Windows Specialist Contracts in England

Windows Specialist
UK > England

The median Windows Specialist daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 662 764
Rank change year-on-year +132 +102 -166
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Specialist 11 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.012% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.012% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £285 £400 £343
25th Percentile £400 £425 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +43.68%
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £517 - -
UK median daily rate £505 £475 £544
% change year-on-year +6.32% -12.64% +45.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,525 48,539 68,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,000 34,387 48,854
10th Percentile £275 £308 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,454 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.43 £61.73
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
% change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%

Windows Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Windows Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Specialist in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +114 9 £510 +2.00% 1
East of England - 2 £288 -
Windows Specialist
UK

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Windows Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Windows Specialist in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) SCCM
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
3 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
4 4 (36.36%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (36.36%) VMware
4 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
4 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
4 4 (36.36%) Citrix
4 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) ITIL
5 3 (27.27%) Change Management
5 3 (27.27%) SLA
5 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
5 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
6 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Time Management
6 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 2 (18.18%) Tomcat

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
2 1 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Time Management
3 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) ITSM
4 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) VBScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Citrix
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (9.09%) IBM
4 1 (9.09%) Remedy