Windows Contracts in West Wales

Microsoft Windows
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows 3 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Wales 12.00% 44.83% 16.67%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.00% 86.67% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £138 - £138
25th Percentile £148 £180 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £166 £182 £170
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +7.21% -33.33%
75th Percentile £183 £320 £175
90th Percentile £193 £331 £178
Wales median daily rate £200 £313 £288
% change year-on-year -36.00% +8.70% -39.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £15.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £47.50 £23.42 £13.50
% change year-on-year +102.86% +73.44% -32.50%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4 15 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 16.00% 51.72% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile £134 £166 £138
25th Percentile £138 - £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 £180 £170
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +5.88% -58.79%
75th Percentile £173 £286 £175
90th Percentile £189 £327 £178
Wales median daily rate £250 £450 £350
% change year-on-year -44.44% +28.57% -26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £15.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £47.50 £23.42 £14.50
% change year-on-year +102.86% +61.48% -27.50%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in West Wales

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in West Wales

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in West Wales

Windows
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Swansea -8 3 £166 -9.19%
Windows
Wales

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (66.67%) WLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Skype
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
2 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Support
2 1 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Informatics
3 1 (33.33%) Information Governance
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Line Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Meraki
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) VMware