Windows Contracts in Nottingham

Microsoft Windows
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottingham requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 14 21 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottingham 12.39% 15.67% 11.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.87% 80.77% 79.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 17
10th Percentile - £157 £169
25th Percentile £185 £184 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £210 £375
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -44.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £430 £363 £445
90th Percentile £500 £563 £547
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £390 £210 £375
% change year-on-year +85.71% -44.00% +11.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 6
10th Percentile - - £11.40
25th Percentile - £12.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate - £14.27 £15.90
Median % change year-on-year - -10.25% +7.29%
75th Percentile - - £24.86
90th Percentile - £14.68 £26.48
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.27 £16.70
% change year-on-year - -14.55% +12.69%

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 23 26 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 20.35% 19.40% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 22
10th Percentile £152 £100 £153
25th Percentile £190 £156 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £210 £375
Median % change year-on-year +101.19% -44.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £494 £431 £445
90th Percentile £500 £475 £563
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £425 £210 £375
% change year-on-year +102.38% -44.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 6
10th Percentile - - £11.40
25th Percentile - £12.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate - £14.27 £15.90
Median % change year-on-year - -10.25% +6.00%
75th Percentile - - £24.86
90th Percentile - £14.68 £26.48
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.27 £16.70
% change year-on-year - -14.55% +4.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Nottingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Nottingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Nottingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Nottingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Nottingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) OneDrive
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Mac Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Service Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (21.43%) Mac OS
3 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
4 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Open Source
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Server Building
4 1 (7.14%) Break/Fix
4 1 (7.14%) Coaching
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.14%) Fintech
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) ACSP
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) SCCM
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (21.43%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Apple
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks