Windows 7 Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Windows 7
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Windows 7 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 7 over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 181 167
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 -27
Contract jobs citing Windows 7 14 27 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.47% 1.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.00% 2.99% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 65
10th Percentile £160 £117 £137
25th Percentile £185 £144 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £329 £190 £175
Median % change year-on-year +73.03% +8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £360 £219 £260
90th Percentile £391 £284 £389
England median daily rate £210 £200 £200
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.05
25th Percentile - £12.67 £26.25
Median hourly rate £13.87 £13.30 £31.39
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -57.65% +96.19%
75th Percentile - £13.92 £37.53
90th Percentile - - £40.34
England median hourly rate £17.71 £18.50 £16.88
% change year-on-year -4.27% +9.63% +2.27%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Windows 7 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 North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 699 903 1,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.96% 15.81% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 636 975
10th Percentile £165 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +13.10% +12.00%
75th Percentile £525 £587 £545
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 61 81
10th Percentile - £13.96 £13.03
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +47.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £19.81 £43.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £34.53 £49.52 £70.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.87%

Windows 7
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Windows 7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 7 in the North of England

Windows 7
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 7 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Windows 7 in the North of England

Windows 7
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 7 in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 7 in the North of England

Windows 7
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 7 in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 7 in the North of England

Windows 7
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 7 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +19 10 £340 +87.59% 5
North West +14 4 £168 -16.25% 2
Windows 7
England

Windows 7
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DHCP
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
1 7 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 7 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Hudson
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (64.29%) Banking
3 6 (42.86%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Data Centre Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Technician
3 3 (21.43%) Data Centre Technician
3 3 (21.43%) Data Technician
3 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Support
4 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (28.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (14.29%) BYOD
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (85.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Migration
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (50.00%) Runbook
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 1 (7.14%) Change Management
6 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.14%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) Defect Management
6 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (7.14%) High Availability
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) PRINCE
6 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2
6 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (35.71%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) A+ Certification
3 4 (28.57%) CCNA
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (50.00%) KVM
2 7 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow