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

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 21 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 46 67 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.82% 6.74% 9.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.20% 49.63% 75.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 53 97
10th Percentile £183 £159 £156
25th Percentile £286 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% -10.59% +41.67%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £575
90th Percentile £780 £650 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £405 £310 £375
% change year-on-year +30.65% -17.33% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - - £12.81
25th Percentile - £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate - £14.52 £17.36
Median % change year-on-year - -16.36% -1.59%
75th Percentile - £15.95 £21.31
90th Percentile - £17.34 £22.70
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.39
% change year-on-year +4.03% -9.72% +7.28%

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 109 135 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.54% 13.58% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 103 130
10th Percentile £185 £178 £190
25th Percentile £375 £300 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £436 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -12.80% +25.79%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £625
90th Percentile £625 £624 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £455 £415 £450
% change year-on-year +9.64% -7.78% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - - £12.81
25th Percentile - £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate - £14.52 £17.36
Median % change year-on-year - -16.36% -3.56%
75th Percentile - £15.95 £21.31
90th Percentile - £17.34 £22.70
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.39
% change year-on-year +4.03% -9.72% +4.78%

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 14 June 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 14 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
Leeds +5 43 £525 +16.67% 49
Castleford +1 1 £625 +316.67%
Halifax -8 1 £188 -6.25% 1
Huddersfield - 1 £320 - 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 (34.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.87%) Collibra
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.52%) AWS
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) Internet
2 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (43.48%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 8 (17.39%) Architect
3 8 (17.39%) Engineering Specialist
4 6 (13.04%) IT Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Network Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Service Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.35%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (2.17%) CCTV
3 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.17%) EPoS
3 1 (2.17%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.17%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (67.39%) Linux
2 25 (54.35%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.87%) Windows 10
4 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.35%) HPUX
5 2 (4.35%) Solaris
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (2.17%) VMS
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (47.83%) Microservices
3 18 (39.13%) Agile
3 18 (39.13%) Security Management
4 17 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (34.78%) SOA
6 14 (30.43%) Server Management
7 13 (28.26%) Migration
8 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
9 7 (15.22%) Technology Roadmap
10 5 (10.87%) Data Governance
10 5 (10.87%) Monte Carlo Method
10 5 (10.87%) Observability
11 4 (8.70%) Project Planning
12 3 (6.52%) Capacity Planning
12 3 (6.52%) DevOps
12 3 (6.52%) Technical Architecture
13 2 (4.35%) Application Packaging
13 2 (4.35%) High Availability
13 2 (4.35%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) PowerShell
2 21 (45.65%) Bash
2 21 (45.65%) SQL
3 18 (39.13%) PL/SQL
4 17 (36.96%) Perl
5 1 (2.17%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 20 (43.48%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 31 (67.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.52%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.17%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.87%) Grafana
2 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) SCCM
4 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.17%) vRealize
4 1 (2.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (43.48%) Cisco
1 20 (43.48%) Oracle
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.87%) Splunk
4 4 (8.70%) VMware
5 2 (4.35%) HP
5 2 (4.35%) IBM
5 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.35%) Sun
5 2 (4.35%) Unisys
5 2 (4.35%) Veeam
6 1 (2.17%) Apple
6 1 (2.17%) Aruba
6 1 (2.17%) Citrix
6 1 (2.17%) Dell
6 1 (2.17%) MobileIron
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow