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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 21 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -19 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 91 53 132
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 7.37% 6.98% 17.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 81.98% 60.92% 76.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 25 82
10th Percentile £129 £131 £149
25th Percentile £146 £160 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £200 £375
Median % change year-on-year +36.25% -46.67% +68.16%
75th Percentile £475 £325 £489
90th Percentile £530 £508 £574
England median daily rate £420 £408 £450
% change year-on-year +3.07% -9.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 23
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.38 £13.90
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +47.94% -4.06%
75th Percentile £61.94 - £24.18
90th Percentile £74.00 - £25.08
England median hourly rate £25.75 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.46% -10.14% -6.67%

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 111 87 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.00% 11.46% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 55 104
10th Percentile £131 £144 £150
25th Percentile £183 £200 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £388 £385
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +0.58% +18.54%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £500
90th Percentile £538 £490 £572
England median daily rate £469 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +4.22% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 13 24
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.12 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.51 £18.38 £14.08
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +43.71% -1.24%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £24.18
90th Percentile £74.00 - £43.92
England median hourly rate £35.22 £23.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +49.87% -27.69% -12.96%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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
Nottinghamshire -10 25 £270 -24.21% 11
Leicestershire -4 18 £275 +107.81% 8
Derbyshire -2 17 £200 +16.96% 10
Lincolnshire -4 16 £419 +109.38% 4
Northamptonshire +22 14 £375 -23.78% 8
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 17 (18.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) SAS
3 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (31.87%) Azure
3 16 (17.58%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.30%) AWS
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (3.30%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.20%) GitHub
5 2 (2.20%) SaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.10%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) IaaS
6 1 (1.10%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.10%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.68%) DNS
2 16 (17.58%) DHCP
3 7 (7.69%) VLAN
4 6 (6.59%) IPv4
4 6 (6.59%) IPv6
4 6 (6.59%) LAN
4 6 (6.59%) Network Security
4 6 (6.59%) VPN
5 4 (4.40%) WAN
6 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.20%) Firewall
7 2 (2.20%) SAN
7 2 (2.20%) WLAN
8 1 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.10%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
3 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.10%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) MSI
General
1 41 (45.05%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (6.59%) Law
3 5 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.30%) Finance
4 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.20%) Automotive
5 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) IT Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) IT Support
3 13 (14.29%) Analyst
4 12 (13.19%) Support Engineer
4 12 (13.19%) Windows Engineer
5 8 (8.79%) Deployment Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Service Analyst
6 6 (6.59%) Service Desk Analyst
6 6 (6.59%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (6.59%) Windows Deployment Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Windows Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.49%) Administrator
8 4 (4.40%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (4.40%) Help Desk Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) IT Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) Software Packaging
2 2 (2.20%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.10%) ISPF
3 1 (1.10%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.19%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.49%) CMDB
4 4 (4.40%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.20%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.10%) Clustering
7 1 (1.10%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.10%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.10%) Replication
7 1 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (30.77%) Windows Server
2 24 (26.37%) Windows 10
3 7 (7.69%) Linux
4 5 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.40%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.20%) CentOS
7 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.10%) Android
8 1 (1.10%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.10%) MVS
8 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.10%) VMS
8 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 20 (21.98%) Customer Service
4 16 (17.58%) Migration
5 14 (15.38%) Asset Management
6 7 (7.69%) ITIL
7 6 (6.59%) Decision-Making
8 5 (5.49%) Business Continuity
8 5 (5.49%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (5.49%) Digital Strategy
8 5 (5.49%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (4.40%) Computer Science
9 4 (4.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (4.40%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (4.40%) High Availability
9 4 (4.40%) IT Asset Management
9 4 (4.40%) ITSM
9 4 (4.40%) Project Delivery
9 4 (4.40%) Server Migrations
9 4 (4.40%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.30%) SQL
3 2 (2.20%) Python
4 1 (1.10%) JCL
4 1 (1.10%) REXX
Qualifications
1 30 (32.97%) Security Cleared
2 29 (31.87%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.59%) Degree
4 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.10%) MCSA
6 1 (1.10%) MCSE
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) PMO
2 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (43.96%) Active Directory
2 14 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.30%) vSphere
4 2 (2.20%) Docker
4 2 (2.20%) Firmware
4 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.10%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.10%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (18.68%) SCCM
3 6 (6.59%) WSUS
4 3 (3.30%) Ansible
5 2 (2.20%) SCOM
6 1 (1.10%) Control-M
6 1 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.10%) vRealize
6 1 (1.10%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.38%) VMware
3 6 (6.59%) Citrix
3 6 (6.59%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.40%) Apple
5 3 (3.30%) Aruba
5 3 (3.30%) Samsung
5 3 (3.30%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.20%) NetApp
6 2 (2.20%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) BMC
7 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.10%) Databricks
7 1 (1.10%) Dell
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) HP
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle