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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 82 91 133
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 9.86% 20.45% 13.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.67% 85.05% 76.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 86 123
10th Percentile £280 £220 £263
25th Percentile £445 £344 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +17.81%
75th Percentile £638 £606 £575
90th Percentile £720 £663 £588
South West median daily rate £450 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -16.28% +13.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.50 - -
South West median hourly rate £27.50 £18.51 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.57% -53.73% -25.02%

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 98 107 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 11.78% 24.04% 18.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 94 162
10th Percentile £285 £220 £300
25th Percentile £450 £355 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £629 £613 £588
90th Percentile £715 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £535 £490
% change year-on-year -6.54% +9.18% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.50 - -
South West median hourly rate £63.14 £66.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.06% +33.00% -23.08%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -9 49 £550 -4.35% 9
Salisbury -7 6 £220 - 2
Swindon -7 5 £500 +58.73% 3
Chippenham -2 3 £588 +135.00%
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 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.66%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.88%) Azure
1 4 (4.88%) IaaS
2 2 (2.44%) AWS
2 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
2 2 (2.44%) GCP
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (23.17%) Firewall
2 15 (18.29%) DNS
3 11 (13.41%) SNMP
4 4 (4.88%) Network Security
4 4 (4.88%) Skype
5 1 (1.22%) MQTT
5 1 (1.22%) VLAN
5 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) JIRA
2 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.44%) Git
4 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.22%) eggPlant
4 1 (1.22%) GitLab
4 1 (1.22%) GoCD
4 1 (1.22%) MSI
4 1 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.41%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.22%) Banking
5 1 (1.22%) Finance
5 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (32.93%) Architect
2 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (9.76%) Consultant
3 8 (9.76%) Management Consultant
4 7 (8.54%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.32%) Technical Architect
5 6 (7.32%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Wintel Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) Service Desk Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Lead
8 2 (2.44%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (2.44%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.22%) Python Engineer
9 1 (1.22%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.29%) OAuth
1 15 (18.29%) OAuth2
1 15 (18.29%) OpenID
1 15 (18.29%) SAML
2 11 (13.41%) REST
3 3 (3.66%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.22%) .NET
4 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.07%) Blackberry
2 8 (9.76%) Private Cloud
3 7 (8.54%) Replication
4 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.88%) PKI
5 3 (3.66%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.66%) Social Media
6 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 34 (41.46%) Windows Server
2 31 (37.80%) Linux
3 14 (17.07%) Android
3 14 (17.07%) Apple iOS
4 11 (13.41%) AIX
5 10 (12.20%) Windows 10
6 4 (4.88%) CentOS
6 4 (4.88%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (25.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (19.51%) RBAC
3 16 (19.51%) Service Management
4 14 (17.07%) Mobile Device Management
4 14 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (15.85%) Identity Access Management
6 12 (14.63%) ITIL
6 12 (14.63%) Load Balancing
7 11 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (12.20%) Dashboard Development
9 9 (10.98%) Mentoring
10 8 (9.76%) DevOps
11 7 (8.54%) Change Management
11 7 (8.54%) Identity Management
12 6 (7.32%) Server Management
12 6 (7.32%) System Testing
13 5 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (6.10%) Critical Thinking
13 5 (6.10%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.34%) PowerShell
2 14 (17.07%) Python
2 14 (17.07%) SQL
3 11 (13.41%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (1.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 73 (89.02%) Security Cleared
2 43 (52.44%) SC Cleared
3 39 (47.56%) DV Cleared
4 23 (28.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.10%) MCSE
6 4 (4.88%) Degree
7 3 (3.66%) DBS Check
7 3 (3.66%) OCA
7 3 (3.66%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (3.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.44%) MCSA
9 1 (1.22%) CCNP
9 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.22%) RHCA
9 1 (1.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) NCSC
1 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 30 (36.59%) Active Directory
2 16 (19.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.10%) VMware NSX
4 4 (4.88%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.22%) Docker
6 1 (1.22%) Firmware
6 1 (1.22%) KVM
6 1 (1.22%) UAG
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (28.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 19 (23.17%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (19.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (13.41%) Ansible
4 11 (13.41%) Nagios
4 11 (13.41%) Netcool
4 11 (13.41%) ZABBIX
5 10 (12.20%) OpenView
5 10 (12.20%) Tivoli
5 10 (12.20%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 7 (8.54%) Terraform
7 6 (7.32%) Kubernetes
8 4 (4.88%) Nessus
8 4 (4.88%) Packer
8 4 (4.88%) WSUS
9 3 (3.66%) VxRail
10 2 (2.44%) PowerCLI
10 2 (2.44%) SCCM
11 1 (1.22%) SCOM
11 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (56.10%) Microsoft
2 40 (48.78%) VMware
3 16 (19.51%) Citrix
4 14 (17.07%) MobileIron
4 14 (17.07%) SolarWinds
5 11 (13.41%) BMC
5 11 (13.41%) Splunk
6 10 (12.20%) HP
6 10 (12.20%) IBM
7 3 (3.66%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (3.66%) Dell
7 3 (3.66%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.66%) Thales
7 3 (3.66%) Veeam
8 2 (2.44%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco
8 2 (2.44%) Oracle
8 2 (2.44%) Remedy
9 1 (1.22%) Clearswift
9 1 (1.22%) Trend Micro