Windows Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 17 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 56 80 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.22% 8.01% 8.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.67% 55.94% 76.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 65 97
10th Percentile £181 £160 £176
25th Percentile £223 £258 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £388
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -12.26% +19.23%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £538
90th Percentile £736 £623 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £325 £338
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +27.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.87 -
Median hourly rate - £14.52 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year - +10.33% -23.38%
75th Percentile - £15.95 £15.44
90th Percentile - £17.34 £16.81
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £14.84 £18.55
% change year-on-year +22.72% -20.04% +6.87%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 120 143 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.90% 14.31% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 110 126
10th Percentile £185 £178 £190
25th Percentile £313 £300 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £470
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £522 £575
90th Percentile £750 £619 £660
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £415 £440
% change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £14.52 £15.44
Median % change year-on-year +182.37% -5.96% -12.12%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.95 £33.29
90th Percentile - £17.34 £61.32
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 West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Leeds +2 50 £500 +31.58% 59
Bradford +7 3 £185 - 30
Huddersfield +4 1 £320 -14.67% 3
Castleford - 1 £625 -
Halifax - 1 £188 - 1
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 16 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (8.93%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (1.79%) nginx
4 1 (1.79%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (16.07%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.93%) Collibra
4 5 (8.93%) OneDrive
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (7.14%) AWS
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) GCP
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (42.86%) DNS
2 5 (8.93%) DHCP
2 5 (8.93%) LAN
2 5 (8.93%) VLAN
2 5 (8.93%) VoIP
2 5 (8.93%) VPN
2 5 (8.93%) WAN
2 5 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.79%) Firewall
3 1 (1.79%) Internet
3 1 (1.79%) SSL
3 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (35.71%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) GitLab
1 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
1 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Banking
4 3 (5.36%) Finance
4 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Military
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 8 (14.29%) Architect
3 8 (14.29%) Engineering Specialist
4 7 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Network Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Data Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Desktop Support
7 4 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Senior
8 3 (5.36%) IT Technician
8 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) cloud-init
2 1 (1.79%) Kafka
2 1 (1.79%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.14%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.57%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.57%) Replication
3 1 (1.79%) CCTV
3 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.79%) EPoS
3 1 (1.79%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.79%) PKI
3 1 (1.79%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (57.14%) Linux
2 24 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 8 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.57%) HPUX
5 2 (3.57%) Solaris
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.79%) CentOS
6 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.79%) Unix
6 1 (1.79%) VMS
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (39.29%) Microservices
3 19 (33.93%) Agile
4 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (32.14%) Security Management
5 16 (28.57%) SOA
6 14 (25.00%) Server Management
7 11 (19.64%) Migration
8 8 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 7 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 7 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
10 6 (10.71%) Observability
11 5 (8.93%) Data Governance
11 5 (8.93%) Monte Carlo Method
12 4 (7.14%) DevOps
12 4 (7.14%) Project Planning
13 3 (5.36%) Capacity Planning
13 3 (5.36%) Technical Architecture
14 2 (3.57%) Data Protection
14 2 (3.57%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) Bash
2 21 (37.50%) SQL
3 20 (35.71%) PowerShell
4 18 (32.14%) PL/SQL
5 17 (30.36%) Perl
6 2 (3.57%) Python
7 1 (1.79%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 20 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (32.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.36%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.79%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Grafana
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.71%) SCCM
2 5 (8.93%) AppManager
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.79%) Consul
3 1 (1.79%) HAProxy
3 1 (1.79%) Istio
3 1 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.79%) linkerd
3 1 (1.79%) Packer
3 1 (1.79%) Rancher
3 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.79%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.79%) vRealize
3 1 (1.79%) VxRail
3 1 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (35.71%) Cisco
1 20 (35.71%) Oracle
2 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.07%) VMware
4 6 (10.71%) Splunk
5 5 (8.93%) Ivanti
6 2 (3.57%) Apple
6 2 (3.57%) Dell
6 2 (3.57%) HP
6 2 (3.57%) IBM
6 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.57%) Sun
6 2 (3.57%) Unisys
6 2 (3.57%) Veeam
7 1 (1.79%) Aruba
7 1 (1.79%) Citrix
7 1 (1.79%) ESET
7 1 (1.79%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.79%) Okta
7 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow