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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 31 32
Rank change year-on-year -33 +1 -21
Contract jobs citing Windows 23 42 32
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.23% 6.22% 4.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.51% 27.81% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 24
10th Percentile £200 £191 £181
25th Percentile £213 £290 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £523 £536 £506
90th Percentile £540 £575 £563
West Yorkshire median daily rate £355 £375 £425
% change year-on-year -5.33% -11.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £14.14
25th Percentile - £26.25 £14.55
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - +69.86% -24.03%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £36.71
90th Percentile - - £48.43
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £16.19
% change year-on-year -12.73% +69.86% -19.05%

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 63 151 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 6.10% 22.37% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 95 41
10th Percentile £210 £290 £275
25th Percentile £331 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £14.14
25th Percentile - £26.25 £14.55
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year - +69.86% -24.03%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £36.71
90th Percentile - - £48.43
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £16.19
% change year-on-year -12.73% +69.86% -19.05%

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 12 October 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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) Google Compute Engine
3 2 (8.70%) IaaS
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (8.70%) OCI
4 1 (4.35%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 4 (17.39%) Network Security
3 3 (13.04%) DHCP
3 3 (13.04%) DNS
4 2 (8.70%) BGP
4 2 (8.70%) Internet
4 2 (8.70%) LAN
4 2 (8.70%) OSPF
4 2 (8.70%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (8.70%) WAN
4 2 (8.70%) Wireless
5 1 (4.35%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (4.35%) Modbus
5 1 (4.35%) SAN
5 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (4.35%) VPN
5 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) MSI
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Law
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber-Physical System
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Analyst
1 4 (17.39%) IT Engineer
1 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) Support Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) IMAC Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) IT Support
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Network Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Technical Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Laravel
2 2 (8.70%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.35%) BYOD
3 1 (4.35%) CCTV
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.35%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
1 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
2 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (21.74%) Change Management
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (21.74%) Observability
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
4 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.04%) High Availability
4 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
5 2 (8.70%) Information Security
5 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
5 2 (8.70%) SIEM
5 2 (8.70%) SOAR
5 2 (8.70%) Software Architecture
5 2 (8.70%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) PHP
3 2 (8.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) APMP
2 1 (4.35%) CCNA
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
2 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) BitLocker
3 1 (4.35%) Firmware
3 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Packer
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) CheckPoint
3 2 (8.70%) F5
3 2 (8.70%) Google
3 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.70%) Rapid7
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Apple
4 1 (4.35%) ArcSight
4 1 (4.35%) BT
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.35%) McAfee
4 1 (4.35%) Pure Storage
4 1 (4.35%) Remedy
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk