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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 58 90 112
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 7.67% 19.48% 16.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 89.23% 88.24% 65.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 68 86
10th Percentile £285 £211 £200
25th Percentile £315 £250 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £631 £608 £575
90th Percentile £721 £669 £616
South West median daily rate £475 £350 £475
% change year-on-year +35.71% -26.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.36 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.66% - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile £41.71 - -
South West median hourly rate £25.76 £18.87 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.51% -70.97% +23.81%

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 65 102 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 8.60% 22.08% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 75 135
10th Percentile £291 £216 £216
25th Percentile £331 £278 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +10.26%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £575
90th Percentile £736 £666 £628
South West median daily rate £500 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +14.94% -17.14% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £36.36 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.66% - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile £41.71 - -
South West median hourly rate £38.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +104.03% -73.04% +7.19%

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 31 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Wiltshire

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 31 August 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 -6 31 £600 +4.35% 8
Salisbury -4 8 £500 -11.89% 1
Chippenham -4 6 £457 +82.60% 2
Swindon -21 5 £300 -4.76% 1
Tidworth +2 3 - - 2
Bradford-on-Avon - 1 £210 -
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 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.17%) AWS
2 3 (5.17%) Azure
3 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (27.59%) SNMP
2 12 (20.69%) DNS
3 9 (15.52%) DHCP
4 5 (8.62%) Firewall
4 5 (8.62%) SAN
4 5 (8.62%) VoIP
5 3 (5.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.45%) BGP
6 2 (3.45%) MPLS
6 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.45%) VLAN
7 1 (1.72%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.72%) LAN
7 1 (1.72%) Skype
7 1 (1.72%) VPN
7 1 (1.72%) WAN
7 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) eggPlant
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Military
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Aviation
6 2 (3.45%) Finance
6 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.72%) Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Consultant
2 12 (20.69%) Management Consultant
3 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Desktop Support
4 6 (10.34%) Senior
5 5 (8.62%) Database Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) SOC Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) IT Support
7 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Cisco Administrator
8 2 (3.45%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) IT Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) SOC Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) REST
2 6 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.45%) OAuth
3 2 (3.45%) SAML
4 1 (1.72%) .NET
4 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.72%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.72%) LDAP
4 1 (1.72%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.72%) OpenID
4 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) PKI
2 5 (8.62%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.17%) Clustering
3 3 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.17%) Fat Client
3 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.17%) Smartcard
3 3 (5.17%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.45%) CSOC
4 2 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 38 (65.52%) Linux
2 16 (27.59%) AIX
3 14 (24.14%) Windows 10
4 13 (22.41%) Windows Server
5 10 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (12.07%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (8.62%) Solaris
8 1 (1.72%) Unix
8 1 (1.72%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.14%) Dashboard Development
2 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (15.52%) ITSM
4 8 (13.79%) Customer Service
4 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (13.79%) SIEM
5 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (12.07%) Incident Response
5 7 (12.07%) Project Delivery
5 7 (12.07%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (12.07%) Service Management
5 7 (12.07%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 6 (10.34%) Change Management
6 6 (10.34%) DevOps
6 6 (10.34%) Security Monitoring
6 6 (10.34%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (8.62%) Change Control
7 5 (8.62%) Configuration Management
7 5 (8.62%) Patch Management
7 5 (8.62%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) PowerShell
2 19 (32.76%) Python
3 18 (31.03%) SQL
4 16 (27.59%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (6.90%) Bash
6 2 (3.45%) Perl
7 1 (1.72%) VB
7 1 (1.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (86.21%) Security Cleared
2 25 (43.10%) DV Cleared
2 25 (43.10%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.72%) CISM
5 1 (1.72%) CISSP
5 1 (1.72%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.72%) MCSE
5 1 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.45%) SLA
3 1 (1.72%) NCSC
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
3 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 18 (31.03%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.34%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.45%) BitLocker
3 2 (3.45%) Docker
3 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Nagios
1 16 (27.59%) ZABBIX
2 15 (25.86%) Netcool
3 14 (24.14%) Tivoli
4 13 (22.41%) OpenView
4 13 (22.41%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 6 (10.34%) WSUS
6 5 (8.62%) SCCM
7 4 (6.90%) Ansible
8 3 (5.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (5.17%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
9 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.72%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (1.72%) BMC Performance Manager
10 1 (1.72%) OPNET
10 1 (1.72%) Perfmon
10 1 (1.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) SolarWinds
2 18 (31.03%) BMC
3 17 (29.31%) Splunk
4 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
5 13 (22.41%) HP
5 13 (22.41%) IBM
6 8 (13.79%) Cisco
7 6 (10.34%) Clearswift
7 6 (10.34%) Oracle
7 6 (10.34%) Tanium
7 6 (10.34%) Trend Micro
7 6 (10.34%) VMware
8 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
8 5 (8.62%) Remedy
9 3 (5.17%) McAfee
10 2 (3.45%) Juniper
10 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
10 2 (3.45%) Tripwire
11 1 (1.72%) AppDynamics
11 1 (1.72%) Samsung