Windows 8 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows 8
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Windows 8 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 8 over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 431 423
Rank change year-on-year +51 -8 -57
Contract jobs citing Windows 8 5 25 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.15% 0.55% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 50
10th Percentile - £160 £122
25th Percentile £100 £175 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £105 £190 £160
Median % change year-on-year -44.74% +18.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £121 £348 £195
90th Percentile £133 £579 £240
UK median daily rate £140 £190 £160
% change year-on-year -26.32% +18.56% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - £13.50
25th Percentile £26.25 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £17.25
75th Percentile £28.75 - £19.00
90th Percentile - - £19.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 - £14.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.21%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows 8 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,231 4,532 5,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.74% 19.28% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,147 3,149 3,853
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £256 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 336 459
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.58
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.29 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £61.90 £60.64 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.49 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

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 8 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
East of England - 3 £100 - 3
North of England +22 1 - - 2
North West +19 1 - - 1
South East +6 1 £140 -20.00% 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 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Deskside Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (20.00%) Android
4 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Employee Productivity
4 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) A+ Certification
1 3 (60.00%) CCNA
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) MCSA
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Ivanti