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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 22 27
Rank change year-on-year -38 +5 -16
Contract jobs citing Windows 30 44 39
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.87% 7.36% 5.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.97% 36.67% 54.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 27
10th Percentile £193 £185 £236
25th Percentile £238 £288 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% +11.68%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £619
90th Percentile £540 £780 £665
West Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £16.19
75th Percentile £18.23 - £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% -15.24%

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 79 120 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 7.57% 20.07% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 71 51
10th Percentile £240 £200 £320
25th Percentile £350 £375 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £17.12 - £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.03%
75th Percentile £18.23 - £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% -15.24%

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 17 August 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 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (20.00%) GCP
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (6.67%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (6.67%) IaaS
5 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.67%) PaaS
5 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.33%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) LAN
2 4 (13.33%) WAN
2 4 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (10.00%) DHCP
3 3 (10.00%) DNS
3 3 (10.00%) Firewall
4 2 (6.67%) BGP
4 2 (6.67%) Internet
4 2 (6.67%) Network Security
4 2 (6.67%) OSPF
4 2 (6.67%) PSTN
4 2 (6.67%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (6.67%) Unified Communications
4 2 (6.67%) Wireless
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (3.33%) Modbus
5 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Law
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber-Physical System
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) CyberArk Specialist
3 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) IT Support
4 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Help Desk Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) IMAC Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) LDAP
2 2 (6.67%) Laravel
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (6.67%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) IoT
3 1 (3.33%) BYOD
3 1 (3.33%) CCTV
3 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.33%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.33%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
1 7 (23.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.33%) Mac OS X
3 1 (3.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (13.33%) Agile
3 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (13.33%) Observability
3 4 (13.33%) SIEM
3 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.00%) Information Security
4 3 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
5 2 (6.67%) Line Management
5 2 (6.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (6.67%) RBAC
5 2 (6.67%) Service-Level Objective
5 2 (6.67%) Software Architecture
5 2 (6.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (6.67%) Task Automation
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (23.33%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) CCNA
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (6.67%) NIST
4 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.33%) Firmware
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) SCCM
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) Packer
4 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 3 (10.00%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.67%) F5
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Apple
5 1 (3.33%) Centrify
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) McAfee
5 1 (3.33%) MobileIron
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.33%) Remedy
5 1 (3.33%) Tanium