Windows Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 19 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 96 62 106
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.16% 7.86% 13.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.48% 65.26% 73.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 31 62
10th Percentile £131 £131 £160
25th Percentile £181 £166 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £225 £383
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -41.25% +70.98%
75th Percentile £444 £474 £490
90th Percentile £498 £492 £558
England median daily rate £418 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 16
10th Percentile £20.00 £15.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.44 £23.99 £13.33
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £17.66
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +42.41% -0.34%
75th Percentile £61.94 - £24.18
90th Percentile £74.00 - £24.74
England median hourly rate £25.77 £22.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +17.14% -9.02% -3.28%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 115 95 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.58% 12.04% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 61 82
10th Percentile £131 £134 £161
25th Percentile £193 £200 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £420 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% +5.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £500
90th Percentile £511 £490 £542
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 12 17
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.99 £13.52
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +37.28% +3.39%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £24.18
90th Percentile £74.00 - £38.68
England median hourly rate £38.61 £25.15 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.52% -56.26% +20.22%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Windows job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Windows

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Derbyshire -1 23 £222 +29.53% 17
Nottinghamshire -9 23 £298 -8.46% 24
Lincolnshire -1 20 £425 +112.50% 12
Leicestershire -8 16 £275 +107.81% 24
Northamptonshire +14 13 £300 -36.84% 13
Windows
England

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.50%) Azure
1 36 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (20.83%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.13%) GitHub
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (3.13%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.08%) AWS
4 2 (2.08%) SaaS
5 1 (1.04%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.04%) IaaS
5 1 (1.04%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.67%) DHCP
1 16 (16.67%) DNS
2 10 (10.42%) VPN
3 7 (7.29%) VLAN
4 6 (6.25%) IPv4
4 6 (6.25%) IPv6
4 6 (6.25%) LAN
4 6 (6.25%) Network Security
5 5 (5.21%) SAN
6 4 (4.17%) WAN
7 2 (2.08%) Firewall
7 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.08%) WLAN
8 1 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) JIRA
2 2 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) MSI
3 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (48.96%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (6.25%) Law
3 5 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.13%) Finance
4 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.08%) Automotive
5 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (17.71%) IT Engineer
3 15 (15.63%) Windows Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) Analyst
5 12 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) Deployment Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) IT Support
7 6 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (6.25%) Windows Deployment Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Windows Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.21%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Server Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Service Analyst
8 5 (5.21%) Service Desk Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) Software Packaging
2 2 (2.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.04%) ISPF
3 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Onboarding
2 9 (9.38%) CMDB
3 8 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 7 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.29%) Virtual Team
5 5 (5.21%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.08%) Smartphone
7 2 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.04%) Clustering
8 1 (1.04%) Device Driver
8 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (35.42%) Windows Server
2 28 (29.17%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.21%) Linux
3 5 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (4.17%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.08%) CentOS
7 1 (1.04%) Android
7 1 (1.04%) MVS
7 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.04%) VMS
7 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (20.83%) Migration
4 16 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 13 (13.54%) Asset Management
6 9 (9.38%) ITIL
7 6 (6.25%) Decision-Making
7 6 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (5.21%) Business Continuity
8 5 (5.21%) Project Delivery
9 4 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (4.17%) Digital Strategy
9 4 (4.17%) IT Asset Management
9 4 (4.17%) ITSM
9 4 (4.17%) Server Management
9 4 (4.17%) Server Migrations
9 4 (4.17%) Service Delivery
10 3 (3.13%) Agile
10 3 (3.13%) High Availability
10 3 (3.13%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.13%) Python
3 2 (2.08%) SQL
4 1 (1.04%) JCL
4 1 (1.04%) REXX
Qualifications
1 34 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) Degree
4 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.04%) MCSA
6 1 (1.04%) MCSE
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.04%) PMO
2 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (48.96%) Active Directory
2 16 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.21%) vSphere
4 3 (3.13%) Docker
5 2 (2.08%) Firmware
5 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.04%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.04%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 23 (23.96%) SCCM
2 22 (22.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.25%) WSUS
4 2 (2.08%) Ansible
4 2 (2.08%) SCOM
5 1 (1.04%) Control-M
5 1 (1.04%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.04%) vRealize
5 1 (1.04%) VxRail
Vendors
1 54 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.67%) VMware
3 6 (6.25%) Citrix
4 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.17%) Apple
6 3 (3.13%) Aruba
6 3 (3.13%) Samsung
6 3 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.04%) BMC
7 1 (1.04%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.04%) Databricks
7 1 (1.04%) Dell
7 1 (1.04%) HP
7 1 (1.04%) NetApp
7 1 (1.04%) Splunk