Windows Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Windows
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 235 349 481
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 8.77% 11.24% 12.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 70.15% 68.97% 62.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 237 328
10th Percentile £156 £164 £146
25th Percentile £211 £213 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £300
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +41.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £643 £550 £500
90th Percentile £850 £650 £650
England median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 41 34
10th Percentile - £14.55 £13.90
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £12.00 £28.70 £17.96
Median % change year-on-year -58.19% +59.84% +11.42%
75th Percentile £17.72 £43.75 £27.81
90th Percentile £19.14 £49.52 £43.75
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.21 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.20% +11.03% +17.65%

All Operating Systems
North West

Windows 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 West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 335 506 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.50% 16.30% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 345 539
10th Percentile £172 £174 £158
25th Percentile £276 £313 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +21.62%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £650
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 46 36
10th Percentile - £15.37 £14.00
25th Percentile £10.95 £19.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +62.78% +8.34%
75th Percentile £18.94 £43.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £46.08 £49.52 £46.16
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.94%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in the North West

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in the North West

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in the North West

Windows
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester -5 102 £615 +29.47% 75
Cheshire -2 48 £250 -23.08% 49
Merseyside +7 40 £225 -45.45% 22
Cumbria +4 30 £354 -16.80% 3
Lancashire -16 12 £200 -5.88% 21
Windows
England

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 19 (8.09%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.85%) Apache
3 2 (0.85%) IBM Notes
3 2 (0.85%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
4 1 (0.43%) nginx
4 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 59 (25.11%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.47%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (16.17%) Azure
3 20 (8.51%) AWS
4 10 (4.26%) Entra ID
4 10 (4.26%) OneDrive
5 7 (2.98%) IaaS
5 7 (2.98%) SaaS
6 4 (1.70%) GCP
6 4 (1.70%) PaaS
7 2 (0.85%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.85%) Azure Stack
7 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.85%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.43%) Cohesity
8 1 (0.43%) Serverless
8 1 (0.43%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 58 (24.68%) Firewall
2 56 (23.83%) VPN
3 15 (6.38%) LAN
4 13 (5.53%) WAN
5 10 (4.26%) DNS
6 8 (3.40%) Wireless
7 7 (2.98%) DHCP
7 7 (2.98%) Ethernet
7 7 (2.98%) OSPF
7 7 (2.98%) WAAS
7 7 (2.98%) Wireless Security
8 4 (1.70%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.70%) VLAN
8 4 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.28%) VoIP
10 2 (0.85%) DSL
10 2 (0.85%) HTTP
10 2 (0.85%) Internet
10 2 (0.85%) SAN
11 1 (0.43%) H.323
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.85%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.85%) DB2
3 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.43%) MySQL
4 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.13%) JIRA
2 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.43%) Hudson
General
1 55 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.36%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.96%) Finance
5 12 (5.11%) Legal
6 9 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.70%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.28%) Aviation
8 3 (1.28%) Banking
8 3 (1.28%) Local Government
8 3 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (22.55%) Architect
2 46 (19.57%) Analyst
3 43 (18.30%) Technical Architect
4 35 (14.89%) Lead
5 32 (13.62%) Technical Leader
6 31 (13.19%) Service Analyst
6 31 (13.19%) Service Desk Analyst
7 30 (12.77%) Lead Architect
8 25 (10.64%) IT Support
9 19 (8.09%) Support Engineer
10 15 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (5.96%) Senior
12 12 (5.11%) Desktop Engineer
12 12 (5.11%) Desktop Support
12 12 (5.11%) IT Engineer
12 12 (5.11%) IT Technician
13 10 (4.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 10 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support
13 10 (4.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 10 (4.26%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.87%) Node.js
2 6 (2.55%) Middleware
3 3 (1.28%) Kafka
4 2 (0.85%) React Native
5 1 (0.43%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.43%) Django
5 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.43%) Flask
5 1 (0.43%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (0.43%) LDAP
5 1 (0.43%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.74%) Public Cloud
2 9 (3.83%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.83%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (2.98%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.98%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.55%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.70%) Clustering
6 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.85%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) iPad
7 2 (0.85%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.43%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.43%) iPhone
8 1 (0.43%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 92 (39.15%) Windows 10
2 74 (31.49%) Windows Server
3 55 (23.40%) Apple iOS
4 46 (19.57%) Android
5 32 (13.62%) Linux
6 14 (5.96%) Mac OS
6 14 (5.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (3.83%) Unix
8 5 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.13%) zOS
9 4 (1.70%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.85%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.43%) Debian
12 1 (0.43%) VMS
12 1 (0.43%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.43%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.91%) Customer Service
2 63 (26.81%) Mobile Device Management
3 59 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 44 (18.72%) Risk Management
5 44 (18.72%) Security Architecture
5 44 (18.72%) Zero Trust
6 41 (17.45%) Agile
6 41 (17.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 41 (17.45%) Threat Intelligence
7 38 (16.17%) DevOps
8 31 (13.19%) ITIL
9 30 (12.77%) Decision-Making
10 29 (12.34%) Time Management
11 28 (11.91%) Design Patterns
12 23 (9.79%) Migration
13 19 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (6.81%) Roadmaps
15 13 (5.53%) Microservices
15 13 (5.53%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.09%) PowerShell
2 8 (3.40%) SQL
3 3 (1.28%) Python
4 2 (0.85%) Bash
4 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
4 2 (0.85%) Ruby
5 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (33.19%) Security Cleared
2 74 (31.49%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.09%) Degree
4 17 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.68%) CCNA
5 11 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.83%) MCSE
7 7 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.28%) MCP
10 2 (0.85%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.85%) MOS
11 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 24 (10.21%) SLA
3 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.28%) NIST
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 82 (34.89%) Active Directory
2 32 (13.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (8.09%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.85%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) Docker
6 1 (0.43%) Firmware
6 1 (0.43%) NFS
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (15.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 34 (14.47%) SCCM
3 9 (3.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (1.70%) Ansible
4 4 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.70%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.28%) Autotask
5 3 (1.28%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.28%) Terraform
6 2 (0.85%) CFEngine
6 2 (0.85%) PowerBroker
6 2 (0.85%) Puppet
6 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.43%) VxRail
7 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 115 (48.94%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.17%) VMware
3 24 (10.21%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.66%) Apple
5 8 (3.40%) Citrix
6 7 (2.98%) Dell
7 6 (2.55%) Cisco
7 6 (2.55%) Oracle
8 5 (2.13%) F5
8 5 (2.13%) Google
8 5 (2.13%) Veeam
9 4 (1.70%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.70%) Sophos
10 3 (1.28%) Datto
10 3 (1.28%) IBM
10 3 (1.28%) iManage
11 2 (0.85%) Adobe
11 2 (0.85%) Bomgar
11 2 (0.85%) Databricks
11 2 (0.85%) Lotus