Windows Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 18 31 30
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 19.57% 31.31% 19.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 93.94% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 16
10th Percentile £116 £189 £135
25th Percentile £120 £213 £162
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £183 £300 £388
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% -22.58% +77.14%
75th Percentile £204 £338 £500
90th Percentile £258 £350 £566
Yorkshire median daily rate £230 £368 £325
% change year-on-year -37.41% +13.08% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.36% +1.15%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.23 £16.85 £21.01
% change year-on-year +37.87% -19.81% -2.29%

All Operating Systems
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 33 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 19.57% 33.33% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 21
10th Percentile £116 £197 £150
25th Percentile £120 £233 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £183 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% -40.00% +117.39%
75th Percentile £204 £347 £538
90th Percentile £258 £384 £550
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -10.53% +10.47% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.36% +1.15%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.23 £17.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +32.71% -17.88% -2.02%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

Windows job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in North Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in North Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in North Yorkshire

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Windows

Windows
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
York -2 8 £120 -56.36% 1
Middlesbrough - 3 £200 - 2
Harrogate -2 2 £450 +51.26% 2
Pickering - 1 £260 -
Tadcaster - 1 £250 -
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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 8 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 3 (16.67%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) IT Support
2 8 (44.44%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.56%) Rollout Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Deployment Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) CMDB
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.56%) Fat Client
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Change Management
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (5.56%) ITSM
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Meraki
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Veeam