Windows Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Windows
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows 74 133 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.61% 8.64% 11.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.24% 71.51% 72.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 92 159
10th Percentile £162 £156 £157
25th Percentile £258 £250 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £381 £338
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% +12.96% -15.63%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £450
90th Percentile £650 £624 £620
Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £338 £295
% change year-on-year -3.70% +14.60% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 15
10th Percentile - £12.81 £13.15
25th Percentile £13.87 £13.16 £15.46
Median hourly rate £14.52 £17.36 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% -0.80% +28.21%
75th Percentile £15.95 £21.31 £18.70
90th Percentile £17.34 £22.70 £18.73
Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.34 £19.39 £17.50
% change year-on-year -15.73% +10.77% -0.77%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 139 186 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.30% 12.08% 15.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 131 222
10th Percentile £178 £195 £163
25th Percentile £300 £302 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £618 £525
90th Percentile £619 £700 £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £412 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -8.40% +20.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 17
10th Percentile - £12.93 £13.44
25th Percentile £13.87 £13.16 £15.93
Median hourly rate £14.52 £17.72 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% +0.45% +29.23%
75th Percentile £15.95 £22.25 £18.70
90th Percentile £17.34 £35.00 £18.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £19.64 £17.82
% change year-on-year -6.95% +10.19% +1.83%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in West Yorkshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Leeds -4 53 £403 -13.44% 42
Wakefield -1 7 £320 +42.22% 2
Bradford -4 7 £185 -45.19% 9
Huddersfield 0 1 £375 +11.11% 6
Castleford -1 1 £150 - 1
Calderdale - 1 - -
Windows
Yorkshire

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.11%) IIS
3 1 (1.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) nginx
3 1 (1.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (14.86%) Azure
3 5 (6.76%) AWS
4 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.05%) Azure AKS
5 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.05%) IaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Akamai
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.35%) GCP
6 1 (1.35%) OCI
6 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.35%) PaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Serverless
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.57%) LAN
2 9 (12.16%) DNS
2 9 (12.16%) SAN
2 9 (12.16%) WAN
3 8 (10.81%) Firewall
3 8 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (9.46%) DHCP
5 5 (6.76%) Internet
5 5 (6.76%) VPN
5 5 (6.76%) Wireless
6 3 (4.05%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (2.70%) NAS
7 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.70%) VLAN
8 1 (1.35%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.35%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) Big Data
1 4 (5.41%) Power BI
2 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) Maven
General
1 19 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.51%) Finance
3 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.05%) Banking
4 3 (4.05%) Legal
4 3 (4.05%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Retail
6 1 (1.35%) Automotive
6 1 (1.35%) Back Office
6 1 (1.35%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Support Engineer
2 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (12.16%) IT Engineer
3 9 (12.16%) IT Support
3 9 (12.16%) IT Technician
4 8 (10.81%) Analyst
5 7 (9.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Data Centre Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (8.11%) Wintel Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Service Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (5.41%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (5.41%) Active Directory Technician
8 4 (5.41%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Hardware Technician
9 3 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.41%) XML
2 2 (2.70%) .NET
2 2 (2.70%) ADSI
2 2 (2.70%) HTML
2 2 (2.70%) J2EE
2 2 (2.70%) JSP
2 2 (2.70%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.70%) XMPP
2 2 (2.70%) XSLT
3 1 (1.35%) Kafka
3 1 (1.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.76%) Operational Technology
3 4 (5.41%) Clustering
3 4 (5.41%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.05%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.70%) BYOD
5 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.70%) EPoS
5 2 (2.70%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.70%) NHS
5 2 (2.70%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.35%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.35%) CMDB
6 1 (1.35%) iPhone
6 1 (1.35%) LIMS
6 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (41.89%) Windows Server
2 15 (20.27%) Windows 10
3 14 (18.92%) Linux
4 8 (10.81%) VMS
5 6 (8.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (6.76%) Unix
6 5 (6.76%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (6.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (5.41%) Windows 7
8 2 (2.70%) Debian
8 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.70%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.70%) zOS
9 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.35%) CentOS
9 1 (1.35%) Fedora
9 1 (1.35%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.35%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.03%) Migration
2 16 (21.62%) Customer Service
3 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (8.11%) Agile
5 6 (8.11%) Computer Science
5 6 (8.11%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (6.76%) Email Filtering
7 4 (5.41%) Application Security
7 4 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (5.41%) Ethical Hacking
7 4 (5.41%) ITIL
7 4 (5.41%) Offensive Security
7 4 (5.41%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (5.41%) Red Team
7 4 (5.41%) Runbook
7 4 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (5.41%) Waterfall
8 3 (4.05%) Data Modelling
8 3 (4.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.51%) SQL
2 6 (8.11%) C++
2 6 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.76%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.76%) Python
4 4 (5.41%) Java
5 2 (2.70%) C
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (6.76%) CCNA
1 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (6.76%) Degree
1 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
1 5 (6.76%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.41%) A+ Certification
2 4 (5.41%) CEH
2 4 (5.41%) CREST Certified
2 4 (5.41%) GIAC
2 4 (5.41%) GPEN
2 4 (5.41%) OSCP
3 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.70%) CCENT
4 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.70%) MCSA
4 2 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) NIST
2 3 (4.05%) SLA
3 2 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 37 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (20.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.76%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.70%) KVM
5 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (1.35%) Docker
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.35%) vSphere
6 1 (1.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.05%) Terraform
2 2 (2.70%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.70%) ZABBIX
3 1 (1.35%) Ansible
3 1 (1.35%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.35%) Graylog
3 1 (1.35%) HAProxy
3 1 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.35%) Nessus
3 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.35%) Proxmox
3 1 (1.35%) Puppet
3 1 (1.35%) Rsyslog
3 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (36.49%) Microsoft
2 18 (24.32%) VMware
3 7 (9.46%) Cisco
4 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.05%) Citrix
6 2 (2.70%) Apple
6 2 (2.70%) Oracle
6 2 (2.70%) Veeam
7 1 (1.35%) Aruba
7 1 (1.35%) Brio
7 1 (1.35%) Confluent
7 1 (1.35%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.35%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.35%) HP
7 1 (1.35%) NetApp
7 1 (1.35%) Skytap
7 1 (1.35%) Sophos
7 1 (1.35%) Zscaler