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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 12 38 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 9.38% 26.76% 14.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.38% 73.08% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 14
10th Percentile £129 £120 -
25th Percentile £132 £127 £122
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £220 £174
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +26.62% -36.82%
75th Percentile £250 £400 £350
90th Percentile £536 £557 £368
East Midlands median daily rate £200 £356 £220
% change year-on-year -43.82% +61.63% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.35
25th Percentile - - £18.38
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - £22.85
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £14.72 £20.00
% change year-on-year +70.86% -26.40% -

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 29 52 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 22.66% 36.62% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 34 17
10th Percentile £138 £121 -
25th Percentile £234 £131 £122
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £338 £350
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £470 £530 £375
90th Percentile £509 £575 £413
East Midlands median daily rate £383 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +2.13% +7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.35
25th Percentile - - £18.38
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.51%
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - £22.85
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £14.72 £21.00
% change year-on-year +70.86% -29.90% +5.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -7 8 £250 -15.25% 11
Loughborough -3 1 £150 -42.31% 4
Market Harborough - 1 £195 - 2
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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Build Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) CMDB
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (16.67%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) Application Packaging
3 1 (8.33%) Biometrics
3 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Inventory Management
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCOM
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Apple
4 1 (8.33%) MobileIron