Windows 8 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows 8
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 377 420
Rank change year-on-year +20 +43 +41
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 7 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.025% 0.070%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.29% 0.15% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £183 - £175
25th Percentile £194 £100 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £105 £185
Median % change year-on-year +102.38% -43.24% +8.82%
75th Percentile £231 £121 £190
90th Percentile £243 £131 £312
UK median daily rate £163 £138 £180
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £27.50 -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,442 3,285 4,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.35% 16.52% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,544 2,111 2,759
10th Percentile £180 £178 £165
25th Percentile £250 £300 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 339 307
10th Percentile £15.33 £12.41 £14.15
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.28 £31.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.90% +4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% -41.18% +88.89%

Windows 8
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 8 in the UK excluding London

Windows 8
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows 8 in the UK excluding London

Windows 8
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 8 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 8 in the UK excluding London

Windows 8
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
North of England +9 6 £175 - 4
North West +8 6 £175 - 3
South East - 1 £250 - 2
Windows 8
UK

Windows 8
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (71.43%) MS Visio
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) LAN
2 5 (71.43%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) FTP
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Manufacturing
2 5 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Support Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (71.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) Desktop Support
2 5 (71.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
4 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Asset Management
2 5 (71.43%) Business Case
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Proactive Maintenance
2 5 (71.43%) Project Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (14.29%) XenApp
2 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Canon
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) VMware