Windows Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Windows
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 430 616 886
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 9.20% 10.83% 12.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.52% 68.90% 66.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 426 635
10th Percentile £150 £151 £135
25th Percentile £190 £200 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £381 £275
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +38.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £546 £538 £450
90th Percentile £815 £631 £588
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 54 67
10th Percentile - £13.40 £12.29
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.31 £14.38
Median hourly rate £14.00 £26.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +50.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £17.73 £43.66 £19.47
90th Percentile £19.23 £49.48 £28.75
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.21 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.20% +11.03% +19.40%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 699 894 1,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.96% 15.72% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 629 957
10th Percentile £165 £167 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +13.10% +12.00%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 60 81
10th Percentile - £13.88 £12.59
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.67 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +50.00% +11.70%
75th Percentile £19.81 £43.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £34.53 £49.52 £70.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.14
% change year-on-year -41.33% +69.38% +24.59%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the North of England

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
North West -9 232 £350 -17.65% 165
Yorkshire 0 172 £325 -10.34% 120
North East +5 27 £450 +89.47% 35
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 44 (10.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (7.21%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.63%) IIS
4 3 (0.70%) Apache
5 2 (0.47%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.47%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
6 1 (0.23%) Site Server
Applications
1 90 (20.93%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 148 (34.42%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (15.58%) Azure
3 28 (6.51%) AWS
4 21 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 13 (3.02%) OneDrive
6 9 (2.09%) IaaS
7 6 (1.40%) GCP
7 6 (1.40%) SaaS
8 4 (0.93%) PaaS
9 3 (0.70%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.47%) Azure AKS
10 2 (0.47%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.47%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.23%) Akamai
11 1 (0.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.23%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.23%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.23%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 78 (18.14%) Firewall
2 72 (16.74%) VPN
3 31 (7.21%) LAN
4 28 (6.51%) DNS
5 25 (5.81%) WAN
6 22 (5.12%) DHCP
7 21 (4.88%) VLAN
8 17 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (3.49%) Wireless
10 12 (2.79%) SAN
11 8 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (1.63%) Ethernet
12 7 (1.63%) Internet
12 7 (1.63%) OSPF
12 7 (1.63%) TCP/IP
12 7 (1.63%) WAAS
12 7 (1.63%) Wireless Security
13 6 (1.40%) SSL
14 4 (0.93%) VoIP
15 3 (0.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.12%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.93%) Big Data
2 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.70%) Power BI
4 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.47%) Data Hub
4 2 (0.47%) DB2
4 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.23%) MySQL
5 1 (0.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.40%) JIRA
2 5 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.47%) GitLab
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) Gradle
4 1 (0.23%) Hudson
4 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.23%) Maven
4 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 140 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 45 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (7.91%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.21%) Finance
5 16 (3.72%) Legal
6 14 (3.26%) Banking
7 12 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.86%) Law
9 6 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Aviation
12 3 (0.70%) Local Government
12 3 (0.70%) Retail
13 2 (0.47%) Automotive
13 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.47%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 80 (18.60%) Analyst
2 59 (13.72%) Architect
3 55 (12.79%) IT Support
4 49 (11.40%) Service Analyst
4 49 (11.40%) Service Desk Analyst
5 47 (10.93%) Support Engineer
6 43 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 39 (9.07%) Lead
8 33 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (7.44%) Technical Leader
10 30 (6.98%) Lead Architect
11 28 (6.51%) IT Engineer
12 27 (6.28%) IT Technician
13 22 (5.12%) 2nd Line Support
14 20 (4.65%) Desktop Support
15 19 (4.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 19 (4.42%) Senior
15 19 (4.42%) Support Analyst
16 17 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 16 (3.72%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.00%) Node.js
2 9 (2.09%) Kafka
3 7 (1.63%) Middleware
4 6 (1.40%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (1.16%) XML
6 4 (0.93%) XSLT
7 3 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (0.70%) JSON
7 3 (0.70%) LDAP
7 3 (0.70%) Web Services
8 2 (0.47%) .NET
8 2 (0.47%) ADSI
8 2 (0.47%) React Native
8 2 (0.47%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.47%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.47%) XMPP
9 1 (0.23%) HTML
9 1 (0.23%) J2EE
9 1 (0.23%) JSP
9 1 (0.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.84%) Public Cloud
2 19 (4.42%) Replication
3 16 (3.72%) Data Centre
4 14 (3.26%) Clustering
4 14 (3.26%) Driving Licence
5 13 (3.02%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.09%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (1.63%) EPoS
7 7 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.63%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.16%) iPhone
8 5 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (0.93%) NHS
9 4 (0.93%) PKI
9 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.70%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.70%) iPad
10 3 (0.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 151 (35.12%) Windows 10
2 140 (32.56%) Windows Server
3 79 (18.37%) Linux
4 56 (13.02%) Apple iOS
5 50 (11.63%) Android
6 22 (5.12%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (4.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (3.72%) Mac OS
9 14 (3.26%) Windows 7
9 14 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (3.02%) Unix
11 9 (2.09%) VMS
12 7 (1.63%) zOS
13 5 (1.16%) Ubuntu
13 5 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.70%) AIX
15 3 (0.70%) Debian
15 3 (0.70%) Solaris
16 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (28.60%) Customer Service
2 90 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (15.81%) Mobile Device Management
4 59 (13.72%) Migration
5 56 (13.02%) CI/CD
6 53 (12.33%) ITIL
7 47 (10.93%) DevOps
8 46 (10.70%) Agile
9 44 (10.23%) Risk Management
9 44 (10.23%) Security Architecture
9 44 (10.23%) Zero Trust
10 43 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 41 (9.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 41 (9.53%) Threat Intelligence
12 32 (7.44%) Decision-Making
13 29 (6.74%) Change Management
13 29 (6.74%) Time Management
14 28 (6.51%) Design Patterns
14 28 (6.51%) Service Delivery
15 22 (5.12%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 29 (6.74%) PowerShell
2 22 (5.12%) SQL
3 10 (2.33%) Python
4 8 (1.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.63%) C++
6 5 (1.16%) Java
7 2 (0.47%) Bash
7 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.47%) Ruby
8 1 (0.23%) C
8 1 (0.23%) C#
8 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 93 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 82 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.21%) Degree
4 26 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (4.19%) CCNA
5 18 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (3.02%) MCSE
6 13 (3.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (2.09%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.86%) A+ Certification
9 7 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.40%) CEH
10 6 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.40%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.40%) GIAC
10 6 (1.40%) GPEN
10 6 (1.40%) OSCP
11 4 (0.93%) MCP
11 4 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.70%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.74%) SLA
2 27 (6.28%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (2.09%) NIST
4 4 (0.93%) QA
5 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 187 (43.49%) Active Directory
2 64 (14.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (7.44%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.33%) VMware Workstation
6 8 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.63%) KVM
8 5 (1.16%) Docker
8 5 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.93%) vSphere
10 3 (0.70%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.70%) SRDF
11 2 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.23%) Firmware
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.23%) NFS
12 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 51 (11.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (9.07%) SCCM
3 27 (6.28%) Ansible
4 19 (4.42%) Puppet
5 18 (4.19%) NetBackup
6 10 (2.33%) vCenter Server
7 9 (2.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.70%) Autotask
10 3 (0.70%) EMC TimeFinder
10 3 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.70%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.70%) Terraform
11 2 (0.47%) CFEngine
11 2 (0.47%) PowerBroker
11 2 (0.47%) WSUS
11 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 204 (47.44%) Microsoft
2 83 (19.30%) VMware
3 41 (9.53%) ServiceNow
4 20 (4.65%) Apple
5 17 (3.95%) Cisco
6 16 (3.72%) Citrix
6 16 (3.72%) Veritas
7 13 (3.02%) Oracle
8 10 (2.33%) Dell
9 9 (2.09%) IBM
10 7 (1.63%) Veeam
11 6 (1.40%) Google
11 6 (1.40%) Solace
12 5 (1.16%) EMC
12 5 (1.16%) F5
12 5 (1.16%) Sophos
13 4 (0.93%) Brocade
13 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.93%) Symantec
14 3 (0.70%) MEDITECH