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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 28 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 -16 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 34 40 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 5.66% 5.56% 10.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.46% 59.70% 75.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 80
10th Percentile £185 £176 £187
25th Percentile £205 £388 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £556
90th Percentile - £654 £625
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +55.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £14.70
25th Percentile - £13.87 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -24.03% -
75th Percentile - £18.27 £21.78
90th Percentile - £41.06 £22.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £110.65 £15.68 £18.82
% change year-on-year +605.68% -16.68% +0.64%

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 139 67 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 23.13% 9.32% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 51 106
10th Percentile £328 £325 £205
25th Percentile £378 £425 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.53% +8.61%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £622
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £14.70
25th Percentile - £13.87 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -24.03% +18.39%
75th Percentile - £18.27 £21.78
90th Percentile - £41.06 £22.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £110.65 £15.68 £18.82
% change year-on-year +605.68% -16.68% +0.64%

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

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 19 September 2025.

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 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 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Entra ID
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Legal
4 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.82%) Retail
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Electronics
5 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.88%) Marketing
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Support Manager
2 5 (14.71%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) IT Support
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Implementation Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Implementation Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Implementation Specialist
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.88%) IT Support Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Project Implementation Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (2.94%) Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Network Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.94%) EPoS
2 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Mac OS
2 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Windows 10
2 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) HPUX
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
3 6 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (17.65%) Migration
4 4 (11.76%) Agile
5 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (5.88%) Application Virtualisation
6 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (5.88%) Decision-Making
6 2 (5.88%) Dependency Management
6 2 (5.88%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (5.88%) Incident Response
6 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (5.88%) Programme Management
6 2 (5.88%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (5.88%) Runbook
6 2 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) Bash
2 1 (2.94%) Perl
2 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) ACSP
1 7 (20.59%) ACTC
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) COBIT
System Software
1 20 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.76%) SCCM
3 2 (5.88%) Ansible
3 2 (5.88%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) vRealize
4 1 (2.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (38.24%) ServiceNow
3 9 (26.47%) Apple
4 3 (8.82%) Computacenter
4 3 (8.82%) HP
4 3 (8.82%) Oracle
5 2 (5.88%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.88%) Dell
5 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.88%) F5
5 2 (5.88%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) Aruba
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) IBM
6 1 (2.94%) MobileIron
6 1 (2.94%) Unisys
6 1 (2.94%) VMware