Windows Contracts in Coventry

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 5 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 17 26 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 17.53% 18.18% 14.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 94.44% 72.22% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 29
10th Percentile £164 £400 £165
25th Percentile £178 £406 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile - £675 £694
90th Percentile £293 £693 £695
West Midlands median daily rate £278 £400 £443
% change year-on-year -30.63% -9.60% +47.50%

All Operating Systems
Coventry

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 36 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 18.56% 25.17% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 32
10th Percentile £165 £227 £172
25th Percentile £183 £400 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% -12.20% +36.67%
75th Percentile £263 £675 £694
90th Percentile £369 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £505
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Coventry

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Coventry

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Coventry over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Coventry

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Coventry

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (29.41%) Entra ID
3 3 (17.65%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Deployment Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Technician
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Build Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Hardware Technician
5 1 (5.88%) IT Technician
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Rollout Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows 10
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (17.65%) ITIL
1 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
2 2 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
2 2 (11.76%) Patch Management
2 2 (11.76%) RBAC
2 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
2 2 (11.76%) Validation
3 1 (5.88%) Application Packaging
3 1 (5.88%) Batch Scripting
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (5.88%) Migration
3 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (5.88%) SIEM
3 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (17.65%) MCSE
3 1 (5.88%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) SCCM
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
2 1 (5.88%) VMware