Windows 10 Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows 10
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Windows 10 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 10 over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 87 49
Rank change year-on-year +43 -38 +23
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 118 59 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.37% 2.01% 3.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.03% 13.05% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 48 102
10th Percentile £178 £172 £130
25th Percentile £205 £185 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £245 £189
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +29.80% -39.60%
75th Percentile £575 £403 £230
90th Percentile £608 £596 £435
South East median daily rate £215 £205 £194
% change year-on-year +4.88% +5.81% -22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile - £26.14 £12.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £35.34 £14.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +153.43% -20.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £75.23 £20.60
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +156.76% +8.82% +21.43%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

Windows 10 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 393 452 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.54% 15.43% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 325 438
10th Percentile £192 £230 £145
25th Percentile £213 £363 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £575
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 23
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.13 £19.52 £12.75
Median hourly rate £38.75 £48.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +143.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £57.13 £62.97 £46.25
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +14.29%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the Thames Valley

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 10 in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in the Thames Valley

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the Thames Valley

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 10 in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in the Thames Valley

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Berkshire +52 92 £215 -62.61% 11
Buckinghamshire +13 18 £225 -8.16% 10
Oxfordshire +9 8 £238 +31.94% 5
Windows 10
South East

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 44 (37.29%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.39%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.34%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (17.80%) Azure
3 12 (10.17%) OCI
4 3 (2.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (20.34%) LAN
2 15 (12.71%) DHCP
2 15 (12.71%) DNS
3 12 (10.17%) Firewall
3 12 (10.17%) SAN
4 6 (5.08%) Remote Desktop
4 6 (5.08%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.08%) VoIP
4 6 (5.08%) WAN
5 4 (3.39%) RS-232
5 4 (3.39%) VPN
6 2 (1.69%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Subversion
1 4 (3.39%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) MSI
General
1 88 (74.58%) Social Skills
2 41 (34.75%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.24%) Finance
5 2 (1.69%) Electronics
5 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.69%) Marketing
5 2 (1.69%) Police
5 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (22.88%) Support Engineer
2 26 (22.03%) Desktop Engineer
3 24 (20.34%) Windows Engineer
4 22 (18.64%) Desktop Support
4 22 (18.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 21 (17.80%) Build Engineer
5 21 (17.80%) Windows Build Engineer
6 18 (15.25%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
6 18 (15.25%) Hardware Engineer
7 16 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Storage Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Support Specialist
9 6 (5.08%) Technical Specialist
9 6 (5.08%) Technical Support
9 6 (5.08%) Technical Support Specialist
10 5 (4.24%) Break Fix Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Deployment Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) IT Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) IT Support
11 4 (3.39%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 39 (33.05%) Driving Licence
2 12 (10.17%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.93%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (5.08%) Video Editing
5 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.54%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 118 (100.00%) Windows
2 42 (35.59%) Windows 7
3 37 (31.36%) Windows Server 2012
3 37 (31.36%) Windows Server 2016
3 37 (31.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 36 (30.51%) Windows Server
5 21 (17.80%) Windows NT
6 12 (10.17%) Linux
6 12 (10.17%) Windows XP
7 7 (5.93%) Apple iOS
8 6 (5.08%) Android
9 3 (2.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (64.41%) ITIL
2 65 (55.08%) Customer Service
3 53 (44.92%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (18.64%) Release Management
5 21 (17.80%) Deployment Automation
5 21 (17.80%) Service Management
5 21 (17.80%) User Acceptance Testing
6 19 (16.10%) Service Delivery
6 19 (16.10%) Software Deployment
7 18 (15.25%) Customer Requirements
7 18 (15.25%) Hardware Maintenance
7 18 (15.25%) Software Testing
8 16 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (11.02%) Break/Fix
10 12 (10.17%) Converged Infrastructure
10 12 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (10.17%) Proactive Monitoring
10 12 (10.17%) Project Management
10 12 (10.17%) Server Management
10 12 (10.17%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.17%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.39%) C
2 4 (3.39%) C#
Qualifications
1 79 (66.95%) Security Cleared
2 77 (65.25%) DV Cleared
3 36 (30.51%) Degree
4 16 (13.56%) SC Cleared
5 12 (10.17%) CCNA
5 12 (10.17%) CCNP
5 12 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.80%) QA
2 14 (11.86%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (46.61%) Active Directory
2 39 (33.05%) Firmware
3 12 (10.17%) Hyper-V
3 12 (10.17%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.24%) XenApp
4 5 (4.24%) XenDesktop
5 2 (1.69%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 94 (79.66%) SCCM
2 33 (27.97%) WSUS
3 21 (17.80%) Sysprep
4 12 (10.17%) EMC NetWorker
4 12 (10.17%) NetBackup
4 12 (10.17%) SCOM
4 12 (10.17%) vCenter Server
5 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.54%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 87 (73.73%) Microsoft
2 59 (50.00%) HP
3 15 (12.71%) Cisco
4 12 (10.17%) 3PAR
4 12 (10.17%) Dell
4 12 (10.17%) EMC
4 12 (10.17%) Extreme Networks
4 12 (10.17%) Juniper
4 12 (10.17%) Oracle
4 12 (10.17%) Palo Alto
4 12 (10.17%) ServiceNow
4 12 (10.17%) Symantec
4 12 (10.17%) Veeam
4 12 (10.17%) VMware
5 10 (8.47%) Apple
6 7 (5.93%) Citrix
7 5 (4.24%) SAP
8 3 (2.54%) Ariba
8 3 (2.54%) F5
8 3 (2.54%) Planview