Windows Contracts in Preston

Microsoft Windows
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 13 14 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 5 2 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 7.25% 3.64% 34.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 50.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £253 - -
25th Percentile - £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -8.65% +197.14%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £530
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £350 £200 £213
% change year-on-year +75.00% -5.88% -18.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 22
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - - £29.30
Median hourly rate - - £41.55
75th Percentile - - £47.75
90th Percentile - - £49.52
Lancashire median hourly rate - £23.34 £42.50
% change year-on-year - -45.08% +6.99%

All Operating Systems
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5 4 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 7.25% 7.27% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £253 - -
25th Percentile - £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -8.65% +197.14%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £530
90th Percentile - £618 -
Lancashire median daily rate £525 £220 £288
% change year-on-year +138.64% -23.48% -23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 22
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - - £29.30
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £41.55
Median % change year-on-year - +15.54% -2.25%
75th Percentile - - £47.75
90th Percentile - - £49.52
Lancashire median hourly rate - £48.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year - +12.94% +6.99%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Preston

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Preston

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Preston

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Preston

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) E-Discovery
1 4 (80.00%) High Availability
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (80.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) MCSE
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (80.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) VMware