Windows Contracts in Worcestershire

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 13 29 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 17.57% 24.37% 18.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 86.67% 90.63% 68.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 14
10th Percentile £191 £204 £114
25th Percentile £350 £463 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £198
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +191.14% +33.90%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £199
90th Percentile - - £271
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £443 £300
% change year-on-year -9.60% +47.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £15.24 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.46 £10.68
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.45 £11.86
Median % change year-on-year +36.76% +38.72% -20.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £17.21 £14.40
90th Percentile - £17.28 £15.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £16.48 £16.50
% change year-on-year +35.01% -0.12% -

All Operating Systems
Worcestershire

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 15 32 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 20.27% 26.89% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 21
10th Percentile £191 £204 £123
25th Percentile £350 £463 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £198
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +191.14% +23.44%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £250
90th Percentile - - £319
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £508 £405
% change year-on-year -16.26% +25.31% +11.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £30.50 £15.24 -
25th Percentile £44.38 £15.46 £10.68
Median hourly rate £70.00 £16.45 £11.86
Median % change year-on-year +325.47% +38.72% -20.93%
75th Percentile £72.50 £17.21 £14.40
90th Percentile - £17.28 £15.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
% change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Worcestershire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Worcestershire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Worcestershire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Worcestershire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Malvern +2 6 £550 -15.38% 1
Worcester -1 2 £450 -5.26% 9
Redditch -3 2 £298 +48.75% 4
Windows
West Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Sage 200
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) DHCP
1 7 (53.85%) DNS
1 7 (53.85%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) MS Access
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Applications Support
2 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
1 1 (7.69%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
1 6 (46.15%) Unix
1 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) Android
4 1 (7.69%) Windows 7
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (46.15%) Virtual Environments
1 6 (46.15%) Visualisation
2 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Information Management
2 5 (38.46%) Security Hardening
2 5 (38.46%) Security Monitoring
2 5 (38.46%) SIEM
2 5 (38.46%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Customer Service
4 2 (15.38%) ERP
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) CRM
5 1 (7.69%) Data Management
5 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C#
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (38.46%) VMware NSX
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) SCCM
2 5 (38.46%) vCenter Server
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
1 5 (38.46%) Veeam
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Sage
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow