Windows Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Windows
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 8 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 -17
Contract jobs citing Windows 11 22 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.53% 13.17% 7.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.83% 88.00% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 27
10th Percentile £237 £131 £146
25th Percentile £310 £144 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £183 £400
Median % change year-on-year +78.08% -54.38% +68.42%
75th Percentile £340 £363 £663
90th Percentile £408 £413 £700
North East median daily rate £323 £175 £388
% change year-on-year +84.29% -54.84% +82.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £10.98
25th Percentile - £15.50 £11.31
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.61% -25.76%
75th Percentile - £16.50 £15.88
90th Percentile - - £20.60
North East median hourly rate - £16.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year - -4.29% +2.94%

All Operating Systems
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 23 25 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.56% 14.97% 24.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 85
10th Percentile £135 £131 £238
25th Percentile £169 £145 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £190 £525
Median % change year-on-year +71.05% -63.81% +31.25%
75th Percentile £388 £400 £700
90th Percentile £409 £425 £733
North East median daily rate £323 £183 £538
% change year-on-year +76.71% -66.05% +59.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £10.98
25th Percentile - £15.50 £11.31
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.61% -25.76%
75th Percentile - £16.50 £15.88
90th Percentile - - £20.60
North East median hourly rate - £16.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year - -4.29% +2.94%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Tyne and Wear

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Tyne and Wear

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Tyne and Wear

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Tyne and Wear

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -11 11 £325 +85.71% 8
Windows
North East

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) EngageOne
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) GCP
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Google Workspace
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DHCP
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) SMTP
2 4 (36.36%) VPN
3 3 (27.27%) VoIP
4 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) MSI
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Service Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support
2 1 (9.09%) Service Desk Support
2 1 (9.09%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Clustering
1 4 (36.36%) PKI
2 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 3 (27.27%) Smartphone
3 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
4 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (36.36%) Apple iOS
3 3 (27.27%) Android
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 3 (27.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Software Deployment
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Line Management
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
4 1 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) BitLocker
2 4 (36.36%) Hyper-V
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (36.36%) Terminal Services
2 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) vCenter Server
1 4 (36.36%) vMotion
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Nagios
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
2 2 (18.18%) SCCM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Citrix
1 6 (54.55%) Google
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) HP
3 3 (27.27%) Symantec
4 1 (9.09%) Apple
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow