Windows Contracts in Staffordshire

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 5 26 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 4.17% 14.77% 18.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.67% 92.86% 81.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 21 32
10th Percentile £154 £160 £143
25th Percentile £174 £165 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £193 £400 £200
Median % change year-on-year -51.88% +100.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £245 £500 £300
90th Percentile £326 £625 £424
West Midlands median daily rate £350 £350 £350
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £23.63 -
25th Percentile - £25.31 £22.13
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year - +13.40% +52.90%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £26.38
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £17.72 £16.50
% change year-on-year +24.41% +7.39% +3.13%

All Operating Systems
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12 28 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 10.00% 15.91% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 23 36
10th Percentile £163 £160 £145
25th Percentile £189 £169 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £400 £200
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +100.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £461 £500 £380
90th Percentile £506 £625 £431
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £375 £485
% change year-on-year +20.00% -22.68% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £23.63 £13.83
25th Percentile - £25.31 £16.94
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year - +13.40% +52.23%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £26.38
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year +21.62% +12.12% +3.13%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Staffordshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Staffordshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Staffordshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Staffordshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Stafford -3 3 £290 -35.56% 2
Uttoxeter 0 2 £163 +1.56%
Windows
West Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (20.00%) Hardware Maintenance
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Server Patching
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) VMware