Windows Contracts in the North East

Microsoft Windows
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 10 24 6
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 32 36 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 9.47% 8.49% 15.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 76.19% 43.37% 74.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 63
10th Percentile £141 £146 £116
25th Percentile £188 £206 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £238 £200
Median % change year-on-year +78.11% +18.75% -29.82%
75th Percentile £550 £470 £475
90th Percentile £650 £685 £650
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £31.25 £13.12
Median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +116.67% +3.20%
75th Percentile £18.75 £33.75 £16.51
90th Percentile - - £16.84
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 North East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 42 83 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 12.43% 19.58% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 64 78
10th Percentile £146 £205 £127
25th Percentile £190 £231 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £275
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +90.91% -31.25%
75th Percentile £550 £747 £497
90th Percentile £650 £775 £615
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £31.25 £13.12
Median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +116.67% +3.20%
75th Percentile £18.75 £33.75 £16.51
90th Percentile - - £16.84
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the North East

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Tyne and Wear +26 26 £475 +111.11% 20
Durham -4 5 £190 -20.00% 7
Teesside - 1 £90 -
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) Firewall
2 3 (9.38%) AMQP
2 3 (9.38%) MQTT
3 2 (6.25%) DHCP
3 2 (6.25%) DMZ
3 2 (6.25%) DNS
3 2 (6.25%) Modbus
3 2 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (6.25%) VoIP
3 2 (6.25%) Wireless
4 1 (3.13%) CTI
4 1 (3.13%) NAS
4 1 (3.13%) SAN
4 1 (3.13%) SMTP
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Tableau
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) Gradle
1 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.13%) Liquibase
1 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Desktop Support
2 5 (15.63%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Deskside Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Deskside Support
3 4 (12.50%) Deskside Support Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) DBA
4 3 (9.38%) SQL DBA
4 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Penetration Tester
5 2 (6.25%) Rollout Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Server Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Tester
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) JSON
1 4 (12.50%) Web Services
2 3 (9.38%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (9.38%) XML
2 3 (9.38%) XSLT
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.13%) jQuery
4 1 (3.13%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.13%) LDAP
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) SOAP
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.13%) Swagger
4 1 (3.13%) WCF
4 1 (3.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Clustering
1 4 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 4 (12.50%) EPoS
1 4 (12.50%) PKI
2 2 (6.25%) IoT
2 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.25%) NHS
2 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) Windows Server
2 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.75%) ITIL
2 5 (15.63%) Service Management
3 4 (12.50%) B2B
3 4 (12.50%) High Availability
3 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (12.50%) Server Patching
4 3 (9.38%) CRUD
4 3 (9.38%) Data Encryption
4 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (9.38%) Software Deployment
4 3 (9.38%) Task Automation
5 2 (6.25%) Data Analysis
5 2 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (6.25%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (6.25%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (6.25%) Problem Management
5 2 (6.25%) Security Management
5 2 (6.25%) Use Case
5 2 (6.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (9.38%) C++
5 2 (6.25%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) Java
6 1 (3.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (12.50%) MCSE
5 2 (6.25%) CEH
5 2 (6.25%) CREST Certified
5 2 (6.25%) GIAC
5 2 (6.25%) GPEN
5 2 (6.25%) OSCP
5 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Docker
4 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.25%) vSphere
5 1 (3.13%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.13%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) SCCM
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Anchore
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (3.13%) Kibana
3 1 (3.13%) Packer
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.13%) vMotion
3 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) Citrix
3 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.13%) Symantec