Windows Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 10 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 172 235 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.31% 10.33% 12.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.12% 74.37% 74.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 167 264
10th Percentile £145 £151 £133
25th Percentile £185 £194 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £351 £286
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +22.45% -2.55%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £438
90th Percentile £569 £625 £510
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 29
10th Percentile £13.43 £12.00 £12.06
25th Percentile £13.78 £13.16 £13.38
Median hourly rate £14.84 £17.72 £17.36
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +2.07% -1.56%
75th Percentile £19.20 £21.47 £18.75
90th Percentile £22.00 £22.50 £20.13
England median hourly rate £17.86 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.82% +10.00% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 330 316 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.78% 13.88% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 225 355
10th Percentile £163 £156 £138
25th Percentile £275 £213 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £475 £395
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% +20.25% -1.25%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £500
90th Percentile £588 £688 £578
England median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 33
10th Percentile £13.57 £12.12 £12.15
25th Percentile £13.87 £13.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.55 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.58% +6.01% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.13 £19.38
90th Percentile - £23.63 £23.60
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.80%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
West Yorkshire 0 79 £331 -19.70% 56
South Yorkshire +2 55 £430 -14.00% 28
North Yorkshire -2 28 £173 -12.66% 26
East Yorkshire +3 6 £300 +76.47% 7
Humberside - 3 £300 - 1
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 29 (16.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.40%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (16.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 60 (34.88%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (16.28%) Azure
3 10 (5.81%) Entra ID
4 5 (2.91%) AWS
5 3 (1.74%) OneDrive
5 3 (1.74%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.16%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.16%) IaaS
7 1 (0.58%) Akamai
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.58%) GCP
7 1 (0.58%) OCI
7 1 (0.58%) Serverless
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.88%) VLAN
2 16 (9.30%) DNS
2 16 (9.30%) Firewall
2 16 (9.30%) LAN
3 15 (8.72%) VPN
4 13 (7.56%) DHCP
4 13 (7.56%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (6.98%) WAN
6 9 (5.23%) SAN
7 8 (4.65%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (3.49%) SSL
9 5 (2.91%) Internet
9 5 (2.91%) Wireless
10 3 (1.74%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.16%) NAS
12 1 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.58%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.58%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.33%) Big Data
2 3 (1.74%) Power BI
3 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.58%) GitLab
2 1 (0.58%) JIRA
2 1 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 79 (45.93%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.14%) Finance
4 11 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.23%) Banking
6 8 (4.65%) Law
6 8 (4.65%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.74%) Legal
9 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.16%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) Automotive
10 1 (0.58%) Back Office
10 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (17.44%) IT Support
2 29 (16.86%) Analyst
3 26 (15.12%) Support Engineer
4 17 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (9.88%) Service Analyst
4 17 (9.88%) Service Desk Analyst
5 15 (8.72%) IT Engineer
6 13 (7.56%) IT Technician
7 12 (6.98%) Storage Engineer
8 11 (6.40%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (5.81%) 1st Line Support
9 10 (5.81%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (5.81%) Data Centre Engineer
9 10 (5.81%) IT Support Engineer
9 10 (5.81%) Support Analyst
10 7 (4.07%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) Data Protection Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.49%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (3.49%) Kafka
2 2 (1.16%) ADSI
2 2 (1.16%) XML
2 2 (1.16%) XMPP
2 2 (1.16%) XSLT
3 1 (0.58%) LDAP
3 1 (0.58%) OAuth
3 1 (0.58%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.47%) Replication
2 14 (8.14%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.49%) Clustering
4 5 (2.91%) Operational Technology
4 5 (2.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (2.33%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.33%) iPhone
5 4 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.74%) EMC VNX
6 3 (1.74%) NHS
6 3 (1.74%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.16%) BYOD
7 2 (1.16%) EPoS
7 2 (1.16%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.58%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.58%) CMDB
8 1 (0.58%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.58%) iPad
8 1 (0.58%) LIMS
8 1 (0.58%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 57 (33.14%) Windows 10
2 51 (29.65%) Windows Server
3 43 (25.00%) Linux
4 11 (6.40%) Windows 7
4 11 (6.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (5.23%) VMS
6 8 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.33%) Android
7 4 (2.33%) Unix
8 3 (1.74%) AIX
8 3 (1.74%) Solaris
8 3 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.16%) Debian
9 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.16%) zOS
10 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.58%) CentOS
10 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.49%) Customer Service
2 36 (20.93%) Migration
3 29 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (13.95%) Change Management
5 22 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (12.79%) Service Delivery
6 17 (9.88%) Data Protection
7 15 (8.72%) ITIL
8 13 (7.56%) ITSM
9 9 (5.23%) DevOps
9 9 (5.23%) Runbook
10 8 (4.65%) CI/CD
11 7 (4.07%) Network Monitoring
11 7 (4.07%) Server Virtualisation
12 6 (3.49%) Computer Science
12 6 (3.49%) Kalman Filter
12 6 (3.49%) Service Management
12 6 (3.49%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (2.91%) Mobile Device Management
13 5 (2.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.07%) SQL
2 6 (3.49%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.91%) Python
4 4 (2.33%) C++
4 4 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.16%) Java
6 1 (0.58%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (4.65%) Degree
2 7 (4.07%) CCNA
2 7 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (4.07%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (3.49%) A+ Certification
3 6 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.33%) CEH
4 4 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.33%) CREST Certified
4 4 (2.33%) GIAC
4 4 (2.33%) GPEN
4 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (2.33%) OSCP
5 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.16%) CCENT
5 2 (1.16%) MCSA
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.58%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.91%) SLA
2 4 (2.33%) NIST
2 4 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 91 (52.91%) Active Directory
2 27 (15.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.23%) VMware Workstation
5 8 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (4.07%) KVM
6 7 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.74%) SRDF
8 1 (0.58%) Docker
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.58%) vSphere
8 1 (0.58%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (13.37%) Ansible
2 17 (9.88%) NetBackup
2 17 (9.88%) Puppet
3 16 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.07%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.91%) SCCM
6 3 (1.74%) EMC TimeFinder
7 2 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.16%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.16%) Terraform
7 2 (1.16%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.58%) Graylog
8 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.58%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.58%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (46.51%) Microsoft
2 40 (23.26%) VMware
3 16 (9.30%) Veritas
4 14 (8.14%) ServiceNow
5 11 (6.40%) Cisco
6 8 (4.65%) Citrix
7 7 (4.07%) Oracle
8 6 (3.49%) IBM
8 6 (3.49%) Solace
9 4 (2.33%) EMC
10 3 (1.74%) Brocade
10 3 (1.74%) Dell
10 3 (1.74%) Dell Compellent
10 3 (1.74%) EqualLogic
10 3 (1.74%) Isilon
10 3 (1.74%) MEDITECH
11 2 (1.16%) Apple
11 2 (1.16%) NetApp
11 2 (1.16%) Symantec
11 2 (1.16%) Veeam