) GCP
5 1 (1.20%) AWS
5 1 (1.20%) GitHub
5 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.12%) DNS
2 19 (22.89%) Firewall
3 8 (9.64%) Network Security
3 8 (9.64%) Skype
4 1 (1.20%) DHCP
4 1 (1.20%) MQTT
4 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.20%) VLAN
4 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Git
1 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.82%) JIRA
2 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.41%) GitLab
3 2 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.20%) GoCD
4 1 (1.20%) Maven
4 1 (1.20%) MSI
General
1 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.25%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.41%) Military
6 1 (1.20%) Advertising
6 1 (1.20%) Finance
6 1 (1.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (20.48%) Architect
2 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (8.43%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Technical Architect
6 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Administrator
7 4 (4.82%) Platform Manager
7 4 (4.82%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (4.82%) Systems Manager
7 4 (4.82%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Wintel Administrator
7 4 (4.82%) Wintel Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.61%) Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Coordinator
8 3 (3.61%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (3.61%) Service Desk Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) OAuth
1 15 (18.07%) OAuth2
1 15 (18.07%) OpenID
1 15 (18.07%) SAML
2 3 (3.61%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.20%) Middleware
3 1 (1.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) PKI
2 7 (8.43%) Private Cloud
2 7 (8.43%) Replication
3 6 (7.23%) Driving Licence
3 6 (7.23%) Social Media
4 4 (4.82%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) CMDB
7 1 (1.20%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (44.58%) Windows Server
2 27 (32.53%) Linux
3 19 (22.89%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.82%) Android
4 4 (4.82%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.82%) CentOS
4 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 19 (22.89%) Service Management
2 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (19.28%) RBAC
4 13 (15.66%) Identity Access Management
5 12 (14.46%) Change Management
5 12 (14.46%) ITIL
5 12 (14.46%) Load Balancing
6 11 (13.25%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (12.05%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (10.84%) Mentoring
9 8 (9.64%) Server Management
10 7 (8.43%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (8.43%) Identity Management
11 6 (7.23%) DevOps
11 6 (7.23%) Line Management
11 6 (7.23%) Migration
11 6 (7.23%) Security Hardening
11 6 (7.23%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (33.73%) PowerShell
2 6 (7.23%) Python
3 4 (4.82%) SQL
4 2 (2.41%) Bash
5 1 (1.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 71 (85.54%) Security Cleared
2 47 (56.63%) DV Cleared
3 33 (39.76%) SC Cleared
4 25 (30.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (8.43%) MCSE
6 6 (7.23%) DBS Check
7 4 (4.82%) Degree
7 4 (4.82%) MCSA
7 4 (4.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.61%) OCA
8 3 (3.61%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.20%) CCA
10 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (48.19%) Active Directory
2 24 (28.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (12.05%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (10.84%) VMware NSX
5 4 (4.82%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.41%) vSphere
7 1 (1.20%) Firmware
7 1 (1.20%) KVM
7 1 (1.20%) UAG
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (32.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 19 (22.89%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (13.25%) Ansible
4 10 (12.05%) vCenter Server
5 9 (10.84%) Terraform
6 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (7.23%) WSUS
8 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
8 5 (6.02%) Packer
9 4 (4.82%) Nessus
10 3 (3.61%) VxRail
11 2 (2.41%) PowerCLI
11 2 (2.41%) SCCM
12 1 (1.20%) FreeIPA
12 1 (1.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 48 (57.83%) Microsoft
2 41 (49.40%) VMware
3 11 (13.25%) Cisco
4 9 (10.84%) SolarWinds
4 9 (10.84%) Veeam
5 6 (7.23%) Citrix
6 4 (4.82%) Dell
6 4 (4.82%) MobileIron
7 3 (3.61%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.61%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (3.61%) Oracle
7 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.61%) Thales
8 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.20%) Juniper
8 1 (1.20%) Remedy
8 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.20%) TOWER Software