Windows Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Windows
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 16 11 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 -24
Contract jobs citing Windows 21 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.61% 9.88% 5.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.26% 70.59% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 14
10th Percentile £181 £177 £140
25th Percentile £188 £212 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £475 £225
Median % change year-on-year -42.63% +111.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £450 £609 £313
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
North East median daily rate £220 £431 £238
% change year-on-year -48.96% +81.47% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
North East median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% -46.15% +116.67%

All Operating Systems
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 38 34 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 15.57% 13.99% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 50
10th Percentile £181 £182 £204
25th Percentile £194 £310 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -28.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £760
90th Percentile £625 £650 £837
North East median daily rate £325 £408 £525
% change year-on-year -20.25% -22.38% +85.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
North East median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% -46.15% +116.67%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Tyne and Wear

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Tyne and Wear

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Tyne and Wear

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Tyne and Wear

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -8 17 £333 -39.55% 46
Sunderland 0 4 £195 - 2
Windows
North East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) IaaS
3 3 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) VoIP
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WebEx
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Military
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Desktop Support
2 5 (23.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Mobile Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Support Technician
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
1 1 (4.76%) PKI
1 1 (4.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.76%) Windows 7
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Service Management
2 4 (19.05%) ITIL
3 3 (14.29%) ITSM
3 3 (14.29%) Patch Management
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
4 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
4 2 (9.52%) Storage Management
4 2 (9.52%) Time Management
5 1 (4.76%) Change Management
5 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.76%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (4.76%) ERP
5 1 (4.76%) Migration
5 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) Project Management
5 1 (4.76%) Risk Management
5 1 (4.76%) Server Management
5 1 (4.76%) Server Migrations
5 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (4.76%) VxRail
2 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 2 (9.52%) Citrix
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Bomgar
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Workday