Windows 7 Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows 7
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Windows 7 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 104 113
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +32
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 1 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.056% 0.21% 0.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.37% 1.39% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £220 £173
25th Percentile £169 £352 £182
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £450 £220
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +104.55% +37.50%
75th Percentile £206 £494 £245
90th Percentile - £528 £250
England median daily rate £201 £220 £210
% change year-on-year -8.52% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.87 £16.19 £17.72
% change year-on-year +16.55% -8.63% +12.51%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

Windows 7 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 272 287 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.13% 15.16% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 182 210
10th Percentile £160 £188 £165
25th Percentile £220 £279 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +12.38% -15.79%
75th Percentile £540 £584 £540
90th Percentile £616 £710 £676
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 13
10th Percentile £17.10 £14.63 £13.93
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% +22.25%
75th Percentile £30.00 £23.10 £28.75
90th Percentile £33.00 £39.13 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.25 £47.67
% change year-on-year -56.07% +20.11% +99.35%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Windows 7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 7 in the West Midlands

Windows 7
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows 7.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows 7

Windows 7
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows 7.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Windows 7

Windows 7
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Wolverhampton - 1 £188 -
Windows 7
England

Windows 7
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Support
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) A+ Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Bomgar
1 1 (100.00%) Dell