Windows Server Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft Windows Server
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 23 38
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 15 34 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.44% 7.11% 4.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.61% 28.10% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 26
10th Percentile £121 £180 £356
25th Percentile £134 £425 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £481 £435
Median % change year-on-year -58.44% +10.62% +20.01%
75th Percentile £334 £556 £484
90th Percentile £584 £618 £638
Wales median daily rate £200 £450 £435
% change year-on-year -55.56% +3.44% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.06 -
Wales median hourly rate - £18.06 -

All Operating Systems
South Wales

Windows Server 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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 49 121 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 14.50% 25.31% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 96 102
10th Percentile £133 £153 £163
25th Percentile £220 £250 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £588
90th Percentile £689 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £500 £488 £427
% change year-on-year +2.56% +14.14% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
10th Percentile £12.67 £19.32 £12.03
25th Percentile £13.31 £21.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £14.36 £47.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -69.77% +2.70% +153.42%
75th Percentile £31.18 £50.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £41.27 £55.25 -
Wales median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -58.97% -24.32% +205.79%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in South Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in South Wales

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in South Wales over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in South Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in South Wales

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Cardiff +13 10 £210 +23.53% 8
Newport -4 5 £190 -65.45% 1
Windows Server
Wales

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) WLAN
4 1 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Burp Suite
1 2 (13.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.67%) AppScan
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Subversion
2 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) IT Support
2 4 (26.67%) IT Support Technician
2 4 (26.67%) IT Technician
2 4 (26.67%) Support Technician
3 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Database Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Field Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) NHS
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (13.33%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (6.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) ITIL
2 5 (33.33%) Informatics
2 5 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Information Governance
5 2 (13.33%) Application Security
5 2 (13.33%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (13.33%) Line Management
5 2 (13.33%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (13.33%) OWASP
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PHP
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (13.33%) SANS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) Docker
3 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.67%) Terminal Services
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) Graylog
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (13.33%) Nagios
1 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) HP Fortify
2 1 (6.67%) Nessus
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
2 1 (6.67%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) Checkmarx
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) SonicWALL
4 2 (13.33%) Splunk
4 2 (13.33%) WatchGuard
5 1 (6.67%) Cegedim Rx
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) Veracode