Windows Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Windows
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 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 14 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 29 116 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 7.07% 19.90% 15.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.88% 75.82% 81.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 86 105
10th Percentile £123 £141 £150
25th Percentile £139 £180 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £547 £563
90th Percentile £667 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £420 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 11
10th Percentile - £16.14 £12.24
25th Percentile £12.25 £18.84 £14.13
Median hourly rate £12.50 £35.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% -24.32% +208.33%
75th Percentile £12.75 £49.69 £47.14
90th Percentile - £54.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -26.36% +23.10% +23.08%

All Operating Systems
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 57 153 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 13.90% 26.24% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 119 127
10th Percentile £133 £157 £150
25th Percentile £218 £185 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £427
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +14.14% +0.50%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £575
90th Percentile £689 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £12.67 £16.14 £12.24
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.84 £14.13
Median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% -24.32% +205.79%
75th Percentile £31.18 £49.69 £47.14
90th Percentile £41.27 £54.38 £47.40
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Wales

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Wales

Windows
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 within the 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
South Wales -9 24 £220 -53.68% 20
North Wales -5 2 - - 8
West Wales -2 1 £200 +11.11% 1
Windows
UK

Windows
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 10 (34.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.69%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) IaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
2 7 (24.14%) VPN
3 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
4 3 (10.34%) SAN
5 2 (6.90%) LAN
5 2 (6.90%) WLAN
6 1 (3.45%) DHCP
6 1 (3.45%) DNS
6 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) MySQL
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
2 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Burp Suite
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.45%) AppScan
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) Subversion
2 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (27.59%) Public Sector
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Legal
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.45%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) IT Support
2 4 (13.79%) Administrator
2 4 (13.79%) DBA
2 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) IT Support Technician
2 4 (13.79%) IT Technician
2 4 (13.79%) Support Technician
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (10.34%) IT Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) MySQL DBA
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Field Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) IT Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.45%) WPF
2 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Public Cloud
2 4 (13.79%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Clustering
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Windows Server
2 8 (27.59%) Linux
3 6 (20.69%) Windows 10
4 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.90%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
6 2 (6.90%) Unix
7 1 (3.45%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) DevOps
1 8 (27.59%) ITIL
2 7 (24.14%) Migration
3 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.24%) Change Control
4 5 (17.24%) Informatics
4 5 (17.24%) PRINCE2
4 5 (17.24%) Project Management
5 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.34%) Customer Service
6 3 (10.34%) Information Governance
7 2 (6.90%) Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) Data Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) Data Extraction
7 2 (6.90%) Line Management
7 2 (6.90%) Mobile Device Management
7 2 (6.90%) OWASP
7 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) C++
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) PHP
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (6.90%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.90%) SANS
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (55.17%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.90%) Docker
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.45%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Ansible
1 6 (20.69%) Grafana
1 6 (20.69%) Nagios
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
2 5 (17.24%) Graylog
2 5 (17.24%) Prometheus
3 4 (13.79%) SCCM
4 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (3.45%) Nessus
5 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) VMware
3 5 (17.24%) Cisco
3 5 (17.24%) Dell
3 5 (17.24%) Splunk
4 2 (6.90%) Brocade
4 2 (6.90%) Checkmarx
4 2 (6.90%) HP
4 2 (6.90%) NetApp
4 2 (6.90%) SonicWALL
4 2 (6.90%) Veritas
4 2 (6.90%) WatchGuard
5 1 (3.45%) Cegedim Rx
5 1 (3.45%) Citrix
5 1 (3.45%) Veracode