Windows Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 14 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 54 51 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.95% 9.60% 15.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.30% 67.11% 71.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 41 62
10th Percentile £185 £150 £127
25th Percentile £210 £200 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £500 £405
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +23.46% +84.09%
75th Percentile £521 £631 £500
90th Percentile £544 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £369 £285
% change year-on-year -11.86% +29.39% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £15.20 £11.65 £11.48
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.63 £14.68
Median hourly rate £22.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% -11.43% -12.54%
75th Percentile - £19.63 £21.08
90th Percentile - £21.35 £23.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £18.55 £17.50
% change year-on-year -18.23% +6.01% -

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 141 76 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 31.19% 14.31% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 57 88
10th Percentile £201 £158 £137
25th Percentile £403 £256 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £521 £606 £533
90th Percentile £588 £693 £661
Yorkshire median daily rate £412 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £18.15 £11.65 £11.48
25th Percentile £21.25 £12.63 £14.68
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -11.43% -18.60%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.63 £21.08
90th Percentile - £21.35 £23.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.14 £19.39 £17.64
% change year-on-year +3.87% +9.89% +0.80%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in South Yorkshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Sheffield +1 40 £453 -17.64% 24
Doncaster -1 12 £225 +32.35% 5
Rotherham -2 1 - - 2
Barnsley -13 1 £340 +126.67% 3
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (24.07%) Azure
3 7 (12.96%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.78%) VLAN
2 6 (11.11%) SSL
3 2 (3.70%) VPN
4 1 (1.85%) DHCP
4 1 (1.85%) DNS
4 1 (1.85%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.85%) LAN
4 1 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.85%) WAN
4 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 25 (46.30%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Law
4 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Support Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (12.96%) Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) Data Protection Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) IT Support
3 7 (12.96%) Support Analyst
4 6 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) IT Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) IT Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Lead
6 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Data Storage Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Exchange Architect
6 3 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (1.85%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.33%) Replication
2 3 (5.56%) EMC VNX
3 2 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.85%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.85%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (50.00%) Linux
2 20 (37.04%) Windows 10
3 6 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.56%) AIX
5 3 (5.56%) Solaris
6 1 (1.85%) Android
6 1 (1.85%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Change Management
2 19 (35.19%) Service Delivery
3 17 (31.48%) Data Protection
4 10 (18.52%) ITSM
5 9 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 8 (14.81%) ITIL
6 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.96%) DevOps
7 7 (12.96%) Migration
8 5 (9.26%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (7.41%) Service Management
10 3 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
10 3 (5.56%) Performance Analysis
10 3 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (5.56%) Release Management
11 2 (3.70%) High Availability
11 2 (3.70%) Security Patching
12 1 (1.85%) Continuous Delivery
12 1 (1.85%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 2 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) A+ Certification
2 1 (1.85%) CCNA
2 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.85%) QA
1 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (40.74%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.56%) SRDF
3 3 (5.56%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.85%) KVM
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (40.74%) Ansible
2 17 (31.48%) NetBackup
3 16 (29.63%) Puppet
4 14 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.56%) EMC TimeFinder
6 2 (3.70%) SCCM
7 1 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 16 (29.63%) Veritas
3 11 (20.37%) VMware
4 6 (11.11%) IBM
4 6 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 6 (11.11%) Solace
5 5 (9.26%) Oracle
6 4 (7.41%) Cisco
6 4 (7.41%) EMC
7 3 (5.56%) Brocade
7 3 (5.56%) Dell
7 3 (5.56%) Dell Compellent
7 3 (5.56%) EqualLogic
7 3 (5.56%) Isilon
8 2 (3.70%) Symantec
9 1 (1.85%) Citrix
9 1 (1.85%) NetApp
9 1 (1.85%) Samsung