Windows Contracts in North Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in North Yorkshire 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 18 31 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 25.35% 20.95% 32.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 94.74% 86.11% 96.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 31
10th Percentile £178 £106 £120
25th Percentile £181 £125 £138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £165 £188
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -12.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £344 £193 £284
90th Percentile £460 £368 £465
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £323 £369
% change year-on-year +24.03% -12.54% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £14.75 £18.63
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.25 £18.70
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £19.89
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -11.99% +20.84%
75th Percentile £19.75 £18.75 £21.47
90th Percentile £19.77 - £21.79
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.39
% change year-on-year +4.03% -9.72% +9.89%

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 19 36 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 26.76% 24.32% 34.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 25 33
10th Percentile £178 £106 £120
25th Percentile £183 £140 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £175 £195
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -10.26% -
75th Percentile £314 £300 £325
90th Percentile £441 £393 £465
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £14.75 £18.63
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.25 £18.70
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £19.89
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -11.99% +20.84%
75th Percentile £19.75 £18.75 £21.47
90th Percentile £19.77 - £21.79
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.39
% change year-on-year +4.03% -9.72% +4.78%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in North Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in North Yorkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in North Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in North Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in North Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in North Yorkshire

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 9 June 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
Scarborough 0 6 - - 2
Middlesbrough 0 4 £200 +5.26% 3
York -2 4 £431 +187.50% 12
Northallerton +13 1 - - 1
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Wireless
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) BGP
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) HSRP
3 1 (5.56%) MPLS
3 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) VLAN
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
1 7 (38.89%) Support Technician
2 6 (33.33%) Service Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Technician
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Technician
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Junior
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Customer Service
2 6 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.56%) High Availability
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) CCNA
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) SLA
2 6 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) SmoothWall
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) Spiceworks
3 1 (5.56%) VMware