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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 91 136 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 20.63% 14.47% 13.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 88.35% 75.14% 75.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 127 123
10th Percentile £220 £263 £169
25th Percentile £253 £463 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £588
90th Percentile £673 £588 £649
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.38
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £81.75
90th Percentile - - £100.00
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -53.73% -23.81% +7.71%

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 103 181 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 23.36% 19.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 167 169
10th Percentile £220 £325 £189
25th Percentile £302 £463 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £606 £588 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £669
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £60.38
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.76%
75th Percentile - - £81.75
90th Percentile - - £100.00
South West median hourly rate £64.50 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.18% -1.92% +18.18%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +3 56 £575 +4.55% 5
Swindon -1 13 £300 +106.90% 9
Salisbury -10 7 £220 -18.14% 4
Chippenham - 2 £250 - 8
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 16 (17.58%) Confluence
2 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (12.09%) SharePoint
3 9 (9.89%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.10%) Apache
4 1 (1.10%) IIS
4 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (21.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (6.59%) Azure
3 5 (5.49%) AWS
4 3 (3.30%) GCP
5 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.10%) IaaS
5 1 (1.10%) Serverless
5 1 (1.10%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.68%) DNS
2 10 (10.99%) DHCP
2 10 (10.99%) Skype
3 5 (5.49%) Firewall
3 5 (5.49%) Unified Communications
3 5 (5.49%) VPN
4 4 (4.40%) Network Security
5 3 (3.30%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (2.20%) iSCSI
6 2 (2.20%) SAN
6 2 (2.20%) SSL
6 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.20%) VSAN
7 1 (1.10%) LAN
7 1 (1.10%) SMTP
7 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (19.78%) JIRA
2 17 (18.68%) Git
3 13 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 11 (12.09%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.10%) GitLab
5 1 (1.10%) MSI
General
1 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.40%) Military
4 4 (4.40%) Retail
5 3 (3.30%) Electronics
5 3 (3.30%) Finance
5 3 (3.30%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.30%) Marketing
5 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.10%) Legal
6 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (10.99%) Windows Engineer
3 9 (9.89%) IT Support
3 9 (9.89%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (8.79%) Architect
5 7 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Administrator
6 6 (6.59%) Build Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (3.30%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Coordinator
9 3 (3.30%) Server Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Windows Server Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) REST
1 10 (10.99%) SOAP
2 2 (2.20%) .NET
2 2 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.20%) Flash
3 1 (1.10%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.10%) LDAP
3 1 (1.10%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.88%) PKI
2 5 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.20%) Clustering
3 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.46%) Windows Server
2 24 (26.37%) Linux
2 24 (26.37%) Windows 10
3 10 (10.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (9.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.20%) VMS
7 1 (1.10%) Android
7 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.10%) Solaris
7 1 (1.10%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) Service Management
2 22 (24.18%) ITIL
3 21 (23.08%) NsoIT
4 20 (21.98%) Agile
4 20 (21.98%) Configuration Management
5 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (16.48%) System Testing
7 13 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (13.19%) Software Licensing
8 12 (13.19%) Validation
9 9 (9.89%) Critical Thinking
9 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (9.89%) Reverse Engineering
9 9 (9.89%) Software Engineering
10 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (8.79%) Migration
10 8 (8.79%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (7.69%) Application Packaging
11 7 (7.69%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.47%) PowerShell
2 21 (23.08%) Python
3 13 (14.29%) Bash
4 10 (10.99%) SQL
5 2 (2.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 75 (82.42%) Security Cleared
2 62 (68.13%) SC Cleared
3 32 (35.16%) DV Cleared
4 22 (24.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 11 (12.09%) CCNP
5 11 (12.09%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (10.99%) Degree
6 10 (10.99%) OCA
6 10 (10.99%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (9.89%) RHCA
7 9 (9.89%) RHCE
8 8 (8.79%) MCSA
9 7 (7.69%) MCSE
10 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
11 2 (2.20%) CCNA
12 1 (1.10%) A+ Certification
12 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (1.10%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.10%) NCSC
2 1 (1.10%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (31.87%) Active Directory
2 22 (24.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (6.59%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (6.59%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.20%) vSphere
7 1 (1.10%) Docker
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Ansible
2 13 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 11 (12.09%) Puppet
4 10 (10.99%) Terraform
5 9 (9.89%) Progress Chef
6 8 (8.79%) SCCM
7 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (6.59%) WSUS
9 3 (3.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
9 3 (3.30%) OPNET
9 3 (3.30%) SCOM
10 2 (2.20%) Nessus
11 1 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (1.10%) Packer
11 1 (1.10%) PowerCLI
11 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
11 1 (1.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (43.96%) Microsoft
2 33 (36.26%) VMware
3 15 (16.48%) Atlassian
4 14 (15.38%) Cisco
5 12 (13.19%) Oracle
6 6 (6.59%) Veeam
7 4 (4.40%) Remedy
8 3 (3.30%) F5
8 3 (3.30%) SAP
8 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.20%) HP
9 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.10%) Apple
10 1 (1.10%) Citrix
10 1 (1.10%) Dell
10 1 (1.10%) Fujitsu
10 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.10%) Splunk