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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 58 109 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.51% 13.96% 14.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.04% 73.65% 80.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 66 74
10th Percentile £131 £160 £124
25th Percentile £163 £200 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £379 £224
Median % change year-on-year -43.93% +69.20% -0.44%
75th Percentile £469 £490 £460
90th Percentile £495 £574 £584
England median daily rate £400 £425 £430
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 20
10th Percentile £15.66 £12.75 £11.88
25th Percentile £23.99 £13.33 £14.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.66 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +42.41% -0.34% -2.90%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile - £24.74 £21.50
England median hourly rate £21.65 £23.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.03% -4.80% +14.78%

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 92 148 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.92% 18.95% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 86 91
10th Percentile £134 £160 £130
25th Percentile £200 £263 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +23.08% -
75th Percentile £475 £500 £531
90th Percentile £490 £552 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 22
10th Percentile £15.66 £12.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £23.99 £13.52 £14.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.32 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +37.28% +3.39% +0.91%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £20.00
90th Percentile - £38.68 £23.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £47.67
% change year-on-year -56.07% +20.11% +99.35%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 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 15 September 2025.

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
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 15 September 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire -6 17 £325 -13.33% 35
Leicestershire -3 16 £132 -53.16% 25
Derbyshire -7 13 £171 -54.40% 36
Northamptonshire -28 9 £483 +12.08% 25
Lincolnshire +2 3 £200 -52.94% 14
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (18.97%) Azure
3 9 (15.52%) AWS
3 9 (15.52%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.62%) GCP
5 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) LAN
1 3 (5.17%) PuTTY
1 3 (5.17%) SSH
1 3 (5.17%) Telnet
2 2 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.45%) WAN
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.72%) DHCP
3 1 (1.72%) Network Security
3 1 (1.72%) SMTP
3 1 (1.72%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Retail
3 5 (8.62%) Finance
3 5 (8.62%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Support Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Analyst
3 11 (18.97%) Windows Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Windows Support Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) IT Support
6 6 (10.34%) Deployment Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Desktop Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Desktop Support
6 6 (10.34%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) IT Analyst
6 6 (10.34%) Support Analyst
7 5 (8.62%) IT Support Analyst
7 5 (8.62%) Service Analyst
7 5 (8.62%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (8.62%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Technical Support
7 5 (8.62%) Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) 1st Line Support
8 3 (5.17%) Head of IT
8 3 (5.17%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Driving Licence
1 5 (8.62%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.72%) CMDB
4 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.86%) Windows 10
2 6 (10.34%) Mac OS
3 5 (8.62%) Linux
4 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.17%) Android
5 3 (5.17%) Windows 7
5 3 (5.17%) Windows 8
5 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (17.24%) ITIL
3 9 (15.52%) Data Protection
4 8 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (12.07%) ITSM
5 7 (12.07%) Service Management
6 6 (10.34%) Break/Fix
6 6 (10.34%) Change Management
6 6 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (10.34%) Customer Service
6 6 (10.34%) Project Management
7 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (8.62%) Information Security
7 5 (8.62%) Line Management
7 5 (8.62%) Problem Management
7 5 (8.62%) Roadmaps
7 5 (8.62%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (8.62%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (8.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.62%) Bash
3 1 (1.72%) Python
3 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) Degree
3 5 (8.62%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) GDPR
1 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.90%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 10 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.17%) BitLocker
4 3 (5.17%) Firmware
5 2 (3.45%) vSphere
6 1 (1.72%) Docker
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (25.86%) SCCM
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.45%) SCOM
4 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.72%) Podman
Vendors
1 33 (56.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.24%) VMware
3 8 (13.79%) HP
4 5 (8.62%) Cisco
4 5 (8.62%) Citrix
5 3 (5.17%) Dell
5 3 (5.17%) Draytek
5 3 (5.17%) McAfee
5 3 (5.17%) Samsung
6 2 (3.45%) Apple
7 1 (1.72%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.72%) Okta
7 1 (1.72%) SAP
7 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow