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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 77 87 135
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 9.11% 19.38% 14.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.70% 82.86% 76.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 80 128
10th Percentile £285 £220 £261
25th Percentile £429 £305 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £588
South West median daily rate £450 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -14.29% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.36 - -
25th Percentile £35.38 - -
Median hourly rate £38.68 - -
75th Percentile £40.88 - -
90th Percentile £41.25 - -
South West median hourly rate £26.64 £18.51 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.90% -53.73% -22.86%

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 92 105 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 10.89% 23.39% 18.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 89 167
10th Percentile £289 £220 £325
25th Percentile £450 £308 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.28%
75th Percentile £626 £613 £588
90th Percentile £724 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.36 - -
25th Percentile £35.38 - -
Median hourly rate £38.68 - -
75th Percentile £40.88 - -
90th Percentile £41.25 - -
South West median hourly rate £63.14 £66.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year -5.06% +9.02% -6.15%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -7 50 £550 -4.35% 5
Salisbury -2 7 £220 - 10
Chippenham 0 5 £560 +124.00% 6
Swindon -5 4 £450 +42.86% 4
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 3 (3.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.49%) Azure
2 4 (5.19%) AWS
2 4 (5.19%) IaaS
3 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.60%) GCP
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.30%) OCI
4 1 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.78%) SNMP
2 10 (12.99%) Firewall
3 6 (7.79%) DNS
4 4 (5.19%) Network Security
5 1 (1.30%) DHCP
5 1 (1.30%) MQTT
5 1 (1.30%) SAN
5 1 (1.30%) Skype
5 1 (1.30%) VLAN
5 1 (1.30%) VoIP
5 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.60%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.30%) eggPlant
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) GoCD
4 1 (1.30%) MSI
4 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.87%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.60%) Finance
6 1 (1.30%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Legal
6 1 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Architect
2 15 (19.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (16.88%) Consultant
4 12 (15.58%) Management Consultant
5 5 (6.49%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) SOC Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Technical Architect
6 4 (5.19%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Lead
7 3 (3.90%) Service Desk Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Database Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.60%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.60%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) REST
2 5 (6.49%) OAuth
2 5 (6.49%) OAuth2
2 5 (6.49%) OpenID
2 5 (6.49%) SAML
3 4 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.90%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Blackberry
2 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.90%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.60%) Replication
5 1 (1.30%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (51.95%) Linux
2 22 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 16 (20.78%) AIX
4 14 (18.18%) Android
4 14 (18.18%) Apple iOS
5 8 (10.39%) Windows 10
6 4 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.19%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.60%) CentOS
8 2 (2.60%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.47%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
3 14 (18.18%) Mobile Device Management
3 14 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (16.88%) Service Management
5 10 (12.99%) DevOps
6 9 (11.69%) ITIL
7 8 (10.39%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (10.39%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (10.39%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (10.39%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 6 (7.79%) RBAC
9 5 (6.49%) Change Management
9 5 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (6.49%) ITSM
9 5 (6.49%) Load Balancing
9 5 (6.49%) Project Delivery
10 4 (5.19%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (37.66%) PowerShell
2 19 (24.68%) Python
3 17 (22.08%) SQL
4 16 (20.78%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 70 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 42 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 37 (48.05%) DV Cleared
4 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.90%) MCSE
5 3 (3.90%) OCA
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.60%) Degree
6 2 (2.60%) MCSA
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.30%) CCNP
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.30%) RHCA
7 1 (1.30%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) NCSC
1 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 20 (25.97%) Active Directory
2 12 (15.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.19%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.30%) Docker
4 1 (1.30%) Firmware
4 1 (1.30%) KVM
4 1 (1.30%) UAG
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (20.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 16 (20.78%) Nagios
1 16 (20.78%) ZABBIX
2 15 (19.48%) Netcool
3 14 (18.18%) Tivoli
4 13 (16.88%) OpenView
4 13 (16.88%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 12 (15.58%) Ansible
6 11 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (11.69%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (9.09%) Terraform
9 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
10 4 (5.19%) Nessus
10 4 (5.19%) Packer
11 3 (3.90%) VxRail
12 2 (2.60%) PowerCLI
12 2 (2.60%) WSUS
13 1 (1.30%) FreeIPA
13 1 (1.30%) SCCM
13 1 (1.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (42.86%) VMware
2 32 (41.56%) Microsoft
3 18 (23.38%) SolarWinds
4 16 (20.78%) BMC
4 16 (20.78%) Splunk
5 15 (19.48%) Citrix
6 14 (18.18%) MobileIron
7 13 (16.88%) HP
7 13 (16.88%) IBM
8 5 (6.49%) Remedy
9 4 (5.19%) Clearswift
9 4 (5.19%) Oracle
9 4 (5.19%) Tanium
9 4 (5.19%) Trend Micro
10 3 (3.90%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (3.90%) Dell
10 3 (3.90%) Thales
11 2 (2.60%) Cisco
11 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.60%) Veeam