Windows Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Windows
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 239 360 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.86% 11.41% 12.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.71% 68.05% 63.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 248 335
10th Percentile £156 £163 £145
25th Percentile £211 £213 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £275
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +54.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £624 £550 £494
90th Percentile £850 £650 £645
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 41 34
10th Percentile - £14.55 £14.33
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.00 £28.70 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.19% +59.44% +11.70%
75th Percentile £17.72 £43.75 £27.81
90th Percentile £19.11 £49.52 £43.75
England median hourly rate £18.00 £22.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year -19.84% +12.28% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
North West

Windows 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 West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 338 529 776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.53% 16.76% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 361 545
10th Percentile £172 £173 £158
25th Percentile £281 £313 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £650
England median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 47 36
10th Percentile - £15.53 £14.38
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.62 £15.99
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +60.55% +9.84%
75th Percentile £18.81 £45.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £42.23 £49.52 £46.16
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +22.22%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the North West

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the North West

Windows
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Manchester -5 104 £615 +29.47% 78
Cheshire -5 50 £263 -19.23% 54
Merseyside +8 40 £225 -45.45% 23
Cumbria +4 30 £354 -16.90% 4
Lancashire -15 12 £200 -5.88% 25
Windows
England

Windows
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 19 (7.95%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.26%) Apache
3 3 (1.26%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.84%) IBM Notes
4 2 (0.84%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 62 (25.94%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 83 (34.73%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (17.15%) Azure
3 22 (9.21%) AWS
4 12 (5.02%) OneDrive
5 9 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.93%) IaaS
6 7 (2.93%) SaaS
7 4 (1.67%) PaaS
8 3 (1.26%) GCP
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Stack
9 2 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.84%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.42%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.42%) Cohesity
10 1 (0.42%) Serverless
10 1 (0.42%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 60 (25.10%) Firewall
2 59 (24.69%) VPN
3 15 (6.28%) LAN
4 13 (5.44%) WAN
5 9 (3.77%) Wireless
6 8 (3.35%) DNS
7 7 (2.93%) Ethernet
7 7 (2.93%) OSPF
7 7 (2.93%) WAAS
7 7 (2.93%) Wireless Security
8 6 (2.51%) DHCP
9 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.26%) DSL
10 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.26%) VLAN
10 3 (1.26%) VoIP
11 2 (0.84%) H.323
11 2 (0.84%) HTTP
11 2 (0.84%) Internet
11 2 (0.84%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.02%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.42%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.42%) DB2
3 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.42%) MySQL
3 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.93%) JIRA
2 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.42%) Hudson
General
1 57 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.04%) Public Sector
3 18 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.86%) Finance
5 12 (5.02%) Legal
6 9 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.09%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.26%) Aviation
9 3 (1.26%) Banking
9 3 (1.26%) Local Government
9 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.84%) Law
10 2 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Advertising
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (22.18%) Architect
2 46 (19.25%) Analyst
3 43 (17.99%) Technical Architect
4 35 (14.64%) Lead
5 31 (12.97%) Service Analyst
5 31 (12.97%) Service Desk Analyst
5 31 (12.97%) Technical Leader
6 30 (12.55%) Lead Architect
7 25 (10.46%) IT Support
8 20 (8.37%) Support Engineer
9 14 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.86%) Senior
10 12 (5.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 12 (5.02%) Desktop Engineer
10 12 (5.02%) Desktop Support
10 12 (5.02%) IT Engineer
11 11 (4.60%) 2nd Line Support
11 11 (4.60%) IT Technician
12 10 (4.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.57%) Node.js
2 6 (2.51%) Middleware
3 3 (1.26%) Kafka
4 2 (0.84%) React Native
5 1 (0.42%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.42%) Django
5 1 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.42%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.42%) Flask
5 1 (0.42%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.42%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.48%) Public Cloud
2 9 (3.77%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.77%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.77%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (2.93%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.51%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.67%) Clustering
6 3 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.84%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.84%) iPad
7 2 (0.84%) IVR
7 2 (0.84%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.42%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.42%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.42%) Life Science
8 1 (0.42%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 94 (39.33%) Windows 10
2 74 (30.96%) Windows Server
3 55 (23.01%) Apple iOS
4 46 (19.25%) Android
5 32 (13.39%) Linux
6 14 (5.86%) Mac OS
6 14 (5.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (4.18%) Unix
8 5 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.67%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.67%) zOS
10 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.42%) Debian
11 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.42%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.42%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.22%) Customer Service
2 63 (26.36%) Mobile Device Management
3 60 (25.10%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (20.50%) CI/CD
5 45 (18.83%) Risk Management
6 44 (18.41%) Security Architecture
6 44 (18.41%) Zero Trust
7 42 (17.57%) Agile
8 41 (17.15%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 41 (17.15%) Threat Intelligence
9 39 (16.32%) DevOps
10 31 (12.97%) ITIL
11 30 (12.55%) Decision-Making
12 29 (12.13%) Time Management
13 28 (11.72%) Design Patterns
14 23 (9.62%) Migration
15 18 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 16 (6.69%) Roadmaps
17 13 (5.44%) Microservices
17 13 (5.44%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.53%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.51%) SQL
3 3 (1.26%) Python
3 3 (1.26%) Ruby
4 2 (0.84%) Bash
4 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (33.05%) Security Cleared
2 75 (31.38%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.95%) Degree
4 16 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.60%) CCNA
5 11 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.77%) MCSE
7 8 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.26%) MCP
10 2 (0.84%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.84%) MOS
11 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.42%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 23 (9.62%) SLA
3 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.26%) NIST
4 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.42%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 80 (33.47%) Active Directory
2 32 (13.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.37%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.84%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.42%) Docker
6 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (15.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (14.23%) SCCM
3 9 (3.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (2.09%) Ansible
4 5 (2.09%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.26%) Autotask
5 3 (1.26%) CFEngine
5 3 (1.26%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.26%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.26%) PowerBroker
5 3 (1.26%) Puppet
5 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.26%) Terraform
6 2 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.42%) VxRail
7 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 120 (50.21%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.90%) VMware
3 24 (10.04%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.53%) Apple
5 9 (3.77%) Citrix
6 7 (2.93%) Dell
7 6 (2.51%) Cisco
8 5 (2.09%) Google
8 5 (2.09%) Oracle
8 5 (2.09%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.09%) Veeam
9 4 (1.67%) F5
9 4 (1.67%) iManage
9 4 (1.67%) Sophos
10 3 (1.26%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.26%) Datto
10 3 (1.26%) IBM
11 2 (0.84%) Adobe
11 2 (0.84%) Avaya
11 2 (0.84%) SolarWinds