Windows Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft Windows
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Windows 15 27 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 8.93% 17.09% 9.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 60.00% 54.00% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 15
10th Percentile £248 £194 £163
25th Percentile £343 £205 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +15.38% -0.15%
75th Percentile - £388 £416
90th Percentile - £451 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £200 £350 £223
% change year-on-year -42.86% +56.95% -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 5
10th Percentile £15.12 - £12.34
25th Percentile £20.14 £12.75 £13.16
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.27 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.24% -28.65% -14.89%
75th Percentile - - £26.48
90th Percentile - £14.63 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £14.72 £18.38
% change year-on-year +70.86% -19.91% -8.10%

All Operating Systems
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 25 50 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 14.88% 31.65% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 27
10th Percentile £97 £166 £168
25th Percentile £185 £232 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £375 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.67% -15.73% -1.11%
75th Percentile £500 £490 £594
90th Percentile - £506 £685
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +4.27% +7.14% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 7
10th Percentile £15.12 - £12.62
25th Percentile £20.14 £12.75 £16.58
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.27 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +76.24% -46.11% +39.37%
75th Percentile - - £48.24
90th Percentile - £14.72 £70.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £14.72 £20.00
% change year-on-year +70.86% -26.40% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Nottinghamshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Nottinghamshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Nottinghamshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Nottinghamshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 13 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottingham -4 15 £500 +33.33% 23
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (6.67%) DHCP
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) 1st Line Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (13.33%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support
2 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Floorwalker
2 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Support
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) Coaching
3 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) High Availability
3 2 (13.33%) Open Source
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Server Building
3 2 (13.33%) Time Management
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) HP
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Databricks