Windows 10 Contracts in Northern Ireland

Microsoft Windows 10
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 11 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.92% 1.35% 6.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.29% 8.33% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile - - £158
25th Percentile £148 £143 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £154 £145 £185
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% -21.62% +15.63%
75th Percentile £165 £148 £217
90th Percentile - - £230
UK median daily rate £225 £225 £220
% change year-on-year - +2.27% +9.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.15
25th Percentile £22.50 - £14.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £17.61
75th Percentile - - £20.37
90th Percentile - - £20.90
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £16.94 £18.50
% change year-on-year +40.54% -8.46% +3.04%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 24 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 17.61% 16.22% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 23
10th Percentile £150 £181 £156
25th Percentile £163 £245 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £469 £400
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +17.19% -3.03%
75th Percentile £325 £530 £425
90th Percentile £410 £575 £640
UK median daily rate £475 £468 £504
% change year-on-year +1.50% -7.14% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - - £14.15
25th Percentile £22.50 - £14.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £12.25 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year +97.39% -30.44% +29.30%
75th Percentile - £31.88 £20.37
90th Percentile - - £20.90
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -43.59% +73.33%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in Northern Ireland

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in Northern Ireland

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in Northern Ireland

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 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
County Antrim -1 11 £154 +6.21% 3
Windows 10
UK

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) VPN
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 3 (27.27%) DHCP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Electronics
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Help Desk Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (18.18%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Support
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Deskside Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) BYOD
2 3 (27.27%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows 7
3 3 (27.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Customer Experience
2 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) Apple
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Computacenter
3 2 (18.18%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft