Windows Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 7 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 362 385 707
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.52% 11.95% 14.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 75.57% 73.19% 70.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 264 475
10th Percentile £145 £150 £128
25th Percentile £189 £200 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £275
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +36.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £438
90th Percentile £672 £694 £538
England median daily rate £412 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -8.50% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 28 61
10th Percentile £12.75 £12.43 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.18 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £17.66 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% -4.55% +23.33%
75th Percentile £23.75 £26.48 £22.75
90th Percentile £24.18 £28.75 £24.00
England median hourly rate £17.86 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.56% +25.00% +17.99%

All Operating Systems
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 Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 479 526 1,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.57% 16.33% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 346 666
10th Percentile £150 £160 £131
25th Percentile £205 £233 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £439 £391
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% +12.14% +6.32%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £500
90th Percentile £638 £694 £575
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 64
10th Percentile £12.98 £12.75 £12.33
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.88 £14.38
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.44 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +5.37% +16.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £27.81 £22.38
90th Percentile £24.84 £40.25 £23.93
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the Midlands

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the 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 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
West Midlands +2 216 £400 -5.88% 151
East Midlands +5 143 £295 -9.23% 111
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 44 (12.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (10.22%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.93%) IIS
4 6 (1.66%) Apache
5 5 (1.38%) CMS
5 5 (1.38%) JBoss
6 2 (0.55%) Confluence
6 2 (0.55%) SAS
6 2 (0.55%) WordPress
7 1 (0.28%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.28%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 38 (10.50%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) MFGPRO
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.28%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 116 (32.04%) Microsoft 365
2 62 (17.13%) Azure
3 27 (7.46%) Entra ID
4 20 (5.52%) AWS
4 20 (5.52%) OneDrive
5 15 (4.14%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (1.66%) Azure Functions
7 6 (1.66%) Power Automate
7 6 (1.66%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.66%) Serverless
7 6 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (1.38%) CloudFront
8 5 (1.38%) OpenShift
9 3 (0.83%) IaaS
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.55%) GitHub
10 2 (0.55%) PaaS
11 1 (0.28%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 55 (15.19%) DNS
2 29 (8.01%) VPN
3 28 (7.73%) DHCP
4 25 (6.91%) Firewall
4 25 (6.91%) TCP/IP
5 24 (6.63%) Network Security
5 24 (6.63%) WAN
6 20 (5.52%) LAN
6 20 (5.52%) SAN
7 17 (4.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 16 (4.42%) Fibre Channel
9 11 (3.04%) Remote Desktop
10 10 (2.76%) NetScaler
11 9 (2.49%) Internet
12 8 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.93%) Wireless
14 6 (1.66%) SD-WAN
14 6 (1.66%) Unified Communications
15 5 (1.38%) VLAN
15 5 (1.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (4.42%) Big Data
4 13 (3.59%) Power BI
5 6 (1.66%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.66%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.28%) MySQL
7 1 (0.28%) Redis
7 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (4.42%) Git
2 11 (3.04%) JIRA
3 7 (1.93%) GitLab
4 6 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.66%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.38%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (1.38%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (1.38%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.83%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.28%) Hudson
8 1 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 89 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.98%) Public Sector
3 34 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.01%) Finance
5 12 (3.31%) Manufacturing
6 7 (1.93%) Banking
6 7 (1.93%) Legal
6 7 (1.93%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.66%) Electronics
7 6 (1.66%) Marketing
8 5 (1.38%) Back Office
8 5 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.38%) Retail
9 3 (0.83%) Automotive
9 3 (0.83%) Games
9 3 (0.83%) Law
10 2 (0.55%) Advertising
10 2 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (16.02%) Support Engineer
2 51 (14.09%) Analyst
3 34 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (8.01%) 2nd Line Support
5 25 (6.91%) IT Engineer
6 23 (6.35%) IT Support
7 22 (6.08%) Service Analyst
8 20 (5.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 20 (5.52%) Service Desk Analyst
8 20 (5.52%) Support Analyst
9 19 (5.25%) Architect
10 18 (4.97%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 14 (3.87%) 1st/2nd Line Support
11 14 (3.87%) Deployment Engineer
11 14 (3.87%) Desktop Engineer
11 14 (3.87%) IT Support Engineer
11 14 (3.87%) Windows Engineer
12 13 (3.59%) Technical Support
13 12 (3.31%) IT Technician
14 11 (3.04%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.97%) Apache NiFi
2 15 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (3.04%) YAML
4 6 (1.66%) OAuth
4 6 (1.66%) SAML
5 5 (1.38%) LDAP
5 5 (1.38%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.38%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.10%) OpenAPI
6 4 (1.10%) RAML
6 4 (1.10%) REST
6 4 (1.10%) RESTful
6 4 (1.10%) Swagger
7 2 (0.55%) ISPF
7 2 (0.55%) LAMP
7 2 (0.55%) Middleware
7 2 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.28%) JSON
8 1 (0.28%) OLE
8 1 (0.28%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.42%) Cyber Defence
1 16 (4.42%) Distributed Applications
1 16 (4.42%) PKI
2 15 (4.14%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.59%) Driving Licence
3 13 (3.59%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (2.49%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (2.21%) Replication
6 6 (1.66%) Digital Signage
6 6 (1.66%) HP Storage
7 5 (1.38%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.38%) Clustering
7 5 (1.38%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.38%) iPad
8 4 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.10%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.10%) Grid Computing
8 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.10%) Thin Client
9 3 (0.83%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 96 (26.52%) Linux
2 94 (25.97%) Windows Server
3 91 (25.14%) Windows 10
4 36 (9.94%) Windows 7
5 30 (8.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (7.73%) Apple iOS
6 28 (7.73%) Unix
7 24 (6.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (5.80%) Android
8 21 (5.80%) Windows Vista
9 18 (4.97%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (4.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (4.14%) Ubuntu
12 11 (3.04%) Mac OS
13 9 (2.49%) AIX
13 9 (2.49%) Solaris
14 4 (1.10%) CentOS
14 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.83%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (14.36%) Customer Service
2 40 (11.05%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 36 (9.94%) ITIL
5 34 (9.39%) SIEM
6 33 (9.12%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (6.63%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (6.63%) Information Security
8 21 (5.80%) Analytics
8 21 (5.80%) Security Operations
9 20 (5.52%) Infrastructure Monitoring
9 20 (5.52%) Validation
10 19 (5.25%) DevOps
10 19 (5.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (5.25%) Migration
11 18 (4.97%) Security Architecture
12 17 (4.70%) Data Management
13 16 (4.42%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (4.42%) Service Delivery
13 16 (4.42%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (18.78%) PowerShell
2 18 (4.97%) SQL
3 11 (3.04%) C#
4 10 (2.76%) Java
5 9 (2.49%) Python
6 8 (2.21%) Bash
6 8 (2.21%) R
7 5 (1.38%) Perl
8 2 (0.55%) JCL
8 2 (0.55%) REXX
9 1 (0.28%) Bicep
9 1 (0.28%) Ruby
9 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (31.49%) Security Cleared
2 70 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.12%) DV Cleared
4 25 (6.91%) Degree
5 14 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.38%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.38%) MCITP
7 5 (1.38%) MCTS
7 5 (1.38%) OSCP
8 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.10%) MCSE
9 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.83%) MCP
10 2 (0.55%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.28%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.42%) Actionable Recommendations
2 14 (3.87%) SLA
3 8 (2.21%) NIST
4 5 (1.38%) ISO 9000
5 4 (1.10%) GDPR
5 4 (1.10%) QA
6 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 153 (42.27%) Active Directory
2 52 (14.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (5.25%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (4.70%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (3.59%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.04%) Docker
7 11 (3.04%) VMware NSX
8 10 (2.76%) XenApp
8 10 (2.76%) XenDesktop
9 9 (2.49%) iptables
10 8 (2.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 7 (1.93%) vSphere
12 6 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (1.38%) VMware Server
14 4 (1.10%) BitLocker
14 4 (1.10%) VMFS
15 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.55%) Job Entry Subsystem
15 2 (0.55%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 51 (14.09%) SCCM
2 28 (7.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (4.97%) Progress Chef
4 17 (4.70%) Ansible
5 16 (4.42%) Kibana
5 16 (4.42%) Terraform
6 14 (3.87%) vCenter Server
7 12 (3.31%) Puppet
7 12 (3.31%) SCOM
8 11 (3.04%) Salt
9 10 (2.76%) logstash
10 9 (2.49%) EMC NetWorker
11 7 (1.93%) Kubernetes
12 6 (1.66%) Autotask
12 6 (1.66%) HP Data Protector
12 6 (1.66%) NetBackup
12 6 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.38%) SCSM
13 5 (1.38%) SysTrack
14 3 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 125 (34.53%) Microsoft
2 73 (20.17%) VMware
3 34 (9.39%) Red Hat
4 27 (7.46%) Citrix
5 21 (5.80%) Cisco
6 19 (5.25%) Apple
7 15 (4.14%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.14%) Splunk
8 14 (3.87%) Oracle
9 11 (3.04%) EMC
10 10 (2.76%) NetApp
10 10 (2.76%) SAP
11 9 (2.49%) SaltStack
12 8 (2.21%) Brocade
12 8 (2.21%) HP
12 8 (2.21%) Veeam
13 7 (1.93%) CA
14 6 (1.66%) Symantec
15 5 (1.38%) LogRhythm
15 5 (1.38%) New Relic