Windows Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft Windows
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 10 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 130 149 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 14.13% 13.83% 17.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 73.86% 75.25% 80.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 120 103
10th Percentile £263 £180 £146
25th Percentile £463 £205 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -6.25% +37.44%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £588 £638 £638
South West median daily rate £500 £463 £355
% change year-on-year +8.11% +30.28% +11.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 10
10th Percentile - £60.00 £15.79
25th Percentile - £60.38 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year - +31.87% -4.45%
75th Percentile - £81.75 £69.05
90th Percentile - £100.00 £69.75
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £48.48
% change year-on-year -23.81% +8.29% +193.82%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 176 198 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 19.13% 18.38% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 166 124
10th Percentile £325 £200 £150
25th Percentile £463 £269 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £700 £669 £638
South West median daily rate £501 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +0.25% +11.11% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 10
10th Percentile - £60.00 £15.79
25th Percentile - £60.38 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year - +31.87% -4.45%
75th Percentile - £81.75 £69.05
90th Percentile - £100.00 £69.75
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +189.02%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Wiltshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Wiltshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Wiltshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Wiltshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Corsham +4 97 £550 +4.76% 17
Swindon -3 13 £145 -27.50% 20
Salisbury +6 9 £269 -31.96% 3
Windows
South West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 37 (28.46%) Confluence
2 33 (25.38%) SharePoint
3 30 (23.08%) SharePoint Server
4 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.38%) Azure
2 29 (22.31%) Azure Stack
3 7 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (26.15%) Firewall
2 30 (23.08%) BGP
3 13 (10.00%) Network Security
4 12 (9.23%) DNS
5 11 (8.46%) DHCP
6 6 (4.62%) Skype
7 3 (2.31%) SAN
8 2 (1.54%) LAN
8 2 (1.54%) SMTP
8 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.54%) VSAN
8 2 (1.54%) WAN
9 1 (0.77%) Internet
9 1 (0.77%) NAS
9 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (29.23%) JIRA
2 1 (0.77%) GitLab
2 1 (0.77%) GoCD
2 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (47.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.92%) Military
5 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.31%) Electronics
6 3 (2.31%) Finance
6 3 (2.31%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.31%) Marketing
6 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.54%) Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (31.54%) Administrator
2 40 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
2 40 (30.77%) Wintel Administrator
2 40 (30.77%) Wintel Systems Administrator
3 16 (12.31%) Analyst
4 15 (11.54%) Microsoft Engineer
5 10 (7.69%) Platform Manager
5 10 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Service Analyst
6 9 (6.92%) Wintel Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Test Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Service Management Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (3.08%) Desktop Engineer
9 4 (3.08%) Service Desk Analyst
10 3 (2.31%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 3 (2.31%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.77%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 65 (50.00%) PKI
2 32 (24.62%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.08%) Clustering
4 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.77%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.77%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.77%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.92%) Windows Server
2 16 (12.31%) Windows 10
3 10 (7.69%) Linux
4 9 (6.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.54%) CentOS
6 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.77%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.54%) ITIL
2 38 (29.23%) Service Management
3 29 (22.31%) Capacity Management
3 29 (22.31%) Network Management
3 29 (22.31%) Security Monitoring
4 28 (21.54%) ITSM
5 19 (14.62%) Change Management
6 15 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (10.00%) Security Patching
8 12 (9.23%) Agile
9 11 (8.46%) Backlog Management
9 11 (8.46%) Knowledge Transfer
10 9 (6.92%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (5.38%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (5.38%) Regression Testing
11 7 (5.38%) Test Scripting
12 6 (4.62%) Customer Service
12 6 (4.62%) Project Management
13 5 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.77%) SQL
2 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.54%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 115 (88.46%) Security Cleared
2 91 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 24 (18.46%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.23%) MCSE
4 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (6.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (6.15%) Degree
7 7 (5.38%) MCSA
8 1 (0.77%) CCNA
8 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.08%) Government Security Classifications
2 5 (3.85%) SLA
3 2 (1.54%) GDPR
3 2 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (17.69%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.31%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.31%) vSphere
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.77%) Firmware
5 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.77%) NFS
Systems Management
1 23 (17.69%) SCOM
2 6 (4.62%) SCCM
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.31%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.54%) Ansible
4 2 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.54%) OPNET
4 2 (1.54%) WSUS
5 1 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.77%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.77%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 55 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 30 (23.08%) Atlassian
3 23 (17.69%) VMware
4 4 (3.08%) HP
5 3 (2.31%) SAP
5 3 (2.31%) Splunk
6 2 (1.54%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.54%) Remedy
6 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.77%) BEA
7 1 (0.77%) BMC
7 1 (0.77%) Citrix
7 1 (0.77%) Riverbed