Windows 7 Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Windows 7
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Windows 7 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 7 over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 182 157
Rank change year-on-year +13 -25 -12
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 15 37 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.63% 1.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.04% 3.90% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 65
10th Percentile £160 £133 £136
25th Percentile £185 £159 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £329 £190 £175
Median % change year-on-year +73.03% +8.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £360 £232 £238
90th Percentile £391 £568 £433
England median daily rate £210 £200 £200
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £13.41
25th Percentile - £12.67 £16.49
Median hourly rate £13.87 £13.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -28.14% +5.71%
75th Percentile - £13.92 £23.53
90th Percentile - - £34.73
England median hourly rate £17.72 £18.50 £17.38
% change year-on-year -4.22% +6.47% -0.71%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Windows 7 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 the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 735 949 1,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.51% 16.17% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 682 930
10th Percentile £163 £170 £140
25th Percentile £275 £231 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +18.75% +4.85%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £680 £630
England median daily rate £450 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -12.62% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 61 89
10th Percentile - £13.96 £12.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% +57.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £19.63 £43.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £25.25 £49.52 £42.51
England median hourly rate £22.00 £29.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -24.91% +36.28% +19.44%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Windows 7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 7 in the North of England

Windows 7
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 7 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Windows 7 in the North of England

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 7 in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 7 in the North of England

Windows 7
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 7 in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 7 in the North of England

Windows 7
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Yorkshire +14 11 £340 +88.89% 3
North West +4 4 £168 -21.18% 7
Windows 7
England

Windows 7
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DHCP
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
1 7 (46.67%) Remote Desktop
1 7 (46.67%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Hudson
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Banking
3 6 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Technician
3 3 (20.00%) Data Centre Technician
3 3 (20.00%) Data Technician
3 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Support
4 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support
4 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (6.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (26.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (13.33%) BYOD
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (86.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Migration
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (46.67%) Runbook
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (6.67%) Defect Management
5 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.67%) High Availability
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) A+ Certification
3 4 (26.67%) CCNA
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (26.67%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
5 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (46.67%) KVM
2 7 (46.67%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (46.67%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (46.67%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (26.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (13.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (46.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix