Windows 8 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows 8
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Windows 8 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 8 over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 418 441
Rank change year-on-year +29 +23 -49
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 5 24 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.10% 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.15% 0.55% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 44
10th Percentile - £175 £116
25th Percentile £100 £177 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £105 £190 £163
Median % change year-on-year -44.74% +16.74% +30.20%
75th Percentile £121 £254 £184
90th Percentile £131 £576 £230
UK median daily rate £135 £190 £168
% change year-on-year -28.95% +13.43% +15.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £13.50
25th Percentile £26.25 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £17.25
75th Percentile £28.75 - £19.00
90th Percentile - - £19.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.49%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows 8 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,305 4,356 5,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.93% 19.01% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,194 2,994 3,873
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 307 434
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.52
25th Percentile £14.64 £17.50 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

Windows 8
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 8 in the UK excluding London

Windows 8
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows 8 in the UK excluding London

Windows 8
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 8 in the UK excluding London

Windows 8
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 8 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
East of England - 3 £100 - 3
North of England +19 1 - -
Midlands +18 1 £135 -28.95% 1
West Midlands +11 1 £135 -46.00%
North West +5 1 - -
Windows 8
UK

Windows 8
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Deskside Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (20.00%) Android
4 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Employee Productivity
4 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) A+ Certification
1 3 (60.00%) CCNA
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) MCSA
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Ivanti