Windows Contracts in Wiltshire

Microsoft Windows
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 138 137 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 14.44% 12.94% 16.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.00% 73.26% 77.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 105 103
10th Percentile £323 £172 £152
25th Percentile £463 £204 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.01% -12.01% +42.34%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £581
90th Percentile £588 £633 £644
South West median daily rate £500 £463 £350
% change year-on-year +8.11% +32.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £60.00 £19.10
25th Percentile - £60.38 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +137.74% -47.00%
75th Percentile - £81.75 £27.75
90th Percentile - £100.00 £56.70
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £53.35 £46.71
% change year-on-year -25.02% +14.22% +159.50%

All Operating Systems
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 200 187 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 20.92% 17.66% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 152 131
10th Percentile £413 £200 £240
25th Percentile £463 £250 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £645 £638
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £60.00 £19.10
25th Percentile - £60.38 £25.25
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - +137.74% -47.00%
75th Percentile - £81.75 £27.75
90th Percentile - £100.00 £56.70
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £65.50 £53.78
% change year-on-year +3.05% +21.80% +156.08%

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 11 June 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 11 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
Corsham +7 107 £550 +4.76% 11
Swindon -2 15 £148 -26.25% 20
Salisbury +6 6 £200 -56.51% 7
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 36 (26.09%) Confluence
2 32 (23.19%) SharePoint
3 27 (19.57%) SharePoint Server
4 14 (10.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.17%) IIS
6 2 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (23.19%) Azure
2 26 (18.84%) Azure Stack
3 7 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (1.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 31 (22.46%) Firewall
2 27 (19.57%) BGP
3 13 (9.42%) DHCP
3 13 (9.42%) DNS
3 13 (9.42%) Network Security
4 5 (3.62%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (2.90%) Skype
6 3 (2.17%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.17%) SAN
7 1 (0.72%) FTP
7 1 (0.72%) LAN
7 1 (0.72%) NAS
7 1 (0.72%) SMTP
7 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (26.09%) JIRA
2 9 (6.52%) Git
General
1 57 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.25%) Military
5 5 (3.62%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.45%) Banking
6 2 (1.45%) Electronics
6 2 (1.45%) Finance
6 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.45%) Marketing
6 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (26.81%) Administrator
2 36 (26.09%) Systems Administrator
2 36 (26.09%) Wintel Administrator
2 36 (26.09%) Wintel Systems Administrator
3 16 (11.59%) Analyst
4 13 (9.42%) Microsoft Engineer
5 10 (7.25%) Platform Manager
6 9 (6.52%) Service Analyst
6 9 (6.52%) Test Engineer
7 8 (5.80%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (5.80%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 8 (5.80%) Wintel Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Service Management Analyst
11 4 (2.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Desktop Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Service Desk Analyst
12 3 (2.17%) VMware Engineer
12 3 (2.17%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.52%) YAML
2 3 (2.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (47.10%) PKI
2 28 (20.29%) Private Cloud
3 4 (2.90%) Clustering
4 3 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.17%) Replication
5 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.45%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.72%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 16 (11.59%) Linux
3 14 (10.14%) Windows 10
4 13 (9.42%) Windows Server 2012
5 9 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.45%) CentOS
7 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.72%) Android
8 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.72%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (26.09%) ITIL
2 35 (25.36%) Service Management
3 26 (18.84%) Capacity Management
3 26 (18.84%) Network Management
3 26 (18.84%) Security Monitoring
4 25 (18.12%) ITSM
5 18 (13.04%) Change Management
6 16 (11.59%) Validation
7 14 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (9.42%) Security Patching
9 11 (7.97%) Agile
9 11 (7.97%) Backlog Management
9 11 (7.97%) Critical Thinking
9 11 (7.97%) Knowledge Transfer
10 10 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (6.52%) Configuration Management
11 9 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (6.52%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (6.52%) Regression Testing
11 9 (6.52%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.14%) SQL
3 2 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.45%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 122 (88.41%) Security Cleared
2 84 (60.87%) DV Cleared
3 36 (26.09%) SC Cleared
4 14 (10.14%) MCSE
4 14 (10.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (7.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (6.52%) MCSA
7 6 (4.35%) Degree
8 3 (2.17%) OSCP
9 1 (0.72%) CCNA
9 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.57%) Government Security Classifications
2 4 (2.90%) SLA
3 2 (1.45%) GDPR
3 2 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (19.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 15 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (5.07%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.62%) VMFS
6 4 (2.90%) vSphere
7 3 (2.17%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.72%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.72%) Firmware
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (13.04%) SCOM
2 10 (7.25%) Ansible
3 9 (6.52%) Progress Chef
3 9 (6.52%) Puppet
3 9 (6.52%) Salt
3 9 (6.52%) Terraform
4 8 (5.80%) SCCM
5 4 (2.90%) WSUS
6 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.45%) SCDPM
7 2 (1.45%) SCVMM
7 2 (1.45%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.72%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.72%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.72%) OPNET
8 1 (0.72%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 57 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 35 (25.36%) VMware
3 27 (19.57%) Atlassian
4 11 (7.97%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.80%) SaltStack
6 5 (3.62%) HP
7 3 (2.17%) CA
8 2 (1.45%) SAP
8 2 (1.45%) Splunk
9 1 (0.72%) BEA
9 1 (0.72%) Citrix
9 1 (0.72%) Commvault
9 1 (0.72%) Dell
9 1 (0.72%) Okta
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle
9 1 (0.72%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.72%) Riverbed
9 1 (0.72%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.72%) Veeam
9 1 (0.72%) Veritas