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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 -18
Contract jobs citing Windows 21 20 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.75% 8.85% 6.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.64% 64.52% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 11
10th Percentile £188 £185 £134
25th Percentile £200 £188 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £475 £213
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% +123.53% -24.78%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £400
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
North East median daily rate £300 £441 £238
% change year-on-year -31.90% +85.47% +9.20%
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% +110.63%

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 33 31 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 13.75% 13.72% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 42
10th Percentile £188 £187 £187
25th Percentile £203 £347 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £463 £544
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% -14.94% +20.83%
75th Percentile £564 £609 £760
90th Percentile £600 £650 £846
North East median daily rate £340 £400 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -23.81% +27.27%
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% +110.63%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +2 17 £340 -40.87% 138
Sunderland 0 4 £195 - 5
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
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) IaaS
2 5 (23.81%) PaaS
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) VoIP
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WebEx
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Legal
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Military
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Active Directory Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Deployment Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Support
2 4 (19.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Mobile Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Service Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
1 1 (4.76%) PKI
1 1 (4.76%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.52%) Android
2 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) ITIL
2 3 (14.29%) Patch Management
2 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (14.29%) Service Management
3 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
4 1 (4.76%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (4.76%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (4.76%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (4.76%) ITSM
4 1 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (4.76%) Migration
4 1 (4.76%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (4.76%) Server Management
4 1 (4.76%) Server Migrations
4 1 (4.76%) Software Deployment
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) 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 16 (76.19%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) VxRail
2 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) SolarWinds
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