Windows Contracts in Leicester

Microsoft Windows
Leicestershire > Leicester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 27 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 23.68% 14.29% 12.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 79.41% 69.57% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 17
10th Percentile - £230 £169
25th Percentile £120 £313 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £135 £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year -61.43% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £488 £388 £338
90th Percentile £569 - £352
Leicestershire median daily rate £134 £325 £220
% change year-on-year -58.69% +47.73% +39.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £13.16 £23.00
25th Percentile - £13.85 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.67% +250.76%
75th Percentile - £19.38 £46.67
90th Percentile - £22.00 -
Leicestershire median hourly rate - £15.00 £43.34
% change year-on-year - -65.39% +237.76%

All Operating Systems
Leicester

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 Leicester with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 34 23 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 29.82% 20.54% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 20
10th Percentile £120 £302 £189
25th Percentile £128 £313 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% +2.04%
75th Percentile £558 £418 £339
90th Percentile £586 - £358
Leicestershire median daily rate £270 £350 £289
% change year-on-year -22.86% +21.11% +44.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £13.16 £23.00
25th Percentile - £13.85 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.67% +250.76%
75th Percentile - £19.38 £46.67
90th Percentile - £22.00 -
Leicestershire median hourly rate - £15.00 £43.34
% change year-on-year - -65.39% +237.76%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Leicester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Leicester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leicester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Leicester

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.70%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.70%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) Internet
1 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.41%) LAN
2 2 (7.41%) SAN
2 2 (7.41%) WAN
3 1 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Support Officer
1 5 (18.52%) Technical Support
1 5 (18.52%) Technical Support Officer
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
2 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) IT Support
3 3 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (7.41%) Server Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.70%) Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) CMDB
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.70%) HP Storage
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows 10
2 4 (14.81%) Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.70%) AIX
5 1 (3.70%) Solaris
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (7.41%) Release Management
2 2 (7.41%) Time Management
3 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (3.70%) Data Management
3 1 (3.70%) ITIL
3 1 (3.70%) Migration
3 1 (3.70%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (3.70%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (3.70%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (3.70%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (3.70%) Project Delivery
3 1 (3.70%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 1 (3.70%) Security Operations
3 1 (3.70%) Service Delivery
3 1 (3.70%) Statistics
3 1 (3.70%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) Bash
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
2 5 (18.52%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
1 2 (7.41%) SCOM
2 1 (3.70%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (3.70%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (3.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Apple
2 8 (29.63%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Brocade
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Citrix
4 1 (3.70%) EMC
4 1 (3.70%) HP
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Symantec