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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -31 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing Windows 34 44 47
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.55% 8.84% 5.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.48% 41.90% 43.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 37
10th Percentile £213 £185 £176
25th Percentile £308 £263 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.38% +16.67% -8.63%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £569
90th Percentile £540 £780 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £347 £525 £380
% change year-on-year -34.00% +38.16% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £24.00 - £14.52
% change year-on-year - - -16.36%

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 84 105 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 8.77% 21.08% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 57 82
10th Percentile £278 £194 £276
25th Percentile £320 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £569
90th Percentile £650 £661 £619
West Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £460 £436
% change year-on-year +2.45% +5.50% -12.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - -
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £13.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.65%
75th Percentile £18.23 - £16.07
90th Percentile - - £17.39
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £14.52
% change year-on-year - - -16.36%

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 21 June 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 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (20.59%) SharePoint
3 6 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (32.35%) Azure
3 8 (23.53%) Entra ID
4 6 (17.65%) GCP
4 6 (17.65%) OneDrive
4 6 (17.65%) SaaS
5 4 (11.76%) AWS
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub
6 3 (8.82%) PaaS
6 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
6 3 (8.82%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (5.88%) IaaS
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.94%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) LAN
2 8 (23.53%) WAN
2 8 (23.53%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (17.65%) Unified Communications
4 4 (11.76%) Firewall
5 3 (8.82%) DHCP
5 3 (8.82%) DNS
5 3 (8.82%) PSTN
6 2 (5.88%) BGP
6 2 (5.88%) Internet
6 2 (5.88%) Network Security
6 2 (5.88%) OSPF
6 2 (5.88%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (5.88%) VPN
6 2 (5.88%) Wireless
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.94%) NAS
7 1 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.94%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Senior
2 6 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (8.82%) CyberArk Specialist
3 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Desktop Support
4 2 (5.88%) IT Support
4 2 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Security Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Service Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Support Assistant
5 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (8.82%) LDAP
3 1 (2.94%) Laravel
3 1 (2.94%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) IoT
2 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) BYOD
3 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.94%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.94%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.82%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Unix
5 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.94%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (17.65%) Agile
2 6 (17.65%) Data Management
2 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (11.76%) Observability
4 4 (11.76%) SIEM
5 3 (8.82%) Customer Service
5 3 (8.82%) Information Security
5 3 (8.82%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security
6 2 (5.88%) Generative AI
6 2 (5.88%) Incident Response
6 2 (5.88%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 2 (5.88%) RBAC
6 2 (5.88%) Roadmaps
6 2 (5.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 11 (32.35%) Python
3 5 (14.71%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) CCNA
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.94%) CCNP
3 1 (2.94%) CISSP
3 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.82%) HIPAA
2 3 (8.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.94%) GxP
3 1 (2.94%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.94%) Firmware
3 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
3 3 (8.82%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Packer
4 2 (5.88%) SCCM
5 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceCenter
5 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Cisco
3 3 (8.82%) CyberArk
4 2 (5.88%) Apple
4 2 (5.88%) CheckPoint
4 2 (5.88%) F5
4 2 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) HP
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Centrify
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix
5 1 (2.94%) Dell
5 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.94%) McAfee
5 1 (2.94%) MobileIron
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.94%) Remedy
5 1 (2.94%) Tanium