Windows 8 Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Windows 8
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Windows 8 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - -
England median daily rate £213 £183 £160
% change year-on-year +16.44% +14.06% -11.11%

All Operating Systems
North West

Windows 8 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 320 289 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.25% 12.19% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 161 260
10th Percentile £163 £188 £185
25th Percentile £210 £313 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £496 £550 £553
90th Percentile £627 £613 £625
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 41
10th Percentile - £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.86 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% -9.73% -45.78%
75th Percentile £20.73 £24.18 £46.88
90th Percentile £47.55 £41.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -60.00% +58.62% +45.00%

Windows 8
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows 8 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Windows 8 job vacancy trend in the North West

Windows 8
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Windows 8.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Windows 8

Windows 8
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Windows 8.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Windows 8

Windows 8
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 8 within the North West region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Lancashire - 1 £175 - 1
Windows 8
England

Windows 8
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware