Windows Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Windows
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 26 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 42 48 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 8.16% 5.96% 9.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.25% 45.28% 74.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 79
10th Percentile £184 £176 £183
25th Percentile £247 £313 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +63.93%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £622
90th Percentile £780 £650 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £403 £458
% change year-on-year +27.33% -12.02% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £14.70
25th Percentile - £13.87 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.07 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -24.59% +15.19%
75th Percentile - £27.77 £21.78
90th Percentile - £44.86 £22.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £15.17 £18.86
% change year-on-year - -19.57% +6.92%

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 107 106 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 20.78% 13.15% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 79 108
10th Percentile £200 £283 £195
25th Percentile £375 £316 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% +23.53%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £628
90th Percentile £619 £620 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £14.70
25th Percentile - £13.87 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.07 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -24.59% +15.19%
75th Percentile - £27.77 £21.78
90th Percentile - £44.86 £22.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £15.17 £18.86
% change year-on-year - -19.57% +4.78%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leeds over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Leeds

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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 14 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.29%) Azure
2 5 (11.90%) Collibra
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.14%) AWS
4 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (38.10%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (42.86%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Banking
2 5 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.76%) Legal
4 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 7 (16.67%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Engineering Specialist
4 5 (11.90%) Deployment Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) IT Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Network Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Data Architect
5 4 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) IP Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Service Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (38.10%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.76%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.76%) Replication
3 1 (2.38%) CCTV
3 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.38%) EPoS
3 1 (2.38%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (69.05%) Linux
2 22 (52.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.52%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.76%) HPUX
4 2 (4.76%) Solaris
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (2.38%) VMS
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 20 (47.62%) Microservices
2 16 (38.10%) Agile
2 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (38.10%) Security Management
3 14 (33.33%) SOA
4 12 (28.57%) Migration
4 12 (28.57%) Server Management
5 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 5 (11.90%) Data Governance
6 5 (11.90%) Monte Carlo Method
6 5 (11.90%) Observability
6 5 (11.90%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (9.52%) Project Planning
8 3 (7.14%) DevOps
8 3 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
9 2 (4.76%) Application Packaging
9 2 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (4.76%) Data Protection
9 2 (4.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) PowerShell
2 19 (45.24%) Bash
2 19 (45.24%) SQL
3 16 (38.10%) PL/SQL
4 15 (35.71%) Perl
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
1 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 28 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.38%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Grafana
1 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.76%) SCCM
4 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Cisco
1 18 (42.86%) Oracle
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) Splunk
4 3 (7.14%) VMware
5 2 (4.76%) HP
5 2 (4.76%) IBM
5 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.76%) Sun
5 2 (4.76%) Unisys
5 2 (4.76%) Veeam
6 1 (2.38%) Apple
6 1 (2.38%) Aruba
6 1 (2.38%) Citrix
6 1 (2.38%) MobileIron
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow