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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 91 76 118
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 15.32% 16.14% 15.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 89.22% 70.37% 76.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 63 93
10th Percentile £240 £205 £200
25th Percentile £450 £263 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +11.70% -6.00%
75th Percentile £670 £585 £575
90th Percentile £715 £638 £675
South West median daily rate £425 £423 £465
% change year-on-year +0.47% -9.03% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.50 - -
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -50.00% +25.26% -15.63%

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 102 108 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 17.17% 22.93% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 88 124
10th Percentile £253 £205 £210
25th Percentile £469 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +10.26% -7.14%
75th Percentile £669 £588 £591
90th Percentile £715 £638 £675
South West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
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 £38.94 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -42.31% +8.00% -3.85%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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 -13 34 £575 +0.88% 1
Salisbury 0 12 £635 +188.64% 7
Swindon -5 8 £450 +114.29% 13
Chippenham - 3 £588 - 3
Tidworth - 1 £153 -
Trowbridge - 1 £200 - 1
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 12 (13.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.49%) Confluence
2 5 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.40%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.10%) Documentum
4 1 (1.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.49%) IaaS
2 4 (4.40%) Azure
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.30%) GCP
4 2 (2.20%) AWS
4 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.10%) GitHub
5 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (25.27%) DNS
2 15 (16.48%) Firewall
3 11 (12.09%) Skype
4 9 (9.89%) Network Security
5 3 (3.30%) VSAN
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.10%) DHCP
6 1 (1.10%) MQTT
6 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.10%) VLAN
6 1 (1.10%) VPN
6 1 (1.10%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
1 5 (5.49%) JIRA
2 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
2 4 (4.40%) Git
3 2 (2.20%) GitLab
3 2 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.10%) AdminStudio
4 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.10%) GoCD
4 1 (1.10%) InstallShield
4 1 (1.10%) Maven
4 1 (1.10%) MSI
General
1 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.19%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.89%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.30%) Finance
4 3 (3.30%) Legal
4 3 (3.30%) Retail
5 2 (2.20%) Military
6 1 (1.10%) Advertising
6 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.10%) Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Electronics
6 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.10%) Marketing
6 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (14.29%) Administrator
2 12 (13.19%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (13.19%) Platform Manager
2 12 (13.19%) Systems Administrator
2 12 (13.19%) Systems Manager
2 12 (13.19%) Wintel Administrator
2 12 (13.19%) Wintel Systems Administrator
3 11 (12.09%) Architect
4 7 (7.69%) Implementation Specialist
4 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.49%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (3.30%) Security Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) OAuth
1 13 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 13 (14.29%) OpenID
1 13 (14.29%) SAML
2 2 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.20%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.10%) Middleware
3 1 (1.10%) REST
3 1 (1.10%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.08%) PKI
2 8 (8.79%) Private Cloud
3 6 (6.59%) Driving Licence
3 6 (6.59%) Replication
3 6 (6.59%) Social Media
4 3 (3.30%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) CMDB
5 1 (1.10%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.10%) FMCG
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (32.97%) Windows Server
2 27 (29.67%) Linux
3 18 (19.78%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.40%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.30%) CentOS
5 3 (3.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.10%) Android
7 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.68%) Service Management
2 15 (16.48%) Change Management
3 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (14.29%) RBAC
5 12 (13.19%) ITIL
5 12 (13.19%) Network Management
6 10 (10.99%) Load Balancing
6 10 (10.99%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (9.89%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (9.89%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (9.89%) Security Patching
8 8 (8.79%) Mentoring
8 8 (8.79%) Migration
8 8 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
9 7 (7.69%) Server Management
10 6 (6.59%) DevOps
10 6 (6.59%) Line Management
10 6 (6.59%) Security Hardening
10 6 (6.59%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.69%) Python
2 7 (7.69%) SQL
3 3 (3.30%) Bash
4 1 (1.10%) Java
4 1 (1.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 75 (82.42%) Security Cleared
2 42 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 35 (38.46%) SC Cleared
4 22 (24.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (7.69%) MCSE
6 6 (6.59%) DBS Check
7 4 (4.40%) Degree
7 4 (4.40%) MCSA
7 4 (4.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (3.30%) OCA
8 3 (3.30%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.10%) CCA
9 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) NCSC
2 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 34 (37.36%) Active Directory
2 20 (21.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.99%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (5.49%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.20%) Firmware
6 2 (2.20%) vSphere
7 1 (1.10%) Docker
7 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.10%) KVM
7 1 (1.10%) UAG
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 13 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 13 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 12 (13.19%) Ansible
4 10 (10.99%) Terraform
5 6 (6.59%) WSUS
6 5 (5.49%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (5.49%) Packer
6 5 (5.49%) SCCM
7 4 (4.40%) Nessus
8 3 (3.30%) OPNET
9 2 (2.20%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.10%) AirWatch
10 1 (1.10%) FreeIPA
10 1 (1.10%) Grafana
10 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.10%) Puppet
10 1 (1.10%) SCOM
10 1 (1.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (45.05%) Microsoft
2 31 (34.07%) VMware
3 12 (13.19%) Cisco
4 9 (9.89%) SolarWinds
4 9 (9.89%) Veeam
5 4 (4.40%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.30%) Citrix
6 3 (3.30%) Oracle
6 3 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.20%) SAP
8 1 (1.10%) Apple
8 1 (1.10%) Dell
8 1 (1.10%) EMC
8 1 (1.10%) HP
8 1 (1.10%) Juniper
8 1 (1.10%) McAfee
8 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.10%) Sophos
8 1 (1.10%) Splunk
8 1 (1.10%) TOWER Software