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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 72 88 136
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 8.98% 18.88% 14.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 87.80% 89.80% 68.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 81 117
10th Percentile £285 £215 £325
25th Percentile £428 £250 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £588
South West median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £27.09 - -
25th Percentile £34.45 - -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.65% - -
75th Percentile £41.66 - -
90th Percentile £41.71 - -
South West median hourly rate £25.77 £18.87 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.57% -52.83% -27.01%

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 82 98 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 10.22% 21.03% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 87 169
10th Percentile £285 £218 £444
25th Percentile £483 £253 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £604 £588
90th Percentile £722 £668 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £27.09 - -
25th Percentile £34.45 - -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.65% - -
75th Percentile £41.66 - -
90th Percentile £41.71 - -
South West median hourly rate £41.00 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +117.28% -73.04% +6.87%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +1 47 £550 -4.35% 6
Salisbury +3 7 £220 - 3
Chippenham +3 7 £508 +103.30% 3
Swindon -16 4 £525 +75.00% 4
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 1 (1.39%) Confluence
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.56%) AWS
1 4 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.39%) OCI
2 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (22.22%) SNMP
2 7 (9.72%) Firewall
3 5 (6.94%) DNS
4 4 (5.56%) Network Security
5 3 (4.17%) DHCP
6 2 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.78%) SAN
6 2 (2.78%) VoIP
7 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.39%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.39%) GoCD
3 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
1 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.78%) Aviation
3 2 (2.78%) Finance
3 2 (2.78%) Military
4 1 (1.39%) Banking
4 1 (1.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (27.78%) Architect
2 13 (18.06%) Consultant
2 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (16.67%) Management Consultant
4 5 (6.94%) Database Manager
4 5 (6.94%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) SOC Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Analyst
6 3 (4.17%) Senior
6 3 (4.17%) Service Desk Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Architect
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
8 1 (1.39%) Python Software Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.22%) REST
2 5 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (5.56%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.78%) OAuth
4 2 (2.78%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.78%) OpenID
4 2 (2.78%) SAML
5 1 (1.39%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Blackberry
2 4 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) CSOC
5 1 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.39%) Replication
5 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (54.17%) Linux
2 16 (22.22%) AIX
3 15 (20.83%) Windows Server
4 14 (19.44%) Android
4 14 (19.44%) Apple iOS
5 11 (15.28%) Windows 10
6 8 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (6.94%) Solaris
7 5 (6.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (19.44%) Dashboard Development
3 14 (19.44%) Mobile Device Management
4 8 (11.11%) DevOps
4 8 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (9.72%) Change Management
5 7 (9.72%) ITSM
6 6 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 6 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 6 (8.33%) Service Management
6 6 (8.33%) SIEM
6 6 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (6.94%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.94%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (6.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 19 (26.39%) Python
3 17 (23.61%) SQL
4 16 (22.22%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 65 (90.28%) Security Cleared
2 36 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 33 (45.83%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.17%) Degree
6 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.39%) CCNP
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.39%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.39%) MCSE
7 1 (1.39%) OCA
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.39%) RHCA
7 1 (1.39%) RHCE
7 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
2 1 (1.39%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.78%) Docker
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Nagios
1 16 (22.22%) ZABBIX
2 15 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (20.83%) Netcool
3 14 (19.44%) Tivoli
4 13 (18.06%) OpenView
4 13 (18.06%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 7 (9.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 7 (9.72%) Ansible
5 7 (9.72%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.56%) VxRail
7 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
8 2 (2.78%) WSUS
9 1 (1.39%) FreeIPA
9 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.39%) Puppet
9 1 (1.39%) SCOM
9 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 27 (37.50%) VMware
2 18 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 17 (23.61%) BMC
4 16 (22.22%) Splunk
5 15 (20.83%) Citrix
6 14 (19.44%) MobileIron
7 13 (18.06%) HP
7 13 (18.06%) IBM
8 6 (8.33%) Remedy
9 5 (6.94%) Clearswift
9 5 (6.94%) Oracle
9 5 (6.94%) Tanium
9 5 (6.94%) Trend Micro
10 4 (5.56%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (5.56%) Dell
10 4 (5.56%) Thales
11 2 (2.78%) Cisco
11 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow