Windows Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 6 10 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 123 171 237
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.09% 10.12% 10.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.91% 51.66% 77.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 134 176
10th Percentile £150 £147 £150
25th Percentile £185 £185 £192
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £325 £338
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +27.36%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £538
90th Percentile £668 £569 £625
England median daily rate £420 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.43 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.44 £13.78 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.21 £14.84 £18.55
Median % change year-on-year +22.72% -20.04% +6.87%
75th Percentile £19.56 £19.20 £21.21
90th Percentile £19.76 £22.00 £22.15
England median hourly rate £18.77 £17.72 £22.50
% change year-on-year +5.90% -21.24% +12.50%

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 220 331 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.63% 19.60% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 242 224
10th Percentile £178 £163 £153
25th Percentile £243 £275 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
75th Percentile £575 £505 £550
90th Percentile £725 £588 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 9
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.57 £12.73
25th Percentile £16.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%
75th Percentile £19.75 £23.75 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.12 - £34.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Yorkshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire -1 56 £425 +25.00% 48
South Yorkshire -1 40 £400 -6.98% 25
North Yorkshire +2 22 £255 +47.83% 24
East Yorkshire +1 3 £230 -23.33% 12
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (13.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (8.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (5.69%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) nginx
5 1 (0.81%) Traefik
Applications
1 24 (19.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.14%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (13.01%) Azure
3 8 (6.50%) Entra ID
3 8 (6.50%) GitHub
4 7 (5.69%) OneDrive
5 6 (4.88%) AWS
6 5 (4.07%) Collibra
6 5 (4.07%) Google Workspace
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.63%) GCP
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (24.39%) DNS
2 8 (6.50%) DHCP
2 8 (6.50%) SMTP
2 8 (6.50%) VPN
3 7 (5.69%) LAN
3 7 (5.69%) WAN
4 6 (4.88%) NAS
4 6 (4.88%) VLAN
4 6 (4.88%) VoIP
4 6 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (4.88%) Wireless
5 5 (4.07%) Firewall
5 5 (4.07%) SAN
6 3 (2.44%) SSL
6 3 (2.44%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.63%) Internet
7 2 (1.63%) Network Security
7 2 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.63%) VSAN
7 2 (1.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.07%) GitLab
2 4 (3.25%) Git
2 4 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 60 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Banking
3 14 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.69%) Finance
5 6 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.63%) Aviation
8 2 (1.63%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.63%) Police
8 2 (1.63%) Swedish Language
9 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Legal
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Military
9 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (16.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (12.20%) Support Engineer
3 13 (10.57%) Architect
4 12 (9.76%) IT Engineer
5 11 (8.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 9 (7.32%) Desktop Support
7 9 (7.32%) Engineering Specialist
7 9 (7.32%) Network Engineer
7 9 (7.32%) Windows Engineer
8 8 (6.50%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (6.50%) Analyst
8 8 (6.50%) Desktop Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Deployment Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Support Technician
10 6 (4.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) Service Analyst
10 6 (4.88%) Service Desk Analyst
11 5 (4.07%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.50%) REST
2 5 (4.07%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (3.25%) Middleware
4 1 (0.81%) .NET
4 1 (0.81%) cloud-init
4 1 (0.81%) Kafka
4 1 (0.81%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.45%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (5.69%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.07%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.25%) Robotics
6 3 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.63%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.63%) Replication
8 1 (0.81%) CCTV
8 1 (0.81%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.81%) EPoS
8 1 (0.81%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.81%) iPhone
8 1 (0.81%) PKI
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.81%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 47 (38.21%) Linux
2 33 (26.83%) Windows Server
3 21 (17.07%) Windows 10
4 11 (8.94%) Apple iOS
5 7 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.69%) Unix
6 2 (1.63%) HPUX
6 2 (1.63%) Solaris
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.81%) CentOS
7 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.81%) VMS
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (20.33%) Agile
4 23 (18.70%) Microservices
5 18 (14.63%) Security Management
6 16 (13.01%) SOA
7 15 (12.20%) Customer Service
7 15 (12.20%) Migration
8 14 (11.38%) Server Management
9 11 (8.94%) Coaching
9 11 (8.94%) Roadmaps
10 10 (8.13%) ITSM
10 10 (8.13%) SIEM
11 8 (6.50%) ITIL
11 8 (6.50%) Technology Roadmap
12 7 (5.69%) Data Protection
12 7 (5.69%) Observability
12 7 (5.69%) Proactive Monitoring
13 5 (4.07%) Data Governance
13 5 (4.07%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.83%) PowerShell
2 24 (19.51%) Bash
3 21 (17.07%) SQL
4 18 (14.63%) PL/SQL
5 17 (13.82%) Perl
6 7 (5.69%) Python
7 4 (3.25%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.63%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.63%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (1.63%) C
9 1 (0.81%) C#
9 1 (0.81%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.89%) Cisco Certification
3 20 (16.26%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.88%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.25%) Degree
6 2 (1.63%) CCNA
6 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CCNP
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) SLA
2 5 (4.07%) GDPR
3 3 (2.44%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 66 (53.66%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.69%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.25%) vSphere
5 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.63%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.81%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (10.57%) Ansible
2 8 (6.50%) Grafana
2 8 (6.50%) SCCM
3 7 (5.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.07%) AppManager
5 5 (4.07%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.07%) SmoothWall
5 5 (4.07%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.07%) vRealize
6 2 (1.63%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.81%) Consul
7 1 (0.81%) Control-M
7 1 (0.81%) Istio
7 1 (0.81%) linkerd
7 1 (0.81%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (0.81%) Puppet
7 1 (0.81%) Rancher
7 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.70%) Cisco
3 21 (17.07%) Oracle
4 17 (13.82%) VMware
5 13 (10.57%) Apple
6 12 (9.76%) Citrix
7 7 (5.69%) Splunk
8 5 (4.07%) Google
8 5 (4.07%) Ivanti
9 4 (3.25%) IBM
9 4 (3.25%) Red Hat
9 4 (3.25%) Veritas
10 3 (2.44%) HP
11 2 (1.63%) Commvault
11 2 (1.63%) Dell
11 2 (1.63%) NetApp
11 2 (1.63%) Ribbon
11 2 (1.63%) Sun
11 2 (1.63%) Unisys
11 2 (1.63%) Veeam