Windows Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft Windows
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -27 -2 -22
Contract jobs citing Windows 24 37 34
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.30% 5.61% 4.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.36% 24.83% 57.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 25
10th Percentile £193 £187 £182
25th Percentile £213 £290 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% +13.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £523 £573 £525
90th Percentile £540 £575 £569
West Yorkshire median daily rate £355 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -11.25% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.87
Median hourly rate - - £15.03
75th Percentile - - £26.93
90th Percentile - - £44.52
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £110.65 £15.03
% change year-on-year -78.31% +636.19% -24.85%

All Operating Systems
Leeds

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 66 149 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 6.32% 22.58% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 93 43
10th Percentile £210 £313 £285
25th Percentile £331 £378 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £576
90th Percentile £650 £675 £615
West Yorkshire median daily rate £515 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.87
Median hourly rate - - £15.03
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.47%
75th Percentile - - £26.93
90th Percentile - - £44.52
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £110.65 £15.03
% change year-on-year -78.31% +636.19% -24.85%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Windows job vacancy trend in Leeds

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leeds over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Leeds

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) GCP
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (12.50%) Azure
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (8.33%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (8.33%) OCI
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
1 4 (16.67%) Network Security
2 3 (12.50%) DHCP
2 3 (12.50%) DNS
3 2 (8.33%) BGP
3 2 (8.33%) Internet
3 2 (8.33%) LAN
3 2 (8.33%) OSPF
3 2 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (8.33%) WAN
3 2 (8.33%) Wireless
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (4.17%) Modbus
4 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) MSI
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Law
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber-Physical System
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
2 3 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) CyberArk Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Lead
3 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Laravel
2 2 (8.33%) LDAP
2 2 (8.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) BYOD
3 1 (4.17%) CCTV
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Unix
2 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.17%) Mac OS X
4 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (20.83%) Observability
2 4 (16.67%) Agile
2 4 (16.67%) Change Management
2 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (16.67%) SIEM
3 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (12.50%) High Availability
3 3 (12.50%) Information Security
3 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 2 (8.33%) Incident Response
4 2 (8.33%) ITSM
4 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (8.33%) Service-Level Objective
4 2 (8.33%) SOAR
4 2 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) APMP
2 1 (4.17%) CCNA
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) NIST
3 2 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.17%) BitLocker
3 1 (4.17%) Firmware
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) Packer
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Cisco
3 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.33%) F5
3 2 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Rapid7
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Apple
4 1 (4.17%) ArcSight
4 1 (4.17%) BT
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.17%) McAfee
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.17%) Remedy
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) VMware