Windows Contracts in York

Microsoft Windows
North Yorkshire > York

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in York 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 6 24 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in York 24.00% 43.64% 25.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 85.71% 88.89% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 13
10th Percentile - £125 £120
25th Percentile £120 £129 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £229 £183 £155
Median % change year-on-year +25.34% +17.74% -43.64%
75th Percentile £392 £233 £198
90th Percentile £479 £355 £200
North Yorkshire median daily rate £200 £185 £200
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -11.11%

All Operating Systems
York

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 York.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7 27 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in York 28.00% 49.09% 25.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 13
10th Percentile - £125 £120
25th Percentile £120 £136 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £185 £155
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +19.35% -43.64%
75th Percentile £344 £341 £198
90th Percentile £460 £388 £200
North Yorkshire median daily rate £200 £223 £200
% change year-on-year -10.11% +11.25% -13.04%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in York

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in York

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in York

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in York

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Daily Rate Histogram in York

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in York over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in York

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in York

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in York

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in York 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 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
1 2 (33.33%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) IT Support
1 2 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) VMware