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 27 February 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
8,068
13,940
20,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
17.03%
20.57%
20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted
5,207
8,902
13,166
Median daily rate
£440
£408
£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.98%
-4.12%
-
10th Percentile
£166
£136
£158
90th Percentile
£615
£600
£600
UK excluding London median daily rate
£380
£380
£400
% change year-on-year
-
-5.00%
+3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted
462
1,051
1,262
Median hourly rate
£17.50
£17.50
£16.82
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
-
+4.07%
+1.91%
10th Percentile
£11.17
£11.61
£11.17
90th Percentile
£56.25
£47.83
£47.50
Median hourly rate
£15.86
£16.50
£16.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88%
+3.13%
+3.23%
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 27 February 2021.
Windows 8 Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 8.
Windows 8 Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 8 over the 6 months to 27 February 2021.
Windows 8 Top 14 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 27 February 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 27 February 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:
