Windows Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 17 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Windows 83 126 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.32% 7.76% 10.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 56.85% 74.12% 69.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 94 145
10th Percentile £160 £183 £156
25th Percentile £258 £219 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £369 £315
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +17.06% -21.25%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £450
90th Percentile £623 £625 £542
Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £331 £260
% change year-on-year -1.89% +27.40% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile - - £13.01
25th Percentile £13.87 - £15.06
Median hourly rate £15.17 £13.16 £17.18
Median % change year-on-year +15.27% -23.38% +7.34%
75th Percentile £18.27 £15.44 £18.70
90th Percentile £20.49 £16.81 £18.74
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £18.55 £17.43
% change year-on-year -18.23% +6.44% -0.40%

All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 146 170 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.64% 10.47% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 126 211
10th Percentile £178 £190 £160
25th Percentile £300 £257 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £458 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +7.65% -4.49%
75th Percentile £511 £575 £500
90th Percentile £619 £673 £588
Yorkshire median daily rate £415 £428 £375
% change year-on-year -2.92% +14.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 16
10th Percentile - £13.16 £13.30
25th Percentile £13.87 £14.30 £15.19
Median hourly rate £15.17 £19.61 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% +11.61% +21.17%
75th Percentile £18.27 £36.24 £18.70
90th Percentile £20.49 £60.45 £19.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.35 £19.89 £17.57
% change year-on-year +7.38% +13.18% +0.40%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 0 61 £380 -11.63% 27
Wakefield -1 10 £329 +46.11% 1
Bradford -4 6 £185 -45.19% 5
Huddersfield -5 1 £375 +25.00% 4
Brighouse - 1 £140 -
Calderdale - 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 11 (13.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.23%) IIS
3 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) nginx
4 1 (1.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (14.46%) Azure
3 8 (9.64%) AWS
4 3 (3.61%) Azure AKS
4 3 (3.61%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.61%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.41%) IaaS
5 2 (2.41%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.20%) Akamai
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.20%) GCP
6 1 (1.20%) OCI
6 1 (1.20%) Serverless
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.28%) DNS
2 15 (18.07%) LAN
3 13 (15.66%) DHCP
4 12 (14.46%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (13.25%) WAN
6 9 (10.84%) SAN
7 8 (9.64%) Firewall
8 7 (8.43%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (8.43%) VPN
9 5 (6.02%) Internet
9 5 (6.02%) Wireless
10 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
11 2 (2.41%) NAS
11 2 (2.41%) VLAN
12 1 (1.20%) NetScaler
12 1 (1.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) Big Data
2 3 (3.61%) Power BI
2 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.20%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.20%) GitLab
1 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.20%) JIRA
1 1 (1.20%) Maven
General
1 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.25%) Finance
3 7 (8.43%) Banking
4 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Legal
5 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Retail
7 1 (1.20%) Automotive
7 1 (1.20%) Back Office
7 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Support Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Analyst
3 10 (12.05%) IT Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Data Centre Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) IT Technician
5 8 (9.64%) IT Support
6 7 (8.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Service Analyst
6 7 (8.43%) Service Desk Analyst
7 6 (7.23%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Wintel Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) 1st Line Support
9 4 (4.82%) Active Directory Technician
9 4 (4.82%) Data Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Hardware Technician
10 3 (3.61%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Data Centre Technician
10 3 (3.61%) Data Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) XML
2 2 (2.41%) ADSI
2 2 (2.41%) LDAP
2 2 (2.41%) XMPP
2 2 (2.41%) XSLT
3 1 (1.20%) .NET
3 1 (1.20%) HTML
3 1 (1.20%) J2EE
3 1 (1.20%) JSP
3 1 (1.20%) OAuth
3 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.02%) Operational Technology
2 5 (6.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.82%) Clustering
3 4 (4.82%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.82%) NHS
4 2 (2.41%) BYOD
4 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.41%) EPoS
5 1 (1.20%) CMDB
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.20%) iPad
5 1 (1.20%) iPhone
5 1 (1.20%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.20%) LIMS
5 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 37 (44.58%) Windows Server
2 21 (25.30%) Windows 10
3 13 (15.66%) Linux
4 11 (13.25%) VMS
5 8 (9.64%) Windows 7
6 6 (7.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (6.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (6.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (4.82%) Unix
9 2 (2.41%) Debian
9 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.41%) zOS
10 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.20%) CentOS
10 1 (1.20%) Fedora
10 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.20%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.12%) Migration
2 18 (21.69%) Customer Service
2 18 (21.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (9.64%) Runbook
5 6 (7.23%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (7.23%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (6.02%) Agile
6 5 (6.02%) Computer Science
6 5 (6.02%) Email Filtering
6 5 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (6.02%) Validation
7 4 (4.82%) Application Security
7 4 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (4.82%) Ethical Hacking
7 4 (4.82%) ITIL
7 4 (4.82%) Offensive Security
7 4 (4.82%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (4.82%) Project Management
7 4 (4.82%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.05%) SQL
2 7 (8.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.02%) C++
3 5 (6.02%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.02%) Python
4 3 (3.61%) Java
5 1 (1.20%) Bash
5 1 (1.20%) C
5 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) CCNA
2 6 (7.23%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (7.23%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (6.02%) A+ Certification
3 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.82%) CEH
4 4 (4.82%) CREST Certified
4 4 (4.82%) GIAC
4 4 (4.82%) GPEN
4 4 (4.82%) OSCP
5 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.61%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.41%) CCENT
6 2 (2.41%) MCSA
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.20%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) NIST
1 4 (4.82%) SLA
2 3 (3.61%) QA
System Software
1 47 (56.63%) Active Directory
2 21 (25.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.64%) Hyper-V
4 6 (7.23%) KVM
4 6 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (7.23%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (7.23%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.20%) Docker
5 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.20%) vSphere
5 1 (1.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.61%) SCCM
3 2 (2.41%) Terraform
3 2 (2.41%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.20%) Graylog
4 1 (1.20%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.20%) Nessus
4 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.20%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.20%) Puppet
4 1 (1.20%) Rsyslog
4 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (40.96%) Microsoft
2 27 (32.53%) VMware
3 7 (8.43%) Cisco
4 6 (7.23%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.61%) Citrix
5 3 (3.61%) NetApp
6 2 (2.41%) Apple
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle
6 2 (2.41%) Veeam
7 1 (1.20%) Aruba
7 1 (1.20%) Brio
7 1 (1.20%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.20%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.20%) HP
7 1 (1.20%) Sophos
7 1 (1.20%) Zscaler