Windows 10 Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows 10
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 51 52
Rank change year-on-year -41 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 51 82 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.03% 3.12% 3.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.99% 17.90% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 58 80
10th Percentile £132 £130 £122
25th Percentile £150 £158 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £190 £190
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £240 £259 £250
90th Percentile £496 £458 £391
England median daily rate £220 £240 £220
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile £16.48 £15.50 £14.76
25th Percentile £18.51 £18.50 £15.06
Median hourly rate £24.66 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.79% +11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £25.00 £24.18 £22.63
90th Percentile £25.09 £30.62 £25.88
England median hourly rate £22.00 £15.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +46.67% -21.05% +9.04%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 319 458 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.71% 17.41% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 293 337
10th Percentile £150 £160 £160
25th Percentile £220 £281 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +18.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £540
90th Percentile £575 £674 £675
England median daily rate £454 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -7.20% -2.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 30 32
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.75 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.28 £14.27 £15.19
Median hourly rate £24.83 £18.66 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.07% +0.86% +4.05%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.07 £24.69
90th Percentile - £27.96 £28.75
England median hourly rate £23.00 £34.50 £41.55
% change year-on-year -33.33% -16.96% +80.63%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the Midlands

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in the Midlands

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the Midlands

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in the Midlands

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -21 34 £188 -6.25% 12
East Midlands -26 17 £160 - 19
Windows 10
England

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (7.84%) Azure
3 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.88%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.96%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) Firewall
2 3 (5.88%) DHCP
2 3 (5.88%) PuTTY
2 3 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (5.88%) SSH
2 3 (5.88%) Telnet
2 3 (5.88%) VPN
2 3 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (5.88%) Wireless
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.92%) Ethernet
3 2 (3.92%) Internet
3 2 (3.92%) Telepresence
3 2 (3.92%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.96%) DNS
4 1 (1.96%) NAS
4 1 (1.96%) SAN
4 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
General
1 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Legal
5 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Support Engineer
2 8 (15.69%) Analyst
2 8 (15.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Windows Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Service Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Desktop Support
6 4 (7.84%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Break Fix Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Hardware Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) IT Support
7 3 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) IT Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Windows Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Driving Licence
2 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) CMDB
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (15.69%) Windows 7
3 4 (7.84%) Mac OS
4 3 (5.88%) Linux
4 3 (5.88%) Windows 8
4 3 (5.88%) Windows XP
5 2 (3.92%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.92%) Windows Vista
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Customer Service
1 15 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (13.73%) Break/Fix
3 5 (9.80%) ITIL
4 4 (7.84%) Asset Management
4 4 (7.84%) Digital Strategy
4 4 (7.84%) Migration
4 4 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (7.84%) Time Management
5 3 (5.88%) Application Packaging
5 3 (5.88%) Change Control
5 3 (5.88%) Computer Science
5 3 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
6 2 (3.92%) Customer Experience
6 2 (3.92%) Information Management
6 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (3.92%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (3.92%) Line Management
6 2 (3.92%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 1 (1.96%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) Degree
3 3 (5.88%) CCNA
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.96%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.96%) MCP
4 1 (1.96%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.84%) Firmware
4 3 (5.88%) BitLocker
4 3 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) SCCM
2 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (45.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.57%) Dell
3 10 (19.61%) Cisco
4 8 (15.69%) HP
5 5 (9.80%) VMware
6 4 (7.84%) Citrix
7 3 (5.88%) Draytek
7 3 (5.88%) McAfee
8 2 (3.92%) Apple
8 2 (3.92%) Nexthink
8 2 (3.92%) Palo Alto
8 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.96%) Symantec
9 1 (1.96%) Veeam