Windows Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Windows
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 27 11
Rank change year-on-year +14 -16 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 20 17 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 8.89% 6.34% 13.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.52% 29.31% 53.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 47
10th Percentile £185 £134 £126
25th Percentile £188 £165 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £213 £283
Median % change year-on-year +123.53% -24.78% -29.38%
75th Percentile £638 £400 £525
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
North East median daily rate £441 £238 £218
% change year-on-year +85.47% +9.20% -25.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.24
25th Percentile £16.25 - £15.53
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.43
75th Percentile £18.75 - £16.92
90th Percentile - - £16.97
North East median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% +116.67% +10.99%

All Operating Systems
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 31 58 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 13.78% 21.64% 25.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 42 77
10th Percentile £187 £187 £140
25th Percentile £347 £500 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £544 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.94% +20.83% +5.88%
75th Percentile £609 £760 £538
90th Percentile £650 £846 £650
North East median daily rate £400 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -23.81% +27.27% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.24
25th Percentile £16.25 - £15.53
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.43
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.57%
75th Percentile £18.75 - £16.92
90th Percentile - - £16.97
North East median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -46.15% +116.67% +10.99%

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 May 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 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +16 14 £575 +150.00% 7
Sunderland -1 5 £195 -8.24%
Gateshead - 1 £150 - 3
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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.00%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) AMQP
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) MQTT
2 2 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (5.00%) DMZ
3 1 (5.00%) Modbus
3 1 (5.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) SMTP
3 1 (5.00%) VoIP
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Gradle
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) Liquibase
1 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (15.00%) DBA
1 3 (15.00%) Senior
1 3 (15.00%) SQL DBA
1 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) IT Technician
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Technician
2 2 (10.00%) Senior Technician
2 2 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (5.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) JSON
1 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (10.00%) XML
2 2 (10.00%) XSLT
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) jQuery
3 1 (5.00%) Keycloak
3 1 (5.00%) LDAP
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Clustering
2 3 (15.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) ITIL
1 6 (30.00%) Service Management
2 4 (20.00%) High Availability
2 4 (20.00%) Server Patching
3 3 (15.00%) Data Encryption
3 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (10.00%) Application Security
4 2 (10.00%) CRUD
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (10.00%) Offensive Security
4 2 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Red Team
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Management
5 1 (5.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (20.00%) Degree
3 4 (20.00%) MCSE
4 2 (10.00%) CEH
4 2 (10.00%) CREST Certified
4 2 (10.00%) GIAC
4 2 (10.00%) GPEN
4 2 (10.00%) OSCP
4 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.00%) Docker
4 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (10.00%) vSphere
5 1 (5.00%) BitLocker
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (5.00%) Terminal Services
5 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Anchore
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Kibana
1 1 (5.00%) Packer
1 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (5.00%) vMotion
1 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) HP
5 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.00%) Symantec