Windows Contracts in Warwickshire

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 10 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -15
Contract jobs citing Windows 39 27 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 12.62% 7.99% 4.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.00% 84.38% 63.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 15
10th Percentile £300 - £173
25th Percentile £400 £150 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £300 £440
Median % change year-on-year +74.33% -31.82% +83.33%
75th Percentile £551 £459 £694
90th Percentile £641 £638 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £278 £400 £443
% change year-on-year -30.63% -9.60% +47.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £18.65 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.88 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
75th Percentile £19.88 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.95 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.25 £16.48
% change year-on-year -18.52% +35.01% -0.12%

All Operating Systems
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 50 32 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 16.18% 9.47% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 21
10th Percentile £311 £150 £185
25th Percentile £419 £161 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £369 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -26.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £551 £475 £688
90th Percentile £638 £638 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £505
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 1
10th Percentile £18.65 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.88 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £19.88 £23.75 £18.50
90th Percentile £19.95 - -
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 Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Warwickshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Warwickshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Warwickshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Warwickshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwick +6 32 £500 +66.67% 6
Windows
West Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 (2.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) NetScaler
2 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) LAN
2 2 (5.13%) SSL
2 2 (5.13%) WAN
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) SMTP
3 1 (2.56%) SNMP
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (5.13%) Git
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Finance
2 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Lead
2 6 (15.38%) Deployment Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) IT Security Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Rollout Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) Wintel Administrator
7 1 (2.56%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Apache Axis
1 3 (7.69%) LDAP
2 2 (5.13%) .NET
2 2 (5.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) CSOC
2 5 (12.82%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
2 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) CCTV
4 1 (2.56%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (41.03%) Linux
2 8 (20.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (20.51%) VMS
2 8 (20.51%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.82%) Windows 10
3 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (7.69%) Windows 7
4 3 (7.69%) Windows XP
5 2 (5.13%) Unix
5 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) SIEM
2 9 (23.08%) ITIL
3 8 (20.51%) Event Correlation
4 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.38%) Migration
6 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security
6 5 (12.82%) Design Patterns
6 5 (12.82%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (12.82%) Microservices
6 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.26%) Agile
7 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.26%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (10.26%) Release Management
7 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (7.69%) Change Control
8 3 (7.69%) Identity Management
8 3 (7.69%) ITSM
8 3 (7.69%) SOA
8 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.95%) Python
3 6 (15.38%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) C#
4 3 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (7.69%) Ruby
5 2 (5.13%) Perl
6 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 18 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
3 5 (12.82%) CISSP
3 5 (12.82%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.13%) CCSP
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.13%) MCSE
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.82%) QA
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.95%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) vSphere
4 1 (2.56%) XenApp
4 1 (2.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.13%) CASB
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) SCCM
3 1 (2.56%) WSUS
3 1 (2.56%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) ServiceNow
2 9 (23.08%) Cisco
2 9 (23.08%) SolarWinds
2 9 (23.08%) Splunk
3 8 (20.51%) F5
3 8 (20.51%) Fortinet
3 8 (20.51%) Palo Alto
3 8 (20.51%) Red Hat
3 8 (20.51%) VMware
4 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
4 5 (12.82%) Oracle
5 4 (10.26%) Broadcom
6 3 (7.69%) CyberArk
6 3 (7.69%) Dell
6 3 (7.69%) HP
7 2 (5.13%) IBM
7 2 (5.13%) TOWER Software
8 1 (2.56%) Citrix
8 1 (2.56%) Siemens