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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 25 15 21
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 9.03% 13.04% 15.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.13% 65.22% 80.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 7
10th Percentile £125 - £157
25th Percentile £190 £185 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £390 £210
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +85.71% -44.00%
75th Percentile £423 £430 £363
90th Percentile £539 £500 £563
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £200 £390 £210
% change year-on-year -48.72% +85.71% -44.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.75
Median hourly rate £13.25 - £14.27
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £14.68
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £13.25 - £14.27
% change year-on-year - - +0.14%

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 32 23 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 11.55% 20.00% 18.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 11
10th Percentile £125 £141 £100
25th Percentile £190 £185 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £420 £210
Median % change year-on-year -48.81% +100.00% -44.00%
75th Percentile £439 £500 £431
90th Percentile £543 £512 £475
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £200 £423 £210
% change year-on-year -52.66% +101.19% -44.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.95 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £13.08 - £14.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.93%
75th Percentile £13.21 - -
90th Percentile £13.24 - £14.68
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £13.25 - £14.27
% change year-on-year - - +0.14%

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 24 April 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 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.00%) SAS
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) LAN
1 6 (24.00%) WLAN
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Value-Added Service
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Law
3 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) IT Support
2 7 (28.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) IT Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Help Desk Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) IT Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Support Specialist
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Specialist
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Support
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Support Specialist
6 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 1 (4.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Desktop Support Consultant
7 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) ISPF
1 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Onboarding
1 6 (24.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (8.00%) CentOS
3 2 (8.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.00%) MVS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (24.00%) ITSM
3 5 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (16.00%) ITIL
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Analytics
6 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.00%) Data Analytics
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) User Stories
7 1 (4.00%) Capacity Management
7 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (4.00%) Line Management
7 1 (4.00%) People Management
7 1 (4.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (4.00%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) JCL
2 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
System Software
1 19 (76.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (28.00%) SCCM
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Control-M
3 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) BMC
5 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk