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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 7 2
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows 139 140 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.12% 14.06% 19.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 77.22% 73.30% 83.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 97 169
10th Percentile £125 £122 £125
25th Percentile £150 £163 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £325 £235
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +38.30% +23.68%
75th Percentile £450 £445 £386
90th Percentile £562 £625 £473
England median daily rate £400 £450 £424
% change year-on-year -11.11% +6.19% +5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.75 £13.42
25th Percentile £14.27 £12.48 £15.19
Median hourly rate £17.35 £16.10 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -19.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £20.00 £23.19 £23.31
90th Percentile £24.18 £27.86 £33.45
England median hourly rate £18.00 £23.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.40% +17.50% +21.21%

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 180 191 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.17% 19.18% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 134 212
10th Percentile £129 £122 £128
25th Percentile £160 £189 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £375 £300
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% +30.08%
75th Percentile £500 £559 £450
90th Percentile £567 £686 £518
England median daily rate £475 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 27
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.80 £13.45
25th Percentile £14.27 £12.70 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.35 £16.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -16.50% +35.09%
75th Percentile £20.00 £23.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £24.18 £40.25 £29.40
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +1 54 £160 -50.77% 25
Leicestershire +3 36 £270 -16.92% 25
Northamptonshire 0 24 £400 +106.45% 25
Nottinghamshire +3 20 £210 -44.00% 22
Lincolnshire +7 6 £325 -45.83% 17
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 14 (10.07%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (10.07%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.60%) JBoss
3 2 (1.44%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (10.07%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (28.78%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (7.91%) AWS
3 10 (7.19%) Azure
4 5 (3.60%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.60%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.72%) IaaS
5 1 (0.72%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.72%) Rubrik
5 1 (0.72%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.72%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.63%) TCP/IP
1 12 (8.63%) VPN
2 11 (7.91%) SAN
3 9 (6.47%) Fibre Channel
3 9 (6.47%) Firewall
4 7 (5.04%) DNS
5 5 (3.60%) Internet
6 3 (2.16%) Ethernet
6 3 (2.16%) WAN
7 2 (1.44%) DHCP
7 2 (1.44%) LAN
7 2 (1.44%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.44%) VoIP
8 1 (0.72%) DSL
8 1 (0.72%) Network Security
8 1 (0.72%) PBX
8 1 (0.72%) PSTN
8 1 (0.72%) VLAN
8 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.32%) RDBMS
3 6 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.44%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.47%) JIRA
2 6 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.60%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (3.60%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (3.60%) Git
3 5 (3.60%) SonarQube
3 5 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (3.60%) TeamCity
4 4 (2.88%) GitLab
General
1 26 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.83%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.91%) Finance
4 9 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.76%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.88%) Banking
7 4 (2.88%) Electronics
7 4 (2.88%) Marketing
7 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Legal
8 1 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (24.46%) Support Engineer
2 21 (15.11%) IT Engineer
3 16 (11.51%) Analyst
4 14 (10.07%) IT Support
5 13 (9.35%) Windows Engineer
6 12 (8.63%) 2nd Line Support
6 12 (8.63%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (7.19%) IT Technician
8 9 (6.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.76%) Architect
9 8 (5.76%) Service Analyst
9 8 (5.76%) Service Desk Analyst
9 8 (5.76%) Windows Support Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) 1st Line Support
10 6 (4.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) DBA
11 5 (3.60%) Desktop Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Support Officer
11 5 (3.60%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (3.60%) Spring Boot
2 4 (2.88%) OpenAPI
2 4 (2.88%) RAML
2 4 (2.88%) RESTful
2 4 (2.88%) Swagger
3 2 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.72%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.32%) Driving Licence
1 6 (4.32%) HP Storage
2 4 (2.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (2.16%) iPad
3 3 (2.16%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.16%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.44%) Grid Computing
5 1 (0.72%) BYOD
5 1 (0.72%) Clustering
5 1 (0.72%) CMDB
5 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.72%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.72%) iPhone
5 1 (0.72%) PDA
5 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.72%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.72%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.46%) Windows 10
1 34 (24.46%) Windows Server
2 33 (23.74%) Windows 7
3 22 (15.83%) Linux
3 22 (15.83%) Windows Vista
4 9 (6.47%) AIX
4 9 (6.47%) Solaris
5 8 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (5.04%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.16%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.72%) VMS
9 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.72%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (15.83%) Customer Service
2 13 (9.35%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (7.91%) Migration
4 10 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (6.47%) ITIL
5 9 (6.47%) Mentoring
5 9 (6.47%) Project Delivery
6 8 (5.76%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (5.04%) DevOps
8 6 (4.32%) CI/CD
8 6 (4.32%) High Availability
8 6 (4.32%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (4.32%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (3.60%) Build Automation
9 5 (3.60%) Code Quality
9 5 (3.60%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (3.60%) Data Modelling
9 5 (3.60%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (3.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (10.07%) PowerShell
2 13 (9.35%) SQL
3 5 (3.60%) C#
3 5 (3.60%) Perl
3 5 (3.60%) Python
4 4 (2.88%) Bash
4 4 (2.88%) Java
5 1 (0.72%) Ruby
5 1 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (34.53%) Security Cleared
2 41 (29.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.32%) Degree
6 5 (3.60%) MCITP
6 5 (3.60%) MCTS
7 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.44%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.44%) MCSE
8 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.60%) SLA
2 2 (1.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 53 (38.13%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.04%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.60%) Docker
4 5 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (1.44%) XenApp
6 2 (1.44%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.72%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.72%) Firmware
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (9.35%) SCCM
2 9 (6.47%) EMC NetWorker
3 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (5.76%) SCOM
4 6 (4.32%) HP Data Protector
4 6 (4.32%) NetBackup
4 6 (4.32%) Progress Chef
5 5 (3.60%) Kibana
5 5 (3.60%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.88%) SCSM
7 3 (2.16%) Ansible
7 3 (2.16%) Autotask
8 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.72%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.72%) Terraform
9 1 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (28.06%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.95%) VMware
3 12 (8.63%) Cisco
4 10 (7.19%) Apple
4 10 (7.19%) EMC
5 8 (5.76%) Brocade
6 7 (5.04%) HP
6 7 (5.04%) Oracle
6 7 (5.04%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.32%) Citrix
7 6 (4.32%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.32%) Splunk
7 6 (4.32%) Symantec
8 5 (3.60%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.88%) Computacenter
9 4 (2.88%) Remedy
9 4 (2.88%) SAP
10 2 (1.44%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.72%) Google