Windows Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 312 473 734
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.45% 13.57% 14.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.42% 70.60% 71.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 316 498
10th Percentile £145 £145 £128
25th Percentile £185 £200 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £270
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +38.89% -10.52%
75th Percentile £545 £543 £425
90th Percentile £638 £675 £538
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 41 60
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £12.15
25th Percentile £14.27 £13.16 £14.38
Median hourly rate £17.72 £17.50 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -1.69% +8.70%
75th Percentile £23.73 £20.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £23.75 £26.48 £26.25
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -19.45% +10.00% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
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 Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 403 670 1,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 19.23% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 450 702
10th Percentile £148 £160 £135
25th Percentile £195 £264 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% +26.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £541 £552 £495
90th Percentile £610 £675 £575
England median daily rate £459 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -11.73% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 42 70
10th Percentile £12.98 £11.80 £12.48
25th Percentile £14.27 £13.62 £14.66
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.61 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +3.59% +4.62%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.98 £22.19
90th Percentile - £26.47 £24.10
England median hourly rate £22.00 £29.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -24.91% +36.28% +20.21%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Midlands 0 185 £400 -9.60% 153
East Midlands +2 123 £200 -38.46% 110
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 42 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (10.58%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.60%) JBoss
4 3 (0.96%) IIS
5 2 (0.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.64%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.64%) WordPress
6 1 (0.32%) Apache
6 1 (0.32%) Confluence
6 1 (0.32%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) MFGPRO
1 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.32%) RMDS
1 1 (0.32%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.32%) Sage 50
1 1 (0.32%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 103 (33.01%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (21.15%) Azure
3 29 (9.29%) Entra ID
4 21 (6.73%) AWS
5 16 (5.13%) OneDrive
6 14 (4.49%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (4.49%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.88%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.92%) Azure Functions
8 6 (1.92%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.92%) Serverless
8 6 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (1.60%) CloudFront
9 5 (1.60%) IaaS
9 5 (1.60%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.28%) PaaS
11 3 (0.96%) SaaS
12 2 (0.64%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.64%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 50 (16.03%) DNS
2 32 (10.26%) VPN
3 25 (8.01%) Firewall
3 25 (8.01%) WAN
4 24 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 22 (7.05%) DHCP
5 22 (7.05%) LAN
6 18 (5.77%) Network Security
7 16 (5.13%) SAN
8 12 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
9 11 (3.53%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (2.56%) Internet
10 8 (2.56%) NetScaler
10 8 (2.56%) Wireless
11 7 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.92%) Unified Communications
13 5 (1.60%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.60%) VoIP
14 4 (1.28%) Ethernet
15 3 (0.96%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.53%) Power BI
4 10 (3.21%) Big Data
5 7 (2.24%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.92%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.64%) MySQL
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.32%) GIS
8 1 (0.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.32%) Ingres
8 1 (0.32%) MS Access
8 1 (0.32%) Redis
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (2.88%) JIRA
2 5 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (1.60%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (1.60%) Git
2 5 (1.60%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.60%) SonarQube
2 5 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (1.60%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.32%) GitLab
3 1 (0.32%) Hudson
3 1 (0.32%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 81 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.58%) Public Sector
3 32 (10.26%) Finance
4 28 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 10 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.24%) Legal
7 7 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.92%) Back Office
8 6 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.60%) Electronics
9 5 (1.60%) Marketing
9 5 (1.60%) Retail
10 3 (0.96%) Banking
10 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.96%) Law
11 2 (0.64%) Advertising
11 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 45 (14.42%) Support Engineer
2 39 (12.50%) Analyst
3 28 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (8.01%) 2nd Line Support
5 23 (7.37%) IT Engineer
6 21 (6.73%) IT Support
7 19 (6.09%) Architect
8 18 (5.77%) IT Technician
8 18 (5.77%) Service Analyst
8 18 (5.77%) Service Desk Analyst
8 18 (5.77%) Support Analyst
9 17 (5.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 16 (5.13%) Technical Support
11 15 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 14 (4.49%) Deployment Engineer
13 13 (4.17%) Desktop Support
13 13 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
14 12 (3.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 12 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
15 11 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (3.53%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (1.60%) OAuth
3 5 (1.60%) OAuth2
3 5 (1.60%) SAML
3 5 (1.60%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.28%) OpenAPI
4 4 (1.28%) RAML
4 4 (1.28%) RESTful
4 4 (1.28%) Swagger
5 2 (0.64%) LAMP
5 2 (0.64%) Middleware
6 1 (0.32%) .NET
6 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.32%) EDI
6 1 (0.32%) Flash
6 1 (0.32%) HTML
6 1 (0.32%) JSON
6 1 (0.32%) LDAP
6 1 (0.32%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.13%) Driving Licence
2 13 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (3.21%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (3.21%) Distributed Applications
3 10 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.24%) PKI
5 6 (1.92%) Digital Signage
5 6 (1.92%) HP Storage
6 5 (1.60%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.60%) Clustering
6 5 (1.60%) iPad
7 4 (1.28%) AS400
7 4 (1.28%) CMDB
7 4 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.28%) Fat Client
7 4 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.28%) Thin Client
8 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.96%) Replication
8 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (25.32%) Windows 10
1 79 (25.32%) Windows Server
2 73 (23.40%) Linux
3 38 (12.18%) Windows 7
4 23 (7.37%) Windows Vista
5 22 (7.05%) Unix
6 21 (6.73%) Apple iOS
7 20 (6.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (5.77%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (4.49%) Android
9 14 (4.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (4.17%) Ubuntu
11 9 (2.88%) AIX
11 9 (2.88%) Solaris
12 6 (1.92%) Mac OS
13 5 (1.60%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.96%) VMS
15 1 (0.32%) HPUX
15 1 (0.32%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (15.38%) Customer Service
2 40 (12.82%) ITIL
3 31 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (9.29%) SIEM
5 27 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
6 26 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (5.45%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (5.45%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 16 (5.13%) Change Management
8 16 (5.13%) Migration
8 16 (5.13%) Visualisation
9 15 (4.81%) Analytics
9 15 (4.81%) Problem Management
10 14 (4.49%) Information Security
11 13 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (4.17%) CI/CD
11 13 (4.17%) DevOps
12 12 (3.85%) Project Delivery
12 12 (3.85%) Security Architecture
12 12 (3.85%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.78%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.41%) SQL
3 11 (3.53%) C#
3 11 (3.53%) Java
4 10 (3.21%) Python
5 8 (2.56%) R
6 5 (1.60%) Bash
6 5 (1.60%) Perl
7 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.32%) Bicep
8 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.32%) VB
8 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 58 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.65%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.81%) Degree
5 6 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.64%) MCP
8 2 (0.64%) MCSE
8 2 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.32%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.32%) MCDST
9 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.85%) SLA
2 10 (3.21%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (2.24%) NIST
4 5 (1.60%) ISO 9000
5 3 (0.96%) GDPR
5 3 (0.96%) QA
6 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 127 (40.71%) Active Directory
2 27 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.41%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.53%) Docker
7 9 (2.88%) iptables
8 8 (2.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 8 (2.56%) XenApp
8 8 (2.56%) XenDesktop
9 7 (2.24%) VMware NSX
10 6 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.28%) BitLocker
11 4 (1.28%) vSphere
12 2 (0.64%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.32%) Firmware
13 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.32%) Snort
13 1 (0.32%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 43 (13.78%) SCCM
2 32 (10.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (5.13%) Kibana
4 11 (3.53%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.21%) logstash
6 9 (2.88%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (2.24%) Kubernetes
7 7 (2.24%) NetBackup
8 6 (1.92%) Autotask
8 6 (1.92%) HP Data Protector
8 6 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.60%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.60%) SysTrack
10 4 (1.28%) SCOM
10 4 (1.28%) Terraform
11 3 (0.96%) Ansible
11 3 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.32%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 95 (30.45%) Microsoft
2 44 (14.10%) VMware
3 21 (6.73%) Citrix
4 20 (6.41%) Cisco
5 17 (5.45%) Red Hat
6 14 (4.49%) Apple
6 14 (4.49%) Oracle
7 12 (3.85%) SAP
8 11 (3.53%) EMC
9 10 (3.21%) HP
10 9 (2.88%) NetApp
10 9 (2.88%) Splunk
11 8 (2.56%) Brocade
11 8 (2.56%) Veeam
12 7 (2.24%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.92%) Symantec
14 5 (1.60%) AppDynamics
14 5 (1.60%) New Relic
14 5 (1.60%) OpenAI
15 4 (1.28%) Remedy