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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 124 171 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.23% 16.67% 19.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.48% 78.44% 80.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 111 168
10th Percentile £122 £117 £128
25th Percentile £145 £159 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £325 £246
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +31.98% +24.68%
75th Percentile £388 £417 £375
90th Percentile £580 £591 £479
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 30 25
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.23 £13.43
25th Percentile £14.27 £12.03 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.61 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -18.09% +43.33%
75th Percentile £20.00 £20.00 £24.00
90th Percentile £21.88 £27.86 £42.00
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.09% +12.28% +17.65%

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 158 218 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 20.68% 21.25% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 151 220
10th Percentile £122 £125 £130
25th Percentile £149 £187 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £522 £538 £473
90th Percentile £584 £675 £502
England median daily rate £460 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.68% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 30 34
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.23 £13.83
25th Percentile £14.27 £12.03 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.61 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -4.81% +23.33%
75th Percentile £20.00 £20.00 £23.44
90th Percentile £21.88 £27.86 £37.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 52 £160 -31.18% 27
Leicestershire 0 32 £133 -59.23% 22
Nottinghamshire +1 21 £210 -44.00% 26
Northamptonshire +1 13 £356 +89.36% 21
Lincolnshire +1 7 £325 -45.00% 9
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 12 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.26%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.03%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.81%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 34 (27.42%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (9.68%) AWS
3 7 (5.65%) Azure
4 5 (4.03%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.81%) IaaS
6 1 (0.81%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.68%) TCP/IP
1 12 (9.68%) VPN
2 10 (8.06%) Firewall
3 9 (7.26%) Fibre Channel
3 9 (7.26%) SAN
4 6 (4.84%) DNS
5 5 (4.03%) Internet
6 4 (3.23%) LAN
6 4 (3.23%) WAN
7 3 (2.42%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.61%) VoIP
8 2 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.81%) DHCP
9 1 (0.81%) Multicast
9 1 (0.81%) Network Security
9 1 (0.81%) PBX
9 1 (0.81%) PSTN
9 1 (0.81%) VLAN
9 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.84%) RDBMS
2 6 (4.84%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.45%) JIRA
2 5 (4.03%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (4.03%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (4.03%) Git
2 5 (4.03%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.03%) SonarQube
2 5 (4.03%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (4.03%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (16.94%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.71%) Public Sector
3 12 (9.68%) Finance
4 9 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.26%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.03%) Electronics
6 5 (4.03%) Marketing
7 2 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (23.39%) Support Engineer
2 20 (16.13%) IT Engineer
3 13 (10.48%) Analyst
3 13 (10.48%) IT Support
4 12 (9.68%) Windows Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) IT Support Engineer
5 11 (8.87%) IT Technician
6 10 (8.06%) 2nd Line Support
6 10 (8.06%) Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Service Analyst
7 7 (5.65%) Service Desk Analyst
7 7 (5.65%) Windows Support Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Infrastructure Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Desktop Support
9 5 (4.03%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Storage Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Technical Support
9 5 (4.03%) Technical Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (4.03%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.23%) OpenAPI
2 4 (3.23%) RAML
2 4 (3.23%) RESTful
2 4 (3.23%) Swagger
3 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.81%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.26%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.84%) HP Storage
3 4 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (2.42%) iPad
5 2 (1.61%) CMDB
5 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.81%) BYOD
6 1 (0.81%) Clustering
6 1 (0.81%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.81%) iPhone
6 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.81%) PDA
6 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.81%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (26.61%) Windows 7
2 30 (24.19%) Windows 10
3 22 (17.74%) Linux
3 22 (17.74%) Windows Vista
4 21 (16.94%) Windows Server
5 9 (7.26%) AIX
5 9 (7.26%) Solaris
6 8 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (5.65%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.42%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.81%) VMS
10 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.81%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.13%) Customer Service
2 9 (7.26%) Customer Requirements
2 9 (7.26%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (7.26%) Project Delivery
3 8 (6.45%) ITIL
4 7 (5.65%) DevOps
4 7 (5.65%) Migration
5 6 (4.84%) CI/CD
5 6 (4.84%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (4.84%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (4.03%) Build Automation
6 5 (4.03%) Code Quality
6 5 (4.03%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (4.03%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (4.03%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (4.03%) Microservices
6 5 (4.03%) Programme Management
6 5 (4.03%) Statistics
6 5 (4.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.68%) SQL
2 9 (7.26%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.03%) Perl
3 5 (4.03%) Python
4 4 (3.23%) Bash
4 4 (3.23%) C#
4 4 (3.23%) Java
5 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 41 (33.06%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.06%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.61%) MCSE
6 1 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.23%) SLA
2 1 (0.81%) GDPR
2 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 40 (32.26%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.84%) Docker
5 5 (4.03%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.81%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.81%) Firmware
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (8.06%) SCCM
2 9 (7.26%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.84%) HP Data Protector
4 6 (4.84%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.84%) NetBackup
5 5 (4.03%) Kibana
5 5 (4.03%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.42%) Autotask
7 2 (1.61%) Ansible
7 2 (1.61%) SCOM
7 2 (1.61%) Terraform
8 1 (0.81%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.29%) VMware
3 13 (10.48%) Cisco
4 10 (8.06%) Apple
4 10 (8.06%) EMC
5 8 (6.45%) Brocade
6 7 (5.65%) HP
6 7 (5.65%) Oracle
7 6 (4.84%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.84%) Splunk
7 6 (4.84%) Symantec
8 5 (4.03%) AppDynamics
8 5 (4.03%) SAP
9 4 (3.23%) Computacenter
9 4 (3.23%) Remedy
9 4 (3.23%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.81%) Google
10 1 (0.81%) Juniper
10 1 (0.81%) Peregrine