Windows Server Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server 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 25 18 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 16 52 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.90% 8.92% 4.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.07% 33.99% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 37 30
10th Percentile £121 £159 £350
25th Percentile £134 £180 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +3.44% +8.76%
75th Percentile £334 £550 £516
90th Percentile £584 £593 £639
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £433
% change year-on-year -5.00% +15.61% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.06 -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £29.65 £22.75
% change year-on-year +29.85% +30.33% -9.00%

All Operating Systems
Wales

Windows Server 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 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 12 June 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 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 0 15 £200 -58.44% 11
North Wales -1 1 - - 2
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 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) VPN
3 2 (12.50%) LAN
3 2 (12.50%) WLAN
4 1 (6.25%) DHCP
4 1 (6.25%) DNS
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.25%) AppScan
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Subversion
2 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Legal
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) IT Support
2 4 (25.00%) IT Support Technician
2 4 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 4 (25.00%) Support Technician
3 3 (18.75%) IT Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Database Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Field Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Network Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) NHS
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (12.50%) Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (6.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Informatics
2 5 (31.25%) PRINCE2
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Information Governance
5 2 (12.50%) Application Security
5 2 (12.50%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Line Management
5 2 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (12.50%) OWASP
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Security Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) PHP
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
3 2 (12.50%) SANS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 2 (12.50%) Docker
5 1 (6.25%) Terminal Services
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Graylog
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (12.50%) Nagios
1 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) HP Fortify
2 1 (6.25%) Nessus
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
2 1 (6.25%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) Checkmarx
4 2 (12.50%) Dell
4 2 (12.50%) SonicWALL
4 2 (12.50%) Splunk
4 2 (12.50%) WatchGuard
5 1 (6.25%) Cegedim Rx
5 1 (6.25%) Citrix
5 1 (6.25%) HP
5 1 (6.25%) Veracode