Windows 10 Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Windows 10
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Windows 10 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 10 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 39 94
Rank change year-on-year -37 +55 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 17 92 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.45% 4.64% 1.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.69% 33.82% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 85 13
10th Percentile £206 - £163
25th Percentile £207 £205 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £231 £245 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -45.56% +200.00%
75th Percentile £264 £575 £600
90th Percentile £269 £608 -
South East median daily rate £250 £215 £205
% change year-on-year +16.28% +4.88% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.14
25th Percentile - - £35.34
Median hourly rate - - £50.69
75th Percentile - - £66.03
90th Percentile - - £75.23
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year -41.05% +153.33% +10.29%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Windows 10 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 159 272 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.55% 13.71% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 194 162
10th Percentile £250 £205 £271
25th Percentile £400 £244 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £514
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
75th Percentile £661 £575 £623
90th Percentile £700 £608 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £56.40 £21.65
25th Percentile - £56.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%
75th Percentile - £63.30 £72.50
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in Berkshire

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in Berkshire

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in Berkshire

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Maidenhead - 10 - - 2
Wokingham -12 3 £263 -4.55%
Slough -5 2 £213 +11.84% 1
Reading -30 2 £230 +6.98% 3
Windows 10
South East

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MSI
General
1 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support
2 3 (17.65%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.88%) Android
4 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (5.88%) Application Packaging
2 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
2 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
2 1 (5.88%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (5.88%) ITSM
2 1 (5.88%) Patch Management
2 1 (5.88%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (5.88%) Release Management
2 1 (5.88%) Service Management
2 1 (5.88%) Software Deployment
2 1 (5.88%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory
2 9 (52.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Dell
1 9 (52.94%) VMware
1 9 (52.94%) Wyse
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft