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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 33 28
Rank change year-on-year -23 -5 -15
Contract jobs citing Windows 29 37 38
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.70% 6.22% 5.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.66% 27.21% 59.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 27
10th Percentile £194 £185 £236
25th Percentile £219 £263 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £594
90th Percentile £530 £581 £665
West Yorkshire median daily rate £360 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -28.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.87
Median hourly rate - - £16.19
75th Percentile - - £18.27
90th Percentile - - £41.06
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £200.00 £15.68
% change year-on-year -88.00% +1175.51% -16.68%

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 77 136 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 7.16% 22.86% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 84 49
10th Percentile £218 £276 £345
25th Percentile £345 £375 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £559 £575 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.87
Median hourly rate - - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.03%
75th Percentile - - £18.27
90th Percentile - - £41.06
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £200.00 £15.68
% change year-on-year -88.00% +1175.51% -16.68%

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 7 September 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 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.69%) GCP
4 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.34%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (6.90%) IaaS
6 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.90%) PaaS
6 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.90%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) LAN
1 4 (13.79%) WAN
2 3 (10.34%) DHCP
2 3 (10.34%) DNS
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.90%) BGP
3 2 (6.90%) Internet
3 2 (6.90%) Network Security
3 2 (6.90%) OSPF
3 2 (6.90%) PSTN
3 2 (6.90%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (6.90%) Unified Communications
3 2 (6.90%) Wireless
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (3.45%) Modbus
4 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) MSI
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Law
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber-Physical System
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Analyst
1 4 (13.79%) Senior
2 3 (10.34%) CyberArk Specialist
2 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) IT Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Support Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Service Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) LDAP
3 2 (6.90%) Laravel
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (6.90%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) IoT
3 1 (3.45%) BYOD
3 1 (3.45%) CCTV
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.45%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (17.24%) Agile
3 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
3 5 (17.24%) Observability
4 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (13.79%) SIEM
4 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.34%) Change Management
5 3 (10.34%) Information Security
5 3 (10.34%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (10.34%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (6.90%) Line Management
6 2 (6.90%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (6.90%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (6.90%) Task Automation
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) Bash
4 2 (6.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) CCNA
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.34%) HIPAA
2 3 (10.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (6.90%) NIST
4 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.45%) Firmware
3 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) SCCM
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (6.90%) Packer
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.90%) F5
4 2 (6.90%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Apple
5 1 (3.45%) Centrify
5 1 (3.45%) Citrix
5 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.45%) HP
5 1 (3.45%) McAfee
5 1 (3.45%) MobileIron
5 1 (3.45%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.45%) Remedy