Windows 10 Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Windows 10
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 50 33 29
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 8 25 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.78% 4.96% 6.42%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.79% 32.47% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 25
10th Percentile £235 £130 £175
25th Percentile £288 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £250 £225
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% +11.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £409 £300 £400
90th Percentile £419 £415 £570
North West median daily rate £188 £225 £215
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.65% +22.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £16.69 £12.08
25th Percentile - £17.26 £13.31
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £16.41
Median % change year-on-year - +7.98% -
75th Percentile - - £19.72
90th Percentile - £17.74 £21.33
North West median hourly rate £14.40 £10.95 £18.00
% change year-on-year +31.51% -39.17% +1.67%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 58 77 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.92% 15.28% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 43 85
10th Percentile £258 £126 £200
25th Percentile £343 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £390 £326
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +19.63% -18.50%
75th Percentile £469 £487 £563
90th Percentile £515 £582 £611
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.35
25th Percentile - £16.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - -5.84% -5.90%
75th Percentile - - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.73 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in Cheshire

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in Cheshire

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in Cheshire

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in Cheshire

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Chester -4 4 - - 3
Warrington -11 3 £394 +31.25% 1
Wilmslow +4 1 £200 -
Windows 10
North West

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Skype
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Service Desk Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITSM
2 4 (50.00%) Chat Support
2 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Software Distribution
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) VB
2 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) MCP
3 1 (12.50%) MCSA
3 1 (12.50%) MCSE
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) BitLocker
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) Remedy
3 1 (12.50%) Apple
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Logitech
3 1 (12.50%) McAfee
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) VMware