Windows 8 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows 8
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 626 680
Rank change year-on-year +104 +54 -101
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 13 37 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.073% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.26% 0.45% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 64
10th Percentile £100 £139 £123
25th Percentile £105 £141 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £140 £183 £160
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% +14.06% -3.03%
75th Percentile - £205 £207
90th Percentile £269 £327 £267
UK median daily rate £140 £190 £160
% change year-on-year -26.32% +18.75% +30.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 16
10th Percentile - - £13.63
25th Percentile - £15.75 £13.88
Median hourly rate - £16.50 £14.38
Median % change year-on-year - +14.78% -20.14%
75th Percentile - £17.25 £18.66
90th Percentile - - £19.00
UK median hourly rate - £16.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year - +13.79% -13.33%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Windows 8
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Windows 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 8 in England

Windows 8
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows 8 in England

Windows 8
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 8 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 8 in England

Windows 8
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 8 in England

Windows 8
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +98 9 £140 -11.81% 1
East of England - 3 £100 - 1
South East +23 1 £140 -20.00% 1
Windows 8
UK

Windows 8
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (46.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Desktop Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Desktop Support
1 9 (69.23%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 9 (69.23%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Deskside Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Blackberry
2 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Windows 7
3 9 (69.23%) Windows 10
4 6 (46.15%) Android
4 6 (46.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Customer Service
1 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Break/Fix
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 4 (30.77%) Employee Productivity
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) A+ Certification
2 4 (30.77%) CCNA
2 4 (30.77%) CCNP
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (30.77%) MCSA
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Adobe
2 6 (46.15%) Apple
2 6 (46.15%) Ivanti