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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 23 16 10
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 15.44% 10.67% 5.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 88.46% 57.14% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £204 £185 £246
25th Percentile £209 £274 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £375 £313
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +20.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £423 £413 £361
90th Percentile £457 £465 £597
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £275 £375 £475
% change year-on-year -26.67% -21.05% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile - £13.63 £10.75
25th Percentile - £13.80 £10.76
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.16 £10.77
Median % change year-on-year +77.61% +31.48% -2.09%
75th Percentile - £14.59 £12.51
90th Percentile - £14.81 £13.55
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £14.80 £10.77
% change year-on-year +69.93% +37.42% -2.09%

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 26 28 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 17.45% 18.67% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 15
10th Percentile £193 £185 £141
25th Percentile £205 £363 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -15.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £450 £506 £638
90th Percentile £516 £534 £665
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £325 £425 £513
% change year-on-year -23.53% -17.07% +14.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile - £13.63 £10.76
25th Percentile - £13.80 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.16 £12.51
Median % change year-on-year +77.61% +13.19% +13.73%
75th Percentile - £14.59 £28.19
90th Percentile - £14.81 £53.28
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £36.15 £12.51
% change year-on-year -30.43% +188.97% +13.73%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 (4.35%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) LAN
1 1 (4.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 12 (52.17%) Retail
2 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Technical Support
2 6 (26.09%) Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Head of IT
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Support Specialist
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Specialist
4 3 (13.04%) Technical Support Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Support Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.35%) CSS
1 1 (4.35%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
2 3 (13.04%) Android
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Line Management
2 6 (26.09%) Customer Service
2 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
3 3 (13.04%) Incident Response
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
3 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
3 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (4.35%) ITSM
4 1 (4.35%) Server Management
4 1 (4.35%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) C#
1 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) SCCM
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) HP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco
3 3 (13.04%) Samsung
3 3 (13.04%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow