Windows Contracts in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Windows
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 4 12
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows 16 36 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 6.58% 19.67% 11.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 88.89% 90.00% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 28 21
10th Percentile £173 £155 £95
25th Percentile £175 £163 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £210 £338
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -37.78% +50.00%
75th Percentile £288 £342 £400
90th Percentile £420 £520 £450
East of England median daily rate £290 £300 £325
% change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% +10.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £53.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £17.00 £15.62
% change year-on-year -16.71% +8.83% -5.33%

All Operating Systems
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 40 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 7.41% 21.86% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 21
10th Percentile £174 £156 £95
25th Percentile £181 £163 £135
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £225 £338
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £363 £520 £400
90th Percentile £404 £598 £450
East of England median daily rate £344 £419 £400
% change year-on-year -17.91% +4.69% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £44.25
25th Percentile £51.25 - £46.88
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +238.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.00 £17.75 £20.20
% change year-on-year -4.23% -12.13% +22.42%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Bedfordshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Bedfordshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Bedfordshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Bedfordshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Bedford 0 8 £200 +15.94% 2
Luton -14 3 £463 +9.86% 1
Dunstable -4 1 - -
Windows
East of England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (12.50%) Apache
3 2 (12.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) MPLS
2 1 (6.25%) VLAN
2 1 (6.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) LabVIEW
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (25.00%) Marketing
2 4 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (31.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) IT Support
5 2 (12.50%) Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) IT Support Technician
5 2 (12.50%) IT Technician
5 2 (12.50%) Support Technician
5 2 (12.50%) Unix Administrator
6 1 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (6.25%) IT Operations Manager
6 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Operations Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) LDAP
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
2 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) AIX
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Solaris
3 2 (12.50%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Patch Management
3 3 (18.75%) Tech Ops
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (6.25%) Change Management
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.25%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) Requirements Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Security Management
5 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.25%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bash
1 1 (6.25%) Korn
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) CCNA
1 4 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) MCSA
1 4 (25.00%) MCSE
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) SAP
3 3 (18.75%) Ariba
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) Citrix
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle
5 1 (6.25%) Qualys