Windows Contracts in Shropshire

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Shropshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 31 25
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 11 28 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 8.53% 16.00% 13.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.29% 28.00% 41.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 58
10th Percentile £117 £222 £203
25th Percentile £165 £418 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £206 £513 £435
Median % change year-on-year -59.78% +18.01% +28.55%
75th Percentile £260 £539 £495
90th Percentile £320 £549 £540
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £443 £300
% change year-on-year -9.60% +47.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.50
25th Percentile - - £11.88
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £14.38
90th Percentile - - £14.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £16.48 £16.50
% change year-on-year +35.01% -0.12% -

All Operating Systems
Shropshire

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 100 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 21.71% 57.14% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 82 131
10th Percentile £168 £423 £360
25th Percentile £230 £518 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -33.70% +9.09% +29.92%
75th Percentile £480 - £540
90th Percentile £536 £557 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £508 £405
% change year-on-year -16.26% +25.31% +11.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.50
25th Percentile - - £11.88
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £14.38
90th Percentile - - £14.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
% change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Shropshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Shropshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Shropshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Shropshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Shropshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Telford +17 5 £117 -78.25% 7
Oswestry - 3 £260 -
Shrewsbury 0 2 £200 -29.82% 3
Windows
West Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 2 (18.18%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (27.27%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (9.09%) SAN
4 1 (9.09%) WAN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) IT Support
1 4 (36.36%) IT Support Technician
1 4 (36.36%) IT Technician
1 4 (36.36%) Support Technician
2 2 (18.18%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Technician
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Technician
2 2 (18.18%) Junior
2 2 (18.18%) Junior Desktop Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Support
2 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Technician
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Support
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Server Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) VMWare Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
2 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
3 1 (9.09%) CentOS
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
2 2 (18.18%) Time Management
2 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (9.09%) Change Control
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
3 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Validation
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) MCSE
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Server
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Apple
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Lotus
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) VMware