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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 28 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 54 34 63
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 7.32% 5.62% 7.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.30% 47.22% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 28 49
10th Percentile £154 £185 £181
25th Percentile £228 £223 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £370 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.86% -7.50% +32.23%
75th Percentile £500 £459 £506
90th Percentile £575 £515 £555
West Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £325 £351
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +27.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £17.18 £18.57 £19.82
25th Percentile £18.69 £23.60 £20.38
Median hourly rate £21.88 £34.35 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -36.31% +61.17% -
75th Percentile £25.65 £46.48 £21.64
90th Percentile £27.51 £52.34 £21.84
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £34.35 £19.17
% change year-on-year -37.98% +79.14% -14.79%

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 134 72 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 18.16% 11.90% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 46 69
10th Percentile £213 £204 £205
25th Percentile £369 £284 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% - -
75th Percentile £559 £629 £538
90th Percentile £675 £744 £588
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £440 £424
% change year-on-year +2.27% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £17.18 £20.28 £19.82
25th Percentile £18.69 £27.86 £20.38
Median hourly rate £21.88 £41.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -46.65% +92.40% -39.21%
75th Percentile £25.65 £48.88 £21.64
90th Percentile £27.51 £53.30 £21.84
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £41.00 £19.17
% change year-on-year -48.05% +113.85% -14.79%

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 20 December 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 & 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 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) Azure
1 16 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (27.78%) Entra ID
3 7 (12.96%) AWS
4 3 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.70%) OCI
5 2 (3.70%) PaaS
6 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.85%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) DNS
1 6 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (9.26%) DHCP
2 5 (9.26%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.41%) Firewall
4 3 (5.56%) LAN
4 3 (5.56%) VoIP
4 3 (5.56%) WAN
5 2 (3.70%) VPN
6 1 (1.85%) Internet
6 1 (1.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) GitLab
2 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.85%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) PVCS
General
1 32 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.07%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Legal
3 4 (7.41%) Retail
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Electronics
5 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.70%) Marketing
5 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Support Manager
2 11 (20.37%) Support Engineer
3 10 (18.52%) Analyst
4 9 (16.67%) IT Support
5 7 (12.96%) IT Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Support Analyst
7 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (9.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Mac Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) PC Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) PC Support
9 3 (5.56%) PC Support Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Senior
9 3 (5.56%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Technical Support
9 3 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) .NET
1 3 (5.56%) WebSockets
2 2 (3.70%) REST
3 1 (1.85%) Kafka
3 1 (1.85%) Web Services
3 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.41%) iPhone
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 13 (24.07%) Mac OS
2 12 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 8 (14.81%) Windows 10
4 7 (12.96%) Linux
5 5 (9.26%) Android
6 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
3 8 (14.81%) Migration
4 7 (12.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 7 (12.96%) ITIL
5 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (9.26%) Mobile Device Management
6 4 (7.41%) CI/CD
6 4 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (7.41%) ITSM
7 3 (5.56%) Decision-Making
7 3 (5.56%) DevOps
7 3 (5.56%) Incident Management
7 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (5.56%) Security Hardening
7 3 (5.56%) Service Delivery
7 3 (5.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.41%) C#
2 4 (7.41%) Python
2 4 (7.41%) SQL
3 3 (5.56%) Bash
3 3 (5.56%) Delphi
3 3 (5.56%) PHP
4 2 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (1.85%) Go
5 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) ACSP
1 7 (12.96%) ACTC
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) COBIT
2 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.26%) Docker
3 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
2 7 (12.96%) Terraform
3 6 (11.11%) Ansible
3 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (7.41%) SCCM
5 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.70%) Grafana
6 2 (3.70%) vRealize
6 2 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (46.30%) Microsoft
2 18 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 17 (31.48%) Apple
4 10 (18.52%) HP
5 7 (12.96%) VMware
6 5 (9.26%) MobileIron
7 3 (5.56%) Computacenter
7 3 (5.56%) Dell
7 3 (5.56%) Oracle
8 2 (3.70%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
8 2 (3.70%) F5
8 2 (3.70%) SAP
8 2 (3.70%) Splunk
9 1 (1.85%) Canon
9 1 (1.85%) Freshdesk
9 1 (1.85%) Google
27 Windows jobs in Leeds