Windows 8 Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Windows 8
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Windows 8 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 8 over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £134 - -
England median daily rate £150 £140 £178
% change year-on-year +7.14% -21.13% +1.43%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

Windows 8 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 89 177 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.50% 23.14% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 106 96
10th Percentile £133 £150 £122
25th Percentile £190 £193 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £375 £338
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% +14.89%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £538
90th Percentile £489 £570 £650
England median daily rate £460 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -5.64% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 16
10th Percentile £15.10 £12.75 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.94 £13.71 £14.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £18.05
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% -3.05% -9.75%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £21.88
90th Percentile - £25.19 £46.88
England median hourly rate £23.00 £28.75 £41.55
% change year-on-year -20.00% -30.80% +84.64%

Windows 8
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Windows 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 8 in the East Midlands

Windows 8
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Windows 8 in the East Midlands

Windows 8
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 8 in the East Midlands

Windows 8
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 August 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 3 £134 - 6
Windows 8
England

Windows 8
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) PuTTY
1 3 (100.00%) SSH
1 3 (100.00%) Telnet
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Support
2 1 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Break/Fix
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Dell
1 3 (100.00%) Draytek
1 3 (100.00%) McAfee
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft