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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 49 35
Rank change year-on-year -42 -14 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 103 125 281
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.25% 3.89% 5.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.17% 21.82% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 94 200
10th Percentile £164 £180 £148
25th Percentile £190 £205 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £250 £212
Median % change year-on-year - +17.92% +3.41%
75th Percentile £325 £424 £275
90th Percentile £540 £500 £575
England median daily rate £211 £230 £215
% change year-on-year -8.27% +6.98% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £16.48 £29.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.97 £31.25 £18.95
Median hourly rate £20.18 £56.75 £19.99
Median % change year-on-year -64.44% +183.87% +8.05%
75th Percentile £23.50 £57.62 £48.75
90th Percentile £25.00 - -
England median hourly rate £22.00 £23.15 £18.72
% change year-on-year -4.97% +23.70% +1.16%

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 727 573 1,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.85% 17.83% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 381 690
10th Percentile £190 £200 £170
25th Percentile £255 £260 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £434 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% +8.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £563
90th Percentile £638 £650 £638
England median daily rate £447 £475 £466
% change year-on-year -6.00% +1.93% -9.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 26 83
10th Percentile £12.50 £22.33 £16.45
25th Percentile £15.50 £34.69 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.79 £59.13 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.84% +7.50% +140.23%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.44 £69.32
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.13 £76.53
England median hourly rate £22.54 £50.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -54.93% +98.02% -1.87%

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 31 January 2026.

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
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 31 January 2026. 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 -34 43 £250 -2.44% 10
Hampshire -13 37 £365 +10.61% 7
Berkshire -26 24 £260 +6.12% 1
Surrey -9 15 £188 -6.25% 2
Oxfordshire -1 10 £200 -20.00% 5
Buckinghamshire -23 9 £220 -28.36% 4
West Sussex -12 5 £300 +62.16% 2
Kent -5 3 £155 -24.39% 7
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 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 46 (44.66%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (14.56%) Azure
3 14 (13.59%) Entra ID
4 11 (10.68%) OneDrive
5 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.94%) AWS
6 2 (1.94%) GCP
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.56%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (8.74%) 4G
3 7 (6.80%) VPN
4 6 (5.83%) DNS
5 4 (3.88%) DHCP
6 2 (1.94%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.94%) VLAN
6 2 (1.94%) VSAN
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.97%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.97%) Power BI
1 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.94%) JIRA
General
1 65 (63.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.71%) Finance
2 10 (9.71%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (4.85%) Electronics
3 5 (4.85%) Manufacturing
3 5 (4.85%) Marketing
3 5 (4.85%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.94%) Banking
7 1 (0.97%) Legal
7 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.97%) Police
7 1 (0.97%) Publishing
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (22.33%) Support Engineer
2 21 (20.39%) Deployment Engineer
3 20 (19.42%) Windows Engineer
4 17 (16.50%) IT Support
5 14 (13.59%) IT Engineer
6 11 (10.68%) Analyst
6 11 (10.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) 1st Line Support
7 8 (7.77%) Desktop Support
7 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Migration Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Windows Support Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Desktop Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (6.80%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Service Analyst
8 7 (6.80%) Service Desk Analyst
9 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.83%) Driving Licence
1 6 (5.83%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (4.85%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.97%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.97%) CMDB
5 1 (0.97%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.97%) NHS
5 1 (0.97%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.97%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 99 (96.12%) Windows
2 9 (8.74%) Mac OS
3 4 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) Android
4 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.97%) Linux
4 1 (0.97%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (22.33%) Customer Service
2 13 (12.62%) ITIL
2 13 (12.62%) Migration
3 11 (10.68%) Agile
3 11 (10.68%) DevOps
3 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (8.74%) ITSM
6 8 (7.77%) Project Management
6 8 (7.77%) Workflow
7 7 (6.80%) Workflow Management
8 6 (5.83%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (4.85%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (4.85%) Programme Management
9 5 (4.85%) Security Patching
10 4 (3.88%) Application Packaging
10 4 (3.88%) Customer Experience
10 4 (3.88%) Logistics
10 4 (3.88%) Security Hardening
10 4 (3.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 48 (46.60%) Security Cleared
2 34 (33.01%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.56%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) Degree
5 5 (4.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.97%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.71%) SLA
2 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.94%) GDPR
2 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 56 (54.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.94%) NFS
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.97%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (33.01%) SCCM
2 11 (10.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.88%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.94%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.97%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 39 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.39%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.83%) SAP
3 6 (5.83%) VMware
4 4 (3.88%) Datto
5 3 (2.91%) Citrix
5 3 (2.91%) HP
5 3 (2.91%) McAfee
6 2 (1.94%) Apple
6 2 (1.94%) Cisco
6 2 (1.94%) Qualys
7 1 (0.97%) Ariba
7 1 (0.97%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.97%) Dell
7 1 (0.97%) Meraki
7 1 (0.97%) Planview
7 1 (0.97%) Progress
7 1 (0.97%) Toshiba
7 1 (0.97%) Trend Micro