Windows Contracts in Wakefield

Microsoft Windows
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wakefield 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wakefield 14.49% 8.45% 10.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £157 £198 £112
25th Percentile £163 £213 £139
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £329 £225 £248
Median % change year-on-year +46.11% -9.37% +35.10%
75th Percentile £365 £238 £301
90th Percentile £380 £329 £406
West Yorkshire median daily rate £339 £413 £325
% change year-on-year -17.88% +26.92% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.70
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.52 £15.50 £17.18
% change year-on-year -6.32% -9.75% +15.27%

All Operating Systems
Wakefield

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 Wakefield with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wakefield 14.49% 8.45% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £157 £198 £112
25th Percentile £163 £213 £139
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £329 £225 £248
Median % change year-on-year +46.11% -9.37% +35.10%
75th Percentile £365 £238 £301
90th Percentile £380 £329 £406
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.70
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.52 £17.00 £17.57
% change year-on-year -14.59% -3.24% +24.17%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Wakefield

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wakefield

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Wakefield

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Wakefield

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Wakefield

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wakefield

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Wakefield

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wakefield 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) DNS
2 7 (70.00%) DHCP
3 5 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) IT Technician
3 3 (30.00%) Data Centre Technician
3 3 (30.00%) Data Technician
3 3 (30.00%) IT Support
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (10.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (30.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Learning Management System
3 1 (10.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows 10
2 5 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (20.00%) VMS
4 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Migration
1 7 (70.00%) Runbook
2 5 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (30.00%) A+ Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CCNA
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) KVM
2 5 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
3 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (70.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Veeam