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

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 125 168 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.11% 9.71% 11.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.40% 56.38% 79.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 121 171
10th Percentile £150 £145 £152
25th Percentile £189 £183 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% -18.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £575 £521 £544
90th Percentile £639 £580 £638
England median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 16
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.65 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.44 £14.52 £15.67
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.94
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -12.25% +10.36%
75th Percentile £19.56 £20.13 £22.00
90th Percentile £19.76 £22.00 £22.38
England median hourly rate £18.87 £19.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year -0.68% -22.83% +23.10%

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 248 298 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.06% 17.22% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 207 217
10th Percentile £181 £163 £155
25th Percentile £345 £270 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £423 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.01% -6.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £600
90th Percentile £623 £600 £700
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 16
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.72 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.44 £15.17 £15.67
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.94
Median % change year-on-year +4.03% -12.25% +7.80%
75th Percentile £19.56 £22.00 £22.00
90th Percentile £19.76 £36.75 £22.38
England median hourly rate £19.32 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.74% -41.18% +93.18%

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 29 June 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 29 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
South Yorkshire -1 55 £475 +2.37% 44
West Yorkshire -3 47 £525 +38.16% 115
North Yorkshire +1 19 £200 +14.29% 30
East Yorkshire -4 4 £215 -28.33% 13
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 15 (12.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (15.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.40%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.20%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (12.80%) Azure
3 9 (7.20%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.80%) Google Workspace
5 5 (4.00%) AWS
5 5 (4.00%) Collibra
6 4 (3.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (3.20%) GitHub
7 3 (2.40%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.60%) GCP
9 1 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.60%) DNS
2 13 (10.40%) Firewall
3 11 (8.80%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.80%) NAS
4 6 (4.80%) Wireless
5 5 (4.00%) SAN
6 4 (3.20%) SMTP
6 4 (3.20%) VPN
7 2 (1.60%) DHCP
7 2 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.60%) SSL
8 1 (0.80%) BGP
8 1 (0.80%) Broadband
8 1 (0.80%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.80%) HSRP
8 1 (0.80%) Internet
8 1 (0.80%) MPLS
8 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.20%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.00%) Git
3 9 (7.20%) Postman
4 4 (3.20%) GitLab
5 3 (2.40%) JIRA
6 1 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 62 (49.60%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.80%) Banking
3 18 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.80%) Finance
5 7 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.40%) Legal
9 2 (1.60%) Aviation
9 2 (1.60%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.60%) Law
9 2 (1.60%) Police
9 2 (1.60%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (13.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 17 (13.60%) Windows Engineer
2 12 (9.60%) Analyst
2 12 (9.60%) Architect
3 11 (8.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 9 (7.20%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 9 (7.20%) Service Analyst
4 9 (7.20%) Service Desk Analyst
5 8 (6.40%) Deployment Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) Engineering Specialist
5 8 (6.40%) Support Engineer
5 8 (6.40%) Support Technician
6 7 (5.60%) IT Engineer
6 7 (5.60%) Network Engineer
6 7 (5.60%) Senior
6 7 (5.60%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.00%) Desktop Support
7 5 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (3.20%) Middleware
2 4 (3.20%) REST
3 1 (0.80%) .NET
3 1 (0.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.80%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.40%) Fat Client
5 3 (2.40%) Robotics
5 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.40%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.60%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.60%) Replication
6 2 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.80%) CCTV
7 1 (0.80%) EPoS
7 1 (0.80%) iPhone
7 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (39.20%) Linux
2 32 (25.60%) Windows Server
3 21 (16.80%) Windows 10
4 14 (11.20%) Apple iOS
5 6 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.80%) Unix
6 2 (1.60%) Android
6 2 (1.60%) HPUX
6 2 (1.60%) Solaris
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.80%) VMS
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (24.00%) Agile
3 29 (23.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (17.60%) Microservices
4 22 (17.60%) Migration
5 17 (13.60%) Security Management
6 15 (12.00%) SOA
7 13 (10.40%) Server Management
8 12 (9.60%) Coaching
8 12 (9.60%) Customer Service
8 12 (9.60%) DevOps
9 9 (7.20%) Configuration Management
10 8 (6.40%) Data Management
10 8 (6.40%) ITIL
10 8 (6.40%) Proactive Monitoring
10 8 (6.40%) Roadmaps
11 7 (5.60%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (5.60%) Data Protection
11 7 (5.60%) Technology Roadmap
12 6 (4.80%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.60%) PowerShell
2 21 (16.80%) Bash
3 20 (16.00%) SQL
4 17 (13.60%) PL/SQL
5 16 (12.80%) Perl
6 14 (11.20%) Python
7 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.80%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.80%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.80%) C
8 1 (0.80%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (13.60%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.60%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.20%) Degree
6 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.80%) CCNA
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) SLA
2 6 (4.80%) GDPR
3 5 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 51 (40.80%) Active Directory
2 18 (14.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.60%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.20%) vSphere
5 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.60%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.80%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.80%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.80%) XenApp
7 1 (0.80%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (15.20%) Ansible
2 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (8.00%) Puppet
3 10 (8.00%) SCCM
4 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (5.60%) Grafana
6 6 (4.80%) SmoothWall
7 5 (4.00%) Kubernetes
7 5 (4.00%) vCenter Server
7 5 (4.00%) vRealize
8 4 (3.20%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.60%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.80%) Control-M
10 1 (0.80%) NetApp OnCommand
10 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 1 (0.80%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.00%) Cisco
2 20 (16.00%) Oracle
2 20 (16.00%) VMware
3 18 (14.40%) Citrix
4 13 (10.40%) Apple
5 9 (7.20%) MuleSoft
6 6 (4.80%) Google
6 6 (4.80%) Splunk
7 4 (3.20%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.20%) Veritas
8 3 (2.40%) HP
8 3 (2.40%) IBM
9 2 (1.60%) Commvault
9 2 (1.60%) NetApp
9 2 (1.60%) Ribbon
9 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.60%) Sun
9 2 (1.60%) Unisys
9 2 (1.60%) Veeam