Windows Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Windows
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 3 3 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 37 41 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 22.02% 17.98% 14.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 82.22% 100.00% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 36
10th Percentile £133 £143 £167
25th Percentile £143 £164 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £225 £394
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -42.86% +43.18%
75th Percentile £309 £288 £650
90th Percentile £413 £375 £688
North West median daily rate £338 £350 £425
% change year-on-year -3.57% -17.65% +54.55%
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
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £13.00 £28.70
% change year-on-year +34.15% -54.70% +59.44%

All Operating Systems
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 45 41 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.79% 17.98% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 31 45
10th Percentile £133 £143 £168
25th Percentile £143 £164 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £225 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -47.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £413 £288 £575
90th Percentile £630 £375 £675
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
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
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Merseyside

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +4 32 £154 -31.67% 9
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Wirral +1 2 £363 -3.40%
Windows
North West

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (24.32%) SharePoint
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 24 (64.86%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (24.32%) Azure
3 8 (21.62%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.11%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) AWS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Firewall
2 3 (8.11%) Internet
2 3 (8.11%) iSCSI
2 3 (8.11%) LAN
2 3 (8.11%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (8.11%) WAN
2 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (8.11%) Wireless
3 2 (5.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Analyst
2 9 (24.32%) Service Analyst
2 9 (24.32%) Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) IT Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) 1st Line Support
4 5 (13.51%) IT Support
4 5 (13.51%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Support Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) IT Technician
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Support
7 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.11%) IVR
3 1 (2.70%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (45.95%) Windows 10
2 6 (16.22%) Android
2 6 (16.22%) Windows Server
3 5 (13.51%) Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (8.11%) Apple iOS
5 3 (8.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (5.41%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Customer Service
2 15 (40.54%) ITIL
3 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.62%) Incident Management
5 6 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (10.81%) Information Security
6 4 (10.81%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.11%) BCP
7 3 (8.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 2 (5.41%) CI/CD
8 2 (5.41%) Cloud Security
8 2 (5.41%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (5.41%) DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) High Availability
8 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (5.41%) ITSM
8 2 (5.41%) Workflow
9 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (10.81%) A+ Certification
2 4 (10.81%) MCP
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.70%) Firmware
3 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) SCCM
2 2 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.70%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 22 (59.46%) Microsoft
2 14 (37.84%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.81%) Apple
3 4 (10.81%) Bomgar
3 4 (10.81%) iManage
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 2 (5.41%) Dell
4 2 (5.41%) HP
5 1 (2.70%) Adobe
5 1 (2.70%) Google