Windows Embedded Compact Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact (formerly Windows Embedded CE, Windows CE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows Embedded Compact skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Windows Embedded Compact 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows Embedded Compact 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 2,608 2,879 3,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.68% 16.48% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,674 1,746 2,493
10th Percentile £171 £183 £163
25th Percentile £221 £276 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £617 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 218 286
10th Percentile £15.19 £15.89 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.01 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.20 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year -55.25% +39.93% +82.56%
75th Percentile £59.25 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 - £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -52.10% +20.00% +82.98%

Windows Embedded Compact
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows Embedded Compact relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Windows Embedded Compact job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Windows Embedded Compact
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Embedded Compact.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Embedded Compact

Windows Embedded Compact
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Embedded Compact.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows Embedded Compact

Windows Embedded Compact
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 Embedded Compact within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
South West - 1 - - 1
Windows Embedded Compact
UK

Windows Embedded Compact
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Compact Framework
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xamarin