Windows Contract Job Trends in Telford

Microsoft Windows
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Windows skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +24
Contract jobs citing Windows 25 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 14.62% 11.70% 20.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 83.33% 47.83% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 5
10th Percentile £373 £117 -
25th Percentile £430 £298 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £300 £480
Median % change year-on-year +71.67% -37.50% -1.54%
75th Percentile £540 £463 £588
90th Percentile £551 £469 -
Shropshire median daily rate £515 £300 £340
% change year-on-year +71.95% -11.91% -24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
Shropshire median hourly rate - £14.00 -

All Operating Systems
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 30 23 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 17.54% 24.47% 67.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 27
10th Percentile £328 £244 £465
25th Percentile £429 £300 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £368 £540
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -31.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £540 £457 -
90th Percentile £552 £482 £554
Shropshire median daily rate £520 £364 £540
% change year-on-year +42.86% -32.59% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
Shropshire median hourly rate - £14.00 -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Telford

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Telford over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Telford

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing Windows

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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 12 (48.00%) Apache
1 12 (48.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) AWS
2 15 (60.00%) Azure
3 12 (48.00%) 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
2 2 (8.00%) SSH
3 1 (4.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) 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 18 (72.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Monitoring Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Performance Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) 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%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Management Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Splunk Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) XML
2 2 (8.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) HP Storage
1 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Linux
2 12 (48.00%) Unix
3 4 (16.00%) AIX
3 4 (16.00%) Solaris
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Analytics
2 13 (52.00%) Service Management
3 12 (48.00%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (48.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (48.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (48.00%) Incident Management
3 12 (48.00%) Incident Response
3 12 (48.00%) Log Analytics
3 12 (48.00%) Observability
3 12 (48.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 12 (48.00%) Proactive Management
3 12 (48.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
3 12 (48.00%) Test Strategy
3 12 (48.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (20.00%) Key Management
4 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (16.00%) Statistics
6 3 (12.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (12.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Perl
3 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) SC Cleared
1 16 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CAPM
2 1 (4.00%) CBAP
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
1 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) 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%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) AppDynamics
1 16 (64.00%) Dynatrace
2 14 (56.00%) Splunk
3 12 (48.00%) Oracle
4 11 (44.00%) Cisco
5 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (12.00%) OneLogin
7 2 (8.00%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (8.00%) CyberArk
8 1 (4.00%) Brocade
8 1 (4.00%) EMC
8 1 (4.00%) HP
8 1 (4.00%) KANA
8 1 (4.00%) NetApp
8 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (4.00%) Veritas