Windows 7 Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Windows 7
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Windows 7 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 7 over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 137 149
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 5 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.15% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.74% 1.20% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile £186 £157 £175
25th Percentile £232 £159 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £314 £168 £200
Median % change year-on-year +87.31% -16.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £397 £204 £219
90th Percentile £442 £234 £570
England median daily rate £250 £210 £200
% change year-on-year +19.05% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.67
Median hourly rate - - £13.30
75th Percentile - - £13.92
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.51 £17.71 £18.50
% change year-on-year +4.52% -4.27% +9.63%

All Operating Systems
North West

Windows 7 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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 288 332 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.64% 12.45% 16.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 210 338
10th Percentile £155 £170 £174
25th Percentile £208 £273 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% -9.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £586 £575
90th Percentile £597 £825 £650
England median daily rate £468 £471 £513
% change year-on-year -0.74% -8.10% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 62 47
10th Percentile - - £14.33
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £18.27
Median hourly rate £13.70 £16.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% -45.39% +46.50%
75th Percentile £17.44 £18.94 £43.75
90th Percentile - £46.08 £49.52
England median hourly rate £21.59 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% -42.11% +72.73%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 7 in the North West

Windows 7
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Windows 7 in the North West

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 7 in the North West over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 7 in the North West

Windows 7
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows 7 in the North West

Windows 7
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Cumbria - 4 £465 -
Manchester +18 1 £163 -21.21% 3
Windows 7
England

Windows 7
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (80.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) Skype
1 4 (80.00%) VLAN
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
1 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Hudson
General
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Consultant
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Disk Encryption
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) VB
1 4 (80.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow