Windows 10 Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows 10
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 40 47
Rank change year-on-year -36 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 86 237 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.86% 4.26% 4.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.83% 24.16% 22.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 165 175
10th Percentile £195 £175 £155
25th Percentile £206 £205 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £215 £205
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +4.88% +5.13%
75th Percentile £419 £475 £264
90th Percentile £575 £575 £413
England median daily rate £225 £225 £220
% change year-on-year - +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 16
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - £14.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +153.33% +10.29%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £25.08
90th Percentile £31.45 £49.13 £26.99
England median hourly rate £24.00 £17.11 £18.50
% change year-on-year +40.27% -7.51% +2.13%

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 511 981 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.98% 17.65% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 650 830
10th Percentile £205 £200 £197
25th Percentile £339 £268 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.98 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £70.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the South East

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in the South East

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the South East

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend 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 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
Thames Valley -32 28 £250 +11.11% 24
Surrey +24 21 £198 -1.25% 12
Hampshire -13 21 £350 +16.67% 15
Berkshire -37 17 £231 -5.61% 8
East Sussex -1 7 £420 -6.15% 1
Buckinghamshire +5 6 £370 +64.44% 7
Oxfordshire +2 5 £250 +5.26% 10
Kent -8 5 £205 - 5
West Sussex +9 3 £245 +68.97% 11
Windows 10
England

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (33.72%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.14%) Azure
3 5 (5.81%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.49%) IaaS
4 3 (3.49%) PaaS
5 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.16%) GitHub
6 1 (1.16%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.98%) DNS
2 5 (5.81%) VPN
3 4 (4.65%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (3.49%) Firewall
4 3 (3.49%) Softphone
4 3 (3.49%) VSAN
4 3 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.33%) DHCP
5 2 (2.33%) HTTP
5 2 (2.33%) HTTPS
5 2 (2.33%) LAN
5 2 (2.33%) Skype
5 2 (2.33%) SSL
5 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.33%) VLAN
5 2 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.16%) MSI
General
1 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
3 10 (11.63%) Finance
4 7 (8.14%) Electronics
4 7 (8.14%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.14%) Marketing
4 7 (8.14%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Law
6 2 (2.33%) Military
7 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (1.16%) Local Government
7 1 (1.16%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (24.42%) Support Engineer
2 14 (16.28%) Analyst
3 13 (15.12%) Desktop Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Desktop Support
5 11 (12.79%) 2nd Line Support
5 11 (12.79%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) IT Support
6 10 (11.63%) Windows Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) Deployment Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) IT Engineer
7 8 (9.30%) Windows Deployment Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) IT Support Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 3 (3.49%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 3 (3.49%) Lead
10 3 (3.49%) Service Desk Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.16%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Onboarding
2 9 (10.47%) Smartphone
3 8 (9.30%) NHS
4 6 (6.98%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.49%) Clustering
5 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.33%) CMDB
6 2 (2.33%) PKI
6 2 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 86 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (26.74%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.30%) Windows 7
3 8 (9.30%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (5.81%) Mac OS
5 4 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.49%) Android
6 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.49%) Linux
7 2 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (2.33%) Solaris
7 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.42%) ITIL
2 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (16.28%) Customer Service
4 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (9.30%) Service Delivery
6 7 (8.14%) Asset Management
6 7 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (8.14%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (8.14%) Programme Management
7 6 (6.98%) Customer Experience
7 6 (6.98%) Incident Management
8 5 (5.81%) Migration
8 5 (5.81%) Service Management
9 4 (4.65%) Ticket Management
9 4 (4.65%) User Experience
10 3 (3.49%) Application Packaging
10 3 (3.49%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (3.49%) Power Management
10 3 (3.49%) Server Building
11 2 (2.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.42%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.28%) DV Cleared
2 14 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.33%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.16%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (48.84%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.47%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (5.81%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.65%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.49%) vSphere
6 2 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.16%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 16 (18.60%) SCCM
2 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.81%) WSUS
4 3 (3.49%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.49%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (3.49%) vCenter Server
5 2 (2.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 17 (19.77%) VMware
2 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 13 (15.12%) ServiceNow
4 9 (10.47%) Dell
4 9 (10.47%) Wyse
5 7 (8.14%) SAP
6 5 (5.81%) Citrix
7 3 (3.49%) Cisco
7 3 (3.49%) Juniper
7 3 (3.49%) NETGEAR
7 3 (3.49%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.49%) Symantec
7 3 (3.49%) TP-LINK
8 2 (2.33%) Apple
8 2 (2.33%) HP
8 2 (2.33%) Oracle
8 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.16%) F5
9 1 (1.16%) McAfee
9 1 (1.16%) Qualys