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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 10 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 86 139 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.70% 15.36% 12.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 87.76% 66.83% 72.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 118 102
10th Percentile £220 £325 £180
25th Percentile £250 £464 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £477
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.20% -2.26%
75th Percentile £604 £575 £587
90th Percentile £658 £588 £636
South West median daily rate £450 £525 £477
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.06% +36.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £81.75
90th Percentile - - £100.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £40.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -52.83% -28.89% +42.41%

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 98 208 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 21.30% 22.98% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 176 149
10th Percentile £220 £437 £200
25th Percentile £266 £473 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £603 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £647
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -6.98% +3.37% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +137.74%
75th Percentile - - £81.75
90th Percentile - - £100.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +24.63%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +1 48 £575 +4.55% 7
Swindon 0 13 £308 +105.00% 25
Salisbury -2 7 £220 +10.00% 9
Tidworth - 3 £153 -
Chippenham - 2 £250 - 10
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 14 (16.28%) Confluence
2 9 (10.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (9.30%) SharePoint
4 7 (8.14%) Skype for Business
5 2 (2.33%) Documentum
6 1 (1.16%) Apache
6 1 (1.16%) IIS
6 1 (1.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.98%) Azure
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (5.81%) AWS
3 3 (3.49%) GCP
4 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Storage
4 1 (1.16%) IaaS
4 1 (1.16%) Serverless
4 1 (1.16%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.12%) DNS
2 8 (9.30%) DHCP
2 8 (9.30%) Skype
3 5 (5.81%) Firewall
3 5 (5.81%) Unified Communications
4 4 (4.65%) Network Security
5 3 (3.49%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.33%) VSAN
7 1 (1.16%) LAN
7 1 (1.16%) SMTP
7 1 (1.16%) VPN
7 1 (1.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (19.77%) Git
2 16 (18.60%) JIRA
3 13 (15.12%) Bitbucket
4 11 (12.79%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.16%) GitLab
5 1 (1.16%) MSI
General
1 25 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Retail
5 4 (4.65%) Military
6 2 (2.33%) Electronics
6 2 (2.33%) Finance
6 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.33%) Marketing
6 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (11.63%) Windows Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) Administrator
4 8 (9.30%) IT Engineer
4 8 (9.30%) IT Support
5 7 (8.14%) Build Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) Platform Manager
5 7 (8.14%) Support Engineer
5 7 (8.14%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (8.14%) Systems Manager
5 7 (8.14%) Wintel Administrator
5 7 (8.14%) Wintel Systems Administrator
6 6 (6.98%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Architect
7 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Migration Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Windows Build Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) REST
1 10 (11.63%) SOAP
2 2 (2.33%) .NET
2 2 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.16%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.16%) LDAP
3 1 (1.16%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) PKI
2 3 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.88%) Windows Server
2 24 (27.91%) Linux
3 18 (20.93%) Windows 10
4 8 (9.30%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.33%) Windows 7
6 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.16%) Android
7 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.16%) Solaris
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.23%) Service Management
2 20 (23.26%) Configuration Management
3 19 (22.09%) NsoIT
4 18 (20.93%) Agile
5 15 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (17.44%) ITIL
6 14 (16.28%) Deployment Automation
6 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.12%) System Testing
8 12 (13.95%) Migration
8 12 (13.95%) Validation
9 9 (10.47%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (10.47%) Reverse Engineering
9 9 (10.47%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.47%) Software Licensing
10 8 (9.30%) Application Packaging
10 8 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (8.14%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (8.14%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.07%) PowerShell
2 21 (24.42%) Python
3 13 (15.12%) Bash
4 10 (11.63%) SQL
5 2 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 70 (81.40%) Security Cleared
2 56 (65.12%) SC Cleared
3 30 (34.88%) DV Cleared
4 20 (23.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (11.63%) OCA
5 10 (11.63%) Oracle Certification
6 9 (10.47%) CCNP
6 9 (10.47%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (10.47%) RHCA
6 9 (10.47%) RHCE
7 8 (9.30%) Degree
8 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (4.65%) MCSA
10 3 (3.49%) MCSE
11 1 (1.16%) A+ Certification
11 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.16%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) GDPR
1 3 (3.49%) QA
2 1 (1.16%) NCSC
2 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (29.07%) Active Directory
2 20 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (12.79%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (6.98%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.33%) vSphere
7 1 (1.16%) Docker
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (26.74%) Ansible
2 11 (12.79%) Puppet
2 11 (12.79%) vCenter Server
3 10 (11.63%) Terraform
4 9 (10.47%) Progress Chef
5 6 (6.98%) WSUS
6 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (4.65%) SCCM
8 3 (3.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
9 2 (2.33%) Nessus
10 1 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (1.16%) OPNET
10 1 (1.16%) Packer
10 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
10 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.16%) SCOM
10 1 (1.16%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (36.05%) Microsoft
2 30 (34.88%) VMware
3 13 (15.12%) Atlassian
4 12 (13.95%) Cisco
4 12 (13.95%) Oracle
5 6 (6.98%) Veeam
6 3 (3.49%) F5
6 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.33%) EMC
7 2 (2.33%) McAfee
7 2 (2.33%) SAP
7 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.33%) Sophos
8 1 (1.16%) Apple
8 1 (1.16%) Citrix
8 1 (1.16%) Dell
8 1 (1.16%) Fujitsu
8 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.16%) Remedy
8 1 (1.16%) Splunk