Windows Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 1
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 134 164 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.43% 16.00% 19.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.46% 77.00% 80.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 111 157
10th Percentile £124 £122 £125
25th Percentile £150 £159 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £325 £245
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +32.65% +25.64%
75th Percentile £403 £417 £375
90th Percentile £572 £591 £480
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 27
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.58 £13.45
25th Percentile £14.27 £13.61 £15.31
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.38 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% -8.10% +33.33%
75th Percentile £20.00 £21.50 £23.88
90th Percentile - £31.99 £40.50
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 173 213 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.50% 20.78% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 150 204
10th Percentile £124 £122 £128
25th Percentile £150 £186 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £363 £323
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +12.40% +19.44%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £466
90th Percentile £575 £675 £500
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 34
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.58 £13.83
25th Percentile £14.27 £13.61 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.38 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% -6.34% +34.33%
75th Percentile £20.00 £21.50 £23.44
90th Percentile - £31.99 £37.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.87%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 0 50 £168 -44.17% 32
Leicestershire +2 36 £135 -58.46% 21
Northamptonshire +3 21 £392 +107.14% 22
Nottinghamshire +1 21 £210 -44.00% 26
Lincolnshire +2 7 £325 -45.42% 12
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 13 (9.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (8.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.73%) JBoss
Applications
1 13 (9.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.75%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.61%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (8.96%) AWS
3 8 (5.97%) Azure
4 5 (3.73%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.75%) IaaS
6 1 (0.75%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.75%) Rubrik
6 1 (0.75%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.75%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.96%) TCP/IP
1 12 (8.96%) VPN
2 10 (7.46%) Firewall
2 10 (7.46%) SAN
3 9 (6.72%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (4.48%) DNS
5 5 (3.73%) Internet
6 4 (2.99%) LAN
6 4 (2.99%) WAN
7 3 (2.24%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.49%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.49%) VoIP
8 2 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.75%) DHCP
9 1 (0.75%) Multicast
9 1 (0.75%) Network Security
9 1 (0.75%) PBX
9 1 (0.75%) PSTN
9 1 (0.75%) VLAN
9 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.70%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
2 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.72%) JIRA
2 6 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.73%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (3.73%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (3.73%) Git
3 5 (3.73%) SonarQube
3 5 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (3.73%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.69%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.96%) Finance
4 9 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.97%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.99%) Banking
7 4 (2.99%) Electronics
7 4 (2.99%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (22.39%) Support Engineer
2 19 (14.18%) IT Engineer
3 16 (11.94%) Analyst
4 13 (9.70%) IT Support
5 12 (8.96%) Windows Engineer
6 11 (8.21%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (8.21%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (8.21%) IT Technician
7 10 (7.46%) Architect
8 8 (5.97%) Service Analyst
8 8 (5.97%) Service Desk Analyst
9 7 (5.22%) Windows Support Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) DBA
10 6 (4.48%) Infrastructure Architect
11 5 (3.73%) Deployment Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Desktop Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Storage Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Technical Support
11 5 (3.73%) Technical Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (3.73%) Spring Boot
2 4 (2.99%) OpenAPI
2 4 (2.99%) RAML
2 4 (2.99%) RESTful
2 4 (2.99%) Swagger
3 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.75%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.72%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.48%) HP Storage
3 4 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.24%) iPad
5 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.75%) BYOD
6 1 (0.75%) Clustering
6 1 (0.75%) CMDB
6 1 (0.75%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.75%) iPhone
6 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.75%) PDA
6 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.75%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.88%) Windows 10
2 30 (22.39%) Windows 7
3 29 (21.64%) Windows Server
4 22 (16.42%) Linux
5 19 (14.18%) Windows Vista
6 9 (6.72%) AIX
6 9 (6.72%) Solaris
7 8 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (5.22%) Apple iOS
9 3 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.75%) VMS
11 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.75%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.42%) Customer Service
2 12 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (8.21%) Performance Tuning
4 9 (6.72%) Mentoring
4 9 (6.72%) Migration
4 9 (6.72%) Project Delivery
5 8 (5.97%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (5.97%) DevOps
5 8 (5.97%) ITIL
6 7 (5.22%) CI/CD
7 6 (4.48%) High Availability
7 6 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (4.48%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (3.73%) Build Automation
8 5 (3.73%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (3.73%) Data Modelling
8 5 (3.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (3.73%) Microservices
8 5 (3.73%) Service Delivery
8 5 (3.73%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.70%) SQL
2 10 (7.46%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.73%) C#
3 5 (3.73%) Perl
3 5 (3.73%) Python
4 4 (2.99%) Bash
4 4 (2.99%) Java
5 1 (0.75%) Ruby
5 1 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 40 (29.85%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.73%) Degree
4 5 (3.73%) MCITP
4 5 (3.73%) MCTS
5 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.49%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (1.49%) MCSE
6 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) SLA
2 1 (0.75%) GDPR
2 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 50 (37.31%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.97%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.48%) Docker
5 5 (3.73%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.49%) XenApp
6 2 (1.49%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.75%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.75%) Firmware
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (7.46%) SCCM
2 9 (6.72%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.48%) HP Data Protector
4 6 (4.48%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.48%) NetBackup
4 6 (4.48%) Progress Chef
5 5 (3.73%) Kibana
6 3 (2.24%) Autotask
7 2 (1.49%) Ansible
7 2 (1.49%) SCOM
7 2 (1.49%) Terraform
8 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.45%) VMware
3 13 (9.70%) Cisco
4 11 (8.21%) Apple
5 10 (7.46%) EMC
6 8 (5.97%) Brocade
7 7 (5.22%) HP
7 7 (5.22%) Oracle
8 6 (4.48%) Red Hat
8 6 (4.48%) Splunk
8 6 (4.48%) Symantec
9 5 (3.73%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.73%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.99%) Computacenter
10 4 (2.99%) Remedy
10 4 (2.99%) SAP
11 3 (2.24%) Citrix
12 1 (0.75%) Dell
12 1 (0.75%) Juniper
12 1 (0.75%) Peregrine