Windows Contracts in Shropshire

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Windows 25 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 12.44% 11.71% 19.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.13% 50.00% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 6
10th Percentile £325 £117 -
25th Percentile £423 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £299 £340
Median % change year-on-year +61.37% -12.06% -24.44%
75th Percentile £538 £381 £564
90th Percentile £545 £469 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £436 £355
% change year-on-year +0.34% +22.82% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.59 £19.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year +13.61% -1.30% +17.02%

All Operating Systems
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 32 26 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 15.92% 23.42% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 28
10th Percentile £325 £200 £386
25th Percentile £411 £299 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +36.17% -33.70% +9.09%
75th Percentile £539 £440 -
90th Percentile £549 £469 £554
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.59 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +13.61% -5.00% +21.58%

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 15 August 2025.

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 15 August 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
Telford -2 21 £515 +71.67% 15
Shrewsbury -1 1 £210 +5.00% 1
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 10 (40.00%) Apache
1 10 (40.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) AWS
2 13 (52.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (12.00%) AWS KMS
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.00%) IaaS
4 3 (12.00%) PaaS
4 3 (12.00%) SaaS
4 3 (12.00%) Serverless
4 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) Lucidchart
5 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) DHCP
1 3 (12.00%) DNS
1 3 (12.00%) SSH
2 1 (4.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) PVCS
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (4.00%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Performance Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Monitoring Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Management Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) XML
2 3 (12.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth
3 1 (4.00%) SAML
3 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Linux
2 10 (40.00%) Unix
3 4 (16.00%) AIX
3 4 (16.00%) Solaris
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Analytics
2 10 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 10 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 10 (40.00%) Log Analytics
2 10 (40.00%) Observability
2 10 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 10 (40.00%) Proactive Management
2 10 (40.00%) Service Management
2 10 (40.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 10 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 10 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 6 (24.00%) Key Management
4 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Statistics
5 4 (16.00%) RBAC
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) CAPM
3 1 (4.00%) CBAP
3 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.00%) NIST
1 2 (8.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.00%) Kibana
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) AppDynamics
1 14 (56.00%) Dynatrace
2 12 (48.00%) Splunk
3 10 (40.00%) Oracle
4 9 (36.00%) Cisco
5 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (12.00%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (12.00%) CyberArk
6 3 (12.00%) OneLogin
7 1 (4.00%) KANA
7 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow