Windows Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Windows
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 13 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 230 339 488
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.67% 10.95% 12.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.28% 68.21% 61.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 227 337
10th Percentile £153 £164 £150
25th Percentile £210 £215 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £323
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +31.78% +7.50%
75th Percentile £706 £544 £500
90th Percentile £850 £643 £643
England median daily rate £400 £450 £415
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.43% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 43 34
10th Percentile - £14.11 £14.33
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.00 £28.70 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.19% +59.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £17.72 £43.75 £24.63
90th Percentile £19.14 £49.52 £43.29
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.24% +12.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 332 497 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.52% 16.06% 19.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 333 561
10th Percentile £170 £175 £158
25th Percentile £251 £313 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £825 £650 £655
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 47 45
10th Percentile - £14.33 £14.70
25th Percentile £10.95 £18.27 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +46.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £18.94 £43.75 £51.45
90th Percentile £46.08 £49.52 £76.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +22.86%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the North West

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the North West

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Manchester -6 100 £615 +32.97% 72
Cheshire -6 46 £200 -38.46% 48
Merseyside +12 43 £225 -47.06% 22
Cumbria +9 30 £354 +102.29% 5
Lancashire -18 9 £191 -10.00% 28
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 17 (7.39%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.87%) Apache
3 2 (0.87%) IBM Notes
3 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
4 1 (0.43%) nginx
4 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 58 (25.22%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 80 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (14.78%) Azure
3 17 (7.39%) AWS
4 10 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 10 (4.35%) OneDrive
5 7 (3.04%) IaaS
6 6 (2.61%) SaaS
7 4 (1.74%) GCP
7 4 (1.74%) PaaS
8 2 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.87%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.43%) Cohesity
9 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.43%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 58 (25.22%) Firewall
2 56 (24.35%) VPN
3 15 (6.52%) LAN
4 13 (5.65%) WAN
5 9 (3.91%) DNS
6 8 (3.48%) Wireless
7 7 (3.04%) Ethernet
7 7 (3.04%) OSPF
7 7 (3.04%) Wireless Security
8 6 (2.61%) DHCP
8 6 (2.61%) WAAS
9 4 (1.74%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.74%) VLAN
9 4 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.30%) VoIP
11 2 (0.87%) HTTP
11 2 (0.87%) Internet
11 2 (0.87%) SAN
12 1 (0.43%) DSL
12 1 (0.43%) H.323
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.30%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.87%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.87%) DB2
3 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.43%) MySQL
4 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.30%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Hudson
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (23.48%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.26%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.65%) Finance
5 12 (5.22%) Legal
6 7 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.74%) Local Government
7 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.30%) Automotive
8 3 (1.30%) Aviation
8 3 (1.30%) Banking
9 2 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (23.91%) Architect
2 45 (19.57%) Analyst
3 43 (18.70%) Technical Architect
4 35 (15.22%) Lead
5 32 (13.91%) Technical Leader
6 30 (13.04%) Lead Architect
6 30 (13.04%) Service Analyst
6 30 (13.04%) Service Desk Analyst
7 25 (10.87%) IT Support
8 19 (8.26%) Support Engineer
9 14 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.09%) Senior
10 12 (5.22%) Desktop Engineer
10 12 (5.22%) Desktop Support
11 11 (4.78%) Deployment Engineer
11 11 (4.78%) IT Engineer
11 11 (4.78%) IT Technician
11 11 (4.78%) Windows Engineer
12 10 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 10 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.26%) Node.js
2 6 (2.61%) Middleware
3 3 (1.30%) Kafka
4 2 (0.87%) React Native
5 1 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.43%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.43%) LDAP
5 1 (0.43%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.65%) Public Cloud
2 9 (3.91%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.91%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.04%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.61%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.74%) Clustering
6 3 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.87%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.87%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.87%) iPad
7 2 (0.87%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.43%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.43%) iPhone
8 1 (0.43%) IVR
8 1 (0.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 94 (40.87%) Windows 10
2 74 (32.17%) Windows Server
3 55 (23.91%) Apple iOS
4 46 (20.00%) Android
5 29 (12.61%) Linux
6 14 (6.09%) Mac OS
6 14 (6.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (3.04%) Unix
8 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.17%) zOS
9 4 (1.74%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.43%) Debian
12 1 (0.43%) VMS
12 1 (0.43%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (32.17%) Customer Service
2 63 (27.39%) Mobile Device Management
3 59 (25.65%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (19.57%) CI/CD
5 44 (19.13%) Risk Management
5 44 (19.13%) Security Architecture
5 44 (19.13%) Zero Trust
6 41 (17.83%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 41 (17.83%) Threat Intelligence
7 40 (17.39%) Agile
8 36 (15.65%) DevOps
9 30 (13.04%) Decision-Making
10 29 (12.61%) ITIL
10 29 (12.61%) Time Management
11 28 (12.17%) Design Patterns
12 23 (10.00%) Migration
13 18 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (6.96%) Roadmaps
15 13 (5.65%) Microservices
15 13 (5.65%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.83%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.48%) SQL
3 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
3 2 (0.87%) Python
4 1 (0.43%) Bash
4 1 (0.43%) Ruby
4 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 70 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.83%) Degree
3 18 (7.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.78%) CCNA
4 11 (4.78%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.35%) MCSE
6 7 (3.04%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.30%) MCP
9 2 (0.87%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.87%) MOS
10 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.30%) Disclosure Scotland
2 24 (10.43%) SLA
3 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.30%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 81 (35.22%) Active Directory
2 33 (14.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.83%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.87%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) Docker
6 1 (0.43%) Firmware
6 1 (0.43%) NFS
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (15.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (15.22%) SCCM
3 9 (3.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (1.74%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.30%) Autotask
5 3 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.87%) Ansible
6 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.87%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.43%) CFEngine
7 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.43%) PowerBroker
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.43%) Terraform
7 1 (0.43%) VxRail
7 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 114 (49.57%) Microsoft
2 39 (16.96%) VMware
3 23 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.83%) Apple
5 8 (3.48%) Citrix
6 7 (3.04%) Dell
7 6 (2.61%) Cisco
7 6 (2.61%) Google
7 6 (2.61%) Oracle
8 5 (2.17%) F5
8 5 (2.17%) Veeam
9 4 (1.74%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.74%) Sophos
10 3 (1.30%) Datto
10 3 (1.30%) IBM
10 3 (1.30%) iManage
11 2 (0.87%) Adobe
11 2 (0.87%) Bomgar
11 2 (0.87%) Databricks
11 2 (0.87%) Lotus