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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 66 91 139
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 8.64% 19.49% 16.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 89.19% 88.35% 65.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 75 116
10th Percentile £306 £220 £325
25th Percentile £429 £278 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £583
90th Percentile £721 £652 £588
South West median daily rate £488 £450 £501
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.22% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £17.25 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 - -
Median hourly rate £37.43 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +98.34% - -
75th Percentile £41.55 - -
90th Percentile £41.71 - -
South West median hourly rate £25.77 £18.87 £60.00
% change year-on-year +36.57% -68.55% +3.40%

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 74 103 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 9.69% 22.06% 25.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 82 179
10th Percentile £306 £220 £422
25th Percentile £433 £308 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £605 £588
90th Percentile £701 £650 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £490 £538
% change year-on-year +2.04% -8.84% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £17.25 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 - -
Median hourly rate £37.43 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +98.34% - -
75th Percentile £41.55 - -
90th Percentile £41.71 - -
South West median hourly rate £40.50 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +114.63% -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -2 41 £550 -4.35% 2
Chippenham +2 7 £508 +103.30% 2
Salisbury -7 7 £530 +140.80% 3
Swindon -18 3 £850 +169.84% 5
Tidworth +2 2 - - 1
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 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.06%) AWS
1 4 (6.06%) Azure
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (24.24%) SNMP
2 8 (12.12%) DNS
3 7 (10.61%) DHCP
4 5 (7.58%) SAN
4 5 (7.58%) VoIP
5 3 (4.55%) Firewall
5 3 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.52%) BGP
7 1 (1.52%) MPLS
7 1 (1.52%) Network Security
7 1 (1.52%) VLAN
7 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.52%) eggPlant
2 1 (1.52%) GitLab
2 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.06%) Military
5 2 (3.03%) Aviation
5 2 (3.03%) Finance
6 1 (1.52%) Banking
6 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Architect
2 13 (19.70%) Consultant
3 12 (18.18%) Management Consultant
4 11 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Senior
6 5 (7.58%) Database Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) SOC Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Desktop Support
9 2 (3.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) IT Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) IT Support
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.03%) SOC Analyst
9 2 (3.03%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (1.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) REST
2 6 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.52%) .NET
3 1 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.52%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.21%) Blackberry
2 4 (6.06%) PKI
3 3 (4.55%) Clustering
3 3 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.55%) Fat Client
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.55%) Smartcard
3 3 (4.55%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.03%) CSOC
4 2 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (59.09%) Linux
2 16 (24.24%) AIX
3 14 (21.21%) Android
3 14 (21.21%) Apple iOS
4 11 (16.67%) Windows Server
5 10 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (13.64%) Windows 10
7 6 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (7.58%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (21.21%) Dashboard Development
3 14 (21.21%) Mobile Device Management
4 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (10.61%) DevOps
5 7 (10.61%) Incident Response
5 7 (10.61%) ITSM
5 7 (10.61%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (10.61%) SIEM
5 7 (10.61%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 6 (9.09%) Change Management
6 6 (9.09%) Configuration Management
6 6 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 6 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
6 6 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (7.58%) Change Control
7 5 (7.58%) Project Delivery
7 5 (7.58%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.85%) PowerShell
2 20 (30.30%) Python
3 17 (25.76%) SQL
4 16 (24.24%) Search Processing Language
5 5 (7.58%) Bash
6 2 (3.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 59 (89.39%) Security Cleared
2 36 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 23 (34.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) Degree
5 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.52%) CCNP
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.52%) MCSE
6 1 (1.52%) OCA
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.52%) RHCA
6 1 (1.52%) RHCE
6 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.52%) NIST
2 1 (1.52%) QA
2 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.03%) Docker
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (24.24%) Nagios
1 16 (24.24%) ZABBIX
2 15 (22.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (22.73%) Netcool
3 14 (21.21%) Tivoli
4 13 (19.70%) OpenView
4 13 (19.70%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 6 (9.09%) Ansible
6 5 (7.58%) WSUS
7 3 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
8 2 (3.03%) SCCM
8 2 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.52%) Puppet
9 1 (1.52%) Terraform
9 1 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 20 (30.30%) VMware
3 19 (28.79%) SolarWinds
4 17 (25.76%) BMC
5 16 (24.24%) Splunk
6 14 (21.21%) Citrix
6 14 (21.21%) MobileIron
7 13 (19.70%) HP
7 13 (19.70%) IBM
8 7 (10.61%) Cisco
9 6 (9.09%) Clearswift
9 6 (9.09%) Tanium
9 6 (9.09%) Trend Micro
10 5 (7.58%) Oracle
10 5 (7.58%) Red Hat
10 5 (7.58%) Remedy
11 3 (4.55%) McAfee
12 2 (3.03%) Tripwire
13 1 (1.52%) Dell
13 1 (1.52%) Juniper