Windows Contracts in Leicestershire

Microsoft Windows
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 9 36 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 9.00% 22.64% 20.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% 83.72% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 28
10th Percentile £165 £120 £117
25th Percentile £198 £122 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £134 £325
Median % change year-on-year +86.22% -58.69% +47.73%
75th Percentile £464 £370 £356
90th Percentile £537 £562 £388
East Midlands median daily rate £206 £200 £325
% change year-on-year +3.13% -38.46% +31.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile £21.25 - £13.85
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £15.00
75th Percentile £23.75 - £19.38
90th Percentile - - £22.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -17.58%

All Operating Systems
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 43 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 18.00% 27.04% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 35
10th Percentile £201 £120 £156
25th Percentile - £125 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £270 £350
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -22.86% +21.11%
75th Percentile £469 £534 £388
90th Percentile £516 £580 £418
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £325 £350
% change year-on-year +20.15% -7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile £21.25 - £13.85
Median hourly rate £22.50 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -65.39%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £19.38
90th Percentile - - £22.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -4.22%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Leicestershire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Leicestershire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Leicestershire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Leicestershire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester -8 8 £250 +85.19% 41
Loughborough -1 1 £150 -57.14% 6
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
2 1 (11.11%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Biometrics
1 1 (11.11%) Inventory Management
1 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (11.11%) Remote Monitoring and Management
1 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Apple