Windows Contracts in Lancashire

Microsoft Windows
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 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 21 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 11 53 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 5.67% 21.90% 18.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 68.75% 79.10% 84.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 32
10th Percentile £170 £139 £156
25th Percentile £179 £142 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £213 £255
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -16.67% -18.40%
75th Percentile £488 £380 £650
90th Percentile £498 £579 £700
North West median daily rate £350 £425 £275
% change year-on-year -17.65% +54.55% -1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 25 11
10th Percentile - £25.75 £16.87
25th Percentile - £29.30 £16.93
Median hourly rate £19.18 £42.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +6.99% -8.68%
75th Percentile - £49.40 £43.75
90th Percentile - £51.09 £48.56
North West median hourly rate £12.00 £28.10 £18.00
% change year-on-year -57.30% +56.11% +5.88%

All Operating Systems
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 67 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.25% 27.69% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 39
10th Percentile £170 £140 £156
25th Percentile £189 £149 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £288 £325
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% -11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £494 £563 £650
90th Percentile £538 £638 £700
North West median daily rate £438 £476 £425
% change year-on-year -7.99% +11.88% +16.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 11
10th Percentile £27.83 £25.75 £16.87
25th Percentile £40.80 £29.30 £16.93
Median hourly rate £48.00 £42.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% +6.99% -8.68%
75th Percentile - £49.40 £43.75
90th Percentile - £51.09 £48.56
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Lancashire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Lancashire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Lancashire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Lancashire

Windows
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 within the Lancashire 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
Blackpool +11 3 £200 -70.37% 2
Preston -10 2 £475 -8.65% 7
Skelmersdale - 2 £525 - 1
Lancaster - 2 £180 - 3
Accrington 0 1 - -
Windows
North West

Windows
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
General
1 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) IT Technician
2 3 (27.27%) Service Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Technician
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Hardware Technician
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) ICT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (9.09%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
2 1 (9.09%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Security Hardening
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Map
3 1 (9.09%) Email Filtering
3 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.09%) Information Security
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Citrix
2 1 (9.09%) ESET