Windows Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft Windows
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 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 8 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 84 133 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.71% 14.09% 13.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 81.55% 76.00% 76.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 126 128
10th Percentile £220 £259 £166
25th Percentile £307 £463 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -0.98%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £588 £647
South West median daily rate £538 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +8.59% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £102.50
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £40.00 £52.21
% change year-on-year -53.73% -23.39% +7.69%

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 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
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Wiltshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Wiltshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Wiltshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend 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 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 +3 57 £575 +4.55% 11
Salisbury -8 8 £220 -18.14% 5
Swindon -4 6 £315 +117.24% 4
Chippenham - 2 £250 - 4
Windows
South West

Windows
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 (19.05%) Confluence
2 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (13.10%) SharePoint
3 9 (10.71%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.19%) Apache
4 1 (1.19%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.95%) Azure
2 4 (4.76%) AWS
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.38%) GCP
4 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Storage
4 1 (1.19%) IaaS
4 1 (1.19%) Serverless
4 1 (1.19%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.24%) DNS
2 10 (11.90%) DHCP
2 10 (11.90%) Skype
3 5 (5.95%) Firewall
3 5 (5.95%) Unified Communications
3 5 (5.95%) VPN
4 3 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (3.57%) Network Security
5 2 (2.38%) iSCSI
5 2 (2.38%) SAN
5 2 (2.38%) SSL
5 2 (2.38%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.38%) VSAN
6 1 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.19%) LAN
6 1 (1.19%) SMTP
6 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (21.43%) JIRA
2 17 (20.24%) Git
3 13 (15.48%) Bitbucket
4 11 (13.10%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.19%) GitLab
5 1 (1.19%) MSI
General
1 27 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Electronics
4 3 (3.57%) Finance
4 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.57%) Marketing
4 3 (3.57%) Military
4 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.38%) Retail
6 1 (1.19%) Legal
6 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (10.71%) IT Support
2 9 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (9.52%) Architect
3 8 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
5 6 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Administrator
6 5 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Build Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Coordinator
8 3 (3.57%) Server Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (3.57%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.57%) Windows Server Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) REST
1 10 (11.90%) SOAP
2 2 (2.38%) .NET
2 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.38%) Flash
3 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.19%) LDAP
3 1 (1.19%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.24%) PKI
2 2 (2.38%) Clustering
2 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.48%) Windows Server
2 25 (29.76%) Linux
3 24 (28.57%) Windows 10
4 9 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (5.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.38%) VMS
8 1 (1.19%) Android
8 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.10%) Service Management
2 24 (28.57%) ITIL
3 21 (25.00%) NsoIT
4 20 (23.81%) Agile
4 20 (23.81%) Configuration Management
5 19 (22.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (17.86%) System Testing
7 13 (15.48%) Software Licensing
8 12 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (14.29%) Validation
9 11 (13.10%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (10.71%) Critical Thinking
10 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (10.71%) Reverse Engineering
10 9 (10.71%) Software Engineering
11 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (7.14%) DevOps
12 6 (7.14%) Migration
12 6 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 21 (25.00%) Python
3 13 (15.48%) Bash
4 9 (10.71%) SQL
5 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 74 (88.10%) Security Cleared
2 62 (73.81%) SC Cleared
3 32 (38.10%) DV Cleared
4 22 (26.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (13.10%) CCNP
5 11 (13.10%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (11.90%) Degree
6 10 (11.90%) OCA
6 10 (11.90%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (10.71%) RHCA
7 9 (10.71%) RHCE
8 8 (9.52%) MCSA
9 7 (8.33%) MCSE
10 3 (3.57%) Master's Degree
11 2 (2.38%) A+ Certification
11 2 (2.38%) CCNA
12 1 (1.19%) CISM
12 1 (1.19%) CISSP
12 1 (1.19%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.19%) NCSC
1 1 (1.19%) NIST
1 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
1 1 (1.19%) QA
1 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 22 (26.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.57%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.38%) vSphere
7 1 (1.19%) Docker
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 23 (27.38%) Ansible
2 13 (15.48%) vCenter Server
3 11 (13.10%) Puppet
4 10 (11.90%) Terraform
5 9 (10.71%) Progress Chef
6 8 (9.52%) SCCM
7 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (7.14%) WSUS
8 4 (4.76%) OPNET
9 3 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
9 3 (3.57%) SCOM
10 2 (2.38%) Nessus
11 1 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (1.19%) Packer
11 1 (1.19%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 32 (38.10%) VMware
3 15 (17.86%) Atlassian
4 14 (16.67%) Cisco
5 11 (13.10%) Oracle
6 6 (7.14%) Veeam
7 4 (4.76%) Remedy
8 3 (3.57%) F5
8 3 (3.57%) SAP
9 2 (2.38%) HP
9 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.19%) Apple
10 1 (1.19%) Citrix
10 1 (1.19%) Dell
10 1 (1.19%) Fujitsu
10 1 (1.19%) Splunk