Windows Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 18 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 42 131 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.84% 16.95% 16.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.00% 77.06% 78.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 81 110
10th Percentile £170 £122 £117
25th Percentile £185 £145 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £206 £200 £325
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -38.46% +31.31%
75th Percentile £427 £388 £425
90th Percentile £530 £575 £591
England median daily rate £420 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 29
10th Percentile £14.29 £12.75 £11.69
25th Percentile £15.09 £14.27 £12.70
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -17.58%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £24.59 £21.88 £29.23
England median hourly rate £18.77 £17.72 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.90% -21.24% +12.50%

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 70 170 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.06% 21.99% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 102 148
10th Percentile £173 £122 £125
25th Percentile £200 £150 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.15% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £476 £504 £538
90th Percentile £530 £575 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 29
10th Percentile £14.29 £12.75 £11.69
25th Percentile £15.09 £14.27 £12.70
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -4.22%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £24.59 £21.88 £29.23
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +2 14 £390 +85.71% 27
Derbyshire -5 12 £200 +25.00% 25
Leicestershire -7 9 £250 +86.22% 24
Northamptonshire -13 4 £519 +45.65% 18
Lincolnshire -1 3 £180 -44.62% 22
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 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (14.29%) Azure
3 5 (11.90%) AWS
4 4 (9.52%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.38%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
1 4 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (7.14%) Network Security
3 2 (4.76%) DHCP
3 2 (4.76%) DNS
3 2 (4.76%) LAN
3 2 (4.76%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
1 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Manufacturing
3 3 (7.14%) Legal
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Electronics
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
5 1 (2.38%) Police
5 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Analyst
2 5 (11.90%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Service Analyst
2 5 (11.90%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) IT Analyst
3 4 (9.52%) IT Support
3 4 (9.52%) Support Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Desktop Support
4 3 (7.14%) Information Assurance Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Information Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Mac Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (4.76%) Break Fix Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.38%) Spring
1 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) iPhone
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 17 (40.48%) Windows 10
2 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 8 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (9.52%) Windows 7
4 4 (9.52%) Windows Vista
5 3 (7.14%) Android
5 3 (7.14%) Mac OS
5 3 (7.14%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.38%) CentOS
6 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.38%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (19.05%) Break/Fix
2 7 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (9.52%) ITIL
3 4 (9.52%) Risk Management
4 3 (7.14%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (7.14%) DevOps
4 3 (7.14%) Information Assurance
4 3 (7.14%) Information Security
4 3 (7.14%) Service Delivery
5 2 (4.76%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (4.76%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 2 (4.76%) High Availability
5 2 (4.76%) Open Source
5 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (4.76%) Server Building
5 2 (4.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) Python
2 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (9.52%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 16 (38.10%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (7.14%) CISA
4 3 (7.14%) CISM
4 3 (7.14%) CISSP
4 3 (7.14%) GIAC
5 1 (2.38%) ACSP
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (7.14%) NIST
1 3 (7.14%) NIST 800
1 3 (7.14%) SLA
2 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 9 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.76%) Docker
5 1 (2.38%) Firmware
5 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (14.29%) SCCM
2 3 (7.14%) Ansible
2 3 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) SCOM
3 2 (4.76%) Terraform
4 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.38%) Kibana
4 1 (2.38%) Podman
4 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.43%) VMware
3 6 (14.29%) Cisco
4 4 (9.52%) Apple
5 2 (4.76%) Databricks
6 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.38%) Citrix
6 1 (2.38%) Dell
6 1 (2.38%) Google
6 1 (2.38%) HP
6 1 (2.38%) Ivanti
6 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.38%) SAP
6 1 (2.38%) Splunk