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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 113 77
Rank change year-on-year -55 -36 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 393 330 496
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.43% 2.16% 2.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.52% 13.45% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 201 339
10th Percentile £135 £145 £148
25th Percentile £163 £170 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £220
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £284 £288 £360
90th Percentile £410 £523 £518
UK median daily rate £210 £225 £225
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 53 65
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.33 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.87 £10.95
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.00 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +80.25% -27.00%
75th Percentile £67.47 £25.15 £21.50
90th Percentile £117.40 £28.00 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £16.19
% change year-on-year +11.96% +42.06% -14.79%

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 3,140 2,453 3,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.45% 16.04% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,951 1,550 1,989
10th Percentile £185 £175 £185
25th Percentile £275 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £556 £556 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 216 281
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.33 £12.25
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.44 £16.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -48.89% +63.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 £68.00
90th Percentile £73.40 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £24.58 £30.50
% change year-on-year +5.78% -19.41% -24.36%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +5 131 £200 +6.67% 31
North West +17 98 £205 +13.89% 19
South West -31 67 £225 +2.27% 17
South East -99 64 £250 +25.00% 36
Midlands -42 56 £185 +6.32% 15
East of England -10 37 £175 -22.22% 17
West Midlands -57 31 £225 +18.42% 11
Yorkshire -33 26 £200 +3.23% 8
East Midlands -10 25 £131 -2.12% 4
Scotland -20 25 £150 -25.00% 8
Wales -11 11 £200 -27.27%
North East - 7 £250 - 5
Northern Ireland +6 4 £175 -14.63% 2
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 59 (15.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (11.96%) SharePoint
3 17 (4.33%) Skype for Business
4 13 (3.31%) HCL Notes
5 7 (1.78%) Confluence
6 5 (1.27%) Apache
6 5 (1.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.51%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
Applications
1 67 (17.05%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.76%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 7 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.51%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 216 (54.96%) Microsoft 365
2 76 (19.34%) Azure
3 55 (13.99%) Entra ID
4 16 (4.07%) OneDrive
5 5 (1.27%) Mimecast
5 5 (1.27%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.51%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (15.27%) VPN
2 40 (10.18%) DNS
3 39 (9.92%) DHCP
4 27 (6.87%) Skype
5 25 (6.36%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (6.11%) LAN
7 19 (4.83%) TCP/IP
8 14 (3.56%) VLAN
9 11 (2.80%) WAN
10 6 (1.53%) Firewall
10 6 (1.53%) IPv4
10 6 (1.53%) IPv6
11 5 (1.27%) Network Security
11 5 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (1.02%) Wireless
13 3 (0.76%) Internet
13 3 (0.76%) WAAS
14 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
14 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
14 1 (0.25%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.27%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (4.07%) JIRA
2 6 (1.53%) MSI
3 5 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.51%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.51%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 249 (63.36%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (8.40%) Legal
4 15 (3.82%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (3.56%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.78%) Finance
9 7 (1.78%) Law
10 4 (1.02%) Banking
10 4 (1.02%) French Language
10 4 (1.02%) Marketing
10 4 (1.02%) Police
11 3 (0.76%) Retail
12 2 (0.51%) Advertising
12 2 (0.51%) Aviation
13 1 (0.25%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 121 (30.79%) Support Engineer
2 119 (30.28%) IT Support
3 103 (26.21%) IT Engineer
4 87 (22.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 54 (13.74%) Analyst
6 44 (11.20%) Desktop Engineer
7 35 (8.91%) Desktop Support
8 32 (8.14%) 2nd Line Support
8 32 (8.14%) Deployment Engineer
9 29 (7.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 28 (7.12%) 1st Line Support
10 28 (7.12%) Service Analyst
10 28 (7.12%) Service Desk Analyst
11 24 (6.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 24 (6.11%) Support Analyst
12 23 (5.85%) IT Analyst
13 20 (5.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 19 (4.83%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 18 (4.58%) IT Technician
16 17 (4.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.02%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.25%) .NET
2 1 (0.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.25%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.25%) WinForms
2 1 (0.25%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.98%) Onboarding
2 19 (4.83%) Driving Licence
3 18 (4.58%) Blackberry
4 16 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.82%) Smartphone
6 12 (3.05%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.80%) Video Conferencing
8 10 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.04%) CMDB
10 7 (1.78%) iPhone
11 5 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
12 4 (1.02%) Fat Client
12 4 (1.02%) iPad
12 4 (1.02%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.02%) Thin Client
12 4 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
13 3 (0.76%) BYOD
13 3 (0.76%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 393 (100.00%) Windows
2 34 (8.65%) Windows 7
3 30 (7.63%) Windows Server
4 27 (6.87%) Android
5 21 (5.34%) Mac OS
6 18 (4.58%) Linux
7 14 (3.56%) Apple iOS
8 9 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (2.04%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.27%) Solaris
12 4 (1.02%) CentOS
13 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.51%) Debian
15 1 (0.25%) AIX
15 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (33.84%) Customer Service
2 102 (25.95%) ITIL
3 95 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (13.74%) ITSM
5 39 (9.92%) Service Management
6 35 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (7.89%) User Experience
8 30 (7.63%) Asset Management
8 30 (7.63%) Migration
8 30 (7.63%) Service Delivery
9 22 (5.60%) Application Packaging
10 20 (5.09%) Incident Management
11 18 (4.58%) Break/Fix
11 18 (4.58%) Disk Encryption
12 17 (4.33%) Customer Experience
13 16 (4.07%) Computer Science
14 14 (3.56%) Inventory Management
14 14 (3.56%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 11 (2.80%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (13.99%) PowerShell
2 19 (4.83%) VBScript
3 16 (4.07%) VB
4 5 (1.27%) Python
5 3 (0.76%) SQL
6 1 (0.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 106 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 95 (24.17%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.89%) Degree
4 22 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (4.58%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.31%) A+ Certification
7 9 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.02%) MCSE
10 3 (0.76%) ACSP
10 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.25%) HNC
11 1 (0.25%) HND
11 1 (0.25%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.40%) SLA
2 2 (0.51%) NCSC
3 1 (0.25%) GDPR
3 1 (0.25%) GLP
3 1 (0.25%) GMP
3 1 (0.25%) GRC
3 1 (0.25%) GxP
3 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 230 (58.52%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.34%) BitLocker
3 14 (3.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.27%) Firmware
5 5 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) KVM
Systems Management
1 98 (24.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 90 (22.90%) SCCM
3 7 (1.78%) WSUS
4 5 (1.27%) AirWatch
4 5 (1.27%) Packer
4 5 (1.27%) Terraform
4 5 (1.27%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.76%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.25%) MobiControl
6 1 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 247 (62.85%) Microsoft
2 91 (23.16%) ServiceNow
3 24 (6.11%) Apple
4 23 (5.85%) VMware
5 18 (4.58%) HP
6 15 (3.82%) Lotus
7 13 (3.31%) iManage
8 10 (2.54%) Bomgar
8 10 (2.54%) Cisco
8 10 (2.54%) Citrix
8 10 (2.54%) McAfee
9 8 (2.04%) Starlink
10 7 (1.78%) Oracle
10 7 (1.78%) Remedy
10 7 (1.78%) Sophos
11 6 (1.53%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.27%) Dell
12 5 (1.27%) Ivanti
12 5 (1.27%) Tanium
118 Windows 10 jobs in the UK excluding London