Windows Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Windows
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 332 484 562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.43% 13.65% 15.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 66.27% 67.98% 74.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 357 335
10th Percentile £150 £163 £145
25th Percentile £201 £203 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £463 £350
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% +32.14% +12.90%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £525
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 40 50
10th Percentile £12.58 £15.87 £17.10
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.44 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £51.86 £49.47
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +4.82% +171.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.48 £68.99 £75.00
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
South West

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 501 712 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.74% 20.08% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 509 454
10th Percentile £173 £176 £153
25th Percentile £263 £288 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £448
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +15.64% +14.01%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 84 72
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.16 £16.56
25th Percentile £40.00 £49.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +161.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £74.41
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.87%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the South West

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the South West

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Wiltshire 0 136 £550 +15.79% 49
Gloucestershire -9 50 £350 -22.22% 37
Bristol -18 46 £300 -42.86% 55
Devon +6 34 £162 -29.46% 17
Somerset +2 26 £190 -57.78% 47
Dorset -1 24 £185 -63.04% 19
Cornwall -1 7 £150 -13.04% 7
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 48 (14.46%) Confluence
2 44 (13.25%) SharePoint
3 41 (12.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 35 (10.54%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.51%) Skype for Business
6 4 (1.20%) Apache
7 3 (0.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.30%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (9.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.30%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 99 (29.82%) Azure
2 71 (21.39%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (10.24%) Azure Stack
4 14 (4.22%) Entra ID
5 7 (2.11%) AWS
6 6 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.81%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.20%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.90%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.60%) IaaS
10 2 (0.60%) SaaS
10 2 (0.60%) Serverless
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.30%) GitHub
11 1 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.30%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (17.47%) Firewall
2 35 (10.54%) BGP
3 31 (9.34%) DNS
4 27 (8.13%) DHCP
4 27 (8.13%) LAN
5 23 (6.93%) SAN
5 23 (6.93%) WAN
6 17 (5.12%) Network Security
7 14 (4.22%) TCP/IP
8 13 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (3.01%) Skype
10 8 (2.41%) MPLS
11 6 (1.81%) FTP
11 6 (1.81%) VPN
12 5 (1.51%) 4G
12 5 (1.51%) 5G
12 5 (1.51%) Ethernet
12 5 (1.51%) VLAN
13 4 (1.20%) Internet
13 4 (1.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (16.27%) JIRA
2 5 (1.51%) Artifactory
2 5 (1.51%) Eclipse
2 5 (1.51%) GitLab
2 5 (1.51%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.90%) Git
5 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.30%) GoCD
6 1 (0.30%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 138 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (6.63%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (5.12%) Finance
4 17 (5.12%) Military
4 17 (5.12%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.31%) Aerospace
5 11 (3.31%) Telecoms
6 7 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.81%) Legal
8 5 (1.51%) Electronics
8 5 (1.51%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.51%) Marketing
9 3 (0.90%) Banking
9 3 (0.90%) Retail
10 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (14.76%) Administrator
2 42 (12.65%) Systems Administrator
2 42 (12.65%) Wintel Administrator
2 42 (12.65%) Wintel Systems Administrator
3 39 (11.75%) Analyst
3 39 (11.75%) Support Engineer
4 26 (7.83%) Desktop Support
5 22 (6.63%) Desktop Engineer
6 20 (6.02%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 19 (5.72%) Technical Support
8 17 (5.12%) IT Analyst
8 17 (5.12%) IT Support
8 17 (5.12%) Microsoft Engineer
9 16 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.52%) Architect
11 14 (4.22%) Integration Engineer
11 14 (4.22%) IT Engineer
12 13 (3.92%) Test and Integration Engineer
13 12 (3.61%) Service Analyst
13 12 (3.61%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.41%) REST
2 5 (1.51%) Middleware
2 5 (1.51%) Node.js
2 5 (1.51%) Web Services
3 4 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.60%) .NET
4 2 (0.60%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.60%) ADO
4 2 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.30%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 72 (21.69%) PKI
2 37 (11.14%) Private Cloud
3 18 (5.42%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.61%) Clustering
4 12 (3.61%) NHS
4 12 (3.61%) Replication
5 8 (2.41%) Client/Server
5 8 (2.41%) CMDB
5 8 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (0.90%) Blog
9 3 (0.90%) BYOD
9 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (0.90%) iPhone
9 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (21.08%) Windows Server
2 58 (17.47%) Linux
3 57 (17.17%) Windows 10
4 20 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (3.92%) Unix
6 11 (3.31%) Windows 7
7 9 (2.71%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.51%) Android
10 4 (1.20%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.90%) VMS
11 3 (0.90%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.90%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.60%) CentOS
12 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (25.60%) ITIL
2 61 (18.37%) Network Management
3 50 (15.06%) Service Management
4 43 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (12.65%) Capacity Management
6 37 (11.14%) ITSM
7 36 (10.84%) Security Monitoring
8 31 (9.34%) Agile
8 31 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 30 (9.04%) Change Management
9 30 (9.04%) Customer Service
10 26 (7.83%) Migration
11 23 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (6.33%) DevOps
13 19 (5.72%) CI/CD
14 18 (5.42%) Data Migration
15 16 (4.82%) Decision-Making
16 15 (4.52%) Application Packaging
16 15 (4.52%) Security Patching
16 15 (4.52%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (13.55%) PowerShell
2 21 (6.33%) SQL
3 13 (3.92%) Python
4 8 (2.41%) Bash
5 7 (2.11%) C#
6 6 (1.81%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.51%) C++
8 4 (1.20%) C
8 4 (1.20%) Java
9 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 193 (58.13%) Security Cleared
2 122 (36.75%) DV Cleared
3 73 (21.99%) SC Cleared
4 43 (12.95%) Degree
5 16 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.92%) MCSE
7 9 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (2.11%) MCSA
9 5 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.20%) HND
11 3 (0.90%) MCP
12 2 (0.60%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.30%) CCNA
13 1 (0.30%) CCNP
13 1 (0.30%) CEH
13 1 (0.30%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.54%) Government Security Classifications
2 21 (6.33%) SLA
3 15 (4.52%) QA
4 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.20%) NIST
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
7 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.30%) NCSC
7 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (32.53%) Active Directory
2 40 (12.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.93%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (6.02%) VMware NSX
5 13 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (2.71%) vSphere
7 8 (2.41%) Docker
7 8 (2.41%) VMware Workstation
8 5 (1.51%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.90%) Firmware
10 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.30%) NFS
11 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.30%) XenApp
11 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (12.65%) SCCM
2 28 (8.43%) SCOM
3 21 (6.33%) Ansible
4 17 (5.12%) Kubernetes
5 16 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (4.82%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.22%) Terraform
7 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Clustering
7 9 (2.71%) NetBackup
8 8 (2.41%) Nagios
9 7 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (1.81%) Puppet
11 5 (1.51%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.20%) WSUS
13 3 (0.90%) Grafana
13 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
14 2 (0.60%) OPNET
15 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.30%) Packer
15 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 146 (43.98%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.69%) VMware
3 43 (12.95%) Atlassian
4 23 (6.93%) Veeam
5 12 (3.61%) Citrix
6 11 (3.31%) Cisco
7 8 (2.41%) Hitachi
7 8 (2.41%) NetApp
8 7 (2.11%) Palo Alto
8 7 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.81%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.51%) Dell
10 5 (1.51%) SAP
11 4 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.20%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.20%) Juniper
11 4 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.20%) Splunk
12 3 (0.90%) HP
12 3 (0.90%) SolarWinds