Windows Contracts in Leicestershire

Microsoft Windows
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 36 29 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 22.50% 18.24% 15.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 78.26% 87.88% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 37
10th Percentile £120 £122 £94
25th Percentile £126 £165 £106
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £325 £225
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +44.44% +141.94%
75th Percentile £424 £363 £338
90th Percentile £560 £388 £368
East Midlands median daily rate £275 £325 £235
% change year-on-year -15.38% +38.30% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £13.39 £15.35
25th Percentile - £14.43 £15.88
Median hourly rate - £16.69 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.78% +42.31%
75th Percentile - £19.72 £28.88
90th Percentile - £22.14 £34.05
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.35 £16.10 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.76% -19.50% +33.33%

All Operating Systems
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 46 33 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 28.75% 20.75% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 44
10th Percentile £120 £122 £94
25th Percentile £130 £217 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £350 £283
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +23.89% +126.00%
75th Percentile £530 £388 £351
90th Percentile £575 £418 £416
East Midlands median daily rate £350 £375 £300
% change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% +30.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £13.39 £15.35
25th Percentile - £14.43 £15.88
Median hourly rate - £16.69 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -9.78% +42.31%
75th Percentile - £19.72 £28.88
90th Percentile - £22.14 £34.05
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.35 £16.70 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.89% -16.50% +35.09%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Leicestershire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Leicestershire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Leicestershire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Leicestershire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leicester +9 27 £295 -15.71% 10
Coalville - 2 - - 2
Loughborough - 1 £350 - 2
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.78%) IaaS
3 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.78%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) Internet
1 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.56%) LAN
2 2 (5.56%) NetScaler
2 2 (5.56%) SAN
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
2 2 (5.56%) WAN
3 1 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.78%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) PBX
3 1 (2.78%) PSTN
3 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 5 (13.89%) IT Support
1 5 (13.89%) Support Officer
1 5 (13.89%) Technical Support
1 5 (13.89%) Technical Support Officer
2 4 (11.11%) Analyst
2 4 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (8.33%) Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Consultant
3 3 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 3 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Service Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Support Technician
4 2 (5.56%) Citrix Specialist
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Grid Computing
1 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) BYOD
2 1 (2.78%) CMDB
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.78%) HP Storage
2 1 (2.78%) iPad
2 1 (2.78%) iPhone
2 1 (2.78%) PDA
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Windows 10
2 9 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (16.67%) Linux
4 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.78%) AIX
5 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.78%) Solaris
5 1 (2.78%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.78%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 3 (8.33%) Digital Strategy
4 3 (8.33%) Migration
4 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (5.56%) Release Management
5 2 (5.56%) Task Automation
6 1 (2.78%) Data Management
6 1 (2.78%) Inventory Management
6 1 (2.78%) ITIL
6 1 (2.78%) ITSM
6 1 (2.78%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (2.78%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (2.78%) Project Delivery
6 1 (2.78%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 1 (2.78%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.78%) Statistics
6 1 (2.78%) Time Management
6 1 (2.78%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
1 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) Active Directory
2 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (13.89%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (5.56%) XenApp
5 2 (5.56%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.78%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) SCOM
2 5 (13.89%) SCCM
3 4 (11.11%) SCSM
4 3 (8.33%) Ansible
5 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.78%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.78%) HP Data Protector
6 1 (2.78%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) VMware
3 9 (25.00%) Apple
4 3 (8.33%) Citrix
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco
5 2 (5.56%) HP
5 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.78%) Brocade
6 1 (2.78%) Dell
6 1 (2.78%) EMC
6 1 (2.78%) Intel
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) Peregrine
6 1 (2.78%) Remedy
6 1 (2.78%) Symantec
121 Windows jobs in the East Midlands