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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 36 48 55
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 4.06% 9.94% 6.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.65% 41.74% 49.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 34 44
10th Percentile £157 £185 £159
25th Percentile £238 £237 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £332 £513 £366
Median % change year-on-year -35.32% +39.93% -22.89%
75th Percentile £440 £575 £555
90th Percentile £485 £767 £646
West Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £475 £325
% change year-on-year -31.58% +46.15% -21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - -
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £13.87
75th Percentile £18.23 - £16.07
90th Percentile - - £17.39
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.12 - £14.52
% change year-on-year - - -6.32%

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 74 115 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 8.34% 23.81% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 64 85
10th Percentile £168 £191 £258
25th Percentile £313 £367 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £468 £436
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.22% -16.95%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £569
90th Percentile £555 £768 £623
West Yorkshire median daily rate £388 £455 £380
% change year-on-year -14.84% +19.74% -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - -
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £13.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.77%
75th Percentile £18.23 - £16.07
90th Percentile - - £17.39
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.12 - £14.52
% change year-on-year - - -14.59%

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 10 May 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 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (19.44%) SharePoint
3 6 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 7 (19.44%) AWS
4 6 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 6 (16.67%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) GCP
6 3 (8.33%) PaaS
6 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 3 (8.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub
8 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.78%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) LAN
2 8 (22.22%) WAN
3 7 (19.44%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (16.67%) Unified Communications
5 4 (11.11%) Firewall
6 3 (8.33%) DNS
6 3 (8.33%) PSTN
7 2 (5.56%) BGP
7 2 (5.56%) DHCP
7 2 (5.56%) Internet
7 2 (5.56%) OSPF
7 2 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (5.56%) Wireless
8 1 (2.78%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (2.78%) Network Security
8 1 (2.78%) SAN
8 1 (2.78%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.78%) VoIP
8 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Senior
2 6 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) CyberArk Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Mac Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) PC Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) PC Support
4 3 (8.33%) PC Support Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Technical Support
4 3 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Delphi Software Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) IT Support
5 2 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Security Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Support Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (8.33%) .NET
2 3 (8.33%) LDAP
2 3 (8.33%) WebSockets
3 2 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (2.78%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) Laravel
4 1 (2.78%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) IoT
2 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) iPhone
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 5 (13.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.33%) Unix
4 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.56%) Android
6 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.78%) Mac OS X
6 1 (2.78%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (16.67%) Agile
2 6 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 6 (16.67%) Data Management
3 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (8.33%) AI
4 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (8.33%) Generative AI
4 3 (8.33%) ITSM
4 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (8.33%) Observability
4 3 (8.33%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (8.33%) SIEM
4 3 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (8.33%) Task Automation
5 2 (5.56%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) PowerShell
2 10 (27.78%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) Bash
3 4 (11.11%) PHP
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (8.33%) Delphi
5 1 (2.78%) Go
5 1 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) CCNA
2 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.78%) CCNP
3 1 (2.78%) CISSP
3 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) HIPAA
1 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.56%) SLA
3 1 (2.78%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.78%) Packer
4 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceCenter
4 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Apple
2 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 3 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 3 (8.33%) HP
4 2 (5.56%) CheckPoint
4 2 (5.56%) Dell
4 2 (5.56%) F5
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Canon
5 1 (2.78%) Centrify
5 1 (2.78%) Freshdesk
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (2.78%) Tanium
5 1 (2.78%) VMware
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