Windows 10 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Windows 10
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 58 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 129 145 219
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.42% 3.47% 4.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.11% 19.44% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 102 158
10th Percentile £158 £170 £148
25th Percentile £190 £200 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £248 £320 £210
Median % change year-on-year -22.66% +52.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £373 £423 £250
90th Percentile £537 £500 £451
England median daily rate £220 £245 £215
% change year-on-year -10.20% +13.95% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 5
10th Percentile £18.44 £37.63 £18.68
25th Percentile £18.87 £53.72 £18.95
Median hourly rate £20.00 £56.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.75% +191.07% +14.68%
75th Percentile £24.25 £57.62 £19.99
90th Percentile £25.60 £58.05 £22.25
England median hourly rate £21.46 £22.09 £19.50
% change year-on-year -2.85% +13.31% +6.88%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 675 746 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.87% 17.88% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 492 700
10th Percentile £188 £200 £170
25th Percentile £217 £321 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £537 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 35 80
10th Percentile £12.50 £23.85 £16.45
25th Percentile £15.50 £36.79 £24.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.81% +13.64% +223.53%
75th Percentile £25.00 £70.00 £68.66
90th Percentile £32.49 £72.25 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.79 £59.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -59.85% +48.11% +60.00%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows 10 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Windows 10 job vacancy trend in the South East

Windows 10
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Windows 10.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 in the South East over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the South East

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Windows 10.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 10 in the South East over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the South East

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Thames Valley -13 53 £223 -32.83% 17
Hampshire +5 47 £438 +21.53% 6
Berkshire +3 31 £260 -12.61% 8
Surrey +11 14 £250 +5.26% 6
Buckinghamshire -14 12 £200 -42.86% 2
West Sussex -5 10 £200 +8.11% 4
Oxfordshire -5 10 £200 +25.00% 7
Kent +5 5 £155 -66.67% 2
Windows 10
England

Windows 10
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.94%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (10.85%) Azure
3 11 (8.53%) Entra ID
3 11 (8.53%) OneDrive
4 4 (3.10%) AWS
4 4 (3.10%) GCP
5 2 (1.55%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (7.75%) VPN
3 9 (6.98%) 4G
4 8 (6.20%) DNS
5 5 (3.88%) Firewall
5 5 (3.88%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (3.88%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.55%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.55%) VSAN
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.78%) DHCP
7 1 (0.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (6.20%) MSI
General
1 80 (62.02%) Social Skills
2 9 (6.98%) Finance
3 8 (6.20%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (3.88%) Law
4 5 (3.88%) Legal
5 4 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.55%) Banking
6 2 (1.55%) Electronics
6 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.55%) Marketing
6 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (24.03%) Support Engineer
2 25 (19.38%) IT Support
3 24 (18.60%) Deployment Engineer
4 19 (14.73%) IT Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Analyst
6 13 (10.08%) Windows Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Service Desk Support
8 10 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.98%) 1st Line Support
9 9 (6.98%) Service Analyst
9 9 (6.98%) Service Desk Analyst
9 9 (6.98%) Windows Support Engineer
10 8 (6.20%) Desktop Support
10 8 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) Infrastructure Support
11 7 (5.43%) SCCM Engineer
12 6 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 6 (4.65%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
1 6 (4.65%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (2.33%) Driving Licence
2 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.55%) Clustering
3 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.55%) Fat Client
3 2 (1.55%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.78%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (0.78%) Digital Signage
4 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.78%) iPhone
4 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.78%) NHS
4 1 (0.78%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 128 (99.22%) Windows
2 18 (13.95%) Windows Server
3 6 (4.65%) Mac OS
3 6 (4.65%) Windows 7
3 6 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.55%) Android
4 2 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.78%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.78%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (19.38%) ITIL
2 21 (16.28%) Customer Service
3 17 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (9.30%) Security Patching
6 9 (6.98%) ITSM
7 8 (6.20%) Agile
7 8 (6.20%) Application Packaging
7 8 (6.20%) DevOps
8 7 (5.43%) Change Management
8 7 (5.43%) Data Analysis
8 7 (5.43%) Migration
8 7 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (4.65%) Incident Management
9 6 (4.65%) Roadmaps
9 6 (4.65%) User Experience
10 5 (3.88%) Business Strategy
10 5 (3.88%) Decision-Making
10 5 (3.88%) IT Strategy
10 5 (3.88%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.95%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.20%) C#
3 7 (5.43%) VB
4 4 (3.10%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (41.86%) Security Cleared
2 38 (29.46%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.85%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.43%) Degree
4 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.33%) A+ Certification
6 3 (2.33%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.55%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.75%) GDPR
1 10 (7.75%) SLA
2 5 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 71 (55.04%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.43%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.88%) Terminal Services
5 4 (3.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.55%) NFS
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.78%) vSphere
7 1 (0.78%) XenApp
7 1 (0.78%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (38.76%) SCCM
2 18 (13.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.55%) SCVMM
3 2 (1.55%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.78%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 67 (51.94%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.73%) ServiceNow
3 18 (13.95%) VMware
4 12 (9.30%) Citrix
5 4 (3.10%) Datto
6 3 (2.33%) Cisco
6 3 (2.33%) McAfee
6 3 (2.33%) SAP
7 2 (1.55%) Apple
7 2 (1.55%) Dell
7 2 (1.55%) Qualys
7 2 (1.55%) Wyse
8 1 (0.78%) Ariba
8 1 (0.78%) HP
8 1 (0.78%) Meraki
8 1 (0.78%) Planview