Windows Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Windows
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows 41 49 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 18.30% 14.29% 17.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% 83.05% 71.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 36 36
10th Percentile £143 £167 £138
25th Percentile £164 £173 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £394 £275
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +43.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £288 £650 £439
90th Percentile £375 £688 £523
North West median daily rate £350 £425 £275
% change year-on-year -17.65% +54.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile - £15.61 £14.38
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.22 £14.63
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £17.63 £19.00 £17.94
90th Percentile £18.80 £21.05 £18.75
North West median hourly rate £12.00 £28.10 £18.00
% change year-on-year -57.30% +56.11% +5.88%

All Operating Systems
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 41 59 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 18.30% 17.20% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 45 58
10th Percentile £143 £168 £159
25th Percentile £164 £190 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +13.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £288 £575 £525
90th Percentile £375 £675 £613
North West median daily rate £438 £476 £425
% change year-on-year -7.99% +11.88% +16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile - £15.61 £14.38
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.22 £14.63
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £17.63 £19.00 £17.94
90th Percentile £18.80 £21.05 £18.75
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.00
% change year-on-year -45.39% +62.78% +5.88%

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 28 April 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 28 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
Liverpool +4 31 £225 -30.77% 19
St Helens - 5 £240 - 1
Birkenhead -1 2 £369 -32.93%
Wirral - 1 £375 - 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 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (9.76%) Azure
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.88%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.32%) Local Government
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Analyst
2 10 (24.39%) Service Analyst
2 10 (24.39%) Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Deployment Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Support Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Desktop Support
5 4 (9.76%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Architect
6 3 (7.32%) IT Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) IT Support
6 3 (7.32%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Technical Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Support
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 20 (48.78%) Windows 10
2 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
2 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (4.88%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.88%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.44%) Android
4 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Customer Service
2 10 (24.39%) ITIL
2 10 (24.39%) Migration
2 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.07%) Mobile Device Management
4 6 (14.63%) Desktop Virtualisation
5 3 (7.32%) Break/Fix
5 3 (7.32%) Incident Management
5 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.32%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.88%) Application Discovery
6 2 (4.88%) Workflow
7 1 (2.44%) Asset Management
7 1 (2.44%) Configuration Management
7 1 (2.44%) IT Asset Management
7 1 (2.44%) Service Management
7 1 (2.44%) Software Deployment
7 1 (2.44%) Time Management
7 1 (2.44%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) SQL
2 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) ITIL Certification
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) MCP
3 3 (7.32%) MCSE
4 2 (4.88%) A+ Certification
4 2 (4.88%) MOS
5 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.44%) MCSA
System Software
1 26 (63.41%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) SCCM
2 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (34.15%) ServiceNow
3 7 (17.07%) VMware
4 6 (14.63%) Citrix
5 2 (4.88%) Bomgar
5 2 (4.88%) iManage
5 2 (4.88%) Sophos
6 1 (2.44%) Apple
6 1 (2.44%) Dell