Windows Contract Job Trends in Bolton

Microsoft Windows
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bolton citing Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	7	15	-
Rank change year-on-year	+8	-	-
Contract jobs citing Windows	7	2	0
As % of all contract jobs in Bolton	15.91%	4.26%	-
As % of the Operating Systems category	100.00%	100.00%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	3	1	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£155	£178	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£160	£185	-
Median % change year-on-year	-13.51%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£165	£193	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Manchester median daily rate	£450	£468	£425
% change year-on-year	-3.90%	+10.18%	+15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	0	0
Median hourly rate	£65.00	-	-
Manchester median hourly rate	£65.00	£20.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+225.00%	-11.11%	+26.98%

All Operating Systems
Bolton

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing operating system skills in Bolton.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing operating system skills	7	2	0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bolton	15.91%	4.26%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	3	1	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£155	£178	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£160	£185	-
Median % change year-on-year	-13.51%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£165	£193	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Manchester median daily rate	£450	£400	£400
% change year-on-year	+12.50%	-	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	0	0
Median hourly rate	£65.00	-	-
Manchester median hourly rate	£77.00	£20.73	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+271.44%	-7.87%	-

Windows Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

Windows Daily Rate Trend in Bolton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Windows.

Windows Hourly Rate Trend in Bolton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Windows.

Windows Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Windows also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bolton region citing Windows.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	C#	57.1%	4
1	C++	57.1%	4
1	CI/CD	57.1%	4
1	Concurrent Programming	57.1%	4
1	Confluence	57.1%	4
1	Git	57.1%	4
1	GitLab	57.1%	4
1	Hardware-in-the-Loop	57.1%	4
1	IBM	57.1%	4
1	JIRA	57.1%	4
1	Memory Management	57.1%	4
1	Multithreading	57.1%	4
1	Performance Analysis	57.1%	4
1	Performance Optimisation	57.1%	4
1	Rational DOORS	57.1%	4
1	Software Engineering	57.1%	4
1	Software Testing	57.1%	4
1	SonarQube	57.1%	4
1	Test Automation	57.1%	4
1	Unit Testing	57.1%	4
21	Active Directory	42.9%	3
21	Customer Requirements	42.9%	3
21	Customer Service	42.9%	3
21	ITIL	42.9%	3
21	Microsoft	42.9%	3
21	Microsoft 365	42.9%	3
21	Problem-Solving	42.9%	3
21	Security Cleared	42.9%	3
29	Degree	14.3%	1
29	SC Cleared	14.3%	1

Windows Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Application Platforms

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Confluence	57.1%	4