Windows 8 Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows 8
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Windows 8 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 8 over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 192 210
Rank change year-on-year +43 +18 +40
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.033% 0.018% 0.088%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.19% 0.10% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £140 £175
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -20.00% -48.53%
75th Percentile - - £178
90th Percentile - - £179
England median daily rate £150 £140 £190
% change year-on-year +7.14% -26.32% +15.15%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 522 965 1,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.29% 17.53% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 640 798
10th Percentile £200 £200 £196
25th Percentile £339 £280 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £586
90th Percentile £675 £639 £650
England median daily rate £475 £470 £513
% change year-on-year +1.06% -8.29% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 58 72
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.96 £17.78
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -11.63% +168.75%
75th Percentile £59.09 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.13 £71.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £23.15 £22.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +5.23% -41.33% +70.45%

Windows 8
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 8 in the South East

Windows 8
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Windows 8 in the South East

Windows 8
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 8 in the South East

Windows 8
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 10 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
Surrey - 1 £250 -
Windows 8
England

Windows 8
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft