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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 164 249 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.47% 11.61% 13.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.42% 78.30% 75.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 169 273
10th Percentile £145 £150 £138
25th Percentile £178 £193 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £375 £300
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +25.00% -17.81%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £438
90th Percentile £574 £625 £544
England median daily rate £425 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -5.56% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 25
10th Percentile £13.61 £12.23 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £13.16 £15.93
Median hourly rate £17.50 £19.39 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +9.89% +0.03%
75th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £21.85 £22.45 £21.30
England median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% +25.00% +17.99%

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 307 318 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.73% 14.83% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 218 359
10th Percentile £163 £154 £150
25th Percentile £270 £213 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £458 £375
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +22.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £523 £588 £500
90th Percentile £594 £688 £588
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 28
10th Percentile £13.72 £12.23 £12.54
25th Percentile £15.17 £13.16 £15.93
Median hourly rate £17.50 £19.39 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +6.22% +4.29%
75th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £19.39
90th Percentile £23.75 £22.45 £22.99
England median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%

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 12 June 2024.

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 12 June 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
West Yorkshire -9 67 £380 -11.11% 55
South Yorkshire -1 53 £445 -10.95% 41
North Yorkshire -2 34 £175 -6.67% 17
East Yorkshire +1 5 £300 +62.16% 11
Humberside - 3 £300 - 2
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 24 (14.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.66%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.61%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 31 (18.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 54 (32.93%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (12.80%) Azure
3 7 (4.27%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.44%) AWS
4 4 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.83%) Azure AKS
5 3 (1.83%) IaaS
6 2 (1.22%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.61%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.61%) GCP
7 1 (0.61%) Serverless
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.59%) VPN
2 17 (10.37%) VLAN
3 12 (7.32%) Firewall
4 11 (6.71%) LAN
5 9 (5.49%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.88%) DNS
7 7 (4.27%) WAN
7 7 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (3.66%) DHCP
8 6 (3.66%) SAN
8 6 (3.66%) SSL
9 5 (3.05%) Internet
9 5 (3.05%) Wireless
10 3 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.22%) NAS
12 1 (0.61%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.61%) Network Security
12 1 (0.61%) NGN
12 1 (0.61%) Skype
12 1 (0.61%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.44%) Big Data
1 4 (2.44%) Power BI
2 3 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (1.22%) GitLab
1 2 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 68 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (6.10%) Finance
3 10 (6.10%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.88%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.27%) Law
6 4 (2.44%) Banking
6 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.83%) Legal
8 2 (1.22%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.22%) Retail
8 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.61%) Automotive
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 34 (20.73%) IT Support
2 31 (18.90%) Analyst
3 25 (15.24%) Support Engineer
4 20 (12.20%) Service Analyst
4 20 (12.20%) Service Desk Analyst
5 15 (9.15%) IT Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) 2nd Line Support
6 12 (7.32%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) Storage Engineer
7 11 (6.71%) IT Technician
8 10 (6.10%) 1st Line Support
8 10 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Support Analyst
10 7 (4.27%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (4.27%) Data Protection Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 6 (3.66%) Data Centre Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Migration Engineer
11 6 (3.66%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.27%) Kafka
2 6 (3.66%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (3.05%) XML
4 3 (1.83%) .NET
4 3 (1.83%) HTML
4 3 (1.83%) J2EE
4 3 (1.83%) JSP
5 2 (1.22%) ADSI
5 2 (1.22%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.22%) XMPP
5 2 (1.22%) XSLT
6 1 (0.61%) Middleware
6 1 (0.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.98%) Replication
2 9 (5.49%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.27%) Clustering
4 4 (2.44%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.44%) iPhone
4 4 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.44%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.83%) EMC VNX
5 3 (1.83%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.22%) BYOD
6 2 (1.22%) EPoS
6 2 (1.22%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.22%) NHS
6 2 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.61%) CMDB
7 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.61%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 50 (30.49%) Windows 10
2 44 (26.83%) Linux
3 40 (24.39%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (4.88%) VMS
6 7 (4.27%) Unix
6 7 (4.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (3.05%) Windows 7
9 4 (2.44%) Android
10 3 (1.83%) AIX
10 3 (1.83%) Solaris
11 2 (1.22%) Debian
11 2 (1.22%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.22%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.22%) zOS
12 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.61%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (26.83%) Customer Service
2 28 (17.07%) Migration
3 24 (14.63%) Change Management
4 23 (14.02%) Service Delivery
5 22 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (12.20%) Data Protection
7 16 (9.76%) ITIL
8 13 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (7.32%) ITSM
10 11 (6.71%) DevOps
11 8 (4.88%) CI/CD
12 7 (4.27%) Agile
13 6 (3.66%) Computer Science
13 6 (3.66%) Mobile Device Management
13 6 (3.66%) Server Virtualisation
13 6 (3.66%) Service Management
13 6 (3.66%) Waterfall
14 5 (3.05%) Cybersecurity
14 5 (3.05%) Kalman Filter
15 4 (2.44%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.71%) SQL
2 7 (4.27%) C++
2 7 (4.27%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.05%) Java
3 5 (3.05%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.05%) Python
4 3 (1.83%) C
5 1 (0.61%) Bash
5 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (3.66%) Degree
1 6 (3.66%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.44%) CCNA
3 4 (2.44%) CEH
3 4 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.44%) CREST Certified
3 4 (2.44%) GIAC
3 4 (2.44%) GPEN
3 4 (2.44%) OSCP
4 2 (1.22%) A+ Certification
4 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.44%) NIST
2 3 (1.83%) SLA
3 2 (1.22%) QA
4 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 80 (48.78%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.27%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.44%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (1.83%) SRDF
5 3 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.22%) KVM
7 1 (0.61%) Docker
7 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (14.02%) Ansible
2 17 (10.37%) NetBackup
2 17 (10.37%) Puppet
3 12 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.83%) EMC TimeFinder
4 3 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.83%) Terraform
5 2 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.22%) SCCM
5 2 (1.22%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.61%) Graylog
6 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.61%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.61%) Rsyslog
6 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.61%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (42.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.85%) VMware
3 16 (9.76%) Veritas
4 13 (7.93%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.27%) Cisco
6 6 (3.66%) Citrix
6 6 (3.66%) IBM
6 6 (3.66%) Oracle
6 6 (3.66%) Solace
7 4 (2.44%) EMC
8 3 (1.83%) Brocade
8 3 (1.83%) Dell
8 3 (1.83%) Dell Compellent
8 3 (1.83%) EqualLogic
8 3 (1.83%) Isilon
9 2 (1.22%) Apple
9 2 (1.22%) Symantec
9 2 (1.22%) Veeam
10 1 (0.61%) Brio
10 1 (0.61%) Google