Windows Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Windows
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 50 58 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 10.75% 7.26% 7.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.64% 49.57% 72.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 47 69
10th Percentile £186 £161 £163
25th Percentile £241 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £380 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -15.56% +41.73%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £575
90th Percentile £759 £643 £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £340 £388
% change year-on-year +25.00% -12.26% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.87 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.52 £13.16
% change year-on-year - +10.33% -23.38%

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 112 117 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 24.09% 14.64% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 89 95
10th Percentile £209 £258 £190
25th Percentile £350 £313 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £594
90th Percentile £765 £628 £683
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £400 £470
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% -82.66% +338.36%
75th Percentile £41.50 £16.07 -
90th Percentile - £17.39 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £14.52 £15.44
% change year-on-year +182.37% -5.96% -12.12%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Leeds

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 16 (32.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (2.00%) nginx
4 1 (2.00%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (16.00%) Azure
3 6 (12.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (10.00%) Collibra
4 5 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (8.00%) AWS
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (48.00%) DNS
2 5 (10.00%) DHCP
2 5 (10.00%) LAN
2 5 (10.00%) VLAN
2 5 (10.00%) VoIP
2 5 (10.00%) VPN
2 5 (10.00%) WAN
2 5 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) Internet
3 1 (2.00%) SSL
3 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
1 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Banking
2 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.00%) Military
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 8 (16.00%) Engineering Specialist
4 7 (14.00%) Architect
4 7 (14.00%) IT Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Support Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Data Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Desktop Support
7 4 (8.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior
8 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (2.00%) Kafka
2 1 (2.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.00%) CCTV
3 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.00%) EPoS
3 1 (2.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) PKI
3 1 (2.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (64.00%) Linux
2 23 (46.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (14.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.00%) HPUX
5 2 (4.00%) Solaris
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.00%) CentOS
6 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.00%) Unix
6 1 (2.00%) VMS
6 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (44.00%) Microservices
3 19 (38.00%) Agile
4 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (36.00%) Security Management
5 16 (32.00%) SOA
6 14 (28.00%) Server Management
7 11 (22.00%) Migration
8 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
9 7 (14.00%) Customer Service
9 7 (14.00%) Technology Roadmap
10 6 (12.00%) Observability
11 5 (10.00%) Data Governance
11 5 (10.00%) Monte Carlo Method
12 4 (8.00%) DevOps
12 4 (8.00%) Project Planning
13 3 (6.00%) Technical Architecture
14 2 (4.00%) Capacity Planning
14 2 (4.00%) Data Protection
14 2 (4.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Bash
2 21 (42.00%) SQL
3 20 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 18 (36.00%) PL/SQL
5 17 (34.00%) Perl
6 2 (4.00%) Python
7 1 (2.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (42.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (74.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Grafana
1 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (12.00%) SCCM
2 5 (10.00%) AppManager
2 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.00%) Consul
4 1 (2.00%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.00%) Istio
4 1 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (2.00%) linkerd
4 1 (2.00%) Packer
4 1 (2.00%) Rancher
4 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.00%) vRealize
4 1 (2.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) Cisco
1 20 (40.00%) Oracle
2 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.00%) VMware
4 6 (12.00%) Splunk
5 5 (10.00%) Ivanti
6 2 (4.00%) Apple
6 2 (4.00%) HP
6 2 (4.00%) IBM
6 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.00%) Sun
6 2 (4.00%) Unisys
6 2 (4.00%) Veeam
7 1 (2.00%) Aruba
7 1 (2.00%) Citrix
7 1 (2.00%) Dell
7 1 (2.00%) ESET
7 1 (2.00%) MobileIron
7 1 (2.00%) Okta
7 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow