Windows Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 7 1
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 136 152 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.78% 14.99% 19.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.61% 74.88% 81.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 103 163
10th Percentile £125 £122 £126
25th Percentile £150 £163 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £325 £245
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +32.65% +28.95%
75th Percentile £440 £445 £381
90th Percentile £563 £593 £473
England median daily rate £400 £450 £415
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.43% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 24 27
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.45
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.07 £15.31
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.05 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% -9.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £20.00 £23.19 £23.88
90th Percentile - £36.12 £40.50
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 173 203 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.61% 20.02% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 141 208
10th Percentile £128 £122 £129
25th Percentile £160 £190 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £375 £300
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +25.00% +13.74%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £450
90th Percentile £570 £675 £500
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 33
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.72
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.52 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.38 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% -8.10% +35.09%
75th Percentile £20.00 £23.75 £23.50
90th Percentile - £40.25 £37.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +22.86%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the East Midlands

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Derbyshire 0 51 £160 -48.80% 33
Leicestershire +5 38 £270 -6.09% 25
Northamptonshire +3 22 £400 +111.64% 25
Nottinghamshire +5 20 £210 -44.00% 20
Lincolnshire +6 6 £325 -45.83% 19
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (11.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (8.09%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.68%) JBoss
4 2 (1.47%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (27.21%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (8.82%) AWS
3 8 (5.88%) Azure
4 5 (3.68%) OpenShift
5 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.74%) IaaS
6 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.74%) Rubrik
6 1 (0.74%) Smartsheet
6 1 (0.74%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.82%) TCP/IP
1 12 (8.82%) VPN
2 10 (7.35%) SAN
3 9 (6.62%) Fibre Channel
3 9 (6.62%) Firewall
4 6 (4.41%) DNS
5 5 (3.68%) Internet
6 3 (2.21%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.47%) LAN
7 2 (1.47%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.47%) VoIP
7 2 (1.47%) WAN
8 1 (0.74%) DHCP
8 1 (0.74%) DSL
8 1 (0.74%) Network Security
8 1 (0.74%) PBX
8 1 (0.74%) PSTN
8 1 (0.74%) VLAN
8 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.41%) RDBMS
3 6 (4.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.47%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.62%) JIRA
2 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.68%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (3.68%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (3.68%) Git
3 5 (3.68%) SonarQube
3 5 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (3.68%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.21%) GitLab
General
1 24 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.97%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.09%) Finance
4 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.68%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.94%) Banking
7 4 (2.94%) Electronics
7 4 (2.94%) Marketing
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (22.06%) Support Engineer
2 19 (13.97%) IT Engineer
3 17 (12.50%) Analyst
4 13 (9.56%) IT Support
5 12 (8.82%) Windows Engineer
6 11 (8.09%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (8.09%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (7.35%) IT Technician
8 9 (6.62%) Architect
8 9 (6.62%) Service Analyst
8 9 (6.62%) Service Desk Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Windows Support Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) DBA
11 6 (4.41%) Infrastructure Architect
12 5 (3.68%) Deployment Engineer
12 5 (3.68%) Desktop Engineer
12 5 (3.68%) Desktop Support
12 5 (3.68%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 5 (3.68%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (3.68%) Spring Boot
2 4 (2.94%) OpenAPI
2 4 (2.94%) RAML
2 4 (2.94%) RESTful
2 4 (2.94%) Swagger
3 2 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.74%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.41%) Driving Licence
1 6 (4.41%) HP Storage
2 4 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (2.21%) iPad
4 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.74%) BYOD
5 1 (0.74%) Clustering
5 1 (0.74%) CMDB
5 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.74%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.74%) Grid Computing
5 1 (0.74%) iPhone
5 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.74%) PDA
5 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.74%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.74%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.53%) Windows 10
1 32 (23.53%) Windows Server
2 30 (22.06%) Windows 7
3 24 (17.65%) Linux
4 19 (13.97%) Windows Vista
5 9 (6.62%) AIX
5 9 (6.62%) Solaris
6 8 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (5.15%) Apple iOS
8 4 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.74%) VMS
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.74%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.44%) Customer Service
2 12 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (8.09%) Migration
3 11 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (6.62%) Mentoring
4 9 (6.62%) Project Delivery
5 8 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (5.88%) DevOps
5 8 (5.88%) ITIL
6 7 (5.15%) CI/CD
7 6 (4.41%) High Availability
7 6 (4.41%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (3.68%) Build Automation
8 5 (3.68%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (3.68%) Data Modelling
8 5 (3.68%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (3.68%) Microservices
8 5 (3.68%) Service Delivery
8 5 (3.68%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.29%) PowerShell
2 13 (9.56%) SQL
3 5 (3.68%) C#
3 5 (3.68%) Perl
3 5 (3.68%) Python
4 4 (2.94%) Bash
4 4 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (0.74%) Ruby
5 1 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (34.56%) Security Cleared
2 40 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.68%) Degree
4 5 (3.68%) MCITP
4 5 (3.68%) MCTS
5 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.47%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (1.47%) MCSE
6 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.68%) SLA
2 1 (0.74%) GDPR
2 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 51 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.68%) Docker
4 5 (3.68%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.47%) XenApp
5 2 (1.47%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.74%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.74%) Firmware
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (8.82%) SCCM
2 9 (6.62%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.41%) HP Data Protector
4 6 (4.41%) NetBackup
4 6 (4.41%) Progress Chef
4 6 (4.41%) SCOM
5 5 (3.68%) Kibana
5 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.94%) Ansible
7 3 (2.21%) Autotask
7 3 (2.21%) SCSM
8 2 (1.47%) Terraform
9 1 (0.74%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (27.94%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.76%) VMware
3 12 (8.82%) Cisco
4 10 (7.35%) Apple
4 10 (7.35%) EMC
5 8 (5.88%) Brocade
6 7 (5.15%) HP
6 7 (5.15%) Oracle
7 6 (4.41%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.41%) Splunk
7 6 (4.41%) Symantec
8 5 (3.68%) AppDynamics
8 5 (3.68%) Citrix
9 4 (2.94%) Computacenter
9 4 (2.94%) Remedy
9 4 (2.94%) SAP
10 1 (0.74%) Google
10 1 (0.74%) Intel
10 1 (0.74%) Peregrine