Windows Contracts in Leicester

Microsoft Windows
Leicestershire > Leicester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 26 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 23.21% 13.21% 11.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 74.29% 73.68% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 22
10th Percentile £120 £302 £196
25th Percentile £130 £316 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +7.69% +62.50%
75th Percentile £474 £388 £342
90th Percentile £569 £401 £384
Leicestershire median daily rate £215 £325 £225
% change year-on-year -33.85% +44.44% +106.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £13.39 £21.33
25th Percentile - £14.43 £30.84
Median hourly rate - £16.69 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year - -64.24% +284.59%
75th Percentile - £19.72 -
90th Percentile - £22.14 -
Leicestershire median hourly rate - £16.69 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -52.31% +188.42%

All Operating Systems
Leicester

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 35 19 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 31.25% 17.92% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 25
10th Percentile £120 £313 £197
25th Percentile £133 £338 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +15.38% +28.71%
75th Percentile £544 £418 £344
90th Percentile £584 - £395
Leicestershire median daily rate £338 £350 £289
% change year-on-year -3.57% +21.11% +106.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £13.39 £21.33
25th Percentile - £14.43 £30.84
Median hourly rate - £16.69 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year - -64.24% +284.59%
75th Percentile - £19.72 -
90th Percentile - £22.14 -
Leicestershire median hourly rate - £16.69 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -52.31% +188.42%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Leicester

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Leicester

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leicester over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Leicester

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) IaaS
3 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.85%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Internet
1 5 (19.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.69%) LAN
2 2 (7.69%) SAN
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
3 1 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) GitLab
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Support Officer
1 5 (19.23%) Technical Support
1 5 (19.23%) Technical Support Officer
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) IT Support
3 3 (11.54%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Junior
4 2 (7.69%) Server Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.85%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) CMDB
1 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (3.85%) Grid Computing
1 1 (3.85%) HP Storage
1 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Windows 10
2 6 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 5 (19.23%) Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.85%) AIX
5 1 (3.85%) Solaris
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (7.69%) Release Management
3 1 (3.85%) Data Management
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL
3 1 (3.85%) Migration
3 1 (3.85%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (3.85%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (3.85%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (3.85%) Project Delivery
3 1 (3.85%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 1 (3.85%) Service Delivery
3 1 (3.85%) Statistics
3 1 (3.85%) Task Automation
3 1 (3.85%) Time Management
3 1 (3.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (19.23%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) SCOM
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) SCCM
2 3 (11.54%) SCSM
3 1 (3.85%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.85%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Apple
1 9 (34.62%) VMware
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Brocade
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix
3 1 (3.85%) EMC
3 1 (3.85%) HP
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) Symantec