Windows Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Windows
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 19 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows 59 93 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.48% 7.02% 7.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 70.45% 58.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 67 89
10th Percentile £160 £162 £156
25th Percentile £275 £244 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £315
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +42.86% -25.88%
75th Percentile £564 £563 £450
90th Percentile £644 £638 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £339 £388 £325
% change year-on-year -12.58% +19.23% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.50
25th Percentile £13.87 - £15.88
Median hourly rate £16.07 - £17.00
75th Percentile £19.19 - £18.38
90th Percentile £20.86 - £18.90
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £13.16 £17.18
% change year-on-year +15.27% -23.38% +7.34%

All Operating Systems
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 118 132 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 14.96% 9.97% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 94 150
10th Percentile £258 £187 £162
25th Percentile £313 £282 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £569 £597 £548
90th Percentile £629 £684 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -13.98% +9.41% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £22.44 £16.00
25th Percentile £13.87 £24.98 £17.13
Median hourly rate £16.07 £35.06 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -54.16% +92.08% +35.19%
75th Percentile £19.19 £60.45 £22.92
90th Percentile £20.86 £72.18 £29.52
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £19.61 £17.57
% change year-on-year -22.64% +11.61% +21.17%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Leeds

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Leeds

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leeds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Leeds

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Leeds

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 11 (18.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.17%) IIS
3 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.69%) Apache
4 1 (1.69%) nginx
4 1 (1.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.42%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (16.95%) Azure
3 6 (10.17%) AWS
4 2 (3.39%) Azure AKS
4 2 (3.39%) IaaS
4 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.69%) Akamai
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.69%) GCP
5 1 (1.69%) Serverless
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (23.73%) LAN
2 10 (16.95%) WAN
3 9 (15.25%) SAN
4 7 (11.86%) DNS
4 7 (11.86%) Firewall
4 7 (11.86%) VPN
4 7 (11.86%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (10.17%) DHCP
6 5 (8.47%) Internet
7 4 (6.78%) Wireless
8 3 (5.08%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (3.39%) NAS
9 2 (3.39%) VLAN
10 1 (1.69%) Skype
10 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Big Data
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.39%) Power BI
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.69%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.69%) GitLab
1 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.69%) JIRA
1 1 (1.69%) Maven
General
1 20 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.08%) Banking
4 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Legal
5 2 (3.39%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Automotive
6 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Support Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Analyst
2 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (10.17%) Wintel Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Data Centre Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) IT Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) IT Support
4 5 (8.47%) Service Analyst
4 5 (8.47%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) Data Migration Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) 1st Line Support
6 3 (5.08%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Architect
6 3 (5.08%) Penetration Tester
6 3 (5.08%) Tester
7 2 (3.39%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) ADSI
1 2 (3.39%) LDAP
1 2 (3.39%) XML
1 2 (3.39%) XMPP
1 2 (3.39%) XSLT
2 1 (1.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.78%) Clustering
3 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.08%) NHS
3 3 (5.08%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.39%) BYOD
4 2 (3.39%) EPoS
4 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.69%) CMDB
5 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.69%) iPad
5 1 (1.69%) iPhone
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (54.24%) Windows Server
2 14 (23.73%) Windows 10
3 12 (20.34%) Linux
4 8 (13.56%) VMS
5 5 (8.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (6.78%) Windows 7
6 4 (6.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (5.08%) Unix
7 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (3.39%) Debian
8 2 (3.39%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.39%) zOS
9 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.69%) CentOS
9 1 (1.69%) Fedora
9 1 (1.69%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.69%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.12%) Customer Service
1 16 (27.12%) Migration
2 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (10.17%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (8.47%) Email Filtering
6 4 (6.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (5.08%) Application Security
7 3 (5.08%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (5.08%) Ethical Hacking
7 3 (5.08%) ITIL
7 3 (5.08%) Offensive Security
7 3 (5.08%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (5.08%) Project Management
7 3 (5.08%) Red Team
8 2 (3.39%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (3.39%) High Availability
8 2 (3.39%) Network Monitoring
8 2 (3.39%) Parallel Processing
8 2 (3.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.56%) SQL
2 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.78%) Python
4 3 (5.08%) C++
4 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.39%) Java
6 1 (1.69%) Bash
6 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.08%) CCNA
3 3 (5.08%) CEH
3 3 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.08%) CREST Certified
3 3 (5.08%) Degree
3 3 (5.08%) GIAC
3 3 (5.08%) GPEN
3 3 (5.08%) OSCP
4 2 (3.39%) A+ Certification
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.39%) CCENT
4 2 (3.39%) MCSA
4 2 (3.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) SLA
2 3 (5.08%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (55.93%) Active Directory
2 13 (22.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.39%) KVM
4 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.39%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.39%) SCCM
1 2 (3.39%) vCenter Server
1 2 (3.39%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.69%) Ansible
2 1 (1.69%) Graylog
2 1 (1.69%) HAProxy
2 1 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.69%) Nessus
2 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.69%) Proxmox
2 1 (1.69%) Puppet
2 1 (1.69%) Rsyslog
2 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 18 (30.51%) VMware
3 6 (10.17%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.78%) Cisco
5 2 (3.39%) Apple
5 2 (3.39%) Citrix
6 1 (1.69%) Brio
6 1 (1.69%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.69%) NetApp
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) Zscaler