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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 20 25
Rank change year-on-year -28 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Windows 35 44 49
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.70% 9.26% 6.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.87% 45.83% 44.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 38
10th Percentile £168 £185 £179
25th Percentile £285 £313 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -35.62% +20.00% -7.89%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £569
90th Percentile £525 £780 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £332 £525 £375
% change year-on-year -36.86% +40.00% -9.09%
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 £20.56 - £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 78 96 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 8.24% 20.21% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 54 83
10th Percentile £248 £190 £277
25th Percentile £313 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £569
90th Percentile £618 £734 £619
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £450 £429
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.02% -14.30%
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 - - -33.16%
75th Percentile £18.23 - £16.07
90th Percentile - - £17.39
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.56 - £14.52
% change year-on-year - - -18.06%

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 31 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 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (17.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) Azure
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (22.86%) Entra ID
3 6 (17.14%) GCP
3 6 (17.14%) OneDrive
3 6 (17.14%) SaaS
4 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 4 (11.43%) GitHub
5 3 (8.57%) PaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (5.71%) IaaS
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) LAN
2 8 (22.86%) WAN
2 8 (22.86%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (17.14%) Unified Communications
4 4 (11.43%) Firewall
5 3 (8.57%) DNS
5 3 (8.57%) PSTN
6 2 (5.71%) BGP
6 2 (5.71%) DHCP
6 2 (5.71%) Internet
6 2 (5.71%) OSPF
6 2 (5.71%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (5.71%) Wireless
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (2.86%) NAS
7 1 (2.86%) SAN
7 1 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.86%) VoIP
7 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (11.43%) Analyst
2 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) CyberArk Specialist
3 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) IT Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 2 (5.71%) Desktop Support
4 2 (5.71%) IT Support
4 2 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Security Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) Support Assistant
4 2 (5.71%) Support Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (2.86%) Help Desk Support Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Mac Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) PC Support
5 1 (2.86%) Printer Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (8.57%) LDAP
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Laravel
3 1 (2.86%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) IoT
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.57%) Mac OS
3 3 (8.57%) Unix
3 3 (8.57%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.86%) Android
5 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.86%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.86%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (17.14%) Agile
3 6 (17.14%) Data Management
3 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 5 (14.29%) Observability
5 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (8.57%) AI
6 3 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.57%) Generative AI
6 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
6 3 (8.57%) Privileged Access Management
6 3 (8.57%) Service Management
6 3 (8.57%) SIEM
6 3 (8.57%) Task Automation
7 2 (5.71%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.71%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 12 (34.29%) Python
3 6 (17.14%) Bash
4 1 (2.86%) Go
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) PHP
4 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) CCNA
2 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) CCNP
3 1 (2.86%) CISSP
3 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) HIPAA
1 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 3 (8.57%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (5.71%) Packer
5 1 (2.86%) Grafana
5 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.86%) SCCM
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceCenter
5 1 (2.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Apple
2 3 (8.57%) Cisco
2 3 (8.57%) CyberArk
2 3 (8.57%) HP
2 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.71%) CheckPoint
3 2 (5.71%) Dell
3 2 (5.71%) F5
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Canon
4 1 (2.86%) Centrify
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) Freshdesk
4 1 (2.86%) McAfee
4 1 (2.86%) MobileIron
4 1 (2.86%) Remedy
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk
4 1 (2.86%) VMware