Windows 10 Contracts in Dorset

Microsoft Windows 10
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 22 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Windows 10 8 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 7.34% 1.35% 3.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 42.11% 8.33% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile - - £177
25th Percentile £203 - £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year -46.05% -10.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £223 - £450
90th Percentile £382 - £538
South West median daily rate £225 £210 £200
% change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -16.67%

All Operating Systems
Dorset

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 Dorset.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 19 24 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 17.43% 16.22% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 31
10th Percentile £201 £175 £159
25th Percentile £203 £175 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +18.03%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £563
90th Percentile £556 £769 £738
South West median daily rate £425 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £17.90
25th Percentile - - £18.82
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -58.17%
75th Percentile - - £34.66
90th Percentile - - £69.93
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +0.77%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in Dorset

Windows 10
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Windows 10.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 in Dorset over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in Dorset

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Windows 10.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Windows 10

Windows 10
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Blandford Forum - 4 £475 -
Bournemouth +6 3 £205 -46.05%
Windows 10
South West

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) LAN
1 3 (37.50%) Skype
1 3 (37.50%) VLAN
1 3 (37.50%) VoIP
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
1 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Wintel Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) CESG
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) VMS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Critical Thinking
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) NsoIT
1 3 (37.50%) Service Management
1 3 (37.50%) System Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Agile
2 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) Server Building
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) JSP 440
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
2 3 (37.50%) AppManager
2 3 (37.50%) WSUS
3 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) Ivanti