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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 25 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Windows 45 39 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.69% 5.39% 10.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.71% 53.42% 78.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 79
10th Percentile £185 £236 £183
25th Percentile £313 £444 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.68% +79.09%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £581
90th Percentile £769 £665 £630
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +63.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £14.70
25th Percentile - £13.87 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -24.03% +15.19%
75th Percentile - £18.27 £21.78
90th Percentile - £41.06 £22.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £200.00 £15.68 £18.50
% change year-on-year +1175.51% -15.24% -1.07%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 126 73 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 21.54% 10.08% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 52 101
10th Percentile £231 £321 £205
25th Percentile £375 £472 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +31.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - £14.70
25th Percentile - £13.87 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -24.03% +16.77%
75th Percentile - £18.27 £21.78
90th Percentile - £41.06 £22.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £200.00 £15.68 £18.50
% change year-on-year +1175.51% -15.24% -1.07%

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

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 22 August 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 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 10 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (13.33%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) Collibra
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (6.67%) AWS
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (24.44%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 19 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
3 6 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Legal
5 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Electronics
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
6 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Support Manager
3 5 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Data Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Engineering Specialist
4 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) IP Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) IT Support
6 2 (4.44%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.89%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.44%) Replication
4 1 (2.22%) CCTV
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.22%) EPoS
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Linux
2 16 (35.56%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.44%) HPUX
5 2 (4.44%) Solaris
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.22%) VMS
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 15 (33.33%) Microservices
2 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (26.67%) Agile
4 11 (24.44%) Security Management
5 10 (22.22%) Migration
5 10 (22.22%) SOA
6 8 (17.78%) Server Management
7 5 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.11%) Monte Carlo Method
7 5 (11.11%) Observability
8 4 (8.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 3 (6.67%) Project Planning
9 3 (6.67%) Roadmaps
10 2 (4.44%) Application Packaging
10 2 (4.44%) Digital Marketing
10 2 (4.44%) High Availability
10 2 (4.44%) Incident Management
10 2 (4.44%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (28.89%) Bash
2 13 (28.89%) SQL
3 11 (24.44%) PL/SQL
4 9 (20.00%) Perl
5 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) ACSP
3 3 (6.67%) ACTC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) COBIT
System Software
1 28 (62.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Grafana
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (2.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.22%) Terraform
4 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Oracle
2 12 (26.67%) Cisco
3 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
4 8 (17.78%) ServiceNow
5 5 (11.11%) Splunk
6 4 (8.89%) Apple
7 3 (6.67%) Computacenter
7 3 (6.67%) HP
8 2 (4.44%) IBM
8 2 (4.44%) SAP
8 2 (4.44%) Sun
8 2 (4.44%) Unisys
9 1 (2.22%) Aruba
9 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.22%) Dell
9 1 (2.22%) F5
9 1 (2.22%) MobileIron
9 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.22%) Veeam
9 1 (2.22%) VMware