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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 106 53 124
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 10.54% 10.41% 16.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.46% 65.43% 81.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 34 82
10th Percentile £131 £169 £122
25th Percentile £163 £185 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £250 £200
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £313 £423 £356
90th Percentile £459 £500 £559
England median daily rate £408 £414 £386
% change year-on-year -1.51% +7.33% -14.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 24
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.15 £14.27
25th Percentile £15.57 £14.76 £14.61
Median hourly rate £21.76 £16.93 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +28.53% -4.47% +14.32%
75th Percentile £25.12 £20.30 £20.00
90th Percentile £25.58 £22.37 £23.74
England median hourly rate £21.48 £20.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +4.78% +15.69% -20.34%

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 127 81 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.62% 15.91% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 59 97
10th Percentile £131 £172 £122
25th Percentile £163 £200 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £390 £215
Median % change year-on-year -43.59% +81.40% -42.67%
75th Percentile £419 £485 £475
90th Percentile £531 £537 £569
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 25
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.15 £14.27
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.76 £14.72
Median hourly rate £19.64 £16.93 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +16.02% -4.47% +6.11%
75th Percentile £24.70 £20.30 £20.00
90th Percentile £25.32 £22.37 £24.50
England median hourly rate £22.58 £29.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -22.16% +31.82% -16.98%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +3 46 £200 -48.72% 14
Derbyshire +3 30 £275 +37.50% 9
Leicestershire +1 18 £131 -47.53% 10
Northamptonshire -19 11 £443 +4.17% 12
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 (15.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.89%) IIS
3 2 (1.89%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.94%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 38 (35.85%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (23.58%) Azure
3 14 (13.21%) Entra ID
4 8 (7.55%) AWS
5 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.83%) GCP
6 2 (1.89%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.94%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) LAN
1 6 (5.66%) WLAN
2 5 (4.72%) DNS
3 3 (2.83%) DHCP
3 3 (2.83%) SAN
4 2 (1.89%) VLAN
4 2 (1.89%) VPN
5 1 (0.94%) Firewall
5 1 (0.94%) Network Security
5 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.94%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.94%) MySQL
2 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.94%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.94%) Git
2 1 (0.94%) MSI
2 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.60%) Law
3 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.66%) Retail
5 5 (4.72%) Fire and Rescue
5 5 (4.72%) Local Government
5 5 (4.72%) Police
6 3 (2.83%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.94%) Automotive
7 1 (0.94%) Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Finance
7 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (20.75%) Desktop Support
2 18 (16.98%) IT Support
3 15 (14.15%) Support Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Service Analyst
5 11 (10.38%) Service Desk Analyst
6 8 (7.55%) Deskside Support
7 7 (6.60%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Desktop Support Technician
7 7 (6.60%) Desktop Technician
7 7 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) IT Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Support Technician
8 6 (5.66%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Help Desk Technician
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Desktop Support
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Desktop Support Technician
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.89%) X-Windows
2 1 (0.94%) .NET
2 1 (0.94%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.94%) CSS
2 1 (0.94%) HTML
2 1 (0.94%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Smartphone
2 10 (9.43%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.60%) Driving Licence
3 7 (6.60%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.94%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.94%) Replication
4 1 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (31.13%) Windows 10
2 16 (15.09%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.49%) Linux
4 8 (7.55%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.77%) Windows 7
5 4 (3.77%) Windows 8
5 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.94%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.79%) Customer Service
2 27 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (16.04%) Migration
5 14 (13.21%) ITSM
6 11 (10.38%) ITIL
6 11 (10.38%) Project Delivery
7 10 (9.43%) Business Continuity
7 10 (9.43%) Digital Strategy
7 10 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (7.55%) Data Migration
9 7 (6.60%) BCP
9 7 (6.60%) Data Protection
9 7 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (6.60%) Logistics
10 6 (5.66%) Asset Management
10 6 (5.66%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (5.66%) Service Delivery
11 5 (4.72%) Agile
11 5 (4.72%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.89%) Bash
2 2 (1.89%) C#
2 2 (1.89%) C++
2 2 (1.89%) Python
3 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (23.58%) SC Cleared
1 25 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (4.72%) NVQ Level 3
4 3 (2.83%) Degree
5 2 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.94%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) SLA
2 2 (1.89%) GDPR
2 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 55 (51.89%) Active Directory
2 18 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.32%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.72%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.83%) vSphere
6 2 (1.89%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 30 (28.30%) SCCM
2 18 (16.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 50 (47.17%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.98%) VMware
3 8 (7.55%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.72%) Citrix
4 5 (4.72%) HP
5 4 (3.77%) Cisco
6 3 (2.83%) Dell
6 3 (2.83%) Google
7 2 (1.89%) Oracle
7 2 (1.89%) Sophos
8 1 (0.94%) Intel
8 1 (0.94%) NetApp
8 1 (0.94%) Splunk