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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 143 138 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.84% 13.86% 19.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.26% 73.02% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 98 168
10th Percentile £127 £122 £119
25th Percentile £150 £165 £149
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £325 £225
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +44.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £450 £434 £387
90th Percentile £561 £625 £475
England median daily rate £412 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -8.50% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 25
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.43
25th Percentile £14.27 £13.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.54 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -12.30% +33.33%
75th Percentile £20.00 £23.56 £23.25
90th Percentile £24.18 £30.61 £32.10
England median hourly rate £17.86 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.56% +25.00% +17.99%

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 190 189 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.38% 18.98% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 135 210
10th Percentile £129 £122 £127
25th Percentile £160 £189 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £375 £286
Median % change year-on-year -5.07% +31.00% +11.71%
75th Percentile £500 £556 £450
90th Percentile £564 £684 £502
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 28
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.46
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.18 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.57 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -5.40% +32.56%
75th Percentile £20.00 £26.48 £22.88
90th Percentile £24.18 £43.23 £28.05
England median hourly rate £22.50 £43.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.78% +104.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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
Derbyshire 0 52 £160 -50.77% 28
Leicestershire +3 37 £270 -16.92% 21
Northamptonshire -1 26 £400 +102.53% 27
Nottinghamshire +4 23 £325 -13.33% 21
Lincolnshire +8 6 £325 -45.83% 14
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 16 (11.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (9.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.50%) JBoss
4 2 (1.40%) Apache
4 2 (1.40%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (12.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (29.37%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (7.69%) AWS
3 10 (6.99%) Azure
4 5 (3.50%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.70%) IaaS
5 1 (0.70%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.70%) Rubrik
5 1 (0.70%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.70%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 12 (8.39%) VPN
3 11 (7.69%) SAN
4 10 (6.99%) Firewall
5 9 (6.29%) DNS
5 9 (6.29%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (3.50%) Internet
7 4 (2.80%) DHCP
7 4 (2.80%) WAN
8 3 (2.10%) Ethernet
8 3 (2.10%) LAN
9 2 (1.40%) NetScaler
9 2 (1.40%) Network Security
9 2 (1.40%) VLAN
9 2 (1.40%) VoIP
9 2 (1.40%) Wireless
10 1 (0.70%) MPLS
10 1 (0.70%) PBX
10 1 (0.70%) PSTN
10 1 (0.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.20%) RDBMS
3 6 (4.20%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.29%) JIRA
2 6 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (3.50%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (3.50%) Git
3 5 (3.50%) GitLab
3 5 (3.50%) SonarQube
3 5 (3.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (3.50%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.78%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.69%) Finance
4 9 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.59%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.80%) Banking
7 4 (2.80%) Electronics
7 4 (2.80%) Marketing
7 4 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Local Government
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (23.78%) Support Engineer
2 20 (13.99%) IT Engineer
3 16 (11.19%) Analyst
4 14 (9.79%) IT Support
5 13 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) 2nd Line Support
6 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (8.39%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) IT Technician
8 8 (5.59%) Architect
8 8 (5.59%) Service Analyst
8 8 (5.59%) Service Desk Analyst
8 8 (5.59%) Windows Support Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) 1st Line Support
9 6 (4.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) DBA
10 5 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Desktop Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (3.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (2.80%) OpenAPI
2 4 (2.80%) RAML
2 4 (2.80%) RESTful
2 4 (2.80%) Swagger
3 2 (1.40%) ISPF
3 2 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.40%) REST
4 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.70%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.20%) Driving Licence
1 6 (4.20%) HP Storage
2 4 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (2.10%) Grid Computing
3 3 (2.10%) iPad
3 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.40%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.70%) BYOD
5 1 (0.70%) Clustering
5 1 (0.70%) CMDB
5 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.70%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.70%) iPhone
5 1 (0.70%) PDA
5 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.70%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.70%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (27.97%) Windows Server
2 35 (24.48%) Windows 10
3 31 (21.68%) Windows 7
4 23 (16.08%) Linux
5 20 (13.99%) Windows Vista
6 9 (6.29%) AIX
6 9 (6.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (6.29%) Solaris
7 7 (4.90%) Apple iOS
8 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.10%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.40%) zOS
12 1 (0.70%) VMS
12 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.70%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (15.38%) Customer Service
2 14 (9.79%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (9.09%) Migration
4 11 (7.69%) ITIL
5 9 (6.29%) Mentoring
5 9 (6.29%) Project Delivery
6 8 (5.59%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (4.90%) DevOps
7 7 (4.90%) High Availability
8 6 (4.20%) CI/CD
8 6 (4.20%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (4.20%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (3.50%) Code Quality
9 5 (3.50%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (3.50%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (3.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 5 (3.50%) Microservices
9 5 (3.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.19%) PowerShell
2 13 (9.09%) SQL
3 5 (3.50%) C#
3 5 (3.50%) Perl
3 5 (3.50%) Python
4 4 (2.80%) Bash
4 4 (2.80%) Java
5 2 (1.40%) JCL
5 2 (1.40%) REXX
6 1 (0.70%) Ruby
6 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 39 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.59%) Degree
5 7 (4.90%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.50%) MCITP
6 5 (3.50%) MCTS
7 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.40%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.40%) MCSE
8 1 (0.70%) CCNA
8 1 (0.70%) CCNP
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.50%) SLA
2 2 (1.40%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 56 (39.16%) Active Directory
2 18 (12.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.90%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.50%) Docker
4 5 (3.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.50%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.40%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (1.40%) XenApp
5 2 (1.40%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.70%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.70%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (9.79%) SCCM
2 11 (7.69%) SCOM
3 9 (6.29%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.20%) HP Data Protector
5 6 (4.20%) NetBackup
5 6 (4.20%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.50%) Kibana
6 5 (3.50%) Kubernetes
6 5 (3.50%) SCSM
7 3 (2.10%) Ansible
7 3 (2.10%) Autotask
7 3 (2.10%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.40%) Control-M
9 1 (0.70%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.70%) Terraform
9 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (30.07%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.38%) VMware
3 13 (9.09%) Cisco
4 10 (6.99%) Apple
4 10 (6.99%) EMC
5 8 (5.59%) Brocade
5 8 (5.59%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.59%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.59%) Splunk
6 7 (4.90%) Citrix
6 7 (4.90%) HP
6 7 (4.90%) Oracle
7 6 (4.20%) Symantec
8 5 (3.50%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.80%) Computacenter
9 4 (2.80%) Remedy
9 4 (2.80%) SAP
9 4 (2.80%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.40%) BMC
10 2 (1.40%) CA