Microsoft Windows 8
North West > Lancashire
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 1 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 24 | 31 | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | +7 | - | - |
| Contract jobs citing Windows 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire | 2.86% | 0.51% | - |
| As % of the Operating Systems category | 23.81% | 5.88% | - |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | - | - |
| North West median daily rate | - | - | £545 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | +220.59% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £27.50 | - |
| North West median hourly rate | - | £27.50 | - |
All Operating Systems
Lancashire
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 Lancashire.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills | 21 | 17 | 67 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire | 12.00% | 8.72% | 27.69% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 11 | 11 | 24 |
| 10th Percentile | £350 | £170 | £140 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £189 | £149 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £220 | £288 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +138.64% | -23.48% | -23.33% |
| 75th Percentile | £575 | £494 | £563 |
| 90th Percentile | £588 | £538 | £638 |
| North West median daily rate | £393 | £438 | £476 |
| % change year-on-year | -10.17% | -7.99% | +11.88% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 5 | 25 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £22.01 | £25.75 |
| 25th Percentile | - | £26.25 | £29.30 |
| Median hourly rate | - | £48.00 | £42.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | +12.94% | +6.99% |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £49.40 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | £51.09 |
| North West median hourly rate | £17.44 | £16.00 | £29.30 |
| % change year-on-year | +9.00% | -45.39% | +62.78% |
Windows 8
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire
Job postings citing Windows 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.
Windows 8
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in Lancashire.
Windows 8
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in Lancashire.
Windows 8
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire
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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnley | -3 | 5 | - | - | |
| Windows 8 North West |
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Windows 8
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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: