Windows Contracts in Shropshire

Microsoft Windows
West Midlands > Shropshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 19 18 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 11 11 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 8.21% 12.36% 13.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.29% 25.00% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 64
10th Percentile £117 £145 £201
25th Percentile £200 £200 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £400 £435
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% -7.94% +20.69%
75th Percentile £300 £525 £494
90th Percentile £332 £548 £520
West Midlands median daily rate £390 £425 £300
% change year-on-year -8.24% +41.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.50
25th Percentile - - £11.88
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £14.38
90th Percentile - - £14.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £16.48 £16.50
% change year-on-year +33.50% -0.12% +3.13%

All Operating Systems
Shropshire

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 Shropshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 44 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 20.90% 49.44% 33.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 33 145
10th Percentile £192 £240 £274
25th Percentile £299 £513 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -34.44% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £470 £550 £540
90th Percentile £536 £582 £613
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.50
25th Percentile - - £11.88
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £14.38
90th Percentile - - £14.90
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 Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Shropshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Shropshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Shropshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Shropshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Shropshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Shropshire 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
Telford +3 9 £299 -25.25% 1
Shrewsbury 0 2 £200 -36.00%
Windows
West Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 5 (45.45%) DHCP
2 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (45.45%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (45.45%) SAN
3 4 (36.36%) WAN
3 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (18.18%) VPN
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Administrator
1 5 (45.45%) Server Administrator
1 5 (45.45%) VMWare Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Junior
2 2 (18.18%) Junior Desktop Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
2 4 (36.36%) CentOS
2 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 10
3 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Load Balancing
2 5 (45.45%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (36.36%) Change Control
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Patch Management
3 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Time Management
5 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) MCSE
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (45.45%) VMware NSX
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Server
2 5 (45.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) vCenter Server
2 2 (18.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Apple
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow