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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 3 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 13 27 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottingham 10.40% 19.29% 9.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.09% 64.29% 58.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 14
10th Percentile £248 £194 £159
25th Percentile £343 £205 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £274
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +36.86% -12.39%
75th Percentile - £388 £388
90th Percentile - £451 £624
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £500 £375 £325
% change year-on-year +33.33% +15.38% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 6
10th Percentile - - £11.80
25th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £12.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.27 £16.58
Median % change year-on-year +76.24% -13.93% -29.45%
75th Percentile - - £24.86
90th Percentile - £14.63 £26.48
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £14.27 £16.58
% change year-on-year +76.24% -13.93% -26.31%

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 42 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 17.60% 30.00% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 26
10th Percentile £86 £172 £165
25th Percentile £185 £259 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £375 £410
Median % change year-on-year +24.67% -8.54% -8.89%
75th Percentile £500 £485 £563
90th Percentile - £506 £663
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £468 £375 £445
% change year-on-year +24.67% -15.73% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 8
10th Percentile - - £11.80
25th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £12.82
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.27 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year +76.24% -38.60% +25.25%
75th Percentile - - £37.36
90th Percentile - £14.63 £70.00
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £14.27 £23.24
% change year-on-year +76.24% -38.60% +49.94%

Windows
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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Nottingham over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Nottingham

Windows
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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (23.08%) Retail
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) 1st Line Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (15.38%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Desktop Support
2 2 (15.38%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Floorwalker
2 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Coaching
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (15.38%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Open Source
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Server Building
3 2 (15.38%) Time Management
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) SC Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) Hyper-V
2 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) HP
4 2 (15.38%) Databricks