Windows Contracts in Worcestershire

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 2
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 13 20 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 14.61% 20.20% 30.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 86.67% 86.96% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 25
10th Percentile £158 £206 £130
25th Percentile £194 £315 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £198
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +153.16% +33.90%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £288
90th Percentile - £675 £398
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £300
% change year-on-year -5.88% +41.67% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £25.63 - -
25th Percentile £32.19 £16.54 £10.68
Median hourly rate £46.25 £16.94 £11.86
Median % change year-on-year +173.10% +42.79% -
75th Percentile £62.19 £17.33 £14.40
90th Percentile £69.88 - £15.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.45
% change year-on-year +24.17% +7.71% +9.67%

All Operating Systems
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 15 23 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 16.85% 23.23% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 29
10th Percentile £158 £206 £130
25th Percentile £194 £327 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £200
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £319
90th Percentile - £675 £448
West Midlands median daily rate £449 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -0.33% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £34.38 - -
25th Percentile £54.06 £16.54 £10.68
Median hourly rate £70.00 £16.94 £11.86
Median % change year-on-year +313.35% +42.79% -
75th Percentile £73.13 £17.33 £14.40
90th Percentile £74.25 - £15.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £16.45
% change year-on-year +21.62% +12.46% +9.67%

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 20 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 June 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 +1 7 £550 -15.38% 1
Bromsgrove - 2 £165 -
Redditch -4 1 £195 -40.00% 3
Worcester -6 1 - - 3
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 2 (15.38%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DHCP
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
1 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Support Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) IT Support
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (7.69%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (15.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.69%) Hedge funds
1 1 (7.69%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
1 6 (46.15%) Unix
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (7.69%) Android
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 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
3 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
4 1 (7.69%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C#
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) SLA
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (38.46%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) SCCM
2 5 (38.46%) vCenter Server
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Veeam
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow