Windows 10 Contract Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Windows 10
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 76 48
Rank change year-on-year +22 -28 +30
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 10 14 43
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.69% 1.30% 3.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.87% 14.74% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 37
10th Percentile £160 £250 -
25th Percentile £202 £420 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £605 £210
Median % change year-on-year -57.85% +188.10% +12.00%
75th Percentile £265 £608 £218
90th Percentile £275 - £500
Berkshire median daily rate £195 £381 £210
% change year-on-year -48.85% +81.55% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 53 95 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 8.95% 8.79% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 57 120
10th Percentile £223 £323 £205
25th Percentile £265 £432 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £605 £450
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +34.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £531 £608 £615
90th Percentile £588 £685 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £413 £432 £408
% change year-on-year -4.37% +6.01% -18.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £48.63
25th Percentile - £69.06 £50.31
Median hourly rate - £69.38 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +26.14% +3.77%
75th Percentile - £69.69 £59.06
90th Percentile - - £60.38
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £57.62 £49.87
% change year-on-year -67.25% +15.55% -43.01%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in Reading

Windows 10
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) 4G
1 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Technician
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support
2 2 (20.00%) IT Support Technician
2 2 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Support
2 2 (20.00%) Service Desk Technician
2 2 (20.00%) Support Technician
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft