Windows Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Microsoft Windows
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Windows skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 23.08% - 12.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £204 - £400
25th Percentile £210 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +207.69%
75th Percentile £360 - £625
90th Percentile £444 - £629
Staffordshire median daily rate £208 £185 £400
% change year-on-year +12.16% -53.75% +100.00%

All Operating Systems
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 30.77% 2.94% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £206 - £400
25th Percentile £215 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +200.00%
75th Percentile £498 - £625
90th Percentile £499 - £629
Staffordshire median daily rate £210 £193 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% -51.88% +100.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Stoke-on-Trent

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Stoke-on-Trent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Stoke-on-Trent over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Stoke-on-Trent

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Windows

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow