Windows Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 10 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 171 231 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.20% 10.07% 12.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.66% 76.24% 73.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 172 260
10th Percentile £146 £150 £130
25th Percentile £185 £190 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £338 £265
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +27.36% -9.79%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £432
90th Percentile £569 £625 £500
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 29
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.51 £12.06
25th Percentile £13.87 £13.16 £13.38
Median hourly rate £15.17 £18.55 £17.36
Median % change year-on-year -18.23% +6.87% -0.80%
75th Percentile £21.97 £21.21 £18.75
90th Percentile £22.00 £22.15 £20.13
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 331 303 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.74% 13.21% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 220 352
10th Percentile £163 £153 £133
25th Percentile £275 £200 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £428 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% +14.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £502 £541 £500
90th Percentile £588 £650 £575
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 33
10th Percentile £13.61 £13.16 £12.15
25th Percentile £14.20 £15.33 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.35 £19.89 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +13.63% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.38 £19.38
90th Percentile - £40.90 £23.60
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
West Yorkshire +4 81 £339 -12.58% 44
South Yorkshire -1 52 £434 -13.25% 26
North Yorkshire -2 28 £173 -8.00% 23
East Yorkshire +2 6 £300 +76.47% 8
Humberside - 3 £300 - 2
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 28 (16.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.51%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.58%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (16.37%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 58 (33.92%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (16.96%) Azure
3 9 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.09%) AWS
5 3 (1.75%) Azure AKS
5 3 (1.75%) OneDrive
5 3 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.17%) IaaS
7 1 (0.58%) Akamai
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.58%) GCP
7 1 (0.58%) OCI
7 1 (0.58%) Serverless
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.94%) DNS
1 17 (9.94%) LAN
1 17 (9.94%) VLAN
2 16 (9.36%) Firewall
2 16 (9.36%) VPN
3 14 (8.19%) DHCP
4 13 (7.60%) WAN
4 13 (7.60%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (5.26%) SAN
6 8 (4.68%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (3.51%) SSL
8 5 (2.92%) Internet
8 5 (2.92%) Wireless
9 3 (1.75%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.17%) NAS
11 1 (0.58%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.58%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.58%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.34%) Big Data
2 3 (1.75%) Power BI
2 3 (1.75%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.58%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.58%) GitLab
2 1 (0.58%) JIRA
2 1 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 79 (46.20%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.19%) Finance
4 12 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.26%) Banking
6 8 (4.68%) Law
6 8 (4.68%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.75%) Legal
9 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.17%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.17%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) Automotive
10 1 (0.58%) Back Office
10 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (16.37%) IT Support
2 27 (15.79%) Analyst
3 26 (15.20%) Support Engineer
4 19 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (9.94%) Service Analyst
5 17 (9.94%) Service Desk Analyst
6 15 (8.77%) IT Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) IT Technician
7 12 (7.02%) Storage Engineer
8 11 (6.43%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (5.85%) 1st Line Support
9 10 (5.85%) 3rd Line Support
9 10 (5.85%) Data Centre Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (4.68%) Support Analyst
11 7 (4.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 7 (4.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Data Protection Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.51%) ActiveMQ
1 6 (3.51%) Kafka
2 2 (1.17%) ADSI
2 2 (1.17%) LDAP
2 2 (1.17%) XML
2 2 (1.17%) XMPP
2 2 (1.17%) XSLT
3 1 (0.58%) OAuth
3 1 (0.58%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.53%) Replication
2 14 (8.19%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.51%) Clustering
3 6 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 5 (2.92%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.34%) iPhone
5 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.34%) NHS
6 3 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.75%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.17%) BYOD
7 2 (1.17%) EPoS
7 2 (1.17%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.58%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.58%) CMDB
8 1 (0.58%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.58%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.58%) LIMS
8 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.58%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 54 (31.58%) Windows 10
2 51 (29.82%) Windows Server
3 43 (25.15%) Linux
4 11 (6.43%) Windows 7
5 10 (5.85%) VMS
6 9 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (4.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.34%) Android
8 4 (2.34%) Unix
9 3 (1.75%) AIX
9 3 (1.75%) Solaris
9 3 (1.75%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.17%) Debian
10 2 (1.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.17%) zOS
11 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.58%) CentOS
11 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.65%) Customer Service
2 37 (21.64%) Migration
3 29 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (14.04%) Change Management
5 23 (13.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (12.87%) Service Delivery
7 17 (9.94%) Data Protection
8 15 (8.77%) ITIL
9 11 (6.43%) ITSM
10 9 (5.26%) DevOps
10 9 (5.26%) Runbook
11 8 (4.68%) CI/CD
12 7 (4.09%) Network Monitoring
12 7 (4.09%) Server Virtualisation
13 6 (3.51%) Computer Science
13 6 (3.51%) Kalman Filter
13 6 (3.51%) Stakeholder Management
14 5 (2.92%) Email Filtering
14 5 (2.92%) Validation
15 4 (2.34%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.26%) SQL
2 7 (4.09%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.92%) Python
4 4 (2.34%) C++
4 4 (2.34%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.17%) Java
6 1 (0.58%) Bash
6 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (4.68%) Degree
1 8 (4.68%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.09%) CCNA
2 7 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (4.09%) SC Cleared
2 7 (4.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (3.51%) A+ Certification
4 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.34%) CEH
5 4 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.34%) CREST Certified
5 4 (2.34%) GIAC
5 4 (2.34%) GPEN
5 4 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (2.34%) OSCP
6 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.17%) CCENT
6 2 (1.17%) MCSA
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.58%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.92%) SLA
2 4 (2.34%) NIST
2 4 (2.34%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 90 (52.63%) Active Directory
2 28 (16.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.02%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.26%) VMware Workstation
5 8 (4.68%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (4.09%) KVM
6 7 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.75%) SRDF
8 1 (0.58%) Docker
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.58%) vSphere
8 1 (0.58%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (13.45%) Ansible
2 17 (9.94%) NetBackup
2 17 (9.94%) Puppet
3 15 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.09%) vCenter Server
5 6 (3.51%) SCCM
6 3 (1.75%) EMC TimeFinder
6 3 (1.75%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.17%) Terraform
7 2 (1.17%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.58%) Graylog
8 1 (0.58%) Nessus
8 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.58%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.58%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (45.61%) Microsoft
2 42 (24.56%) VMware
3 16 (9.36%) Veritas
4 14 (8.19%) ServiceNow
5 11 (6.43%) Cisco
6 8 (4.68%) Citrix
7 7 (4.09%) Oracle
8 6 (3.51%) IBM
8 6 (3.51%) Solace
9 4 (2.34%) EMC
10 3 (1.75%) Brocade
10 3 (1.75%) Dell
10 3 (1.75%) Dell Compellent
10 3 (1.75%) EqualLogic
10 3 (1.75%) Isilon
10 3 (1.75%) MEDITECH
10 3 (1.75%) NetApp
11 2 (1.17%) Apple
11 2 (1.17%) Symantec
11 2 (1.17%) Veeam