Windows 10 Contracts in England

Microsoft Windows 10
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Windows 10 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 10 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 95 92
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 826 1,282 1,990
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.23% 2.54% 2.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.37% 15.52% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 917 1,366
10th Percentile £147 £140 £130
25th Percentile £185 £170 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £220 £200
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £395 £370 £375
90th Percentile £575 £538 £521
UK median daily rate £225 £215 £205
% change year-on-year +4.65% +5.13% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 89 169
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.79 £12.54
25th Percentile £11.07 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.94 £18.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +2.78% +14.65%
75th Percentile £20.00 £25.08 £22.25
90th Percentile £41.14 £53.11 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £16.90 £18.50 £17.91
% change year-on-year -8.66% +3.29% +15.85%

All Operating Systems
England

Windows 10 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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in England

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 10 in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in England

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in England

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 10 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in England

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 10 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in England

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 10 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -3 264 £263 +15.38% 77
South East +7 238 £215 +4.88% 65
North of England +22 154 £220 +4.76% 54
North West +11 94 £225 +4.65% 34
Midlands -1 82 £200 +2.56% 43
South West -46 55 £225 -1.10% 47
Yorkshire +20 54 £190 -5.00% 18
West Midlands +14 49 £200 -9.09% 28
East Midlands -1 31 £160 +8.47% 15
East of England -34 29 £220 +20.55% 30
North East +19 6 £141 -10.79% 2
Windows 10
UK

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 108 (13.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (9.32%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.82%) Skype for Business
4 6 (0.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (0.48%) Confluence
6 2 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 228 (27.60%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.48%) LabWindows
1 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.36%) Eikon
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 436 (52.78%) Microsoft 365
2 165 (19.98%) Azure
3 74 (8.96%) Entra ID
4 40 (4.84%) OneDrive
5 15 (1.82%) AWS
6 13 (1.57%) OCI
7 9 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (0.85%) Power Platform
9 5 (0.61%) Mimecast
10 4 (0.48%) Yammer
11 3 (0.36%) IaaS
11 3 (0.36%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.36%) SaaS
11 3 (0.36%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.24%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.24%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.24%) BigCommerce
12 2 (0.24%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.24%) GitHub
12 2 (0.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (11.02%) DNS
2 83 (10.05%) VPN
3 75 (9.08%) Firewall
4 62 (7.51%) DHCP
5 53 (6.42%) LAN
6 36 (4.36%) Wi-Fi
7 32 (3.87%) TCP/IP
8 29 (3.51%) WAN
8 29 (3.51%) Wireless
9 22 (2.66%) Remote Desktop
10 20 (2.42%) SAN
10 20 (2.42%) Skype
11 19 (2.30%) VoIP
12 13 (1.57%) NetScaler
13 11 (1.33%) VLAN
14 8 (0.97%) WAAS
14 8 (0.97%) WebEx
15 6 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
15 6 (0.73%) Internet
16 5 (0.61%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.24%) Power BI
3 1 (0.12%) MS Access
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.69%) JIRA
2 6 (0.73%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.61%) Git
3 5 (0.61%) Subversion
4 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.24%) MSI
4 2 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.12%) Hudson
General
1 357 (43.22%) Social Skills
2 107 (12.95%) Finance
3 85 (10.29%) Organisational Skills
4 72 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 49 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 30 (3.63%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.27%) Marketing
9 23 (2.78%) Electronics
10 21 (2.54%) Legal
11 20 (2.42%) Banking
12 15 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.69%) Law
14 13 (1.57%) French Language
15 11 (1.33%) Retail
16 7 (0.85%) German Language
17 6 (0.73%) Mandarin Language
18 5 (0.61%) Multimedia
18 5 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (21.43%) Support Engineer
2 141 (17.07%) Analyst
3 109 (13.20%) Desktop Support
4 105 (12.71%) Desktop Engineer
5 97 (11.74%) IT Support
6 81 (9.81%) Service Desk Analyst
7 80 (9.69%) Service Analyst
8 75 (9.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 64 (7.75%) IT Engineer
9 64 (7.75%) Windows Engineer
10 62 (7.51%) 2nd Line Support
11 54 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 48 (5.81%) Senior
13 47 (5.69%) Support Analyst
14 41 (4.96%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 37 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 36 (4.36%) IT Support Engineer
17 35 (4.24%) IT Analyst
18 32 (3.87%) Deployment Engineer
19 27 (3.27%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.57%) XMPP
2 6 (0.73%) Software Packaging
3 4 (0.48%) .NET
4 3 (0.36%) WPF
5 2 (0.24%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.24%) MFC
5 2 (0.24%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.24%) VML
5 2 (0.24%) Web Services
5 2 (0.24%) WinForms
6 1 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.12%) JSON
6 1 (0.12%) Middleware
6 1 (0.12%) OAuth
6 1 (0.12%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.12%) SAML
6 1 (0.12%) Universal Windows Platform
6 1 (0.12%) XML
6 1 (0.12%) X-Windows
6 1 (0.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.42%) Driving Licence
2 34 (4.12%) Video Conferencing
3 29 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 27 (3.27%) iPad
5 26 (3.15%) NHS
6 25 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.91%) iPhone
8 19 (2.30%) Blackberry
9 17 (2.06%) CMDB
10 16 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.94%) Smartphone
11 15 (1.82%) BYOD
12 12 (1.45%) Hedge funds
12 12 (1.45%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.21%) Clustering
15 8 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 7 (0.85%) PKI
16 7 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
17 6 (0.73%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 826 (100.00%) Windows
2 166 (20.10%) Windows Server
3 131 (15.86%) Windows 7
4 78 (9.44%) Windows Server 2012
5 77 (9.32%) Apple iOS
6 67 (8.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 59 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 49 (5.93%) Android
8 49 (5.93%) Mac OS
9 23 (2.78%) Linux
10 21 (2.54%) Windows NT
11 20 (2.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 16 (1.94%) Windows XP
13 13 (1.57%) Mac OS X
14 9 (1.09%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.48%) Unix
16 4 (0.48%) VMS
17 2 (0.24%) CentOS
18 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (32.32%) Customer Service
2 195 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
3 194 (23.49%) ITIL
4 58 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 58 (7.02%) Migration
4 58 (7.02%) Service Management
5 55 (6.66%) ITSM
6 50 (6.05%) Mobile Device Management
7 48 (5.81%) Time Management
8 43 (5.21%) Service Delivery
9 38 (4.60%) Decision-Making
10 36 (4.36%) Asset Management
11 32 (3.87%) Project Management
12 31 (3.75%) Software Deployment
13 27 (3.27%) Agile
14 26 (3.15%) Break/Fix
14 26 (3.15%) Deployment Automation
15 25 (3.03%) Customer Requirements
15 25 (3.03%) Proactive Monitoring
15 25 (3.03%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (12.59%) PowerShell
2 31 (3.75%) SQL
3 12 (1.45%) VBScript
4 8 (0.97%) VB
5 7 (0.85%) C#
6 6 (0.73%) Python
7 5 (0.61%) C
8 3 (0.36%) C++
8 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.24%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.12%) Bash
10 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 185 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 102 (12.35%) Degree
3 95 (11.50%) SC Cleared
4 93 (11.26%) DV Cleared
5 35 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.91%) CCNA
6 24 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (2.06%) MCSE
9 16 (1.94%) CCNP
10 11 (1.33%) A+ Certification
10 11 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 9 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.97%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.48%) MCP
15 4 (0.48%) MCSA
15 4 (0.48%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (10.77%) SLA
2 29 (3.51%) QA
3 26 (3.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.61%) GDPR
5 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 461 (55.81%) Active Directory
2 76 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (4.72%) Firmware
4 36 (4.36%) Hyper-V
5 26 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (2.30%) XenApp
8 15 (1.82%) XenDesktop
9 13 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (1.21%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.97%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.85%) KVM
13 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
15 3 (0.36%) vSphere
16 2 (0.24%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 279 (33.78%) SCCM
2 130 (15.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (4.96%) WSUS
4 32 (3.87%) Jamf Pro
5 26 (3.15%) vCenter Server
6 21 (2.54%) Sysprep
7 18 (2.18%) SCOM
8 13 (1.57%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (1.57%) NetBackup
9 10 (1.21%) Autotask
10 9 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.48%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.36%) Ansible
12 3 (0.36%) AppManager
12 3 (0.36%) OPNET
12 3 (0.36%) Terraform
13 2 (0.24%) Kibana
13 2 (0.24%) logstash
Vendors
1 494 (59.81%) Microsoft
2 103 (12.47%) Apple
3 96 (11.62%) ServiceNow
3 96 (11.62%) VMware
4 90 (10.90%) Citrix
5 67 (8.11%) HP
6 51 (6.17%) Cisco
7 32 (3.87%) SAP
8 24 (2.91%) Dell
9 20 (2.42%) Adobe
9 20 (2.42%) Veeam
10 19 (2.30%) Ivanti
11 18 (2.18%) Symantec
12 16 (1.94%) Oracle
13 15 (1.82%) Palo Alto
14 14 (1.69%) Juniper
15 13 (1.57%) 3PAR
15 13 (1.57%) EMC
15 13 (1.57%) Extreme Networks
16 11 (1.33%) Bloomberg