Windows Contracts in Liverpool

Microsoft Windows
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Liverpool requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 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 2 6 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows 32 31 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 23.53% 16.67% 12.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.00% 100.00% 76.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 23
10th Percentile £133 £143 £168
25th Percentile £143 £145 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £154 £225 £325
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% -30.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £236 £249 £428
90th Percentile £413 £295 £515
Merseyside median daily rate £175 £225 £394
% change year-on-year -22.22% -42.86% +43.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile - - £16.22
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £19.13
90th Percentile - £18.80 £21.50
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +16.67%

All Operating Systems
Liverpool

Windows 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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 40 31 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 29.41% 16.67% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 21 32
10th Percentile £133 £143 £170
25th Percentile £143 £145 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £225 £375
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £453 £249 £515
90th Percentile £636 £295 £545
Merseyside median daily rate £188 £225 £425
% change year-on-year -16.67% -47.06% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile - - £16.22
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £19.13
90th Percentile - £18.80 £21.50
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +16.67%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Liverpool

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Liverpool

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Liverpool over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Liverpool

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Liverpool

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 9 (28.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Service Analyst
2 9 (28.13%) Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) IT Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) 1st Line Support
4 5 (15.63%) IT Support
5 4 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Support Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Technician
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Support
7 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Smartphone
2 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) Windows 10
2 3 (9.38%) Android
2 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
2 3 (9.38%) Mac OS
2 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Customer Service
2 12 (37.50%) ITIL
3 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Security
7 2 (6.25%) Cost Optimisation
7 2 (6.25%) DevOps
7 2 (6.25%) High Availability
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (6.25%) ITSM
7 2 (6.25%) Workflow
8 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (3.13%) Line Management
8 1 (3.13%) Security Operations
8 1 (3.13%) Server Hardening
8 1 (3.13%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (12.50%) A+ Certification
2 4 (12.50%) MCP
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) SCCM
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 19 (59.38%) Microsoft
2 14 (43.75%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.50%) Bomgar
3 4 (12.50%) iManage
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) Dell
4 2 (6.25%) HP
5 1 (3.13%) Adobe
5 1 (3.13%) Apple
5 1 (3.13%) Google