Windows 10 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows 10
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 108 73
Rank change year-on-year -70 -35 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 374 338 547
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.39% 2.26% 2.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.03% 13.77% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 203 362
10th Percentile £131 £150 £140
25th Percentile £156 £173 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £205 £220
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +7.32%
75th Percentile £250 £284 £349
90th Percentile £400 £511 £524
UK median daily rate £200 £225 £225
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 46 76
10th Percentile £18.93 £15.69 -
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.60 £10.95
Median hourly rate £25.75 £24.83 £14.80
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% +67.83% -22.13%
75th Percentile £69.10 £25.15 £19.86
90th Percentile £178.75 £28.00 £27.75
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £16.25
% change year-on-year +11.96% +41.54% -14.47%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,108 2,454 3,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.51% 16.42% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,930 1,549 2,129
10th Percentile £185 £180 £178
25th Percentile £275 £250 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +0.54% -2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 206 349
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.33 £12.35
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £21.59 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.74% -30.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.44 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -41.18%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Windows 10 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows 10.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows 10.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 10 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
North of England -19 120 £195 -2.50% 36
North West -5 85 £190 - 20
South West -23 61 £225 +2.27% 13
Midlands -38 60 £190 +1.33% 11
South East -106 58 £250 +15.61% 32
East of England +1 45 £175 -22.22% 8
West Midlands -66 34 £225 +18.42% 4
Yorkshire -41 30 £193 -3.75% 11
East Midlands -4 25 £131 -27.13% 7
Scotland -33 17 £150 -29.41% 10
Wales -11 11 £200 -27.27% 1
North East -33 5 £250 -16.67% 7
Northern Ireland +4 4 £175 +9.38%
Channel Islands +2 1 £535 -
Windows 10
UK

Windows 10
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 54 (14.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (12.03%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.67%) HCL Notes
4 8 (2.14%) Skype for Business
5 5 (1.34%) Confluence
6 3 (0.80%) Apache
6 3 (0.80%) nginx
7 2 (0.53%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
Applications
1 59 (15.78%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.53%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 10 (2.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.53%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 203 (54.28%) Microsoft 365
2 71 (18.98%) Azure
3 47 (12.57%) Entra ID
4 15 (4.01%) OneDrive
5 6 (1.60%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (1.07%) Mimecast
7 3 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.27%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.27%) IaaS
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.83%) VPN
2 32 (8.56%) DNS
3 31 (8.29%) DHCP
4 27 (7.22%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (6.42%) LAN
6 20 (5.35%) Skype
7 18 (4.81%) TCP/IP
8 9 (2.41%) WAN
9 8 (2.14%) Remote Desktop
10 7 (1.87%) VLAN
11 6 (1.60%) IPv4
11 6 (1.60%) IPv6
12 5 (1.34%) Firewall
12 5 (1.34%) Network Security
13 4 (1.07%) WAAS
14 3 (0.80%) Internet
15 2 (0.53%) VoIP
15 2 (0.53%) Wireless
16 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
16 1 (0.27%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.87%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.34%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.53%) Power BI
4 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (5.61%) JIRA
2 6 (1.60%) MSI
3 3 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.80%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.53%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 240 (64.17%) Social Skills
2 33 (8.82%) Legal
3 32 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.81%) Manufacturing
5 17 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.14%) Finance
9 7 (1.87%) Banking
10 6 (1.60%) Law
11 4 (1.07%) Marketing
11 4 (1.07%) Police
12 3 (0.80%) Retail
13 2 (0.53%) Advertising
13 2 (0.53%) Aviation
13 2 (0.53%) French Language
14 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (31.82%) Support Engineer
2 118 (31.55%) IT Support
3 99 (26.47%) IT Engineer
4 87 (23.26%) IT Support Engineer
5 56 (14.97%) Analyst
6 42 (11.23%) Desktop Engineer
7 36 (9.63%) Desktop Support
8 30 (8.02%) 1st Line Support
9 29 (7.75%) Service Analyst
9 29 (7.75%) Service Desk Analyst
10 28 (7.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 27 (7.22%) 2nd Line Support
12 25 (6.68%) Deployment Engineer
12 25 (6.68%) Support Analyst
13 23 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 23 (6.15%) IT Analyst
14 19 (5.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 17 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support
15 17 (4.55%) IT Technician
16 16 (4.28%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.07%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.27%) .NET
2 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.27%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.27%) WinForms
2 1 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.57%) Onboarding
2 18 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.74%) Driving Licence
4 12 (3.21%) Blackberry
5 11 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.94%) Smartphone
6 10 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.60%) CMDB
7 6 (1.60%) iPhone
7 6 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.34%) iPad
8 5 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.07%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (1.07%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.07%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.07%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (0.80%) BYOD
10 3 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.53%) EPoS
11 2 (0.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 374 (100.00%) Windows
2 26 (6.95%) Android
3 25 (6.68%) Windows Server
4 24 (6.42%) Mac OS
5 20 (5.35%) Windows 7
6 19 (5.08%) Apple iOS
7 14 (3.74%) Linux
8 9 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.34%) Solaris
9 5 (1.34%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.53%) Debian
13 1 (0.27%) AIX
13 1 (0.27%) CentOS
13 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.27%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (34.76%) Customer Service
2 100 (26.74%) ITIL
3 89 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (13.10%) ITSM
5 34 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (8.82%) Service Management
7 32 (8.56%) Migration
8 29 (7.75%) Service Delivery
9 24 (6.42%) Asset Management
10 23 (6.15%) User Experience
11 19 (5.08%) Application Packaging
12 17 (4.55%) Computer Science
13 16 (4.28%) Customer Experience
13 16 (4.28%) Incident Management
14 14 (3.74%) Break/Fix
14 14 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 12 (3.21%) Inventory Management
15 12 (3.21%) Root Cause Analysis
15 12 (3.21%) Time Management
16 11 (2.94%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (10.43%) PowerShell
2 12 (3.21%) VBScript
3 8 (2.14%) VB
4 3 (0.80%) Python
4 3 (0.80%) SQL
5 1 (0.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 82 (21.93%) Security Cleared
2 72 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.56%) Degree
4 21 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 11 (2.94%) A+ Certification
7 9 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.87%) MCSE
9 7 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.07%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.80%) ACSP
12 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.27%) HNC
13 1 (0.27%) HND
13 1 (0.27%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.56%) SLA
2 2 (0.53%) GLP
2 2 (0.53%) GMP
2 2 (0.53%) NCSC
3 1 (0.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.27%) GRC
3 1 (0.27%) GxP
3 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 219 (58.56%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.48%) BitLocker
3 12 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.34%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 91 (24.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (19.79%) SCCM
3 9 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (1.87%) WSUS
5 6 (1.60%) AirWatch
6 3 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (0.80%) Packer
6 3 (0.80%) Terraform
6 3 (0.80%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.27%) SCOM
7 1 (0.27%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 238 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 77 (20.59%) ServiceNow
3 23 (6.15%) Apple
4 17 (4.55%) HP
5 16 (4.28%) VMware
6 14 (3.74%) Citrix
6 14 (3.74%) iManage
7 12 (3.21%) Bomgar
7 12 (3.21%) Cisco
8 11 (2.94%) Remedy
9 10 (2.67%) Lotus
9 10 (2.67%) McAfee
10 9 (2.41%) Starlink
11 7 (1.87%) Oracle
12 6 (1.60%) Dell
13 4 (1.07%) Sophos
14 3 (0.80%) Adobe
14 3 (0.80%) MobileIron
14 3 (0.80%) Tanium
15 2 (0.53%) Intapp