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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 73 69
Rank change year-on-year -54 -4 -16
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 420 414 610
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.94% 3.26% 2.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.54% 18.09% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 292 417
10th Percentile £131 £150 £143
25th Percentile £157 £184 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £214 £210
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +1.79% +2.94%
75th Percentile £265 £311 £300
90th Percentile £476 £518 £575
UK median daily rate £203 £225 £215
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 59
10th Percentile £18.25 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £20.07 £19.78 £10.95
Median hourly rate £22.00 £24.18 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +65.73% -20.08%
75th Percentile £24.33 £24.42 £17.75
90th Percentile £26.00 £28.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £23.99 £17.29
% change year-on-year -8.30% +38.79% -6.57%

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 2,889 2,288 3,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.32% 18.01% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,880 1,467 2,179
10th Percentile £163 £180 £163
25th Percentile £225 £243 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.65% -9.47%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £651
UK median daily rate £447 £475 £456
% change year-on-year -5.89% +4.17% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 129 323
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.22 £12.39
25th Percentile £16.70 £18.38 £14.27
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.66 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +9.60% -13.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £69.99 £68.04 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £22.79 £27.50 £22.40
% change year-on-year -17.15% +22.77% -15.44%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -17 140 £175 -12.50% 26
North West -2 103 £171 -9.87% 18
South East -49 94 £250 - 24
Midlands -61 64 £175 -7.89% 19
East of England +17 61 £200 -13.51% 13
South West -40 49 £283 +25.56% 17
East Midlands -23 33 £175 -7.89% 12
Yorkshire -44 32 £190 -21.65% 6
West Midlands -75 30 £160 -17.95% 7
Scotland -27 9 £203 +2.53% 4
Wales -12 7 £200 - 1
North East -10 5 £200 -33.33% 4
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 68 (16.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (12.14%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.14%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.24%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
Applications
1 73 (17.38%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (4.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.19%) assyst
3 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.24%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 217 (51.67%) Microsoft 365
2 85 (20.24%) Azure
3 50 (11.90%) Entra ID
4 31 (7.38%) OneDrive
5 8 (1.90%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.19%) AWS
6 5 (1.19%) GCP
7 1 (0.24%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.24%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.24%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.24%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.24%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.24%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.24%) IaaS
7 1 (0.24%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.24%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.24%) SaaS
7 1 (0.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (12.86%) VPN
2 44 (10.48%) Wi-Fi
3 34 (8.10%) LAN
4 31 (7.38%) DNS
5 27 (6.43%) WAN
6 26 (6.19%) DHCP
7 25 (5.95%) Skype
8 18 (4.29%) TCP/IP
9 13 (3.10%) VLAN
10 9 (2.14%) 4G
11 6 (1.43%) PABX
12 5 (1.19%) VoIP
12 5 (1.19%) Wireless
13 3 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.48%) Firewall
14 2 (0.48%) Internet
14 2 (0.48%) RS-232
14 2 (0.48%) VSAN
14 2 (0.48%) X.400
15 1 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.67%) Oracle Database
1 7 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (0.95%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.71%) Power BI
4 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (3.57%) JIRA
2 7 (1.67%) InstallShield
2 7 (1.67%) MSI
3 3 (0.71%) AdminStudio
4 1 (0.24%) Hudson
4 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 240 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 41 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 30 (7.14%) Finance
3 30 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 24 (5.71%) Legal
5 23 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
6 21 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.81%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.33%) Banking
9 13 (3.10%) Electronics
9 13 (3.10%) Marketing
10 11 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.14%) Law
13 6 (1.43%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.95%) Police
15 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 114 (27.14%) Support Engineer
2 102 (24.29%) IT Support
3 84 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 66 (15.71%) IT Support Engineer
5 61 (14.52%) Analyst
6 49 (11.67%) Desktop Support
7 45 (10.71%) Desktop Engineer
8 44 (10.48%) Windows Engineer
9 40 (9.52%) 1st Line Support
10 35 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 31 (7.38%) Deployment Engineer
11 31 (7.38%) Support Analyst
12 27 (6.43%) 2nd Line Support
13 26 (6.19%) Service Analyst
14 25 (5.95%) Service Desk Analyst
15 19 (4.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 19 (4.52%) Migration Engineer
15 19 (4.52%) Technical Support
16 18 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 15 (3.57%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.95%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.38%) Onboarding
2 23 (5.48%) Smartphone
3 22 (5.24%) Driving Licence
4 19 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.14%) iPhone
7 8 (1.90%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (1.67%) CMDB
9 5 (1.19%) iPad
9 5 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.19%) PKI
10 4 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.71%) NHS
11 3 (0.71%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 1 (0.24%) Biopharmaceutical
13 1 (0.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 1 (0.24%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 408 (97.14%) Windows
2 33 (7.86%) Apple iOS
3 29 (6.90%) Android
3 29 (6.90%) Windows 7
4 24 (5.71%) Mac OS
4 24 (5.71%) Windows Server
5 18 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (2.14%) AIX
8 8 (1.90%) Linux
8 8 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.95%) Windows 8
10 3 (0.71%) CentOS
11 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (37.38%) Customer Service
2 75 (17.86%) ITIL
2 75 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (17.38%) Migration
4 53 (12.62%) ITSM
5 34 (8.10%) Service Management
6 27 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (6.19%) Logistics
8 24 (5.71%) Workflow
9 19 (4.52%) Asset Management
9 19 (4.52%) User Experience
10 17 (4.05%) Application Packaging
10 17 (4.05%) Incident Management
10 17 (4.05%) Proactive Monitoring
10 17 (4.05%) Workflow Management
11 16 (3.81%) Change Management
11 16 (3.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (3.57%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (3.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 15 (3.57%) VBScript
3 12 (2.86%) VB
4 5 (1.19%) Bash
4 5 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 109 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 87 (20.71%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.05%) Degree
4 23 (5.48%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (2.86%) MCSE
5 12 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 8 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.67%) A+ Certification
8 6 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.48%) HNC
11 2 (0.48%) HND
11 2 (0.48%) MCDST
12 1 (0.24%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.48%) SLA
2 6 (1.43%) GDPR
3 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) GLP
5 1 (0.24%) GMP
5 1 (0.24%) GRC
5 1 (0.24%) PMO
5 1 (0.24%) QA
System Software
1 230 (54.76%) Active Directory
2 17 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.10%) BitLocker
4 7 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.48%) NFS
7 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (26.19%) SCCM
2 74 (17.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (1.90%) WSUS
5 5 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.71%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.48%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.24%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 261 (62.14%) Microsoft
2 77 (18.33%) ServiceNow
3 29 (6.90%) Citrix
4 18 (4.29%) Remedy
5 17 (4.05%) Cisco
5 17 (4.05%) iManage
5 17 (4.05%) VMware
6 15 (3.57%) Bomgar
6 15 (3.57%) SAP
7 13 (3.10%) HP
8 10 (2.38%) McAfee
9 9 (2.14%) Apple
9 9 (2.14%) Oracle
10 7 (1.67%) IBM
10 7 (1.67%) Starlink
11 5 (1.19%) Dell
11 5 (1.19%) Google
12 4 (0.95%) Veeam
13 3 (0.71%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.71%) SolarWinds