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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 95 67
Rank change year-on-year -72 -28 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 360 347 584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.39% 2.58% 2.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.19% 14.90% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 215 381
10th Percentile £131 £150 £143
25th Percentile £156 £181 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £197 £215 £215
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% - +5.39%
75th Percentile £250 £288 £318
90th Percentile £398 £513 £550
UK median daily rate £200 £234 £225
% change year-on-year -14.44% +3.89% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 36 76
10th Percentile £19.33 £15.69 -
25th Percentile £21.32 £18.51 £10.95
Median hourly rate £25.75 £24.83 £14.80
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% +67.83% -20.03%
75th Percentile £74.00 £25.15 £19.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £29.00 £40.63
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £17.07
% change year-on-year +11.96% +34.72% -10.14%

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 2,953 2,329 3,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.38% 17.29% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,842 1,490 2,177
10th Percentile £180 £181 £178
25th Percentile £275 £250 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year - -1.10% -1.62%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -0.54% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 176 362
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.12 £12.43
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.08 £18.87 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.51% -31.38% -30.56%
75th Percentile £64.06 £45.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +27.27% -9.02% -47.43%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -26 113 £190 -5.00% 23
North West -3 81 £190 -2.56% 13
Midlands -45 66 £190 - 17
South West -35 55 £223 +1.14% 11
East of England -1 50 £175 -22.22% 13
South East -101 50 £250 - 33
West Midlands -65 36 £225 +18.42% 7
East Midlands -5 29 £131 -29.10% 10
Yorkshire -45 28 £190 -1.94% 8
Scotland -30 17 £150 -25.00% 4
Wales -13 8 £200 -33.33% 2
Northern Ireland 0 4 £175 +9.38% 3
North East -33 4 £225 -25.00% 3
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 62 (17.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.33%) Skype for Business
4 8 (2.22%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.56%) Confluence
5 2 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 64 (17.78%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.56%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 187 (51.94%) Microsoft 365
2 71 (19.72%) Azure
3 47 (13.06%) Entra ID
4 14 (3.89%) OneDrive
5 7 (1.94%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.28%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (14.17%) VPN
2 30 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
3 29 (8.06%) DNS
4 28 (7.78%) DHCP
4 28 (7.78%) LAN
5 24 (6.67%) Skype
6 15 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 15 (4.17%) WAN
7 11 (3.06%) VLAN
8 8 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (1.67%) IPv4
9 6 (1.67%) IPv6
10 5 (1.39%) Network Security
11 4 (1.11%) WAAS
12 3 (0.83%) Internet
13 2 (0.56%) Firewall
13 2 (0.56%) RS-232
13 2 (0.56%) VoIP
13 2 (0.56%) Wireless
13 2 (0.56%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.67%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.83%) Power BI
4 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.44%) JIRA
2 4 (1.11%) MSI
3 3 (0.83%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.56%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 222 (61.67%) Social Skills
2 34 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (8.06%) Legal
4 21 (5.83%) Manufacturing
5 17 (4.72%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 10 (2.78%) Finance
9 9 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.94%) Banking
11 5 (1.39%) Law
11 5 (1.39%) Police
12 4 (1.11%) Marketing
13 2 (0.56%) Aviation
14 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.28%) Publishing
14 1 (0.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (30.56%) Support Engineer
2 108 (30.00%) IT Support
3 89 (24.72%) IT Engineer
4 77 (21.39%) IT Support Engineer
5 60 (16.67%) Analyst
6 42 (11.67%) Desktop Engineer
7 36 (10.00%) Desktop Support
8 32 (8.89%) 1st Line Support
9 30 (8.33%) Support Analyst
10 27 (7.50%) Service Analyst
10 27 (7.50%) Service Desk Analyst
11 22 (6.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 22 (6.11%) IT Analyst
12 21 (5.83%) 2nd Line Support
13 20 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 19 (5.28%) Deployment Engineer
15 18 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 17 (4.72%) Support Technician
17 16 (4.44%) IT Support Analyst
17 16 (4.44%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.83%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.28%) .NET
2 1 (0.28%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (0.28%) WinForms
2 1 (0.28%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.78%) Onboarding
2 19 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.06%) Smartphone
5 10 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.22%) Blackberry
6 8 (2.22%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.67%) CMDB
7 6 (1.67%) iPhone
8 5 (1.39%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.11%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (1.11%) iPad
9 4 (1.11%) Virtual Reality
10 3 (0.83%) BYOD
10 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.56%) PKI
12 1 (0.28%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 360 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (8.33%) Windows 7
3 26 (7.22%) Android
4 25 (6.94%) Windows Server
5 22 (6.11%) Mac OS
6 20 (5.56%) Apple iOS
7 11 (3.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (2.50%) Linux
9 8 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.39%) Solaris
12 3 (0.83%) AIX
12 3 (0.83%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.83%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.28%) Debian
13 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (36.11%) Customer Service
2 88 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (23.06%) ITIL
4 55 (15.28%) ITSM
5 38 (10.56%) Service Management
6 37 (10.28%) Migration
7 36 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (6.67%) Asset Management
9 23 (6.39%) Service Delivery
10 19 (5.28%) Computer Science
11 18 (5.00%) User Experience
12 17 (4.72%) Application Packaging
13 15 (4.17%) Customer Experience
14 14 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (3.89%) Inventory Management
15 13 (3.61%) Time Management
16 12 (3.33%) Change Management
16 12 (3.33%) Disk Encryption
16 12 (3.33%) Root Cause Analysis
17 11 (3.06%) Creative Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (4.17%) VBScript
3 12 (3.33%) VB
4 3 (0.83%) SQL
5 1 (0.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 77 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 70 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.72%) Degree
4 25 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.61%) A+ Certification
7 11 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 9 (2.50%) MCSE
9 9 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.39%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.83%) ACSP
12 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.56%) HNC
13 2 (0.56%) HND
13 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.33%) SLA
2 2 (0.56%) GLP
2 2 (0.56%) GMP
3 1 (0.28%) GRC
3 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 203 (56.39%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.72%) BitLocker
3 12 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 87 (24.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (21.11%) SCCM
3 10 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (1.94%) WSUS
5 5 (1.39%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.28%) SCOM
7 1 (0.28%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 236 (65.56%) Microsoft
2 64 (17.78%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.83%) Apple
4 19 (5.28%) HP
5 17 (4.72%) Citrix
6 13 (3.61%) Remedy
6 13 (3.61%) VMware
7 12 (3.33%) Bomgar
7 12 (3.33%) iManage
8 11 (3.06%) Cisco
9 9 (2.50%) McAfee
9 9 (2.50%) Oracle
9 9 (2.50%) Starlink
10 8 (2.22%) Lotus
11 6 (1.67%) Dell
12 3 (0.83%) MobileIron
13 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.56%) CheckPoint
14 1 (0.28%) BMC
14 1 (0.28%) Juniper
96 Windows 10 jobs in the UK excluding London