The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
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 with a requirement for operating system skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills
8,890
10,698
18,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
15.86%
20.17%
20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted
5,838
6,895
12,143
10th Percentile
£185
£140
£158
25th Percentile
£335
£255
£313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile)
£450
£425
£430
Median % change year-on-year
+5.88%
-1.16%
+1.18%
75th Percentile
£540
£525
£538
90th Percentile
£630
£613
£619
UK excluding London median daily rate
£400
£400
£400
Number of hourly rates quoted
458
819
1,094
10th Percentile
£11.75
£11.63
£11.17
25th Percentile
£13.98
£13.82
£13.00
Median hourly rate
£17.75
£17.50
£16.95
Median % change year-on-year
+1.43%
+3.24%
+2.73%
75th Percentile
£43.75
£22.75
£31.06
90th Percentile
£56.63
£47.50
£47.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate
£16.50
£17.00
£15.86
% change year-on-year
-2.94%
+7.19%
+2.32%
Windows 8 Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Windows 8 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Windows 8 Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 8.
Windows 8 Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 8 over the 6 months to 6 May 2021.
Windows 8 Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 8.
Windows 8 Top 16 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 6 May 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 6 May 2021, IT contractor jobs citing Windows 8 also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Windows 8.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
