Windows Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 12 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 52 53 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.40% 9.98% 15.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.41% 67.09% 72.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 43 62
10th Percentile £185 £153 £123
25th Percentile £204 £200 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +25.00% +47.47%
75th Percentile £521 £616 £500
90th Percentile £547 £675 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £338 £265
% change year-on-year -3.70% +27.36% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £15.20 £11.65 £11.61
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.63 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £15.50 £17.43
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% -11.07% -12.89%
75th Percentile - £19.63 £20.29
90th Percentile - £21.35 £22.99
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £18.55 £17.36
% change year-on-year -18.23% +6.87% -0.80%

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 139 79 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.48% 14.88% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 59 87
10th Percentile £199 £160 £130
25th Percentile £403 £246 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £515
90th Percentile £588 £678 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £415 £440 £375
% change year-on-year -5.68% +17.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £18.15 £11.65 £11.61
25th Percentile £21.25 £12.63 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £17.43
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -11.07% -18.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.63 £20.29
90th Percentile - £21.35 £22.99
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.35 £19.39 £17.50
% change year-on-year +10.15% +10.77% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Sheffield +6 41 £445 -15.19% 21
Doncaster -2 9 £220 +15.79% 3
Rotherham -3 1 - - 1
Barnsley -13 1 £340 +126.67% 3
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.85%) VLAN
2 6 (11.54%) SSL
3 2 (3.85%) VPN
4 1 (1.92%) DHCP
4 1 (1.92%) DNS
4 1 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.92%) LAN
4 1 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.92%) WAN
4 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 25 (48.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Law
4 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Storage Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Support Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (13.46%) Data Protection Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) IT Support
6 5 (9.62%) Analyst
6 5 (9.62%) Support Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Consultant
7 4 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Lead
8 3 (5.77%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) Data Storage Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) IT Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) IT Support Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) NetBackup Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (11.54%) Kafka
2 1 (1.92%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (34.62%) Replication
2 3 (5.77%) EMC VNX
3 2 (3.85%) Clustering
4 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.92%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.92%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (51.92%) Linux
2 18 (34.62%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.77%) AIX
4 3 (5.77%) Solaris
5 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.92%) Android
6 1 (1.92%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Change Management
2 19 (36.54%) Service Delivery
3 17 (32.69%) Data Protection
4 10 (19.23%) Customer Service
5 8 (15.38%) ITIL
5 8 (15.38%) ITSM
5 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
6 7 (13.46%) DevOps
6 7 (13.46%) Migration
7 3 (5.77%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (5.77%) Mobile Device Management
7 3 (5.77%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (5.77%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (5.77%) Release Management
8 2 (3.85%) High Availability
8 2 (3.85%) Security Patching
8 2 (3.85%) Service Management
9 1 (1.92%) Asset Management
9 1 (1.92%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) A+ Certification
2 1 (1.92%) CCNA
2 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.92%) QA
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.77%) SRDF
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.92%) KVM
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (42.31%) Ansible
2 17 (32.69%) NetBackup
3 16 (30.77%) Puppet
4 14 (26.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.77%) EMC TimeFinder
6 2 (3.85%) SCCM
7 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (30.77%) Veritas
3 11 (21.15%) VMware
4 6 (11.54%) IBM
4 6 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 6 (11.54%) Solace
5 5 (9.62%) Oracle
6 4 (7.69%) Cisco
6 4 (7.69%) EMC
7 3 (5.77%) Brocade
7 3 (5.77%) Dell
7 3 (5.77%) Dell Compellent
7 3 (5.77%) EqualLogic
7 3 (5.77%) Isilon
8 2 (3.85%) Symantec
9 1 (1.92%) Citrix
9 1 (1.92%) NetApp
9 1 (1.92%) Samsung