Windows Contracts in the North East

Microsoft Windows
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 18 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 27 36 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 8.16% 9.38% 16.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 72.97% 43.37% 63.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 65
10th Percentile £182 £146 £115
25th Percentile £190 £206 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £238 £200
Median % change year-on-year +89.47% +18.75% -31.62%
75th Percentile £575 £470 £475
90th Percentile £650 £685 £650
England median daily rate £400 £450 £422
% change year-on-year -11.11% +6.64% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £13.30
25th Percentile £16.25 £31.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +116.67% +13.21%
75th Percentile £18.75 £33.75 £16.68
90th Percentile - - £16.87
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 37 83 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 11.18% 21.61% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 64 95
10th Percentile £184 £205 £130
25th Percentile £190 £231 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% +31.25% -
75th Percentile £550 £747 £538
90th Percentile £650 £775 £634
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £13.30
25th Percentile £16.25 £31.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +116.67% +13.21%
75th Percentile £18.75 £33.75 £16.68
90th Percentile - - £16.87
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.80%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the North East

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the North East

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 East region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Tyne and Wear +17 21 £488 +116.67% 17
Durham -2 5 £190 -20.00% 10
Teesside - 1 £90 -
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) AMQP
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) MQTT
2 2 (7.41%) Wireless
3 1 (3.70%) DMZ
3 1 (3.70%) Modbus
3 1 (3.70%) NAS
3 1 (3.70%) SAN
3 1 (3.70%) SMTP
3 1 (3.70%) VoIP
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Gradle
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) Liquibase
1 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
1 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Desktop Support
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Deskside Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Deskside Support
3 4 (14.81%) Deskside Support Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Support Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) DBA
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) SQL DBA
4 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Mobile Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Technician
5 2 (7.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) JSON
1 3 (11.11%) Web Services
2 2 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (7.41%) XML
2 2 (7.41%) XSLT
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) jQuery
3 1 (3.70%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.70%) LDAP
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) SOAP
3 1 (3.70%) Spring
3 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Clustering
1 4 (14.81%) Driving Licence
1 4 (14.81%) EPoS
2 3 (11.11%) PKI
3 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (59.26%) Windows Server
2 5 (18.52%) Linux
3 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) ITIL
2 5 (18.52%) Service Management
3 4 (14.81%) B2B
3 4 (14.81%) High Availability
3 4 (14.81%) Server Patching
4 3 (11.11%) Data Encryption
4 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (11.11%) Task Automation
5 2 (7.41%) Application Security
5 2 (7.41%) CRUD
5 2 (7.41%) Customer Service
5 2 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (7.41%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (7.41%) Offensive Security
5 2 (7.41%) Patch Management
5 2 (7.41%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Problem Management
5 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.41%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) C++
4 2 (7.41%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 4 (14.81%) MCSE
5 2 (7.41%) CEH
5 2 (7.41%) CREST Certified
5 2 (7.41%) GIAC
5 2 (7.41%) GPEN
5 2 (7.41%) OSCP
5 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (11.11%) Docker
4 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) vSphere
5 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.70%) Terminal Services
5 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) SCCM
2 1 (3.70%) Anchore
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Kibana
2 1 (3.70%) Packer
2 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.70%) vMotion
2 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Citrix
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) HP
4 1 (3.70%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.70%) Symantec