Windows Server Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 22 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 12 41 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.28% 6.73% 4.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.82% 33.61% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 36
10th Percentile £180 £160 £294
25th Percentile £211 £180 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £223 £425 £427
Median % change year-on-year -47.65% -0.47% +0.47%
75th Percentile £421 £550 £488
90th Percentile £651 £585 £638
UK median daily rate £460 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -8.00% +17.65% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.06 -
UK median hourly rate £46.75 £32.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% +36.17% -6.00%

All Operating Systems
Wales

Windows Server 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 Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 55 122 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 15.03% 20.03% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 96 128
10th Percentile £196 £149 £140
25th Percentile £322 £185 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +11.76% -0.87%
75th Percentile £635 £550 £564
90th Percentile £703 £644 £642
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 13
10th Percentile £12.67 £16.14 £12.39
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.84 £15.25
Median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% -24.32% +218.64%
75th Percentile £31.18 £49.69 £47.40
90th Percentile £41.27 £54.38 -
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Wales over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Wales

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 16 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
South Wales 0 10 £220 -53.68% 8
North Wales +3 2 £225 +25.00% 1
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) WLAN
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (8.33%) AppScan
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Database Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Field Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Network Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Network Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (8.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Application Security
2 2 (16.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (16.67%) OWASP
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (8.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) PHP
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 2 (16.67%) SANS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (16.67%) Docker
5 1 (8.33%) Terminal Services
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Graylog
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) Nagios
1 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (8.33%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (58.33%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Checkmarx
3 2 (16.67%) Dell
3 2 (16.67%) SonicWALL
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (16.67%) WatchGuard
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) Veracode