Windows Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 188 268 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.71% 11.38% 11.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.73% 67.85% 65.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 190 295
10th Percentile £169 £160 £131
25th Percentile £209 £214 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £441 £300
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +47.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £556 £592 £450
90th Percentile £743 £694 £563
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 36
10th Percentile £14.66 £14.32 £11.75
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.17 £13.97
Median hourly rate £22.00 £16.48 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.50% -0.12% -1.49%
75th Percentile £23.75 £17.52 £20.13
90th Percentile - £18.13 £23.75
England median hourly rate £18.00 £22.21 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.94% +11.03% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 245 395 650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.65% 16.77% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 265 441
10th Percentile £185 £167 £150
25th Percentile £255 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £405
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +23.46% +11.72%
75th Percentile £544 £560 £519
90th Percentile £690 £694 £600
England median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 37
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.71 £11.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -1.49%
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.25 £25.75 £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.08 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.13% +70.45% +23.87%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Birmingham 0 57 £350 -12.50% 51
Warwickshire +11 26 £300 -36.17% 15
Coventry +1 24 £650 +26.83% 9
Herefordshire +4 23 £567 -12.85% 10
Shropshire +15 15 £260 -45.26% 4
Worcestershire -1 13 £500 -4.76% 25
Solihull -19 9 £175 -62.37% 2
Staffordshire -9 5 £325 +85.71% 29
Dudley -3 1 £425 +29.77% 4
Wednesbury - 1 £260 -
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 30 (15.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (11.17%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.66%) CMS
4 3 (1.60%) IIS
5 2 (1.06%) IBM Domino
5 2 (1.06%) WordPress
6 1 (0.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.53%) Confluence
6 1 (0.53%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (10.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) MFGPRO
1 1 (0.53%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.53%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (36.17%) Microsoft 365
2 52 (27.66%) Azure
3 24 (12.77%) Entra ID
4 18 (9.57%) OneDrive
5 14 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (6.91%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.79%) AWS
8 6 (3.19%) Azure Functions
8 6 (3.19%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.19%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.19%) Serverless
8 6 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.66%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.60%) IaaS
10 3 (1.60%) PaaS
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.06%) SaaS
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 47 (25.00%) DNS
2 24 (12.77%) DHCP
3 22 (11.70%) WAN
4 20 (10.64%) Network Security
4 20 (10.64%) VPN
5 19 (10.11%) LAN
6 14 (7.45%) Firewall
6 14 (7.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 13 (6.91%) TCP/IP
8 10 (5.32%) SAN
9 8 (4.26%) NetScaler
10 7 (3.72%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (3.72%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (3.19%) Unified Communications
12 5 (2.66%) SD-WAN
12 5 (2.66%) Wireless
13 3 (1.60%) Internet
13 3 (1.60%) VLAN
13 3 (1.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.91%) Big Data
2 11 (5.85%) Power BI
3 10 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.53%) MS Access
5 1 (0.53%) MySQL
5 1 (0.53%) Redis
5 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.53%) GitLab
1 1 (0.53%) Hudson
1 1 (0.53%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (0.53%) JIRA
1 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 57 (30.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.04%) Finance
5 9 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.19%) Back Office
7 5 (2.66%) Legal
7 5 (2.66%) Retail
8 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Games
8 3 (1.60%) Law
9 2 (1.06%) Advertising
9 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.53%) Military
10 1 (0.53%) Police
10 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (15.43%) Analyst
2 20 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (9.04%) Support Analyst
3 17 (9.04%) Support Engineer
4 16 (8.51%) 2nd Line Support
5 12 (6.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 11 (5.85%) Service Analyst
6 11 (5.85%) Service Desk Analyst
7 10 (5.32%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 10 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 10 (5.32%) SIEM Engineer
7 10 (5.32%) Technical Support
8 9 (4.79%) Architect
8 9 (4.79%) Deployment Engineer
8 9 (4.79%) Security Engineer
8 9 (4.79%) Service Desk Support
9 8 (4.26%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (4.26%) IT Support
10 7 (3.72%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (3.72%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.45%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (5.32%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (2.66%) OAuth
3 5 (2.66%) OAuth2
3 5 (2.66%) SAML
4 2 (1.06%) LAMP
4 2 (1.06%) Middleware
5 1 (0.53%) .NET
5 1 (0.53%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.53%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.53%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (0.53%) JSON
5 1 (0.53%) Kafka
5 1 (0.53%) LDAP
5 1 (0.53%) OLE
5 1 (0.53%) React
5 1 (0.53%) REST
5 1 (0.53%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.91%) Cyber Defence
1 13 (6.91%) Distributed Applications
1 13 (6.91%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (5.85%) PKI
3 10 (5.32%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.26%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (3.19%) Digital Signage
6 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.66%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.13%) AS400
8 3 (1.60%) Clustering
8 3 (1.60%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Replication
8 3 (1.60%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.06%) CMDB
9 2 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.06%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 58 (30.85%) Windows Server
2 57 (30.32%) Linux
3 48 (25.53%) Windows 10
4 24 (12.77%) Unix
5 17 (9.04%) Apple iOS
6 16 (8.51%) Android
6 16 (8.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (7.98%) Ubuntu
8 13 (6.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (5.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (3.72%) Mac OS
12 5 (2.66%) Windows 7
13 4 (2.13%) CentOS
14 2 (1.06%) VMS
14 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.53%) HPUX
15 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.53%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (18.09%) Cybersecurity
2 31 (16.49%) SIEM
3 27 (14.36%) Customer Service
4 26 (13.83%) ITIL
5 23 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
7 18 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (9.04%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 16 (8.51%) Analytics
9 16 (8.51%) Security Operations
9 16 (8.51%) Visualisation
10 15 (7.98%) Security Architecture
11 14 (7.45%) Data Management
11 14 (7.45%) Problem Management
12 13 (6.91%) Actionable Insight
12 13 (6.91%) Data Engineering
12 13 (6.91%) Information Security
12 13 (6.91%) Kalman Filter
12 13 (6.91%) Patch Management
13 12 (6.38%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.15%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.26%) R
3 7 (3.72%) C#
4 6 (3.19%) Java
5 5 (2.66%) SQL
6 4 (2.13%) Bash
6 4 (2.13%) Python
7 1 (0.53%) Bicep
7 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 46 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.64%) DV Cleared
3 16 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.38%) Degree
5 5 (2.66%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.06%) MCP
8 2 (1.06%) MCSE
9 1 (0.53%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) MCDST
9 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (4.79%) SLA
3 7 (3.72%) NIST
4 5 (2.66%) ISO 9000
5 2 (1.06%) QA
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 88 (46.81%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (7.98%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (5.85%) Hyper-V
6 10 (5.32%) VMware NSX
7 9 (4.79%) iptables
8 8 (4.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 8 (4.26%) XenApp
8 8 (4.26%) XenDesktop
9 7 (3.72%) vSphere
10 5 (2.66%) Docker
10 5 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (2.66%) VMware Server
11 3 (1.60%) BitLocker
12 2 (1.06%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.53%) Snort
13 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (16.49%) SCCM
2 20 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (7.45%) vCenter Server
4 11 (5.85%) Kibana
5 10 (5.32%) logstash
6 6 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.66%) SysTrack
8 3 (1.60%) Autotask
8 3 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.06%) Terraform
10 1 (0.53%) Ansible
10 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.53%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.53%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 70 (37.23%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.09%) VMware
3 19 (10.11%) Citrix
4 11 (5.85%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.79%) NetApp
6 8 (4.26%) Cisco
7 7 (3.72%) Oracle
7 7 (3.72%) Splunk
7 7 (3.72%) Veeam
8 6 (3.19%) Apple
8 6 (3.19%) SAP
9 5 (2.66%) Darktrace
9 5 (2.66%) FireEye
9 5 (2.66%) LogRhythm
9 5 (2.66%) New Relic
9 5 (2.66%) OpenAI
10 4 (2.13%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.60%) Datto
11 3 (1.60%) Fujitsu
11 3 (1.60%) Sage