Windows Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 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 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows 40 53 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 10.72% 11.60% 9.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 54.79% 37.86% 67.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 43
10th Percentile - £185 £153
25th Percentile £150 £210 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £663 £521 £616
90th Percentile £780 £545 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £325 £338
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +27.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £15.20 £11.65
25th Percentile £18.10 £17.75 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +41.94% -11.07%
75th Percentile £18.41 - £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £14.84 £18.55
% change year-on-year +22.72% -20.04% +6.87%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 73 140 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.57% 30.63% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 91 59
10th Percentile £150 £200 £160
25th Percentile £335 £403 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £521 £575
90th Percentile £711 £588 £678
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £415 £440
% change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile - £18.15 £11.65
25th Percentile £18.10 £21.25 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +45.16% -11.07%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
% change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Sheffield +1 38 £538 +20.72% 43
Doncaster +1 2 £188 -16.67% 32
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 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) GitHub
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (10.00%) Collibra
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.00%) AWS
4 2 (5.00%) Azure
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) SMTP
2 5 (12.50%) DNS
2 5 (12.50%) NAS
3 4 (10.00%) SAN
4 2 (5.00%) SSL
5 1 (2.50%) DHCP
5 1 (2.50%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.50%) SSH
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
1 4 (10.00%) GitLab
2 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (52.50%) Banking
3 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support
5 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) IT Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Systems Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Windows Support Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) REST
2 4 (10.00%) Middleware
2 4 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.00%) Robotics
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Linux
2 11 (27.50%) Apple iOS
3 5 (12.50%) Unix
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Coaching
2 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (20.00%) ITSM
3 8 (20.00%) SIEM
4 5 (12.50%) Agile
4 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (10.00%) Kanban
5 4 (10.00%) Microservices
5 4 (10.00%) Migration
5 4 (10.00%) Monte Carlo Method
5 4 (10.00%) Observability
5 4 (10.00%) Scrum
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (5.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (5.00%) Cryptography
7 2 (5.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.00%) ActionScript
4 2 (5.00%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (5.00%) C
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (10.00%) vSphere
3 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) Grafana
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (10.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (10.00%) vRealize
3 1 (2.50%) Control-M
3 1 (2.50%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (2.50%) SCCM
3 1 (2.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Apple
1 11 (27.50%) Citrix
2 4 (10.00%) Splunk
2 4 (10.00%) VMware
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Veritas
4 2 (5.00%) Commvault
4 2 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.50%) NetApp
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat