Windows Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 218 236 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.73% 10.66% 11.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.43% 72.62% 63.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 159 295
10th Percentile £162 £172 £133
25th Percentile £209 £255 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £300
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +41.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £582 £634 £456
90th Percentile £725 £705 £575
England median daily rate £421 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -6.40% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 36
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.16 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.49 £13.69
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% +7.71% +9.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.44 £20.00
90th Percentile - £28.75 £23.75
England median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% +25.00% +17.99%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 289 325 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.22% 14.68% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 203 445
10th Percentile £185 £185 £150
25th Percentile £275 £299 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £538
90th Percentile £678 £699 £595
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 36
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.37 £11.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.98 £13.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.25 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +23.29% +10.94% +9.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £72.50 - £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.50 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.57% +103.49% +21.13%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the West Midlands

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
Birmingham -1 59 £350 -15.66% 36
Warwickshire +17 47 £557 -17.48% 26
Herefordshire +3 26 £583 -10.31% 4
Coventry +4 25 £650 +38.67% 9
Worcestershire -2 13 £525 +5.00% 16
Shropshire -5 11 £298 -27.76% 3
Solihull -15 11 £225 -25.00% 8
Staffordshire -7 6 £238 +35.71% 30
Dudley -1 1 £425 +29.77% 2
Wednesbury - 1 £260 -
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 29 (13.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (10.55%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.21%) IIS
4 5 (2.29%) CMS
5 4 (1.83%) Apache
6 2 (0.92%) Confluence
6 2 (0.92%) WordPress
7 1 (0.46%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.46%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 20 (9.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) MFGPRO
1 1 (0.46%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.40%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (24.31%) Azure
3 22 (10.09%) Entra ID
4 19 (8.72%) OneDrive
5 15 (6.88%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (4.13%) AWS
8 6 (2.75%) Azure Functions
8 6 (2.75%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.75%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.75%) Serverless
8 6 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.29%) CloudFront
10 2 (0.92%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.92%) GitHub
10 2 (0.92%) IaaS
10 2 (0.92%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.92%) PaaS
11 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 46 (21.10%) DNS
2 24 (11.01%) DHCP
3 22 (10.09%) Network Security
4 19 (8.72%) WAN
5 17 (7.80%) Intrusion Detection
5 17 (7.80%) VPN
6 16 (7.34%) LAN
7 15 (6.88%) Firewall
8 12 (5.50%) TCP/IP
9 11 (5.05%) Remote Desktop
10 9 (4.13%) SAN
11 8 (3.67%) NetScaler
12 7 (3.21%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (2.75%) Unified Communications
13 6 (2.75%) Wireless
14 5 (2.29%) Kerberos
14 5 (2.29%) SD-WAN
15 4 (1.83%) Internet
16 3 (1.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.34%) Big Data
2 13 (5.96%) Power BI
3 10 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.46%) MySQL
5 1 (0.46%) Redis
5 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (5.05%) Git
2 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.92%) GitLab
3 2 (0.92%) JIRA
3 2 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.46%) Hudson
4 1 (0.46%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.72%) Finance
5 6 (2.75%) Legal
6 5 (2.29%) Back Office
6 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.29%) Retail
7 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.38%) Banking
8 3 (1.38%) Games
8 3 (1.38%) Law
9 2 (0.92%) Advertising
9 2 (0.92%) Electronics
9 2 (0.92%) French Language
9 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Marketing
9 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (16.51%) Analyst
2 24 (11.01%) Support Engineer
3 21 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (8.72%) Support Analyst
5 17 (7.80%) 2nd Line Support
6 14 (6.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 14 (6.42%) Service Analyst
7 12 (5.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 12 (5.50%) Service Desk Analyst
8 11 (5.05%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 11 (5.05%) Architect
9 10 (4.59%) SIEM Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Deployment Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Desktop Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) IT Support
10 9 (4.13%) Security Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Senior
11 8 (3.67%) Service Desk Support Analyst
11 8 (3.67%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.26%) Apache NiFi
2 11 (5.05%) YAML
3 10 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (2.75%) OAuth
4 6 (2.75%) SAML
5 5 (2.29%) LDAP
5 5 (2.29%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.92%) LAMP
6 2 (0.92%) Middleware
6 2 (0.92%) REST
7 1 (0.46%) .NET
7 1 (0.46%) ADO
7 1 (0.46%) JSON
7 1 (0.46%) Kafka
7 1 (0.46%) OLE
7 1 (0.46%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.34%) Cyber Defence
1 16 (7.34%) Distributed Applications
1 16 (7.34%) PKI
2 13 (5.96%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (5.50%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.13%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (3.67%) Replication
6 7 (3.21%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.75%) Digital Signage
8 5 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.29%) Cyberattack
9 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.38%) Clustering
10 3 (1.38%) Fat Client
10 3 (1.38%) Thin Client
11 2 (0.92%) AS400
11 2 (0.92%) CMDB
11 2 (0.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.92%) iPad
11 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (32.57%) Linux
2 57 (26.15%) Windows 10
3 55 (25.23%) Windows Server
4 28 (12.84%) Unix
5 21 (9.63%) Android
5 21 (9.63%) Apple iOS
5 21 (9.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (9.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (6.88%) Ubuntu
8 13 (5.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (5.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (3.67%) Mac OS
11 5 (2.29%) Windows 7
12 4 (1.83%) CentOS
13 3 (1.38%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.92%) VMS
14 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.46%) HPUX
15 1 (0.46%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (18.35%) Cybersecurity
2 34 (15.60%) SIEM
3 29 (13.30%) Customer Service
4 25 (11.47%) ITIL
5 24 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
6 23 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (9.63%) Analytics
7 21 (9.63%) Security Operations
8 20 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (9.17%) Validation
9 18 (8.26%) Information Security
9 18 (8.26%) Security Architecture
10 16 (7.34%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (7.34%) Data Engineering
10 16 (7.34%) Data Management
10 16 (7.34%) Kalman Filter
10 16 (7.34%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 16 (7.34%) Visualisation
11 15 (6.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (24.31%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.67%) R
3 6 (2.75%) C#
3 6 (2.75%) Java
4 4 (1.83%) Bash
4 4 (1.83%) Python
4 4 (1.83%) SQL
5 1 (0.46%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 68 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.93%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.80%) Degree
5 6 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.29%) OSCP
7 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.38%) MCP
9 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.92%) MCSE
9 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.46%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.46%) MCDST
10 1 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.34%) Actionable Recommendations
2 9 (4.13%) SLA
3 8 (3.67%) NIST
4 5 (2.29%) ISO 9000
5 3 (1.38%) QA
6 2 (0.92%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 95 (43.58%) Active Directory
2 33 (15.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (8.26%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (7.80%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (7.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (4.59%) VMware NSX
7 9 (4.13%) iptables
7 9 (4.13%) XenApp
7 9 (4.13%) XenDesktop
8 8 (3.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 7 (3.21%) vSphere
10 6 (2.75%) Docker
10 6 (2.75%) Hyper-V
11 5 (2.29%) VMware Server
12 4 (1.83%) VMFS
13 3 (1.38%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.92%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.46%) Snort
15 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (17.43%) SCCM
2 21 (9.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (7.34%) Terraform
4 14 (6.42%) Ansible
5 13 (5.96%) vCenter Server
6 12 (5.50%) Progress Chef
6 12 (5.50%) Puppet
7 11 (5.05%) Kibana
7 11 (5.05%) Salt
8 10 (4.59%) logstash
9 7 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.29%) SysTrack
11 3 (1.38%) Autotask
11 3 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.92%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.92%) Kubernetes
13 1 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.46%) Rancher
13 1 (0.46%) SCOM
Vendors
1 80 (36.70%) Microsoft
2 51 (23.39%) VMware
3 26 (11.93%) Red Hat
4 21 (9.63%) Citrix
5 9 (4.13%) Apple
5 9 (4.13%) NetApp
5 9 (4.13%) SaltStack
6 8 (3.67%) Cisco
6 8 (3.67%) Veeam
7 7 (3.21%) Oracle
7 7 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.21%) Splunk
8 6 (2.75%) SAP
9 5 (2.29%) CA
9 5 (2.29%) Darktrace
9 5 (2.29%) FireEye
9 5 (2.29%) LogRhythm
9 5 (2.29%) New Relic
9 5 (2.29%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.38%) Datto