Windows 10 Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Windows 10
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 53 109
Rank change year-on-year -35 +56 -74
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 55 67 47
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.88% 4.03% 1.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.55% 18.87% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 57 32
10th Percentile £200 £200 £151
25th Percentile £220 £213 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £225 £281
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -20.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £340 £398
90th Percentile £588 £619 £648
England median daily rate £200 £225 £215
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile £21.46 - £12.53
25th Percentile £22.43 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.46 - £13.12
75th Percentile £197.50 - £13.48
90th Percentile - - £13.70
England median hourly rate £22.00 £23.80 £17.29
% change year-on-year -7.56% +37.69% -6.57%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 406 355 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.90% 21.36% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 256 329
10th Percentile £180 £200 £175
25th Percentile £275 £250 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +8.16% +1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £578
90th Percentile £651 £725 £700
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 22 58
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £63.31 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 £50.94
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +32.50% -21.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £68.68 -
England median hourly rate £22.79 £31.64 £22.15
% change year-on-year -27.99% +42.84% -16.35%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Windows 10 job vacancy trend in the South West

Windows 10
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 in the South West over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the South West

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 10 in the South West over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the South West

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Gloucestershire 0 18 £450 +109.30% 7
Wiltshire -32 13 £550 +150.00% 2
Somerset -2 11 £250 - 4
Bristol -29 7 £213 -5.56% 4
Devon 0 4 £283 +41.25% 1
Cornwall -5 2 - -
Windows 10
England

Windows 10
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (14.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 19 (34.55%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) assyst
1 1 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) PABX
2 5 (9.09%) DNS
2 5 (9.09%) Skype
3 3 (5.45%) VPN
4 1 (1.82%) DHCP
4 1 (1.82%) Firewall
4 1 (1.82%) LAN
4 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.82%) Telepresence
4 1 (1.82%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.82%) VLAN
4 1 (1.82%) WAN
4 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) MSI
General
1 28 (50.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Aerospace
2 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Electronics
5 2 (3.64%) Finance
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
5 2 (3.64%) Marketing
5 2 (3.64%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.82%) Aviation
6 1 (1.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Support Engineer
2 15 (27.27%) Desktop Engineer
3 14 (25.45%) Desktop Support
3 14 (25.45%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 12 (21.82%) IT Engineer
5 10 (18.18%) IT Support
6 9 (16.36%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (12.73%) Windows Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) Service Desk Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) Administrator
10 3 (5.45%) Analyst
10 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 3 (5.45%) Wintel Engineer
11 2 (3.64%) Field Engineer
11 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (3.64%) Migration Engineer
11 2 (3.64%) Service Analyst
11 2 (3.64%) Service Desk Analyst
11 2 (3.64%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (14.55%) Smartphone
3 5 (9.09%) PKI
4 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.45%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.64%) iPad
6 2 (3.64%) iPhone
7 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (96.36%) Windows
2 7 (12.73%) Linux
3 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (5.45%) Android
4 3 (5.45%) CentOS
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.45%) Customer Service
2 14 (25.45%) ITIL
3 10 (18.18%) Migration
3 10 (18.18%) Service Management
4 8 (14.55%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (10.91%) Logistics
6 5 (9.09%) Change Management
7 4 (7.27%) Application Packaging
7 4 (7.27%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (7.27%) Software Licensing
8 3 (5.45%) Application Security
8 3 (5.45%) Cloud Security
8 3 (5.45%) Critical Thinking
8 3 (5.45%) Customer Experience
8 3 (5.45%) Defect Management
8 3 (5.45%) NsoIT
8 3 (5.45%) Problem Management
8 3 (5.45%) Security Operations
8 3 (5.45%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.45%) SQL
3 2 (3.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 30 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (7.27%) Degree
6 3 (5.45%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (5.45%) MCSE
7 2 (3.64%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.82%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.82%) GRC
2 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (14.55%) SCCM
2 6 (10.91%) WSUS
3 4 (7.27%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.45%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 37 (67.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.36%) ServiceNow
3 6 (10.91%) McAfee
3 6 (10.91%) VMware
4 5 (9.09%) Cisco
5 4 (7.27%) Starlink
6 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.45%) Symantec
7 2 (3.64%) Apple
7 2 (3.64%) HP
7 2 (3.64%) SAP
7 2 (3.64%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.64%) Veeam
8 1 (1.82%) Citrix
8 1 (1.82%) IFS
8 1 (1.82%) Netskope
8 1 (1.82%) Remedy