Windows 10 Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Windows 10
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 43 89
Rank change year-on-year -30 +46 -40
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 30 116 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.03% 4.39% 2.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.29% 30.61% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 102 45
10th Percentile £187 £176 £175
25th Percentile £206 £205 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £225 £246
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.54% +29.47%
75th Percentile £274 £575 £388
90th Percentile £393 £608 £593
South East median daily rate £256 £225 £205
% change year-on-year +13.89% +9.76% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £18.80
25th Percentile - £46.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +137.50% -
75th Percentile - £48.75 £50.69
90th Percentile - - £69.10
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% +150.00% +11.76%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 210 379 435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.21% 14.34% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 273 303
10th Percentile £207 £193 £208
25th Percentile £325 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £608 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.18% +4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 25 17
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile - £18.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -70.11% -1.86% +142.00%
75th Percentile £18.58 £59.50 £60.63
90th Percentile £23.63 £61.60 £77.55
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -41.05% -9.52% +176.32%

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 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
Berkshire -31 19 £213 -19.05% 13
Buckinghamshire +1 6 £370 +64.44% 7
Oxfordshire +1 5 £250 +11.11% 13
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 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Desktop Support
4 3 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Citrix Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Field Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Deskside Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Deskside Support Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.67%) Clustering
2 2 (6.67%) Fat Client
2 2 (6.67%) Thin Client
2 2 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (46.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (10.00%) Android
5 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (13.33%) Customer Service
2 4 (13.33%) ITIL
3 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.00%) Server Building
4 2 (6.67%) Application Packaging
4 2 (6.67%) Migration
4 2 (6.67%) Patch Management
4 2 (6.67%) Service Management
5 1 (3.33%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.33%) ITSM
5 1 (3.33%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.33%) Security Hardening
5 1 (3.33%) Security Patching
5 1 (3.33%) Server Management
5 1 (3.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.33%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (3.33%) Time Management
5 1 (3.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (13.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) SCCM
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) VMware
2 9 (30.00%) Dell
2 9 (30.00%) Wyse
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.33%) Citrix
5 2 (6.67%) HP
5 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.33%) Apple
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco
6 1 (3.33%) F5
6 1 (3.33%) McAfee