Windows Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 8 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 317 460 722
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.62% 13.37% 14.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.70% 70.88% 71.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 312 484
10th Percentile £145 £145 £128
25th Percentile £185 £200 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £278
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +35.14% -10.12%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £425
90th Percentile £675 £688 £538
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 36 60
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £12.15
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.18 £14.38
Median hourly rate £17.86 £17.22 £19.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -10.79% +20.63%
75th Percentile £22.44 £19.94 £22.75
90th Percentile £23.75 £26.48 £26.25
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 408 649 1,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.96% 18.87% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 437 682
10th Percentile £148 £158 £140
25th Percentile £195 £250 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +26.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £541 £558 £495
90th Percentile £628 £688 £575
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 38 70
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.80 £12.48
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.64 £14.66
Median hourly rate £18.50 £17.61 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% +3.59% +6.72%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.98 £22.19
90th Percentile - £30.61 £24.10
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -1 187 £400 -9.60% 165
East Midlands +2 126 £210 -35.38% 100
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (13.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (10.73%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.58%) JBoss
4 4 (1.26%) CMS
5 3 (0.95%) IIS
6 2 (0.63%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.63%) WordPress
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Confluence
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (10.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) MFGPRO
1 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.32%) RMDS
1 1 (0.32%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.32%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.32%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (33.75%) Microsoft 365
2 64 (20.19%) Azure
3 29 (9.15%) Entra ID
4 21 (6.62%) AWS
5 19 (5.99%) OneDrive
6 16 (5.05%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (2.84%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.89%) Azure Functions
9 6 (1.89%) Power Automate
9 6 (1.89%) Serverless
9 6 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.58%) CloudFront
10 5 (1.58%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.26%) IaaS
12 3 (0.95%) PaaS
13 2 (0.63%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.63%) SaaS
14 1 (0.32%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 50 (15.77%) DNS
2 33 (10.41%) VPN
3 26 (8.20%) Firewall
4 25 (7.89%) TCP/IP
4 25 (7.89%) WAN
5 22 (6.94%) DHCP
5 22 (6.94%) LAN
6 21 (6.62%) Network Security
7 16 (5.05%) SAN
8 14 (4.42%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (3.79%) Fibre Channel
10 9 (2.84%) NetScaler
10 9 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (2.52%) Internet
12 7 (2.21%) Wireless
13 6 (1.89%) Unified Communications
14 5 (1.58%) SD-WAN
14 5 (1.58%) VoIP
15 4 (1.26%) Ethernet
15 4 (1.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (4.10%) Big Data
4 11 (3.47%) Power BI
5 6 (1.89%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.63%) MySQL
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.32%) MS Access
7 1 (0.32%) Redis
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.84%) JIRA
2 5 (1.58%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (1.58%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (1.58%) Git
2 5 (1.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.58%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (1.58%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.32%) GitLab
3 1 (0.32%) Hudson
3 1 (0.32%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 81 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.41%) Public Sector
3 32 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.46%) Finance
5 14 (4.42%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.21%) Legal
8 6 (1.89%) Back Office
8 6 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.58%) Electronics
9 5 (1.58%) Marketing
9 5 (1.58%) Retail
10 3 (0.95%) Banking
10 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.95%) Law
11 2 (0.63%) Advertising
11 2 (0.63%) Games
11 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (14.20%) Support Engineer
2 41 (12.93%) Analyst
3 27 (8.52%) 2nd Line Support
4 26 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (7.57%) IT Engineer
6 22 (6.94%) IT Support
7 19 (5.99%) Architect
7 19 (5.99%) IT Technician
8 18 (5.68%) Support Analyst
9 17 (5.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 17 (5.36%) Service Analyst
9 17 (5.36%) Service Desk Analyst
10 15 (4.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 15 (4.73%) Deployment Engineer
10 15 (4.73%) Technical Support
11 13 (4.10%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 13 (4.10%) Desktop Engineer
12 12 (3.79%) Desktop Support
12 12 (3.79%) IT Support Engineer
12 12 (3.79%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (4.42%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (1.58%) OAuth
3 5 (1.58%) OAuth2
3 5 (1.58%) SAML
3 5 (1.58%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.26%) OpenAPI
4 4 (1.26%) RAML
4 4 (1.26%) RESTful
4 4 (1.26%) Swagger
5 2 (0.63%) LAMP
5 2 (0.63%) Middleware
6 1 (0.32%) .NET
6 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.32%) EDI
6 1 (0.32%) Flash
6 1 (0.32%) JSON
6 1 (0.32%) LDAP
6 1 (0.32%) OLE
6 1 (0.32%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.36%) Driving Licence
2 13 (4.10%) Cyber Defence
2 13 (4.10%) Distributed Applications
2 13 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (3.79%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.21%) PKI
4 7 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (1.89%) Digital Signage
5 6 (1.89%) HP Storage
6 5 (1.58%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.58%) Clustering
6 5 (1.58%) iPad
7 4 (1.26%) AS400
7 4 (1.26%) CMDB
7 4 (1.26%) Cyberattack
7 4 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.26%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.26%) Thin Client
8 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 82 (25.87%) Windows 10
2 79 (24.92%) Windows Server
3 76 (23.97%) Linux
4 37 (11.67%) Windows 7
5 24 (7.57%) Apple iOS
5 24 (7.57%) Unix
6 22 (6.94%) Windows Vista
7 19 (5.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (5.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (5.36%) Android
9 17 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (4.73%) Windows Server 2016
11 13 (4.10%) Ubuntu
12 9 (2.84%) AIX
12 9 (2.84%) Solaris
13 8 (2.52%) Mac OS
14 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.95%) VMS
16 1 (0.32%) HPUX
16 1 (0.32%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (14.83%) Customer Service
2 39 (12.30%) ITIL
3 31 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (9.78%) SIEM
4 29 (9.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (8.83%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (6.31%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (5.36%) Analytics
7 17 (5.36%) Information Security
7 17 (5.36%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 16 (5.05%) Change Management
8 16 (5.05%) Migration
8 16 (5.05%) Security Operations
8 16 (5.05%) Visualisation
9 15 (4.73%) Data Management
9 15 (4.73%) Security Architecture
10 14 (4.42%) Problem Management
11 13 (4.10%) Data Engineering
11 13 (4.10%) DevOps
11 13 (4.10%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 42 (13.25%) PowerShell
2 19 (5.99%) SQL
3 11 (3.47%) C#
4 10 (3.15%) Java
5 9 (2.84%) Python
6 8 (2.52%) R
7 5 (1.58%) Bash
7 5 (1.58%) Perl
8 1 (0.32%) Bicep
8 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.32%) VB
8 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (29.97%) Security Cleared
2 58 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.42%) Degree
5 9 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.26%) MCSE
8 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.63%) MCP
8 2 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.32%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.32%) MCDST
9 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.42%) SLA
2 13 (4.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (2.21%) NIST
4 5 (1.58%) ISO 9000
5 3 (0.95%) QA
6 2 (0.63%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 130 (41.01%) Active Directory
2 27 (8.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.99%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.47%) Docker
7 9 (2.84%) iptables
7 9 (2.84%) XenApp
7 9 (2.84%) XenDesktop
8 8 (2.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (2.21%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
12 4 (1.26%) BitLocker
12 4 (1.26%) vSphere
13 2 (0.63%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.32%) Firmware
14 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.32%) Snort
14 1 (0.32%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 44 (13.88%) SCCM
2 32 (10.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (5.05%) Kibana
4 11 (3.47%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.15%) logstash
6 9 (2.84%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (2.21%) Kubernetes
7 7 (2.21%) NetBackup
8 6 (1.89%) Autotask
8 6 (1.89%) HP Data Protector
8 6 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.58%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.58%) SysTrack
10 4 (1.26%) Terraform
11 3 (0.95%) Ansible
11 3 (0.95%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.95%) SCOM
12 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.32%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 99 (31.23%) Microsoft
2 46 (14.51%) VMware
3 22 (6.94%) Cisco
4 21 (6.62%) Citrix
5 18 (5.68%) Red Hat
6 17 (5.36%) Apple
7 14 (4.42%) Oracle
8 12 (3.79%) SAP
8 12 (3.79%) Splunk
9 11 (3.47%) EMC
10 10 (3.15%) HP
11 9 (2.84%) NetApp
12 8 (2.52%) Brocade
12 8 (2.52%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.52%) Veeam
13 6 (1.89%) Symantec
14 5 (1.58%) AppDynamics
14 5 (1.58%) New Relic
14 5 (1.58%) OpenAI
15 4 (1.26%) Darktrace