Windows Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Windows
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 1 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 48 49 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 20.69% 15.91% 18.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 96.00% 84.48% 68.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 37 38
10th Percentile £143 £173 £162
25th Percentile £165 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £413 £390
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +5.77% +41.82%
75th Percentile £291 £650 £469
90th Percentile £483 £685 £523
North West median daily rate £369 £420 £325
% change year-on-year -12.07% +29.08% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile - £16.20 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.23 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £16.50 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £18.15 - -
North West median hourly rate £11.20 £26.50 £17.91
% change year-on-year -57.75% +47.96% +15.55%

All Operating Systems
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 50 58 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 21.55% 18.83% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 45 60
10th Percentile £143 £179 £172
25th Percentile £165 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% -3.41% +21.38%
75th Percentile £291 £575 £525
90th Percentile £483 £690 £613
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.89% - +24.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile - £16.20 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.23 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £16.50 £18.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £18.15 - -
North West median hourly rate £14.00 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -49.09% +37.50% +25.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Merseyside over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +6 29 £225 -43.75% 16
St Helens - 9 £170 - 2
Wirral +1 4 £313 +56.31% 1
Birkenhead -1 3 £363 -34.09% 1
Windows
North West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.08%) DHCP
2 1 (2.08%) DNS
2 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Local Government
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Analyst
2 11 (22.92%) Deployment Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Service Analyst
3 10 (20.83%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Desktop Support
5 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) IT Support
6 3 (6.25%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Lead
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 25 (52.08%) Windows 10
2 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (4.17%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) Customer Service
2 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (22.92%) Migration
4 9 (18.75%) ITIL
5 7 (14.58%) Mobile Device Management
6 6 (12.50%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.25%) Break/Fix
8 3 (6.25%) Incident Management
8 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (6.25%) Network Segmentation
9 2 (4.17%) Application Discovery
10 1 (2.08%) Asset Management
10 1 (2.08%) IT Asset Management
10 1 (2.08%) Time Management
10 1 (2.08%) Virtual Environments
10 1 (2.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) A+ Certification
4 2 (4.17%) MCP
5 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.08%) MCSE
5 1 (2.08%) MOS
System Software
1 25 (52.08%) Active Directory
2 7 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) SCCM
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.08%) ServiceNow
3 7 (14.58%) VMware
4 6 (12.50%) Citrix
5 2 (4.17%) Bomgar
5 2 (4.17%) iManage
6 1 (2.08%) Apple
6 1 (2.08%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) Sophos