Windows Contracts in Staffordshire

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 7 2
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 5 23 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 4.35% 15.03% 23.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 71.43% 95.83% 97.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 37
10th Percentile £151 £159 £134
25th Percentile £183 £160 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £175 £175
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% - -4.11%
75th Percentile £311 £300 £244
90th Percentile £352 £385 £425
West Midlands median daily rate £390 £425 £300
% change year-on-year -8.24% +41.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £14.52
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.05
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year - +34.41% +28.28%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £21.80
90th Percentile - - £23.72
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £16.48 £16.50
% change year-on-year +33.50% -0.12% +3.13%

All Operating Systems
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7 24 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 6.09% 15.69% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 37
10th Percentile £158 £159 £134
25th Percentile £200 £160 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £175 £175
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% - -49.09%
75th Percentile £380 £300 £244
90th Percentile £407 £385 £425
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £14.52
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.05
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year - +34.41% +28.28%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £21.80
90th Percentile - - £23.72
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
% change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% +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 May 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 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
Stafford +1 2 £290 +100.00% 1
Burton-upon-Trent - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow