Windows Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Microsoft Windows
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 14 19 12
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 3.97% 13.01% 8.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.64% 86.36% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile £182 £242 -
25th Percentile £243 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £444 £484 £438
90th Percentile £500 £505 £479
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £400 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +23.08% -13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £15.12 £13.63
25th Percentile - - £13.80
Median hourly rate - £25.15 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year - +77.61% +18.35%
75th Percentile - - £14.59
90th Percentile - - £14.81
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate - £25.15 £14.80
% change year-on-year - +69.93% +23.69%

All Operating Systems
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 22 22 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 6.23% 15.07% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 8
10th Percentile £190 £188 -
25th Percentile £348 £255 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £459 £456
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +0.55% +4.29%
75th Percentile £441 £476 £506
90th Percentile £491 £498 £587
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £400 £450 £456
% change year-on-year -11.11% -1.37% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 2
10th Percentile - £15.12 £13.63
25th Percentile - - £13.80
Median hourly rate £13.51 £25.15 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -46.28% +77.61% +3.32%
75th Percentile - - £14.59
90th Percentile - - £14.81
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £13.51 £25.15 £36.15
% change year-on-year -46.28% -30.43% +163.77%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Windows job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Nottingham over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Nottingham

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) LAN
1 2 (14.29%) WLAN
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Server Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Support
2 2 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) macOS
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 3 (21.43%) ITSM
2 3 (21.43%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
2 3 (21.43%) Server Management
3 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) Service Management
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) vSphere
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Apple