Windows Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Windows
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 343 453 533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.55% 13.39% 14.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.59% 67.01% 73.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 326 324
10th Percentile £165 £163 £145
25th Percentile £208 £205 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £355
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +33.80% +9.23%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £525
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
England median daily rate £400 £450 £424
% change year-on-year -11.11% +6.19% +5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 33 47
10th Percentile £12.58 £16.63 £16.24
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +12.40% +183.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.48 £70.69 £75.00
England median hourly rate £18.00 £23.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 548 676 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.86% 19.98% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 473 440
10th Percentile £175 £189 £153
25th Percentile £350 £288 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.73% +11.88%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £638
England median daily rate £475 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 79 70
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.30 £15.86
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.98 £20.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £53.78
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +21.80% +186.58%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.74 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £66.08
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the South West

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the South West

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the South West

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Wiltshire 0 145 £550 +17.33% 50
Gloucestershire -9 50 £363 -23.68% 37
Bristol -15 44 £380 -27.62% 49
Devon +9 39 £175 -23.91% 17
Dorset -2 26 £185 -66.40% 18
Somerset 0 23 £210 -34.63% 38
Cornwall 0 7 £150 -13.04% 5
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 43 (12.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (12.24%) Confluence
3 41 (11.95%) SharePoint
4 29 (8.45%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (1.17%) Apache
6 3 (0.87%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (0.87%) IIS
6 3 (0.87%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.29%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.29%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 100 (29.15%) Azure
2 71 (20.70%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (8.16%) Azure Stack
4 18 (5.25%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.62%) AWS
6 8 (2.33%) OpenShift
7 6 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.75%) OneDrive
8 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.87%) PaaS
10 3 (0.87%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.87%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.87%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.58%) SaaS
11 2 (0.58%) Slack
11 2 (0.58%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 50 (14.58%) Firewall
2 29 (8.45%) BGP
2 29 (8.45%) DNS
3 27 (7.87%) DHCP
3 27 (7.87%) LAN
4 23 (6.71%) SAN
4 23 (6.71%) WAN
5 17 (4.96%) Network Security
6 14 (4.08%) TCP/IP
6 14 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (2.62%) Skype
8 8 (2.33%) MPLS
8 8 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (2.04%) FTP
10 5 (1.46%) 4G
10 5 (1.46%) 5G
10 5 (1.46%) Ethernet
10 5 (1.46%) VPN
11 4 (1.17%) VoIP
11 4 (1.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.66%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (13.70%) JIRA
2 13 (3.79%) Git
3 5 (1.46%) Artifactory
3 5 (1.46%) Eclipse
3 5 (1.46%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.17%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.17%) GitLab
5 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.29%) MSI
General
1 130 (37.90%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (5.83%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.54%) Military
4 19 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (4.37%) Finance
6 11 (3.21%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.62%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.46%) Legal
10 3 (0.87%) Banking
10 3 (0.87%) Electronics
10 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.87%) Marketing
10 3 (0.87%) Retail
11 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (13.70%) Administrator
2 39 (11.37%) Analyst
2 39 (11.37%) Systems Administrator
2 39 (11.37%) Wintel Administrator
2 39 (11.37%) Wintel Systems Administrator
3 34 (9.91%) Support Engineer
4 26 (7.58%) Desktop Support
5 22 (6.41%) Desktop Engineer
6 20 (5.83%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 19 (5.54%) Technical Support
8 17 (4.96%) Architect
8 17 (4.96%) IT Analyst
9 16 (4.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.37%) Integration Engineer
10 15 (4.37%) Microsoft Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) Test and Integration Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) Test Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) Wintel Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) Service Analyst
13 12 (3.50%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.62%) YAML
2 8 (2.33%) REST
3 6 (1.75%) Middleware
4 5 (1.46%) Node.js
4 5 (1.46%) Web Services
5 4 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (0.87%) LDAP
7 2 (0.58%) .NET
7 2 (0.58%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.58%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (0.58%) Loki
8 1 (0.29%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 72 (20.99%) PKI
2 30 (8.75%) Private Cloud
3 15 (4.37%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.37%) Replication
4 13 (3.79%) Clustering
5 12 (3.50%) NHS
6 8 (2.33%) Client/Server
6 8 (2.33%) CMDB
7 7 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.46%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.17%) BYOD
10 4 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.17%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.87%) Blog
11 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.87%) iPhone
11 3 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.28%) Windows Server
2 64 (18.66%) Linux
3 55 (16.03%) Windows 10
4 22 (6.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (3.79%) Unix
6 12 (3.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (2.92%) Mac OS
7 10 (2.92%) Windows 7
8 8 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.17%) Android
9 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.87%) VMS
10 3 (0.87%) Windows 2000
10 3 (0.87%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.58%) CentOS
11 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (22.16%) ITIL
2 55 (16.03%) Network Management
3 44 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (12.24%) Service Management
5 36 (10.50%) Capacity Management
6 34 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 33 (9.62%) ITSM
8 30 (8.75%) Agile
8 30 (8.75%) Change Management
8 30 (8.75%) Security Monitoring
9 26 (7.58%) Customer Service
9 26 (7.58%) Migration
10 23 (6.71%) Validation
11 20 (5.83%) CI/CD
11 20 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (5.83%) DevOps
11 20 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (5.25%) Data Migration
13 15 (4.37%) Application Packaging
13 15 (4.37%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 62 (18.08%) PowerShell
2 22 (6.41%) SQL
3 17 (4.96%) Python
4 9 (2.62%) Bash
5 7 (2.04%) C#
6 6 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.46%) C++
8 4 (1.17%) C
8 4 (1.17%) Java
9 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 207 (60.35%) Security Cleared
2 119 (34.69%) DV Cleared
3 85 (24.78%) SC Cleared
4 39 (11.37%) Degree
5 17 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (4.08%) MCSE
7 11 (3.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.62%) MCSA
9 5 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.17%) HND
11 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.87%) OSCP
12 2 (0.58%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.58%) MCP
12 2 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.29%) CEH
13 1 (0.29%) MCDST
13 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.45%) Government Security Classifications
2 20 (5.83%) SLA
3 16 (4.66%) QA
4 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.17%) NIST
5 2 (0.58%) GDPR
6 1 (0.29%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 112 (32.65%) Active Directory
2 56 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (8.16%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (5.54%) VMware NSX
5 18 (5.25%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (3.50%) Virtual Servers
6 12 (3.50%) vSphere
7 9 (2.62%) Docker
7 9 (2.62%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (2.33%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (1.46%) VMFS
10 3 (0.87%) Firmware
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.29%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.29%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.29%) XenApp
12 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 43 (12.54%) SCCM
2 30 (8.75%) Ansible
3 24 (7.00%) Terraform
4 21 (6.12%) SCOM
5 19 (5.54%) Kubernetes
6 18 (5.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (4.66%) vCenter Server
8 14 (4.08%) Puppet
9 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (2.62%) NetBackup
10 9 (2.62%) Progress Chef
10 9 (2.62%) Salt
11 8 (2.33%) Nagios
12 7 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (1.46%) WSUS
15 4 (1.17%) Grafana
15 4 (1.17%) Prometheus
16 2 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
16 2 (0.58%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 148 (43.15%) Microsoft
2 86 (25.07%) VMware
3 35 (10.20%) Atlassian
4 21 (6.12%) Veeam
5 16 (4.66%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.79%) Citrix
7 9 (2.62%) Cisco
8 8 (2.33%) Hitachi
8 8 (2.33%) NetApp
8 8 (2.33%) SaltStack
9 7 (2.04%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.75%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.46%) Dell
11 5 (1.46%) HP
11 5 (1.46%) Splunk
12 4 (1.17%) CA
12 4 (1.17%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.17%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.17%) Juniper
12 4 (1.17%) ServiceNow