Windows Contracts in Solihull

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Solihull 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 3 21 2
Rank change year-on-year +18 -19 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows 9 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 26.47% 8.00% 27.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.00% 100.00% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £388 £140 £272
25th Percentile £408 £158 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £200 £465
Median % change year-on-year +130.00% -56.99% +61.74%
75th Percentile £528 £238 £499
90th Percentile £556 £299 £515
West Midlands median daily rate £278 £400 £443
% change year-on-year -30.63% -9.60% +47.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.62
25th Percentile - - £14.30
Median hourly rate - - £15.44
75th Percentile - - £16.58
90th Percentile - - £17.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.25 £16.48
% change year-on-year -18.52% +35.01% -0.12%

All Operating Systems
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 35.29% 8.00% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 3
10th Percentile £395 £140 £272
25th Percentile £424 £158 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £200 £465
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% -56.99% +58.30%
75th Percentile £519 £238 £499
90th Percentile £553 £299 £515
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £505
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.62
25th Percentile - - £14.30
Median hourly rate - - £15.44
75th Percentile - - £16.58
90th Percentile - - £17.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £16.94
% change year-on-year -19.42% +32.86% +2.64%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Solihull

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Solihull

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Daily Rate Histogram in Solihull

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Solihull

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Solihull

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) SAN
2 4 (44.44%) LAN
2 4 (44.44%) NAS
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (44.44%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (44.44%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) SCCM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Debian
3 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Storage Management
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Inventory Management
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) CCNA
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Dell
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) Sophos
4 1 (11.11%) Symantec
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam