Windows 10 Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Microsoft Windows 10
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 32 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 5 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.89% 3.81% 3.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.63% 20.31% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile - £140 £149
25th Percentile £230 £151 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £278 £195 £165
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +18.18% -56.00%
75th Percentile £328 £256 £193
90th Percentile £334 £351 £608
Wales median daily rate £275 £200 £175
% change year-on-year +37.50% +14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile £17.00 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £17.25 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -23.33% - +73.08%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 32 64 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 12.12% 18.77% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 44 99
10th Percentile £156 £139 £150
25th Percentile £180 £185 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £338 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -32.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £300 £539 £600
90th Percentile £420 £568 £639
Wales median daily rate £285 £325 £475
% change year-on-year -12.31% -31.58% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £15.45 £38.06 £28.75
25th Percentile £16.13 £46.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £47.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -62.11% -2.56% +170.83%
75th Percentile £19.63 £50.00 £52.19
90th Percentile £20.15 £54.00 £56.13
Wales median hourly rate £18.50 £47.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -61.05% -2.56% +261.11%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in South Wales

Windows 10
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Cardiff 0 5 £278 +63.24% 3
Windows 10
Wales

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (60.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft