Windows 10 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows 10
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Windows 10 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 10 over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 61 46
Rank change year-on-year +1 -15 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 609 865 1,438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.97% 3.68% 4.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.85% 19.09% 24.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 595 939
10th Percentile £143 £135 £126
25th Percentile £183 £162 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £205 £190
Median % change year-on-year +4.88% +7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £300 £324 £275
90th Percentile £575 £500 £445
UK median daily rate £225 £215 £205
% change year-on-year +4.65% +4.88% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 78 163
10th Percentile - £13.99 £12.56
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.51 £14.13
Median hourly rate £14.14 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +5.71% +14.75%
75th Percentile £18.13 £23.42 £22.25
90th Percentile £25.38 £43.00 £24.95
UK median hourly rate £16.25 £18.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -12.16% +2.78% +16.28%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows 10 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,231 4,532 5,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.74% 19.28% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,147 3,149 3,853
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £256 £250 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 336 459
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.58
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.29 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £61.90 £60.64 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.49 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 10 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

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 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 10 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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
South East +6 232 £225 +9.76% 71
North of England +27 154 £220 +3.53% 50
North West +17 93 £225 - 25
Midlands +4 81 £195 +3.17% 53
Yorkshire +33 57 £193 -3.75% 23
South West -42 57 £225 - 50
Scotland +17 48 £200 +21.21% 19
West Midlands +10 48 £200 -9.09% 28
East Midlands -2 32 £160 +17.65% 25
East of England -32 30 £220 +11.39% 31
Wales +3 8 £190 -63.81% 3
North East +13 4 £185 +17.46% 2
Northern Ireland -2 2 £145 -21.62% 4
Windows 10
UK

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 76 (12.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (8.05%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.48%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.49%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.16%) nginx
5 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 181 (29.72%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) LabWindows
2 3 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.33%) Shopify
4 1 (0.16%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 288 (47.29%) Microsoft 365
2 113 (18.56%) Azure
3 43 (7.06%) Entra ID
4 33 (5.42%) OneDrive
5 14 (2.30%) OCI
6 8 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (0.66%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.33%) AWS
8 2 (0.33%) BigCommerce
8 2 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.33%) IaaS
8 2 (0.33%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.33%) SaaS
9 1 (0.16%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.16%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.16%) GCP
9 1 (0.16%) PaaS
9 1 (0.16%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.30%) DNS
2 61 (10.02%) DHCP
3 48 (7.88%) VPN
4 40 (6.57%) LAN
5 37 (6.08%) Firewall
6 32 (5.25%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (4.27%) TCP/IP
8 25 (4.11%) Remote Desktop
9 19 (3.12%) WAN
10 18 (2.96%) SAN
11 16 (2.63%) VoIP
12 13 (2.13%) Skype
13 10 (1.64%) NetScaler
14 9 (1.48%) VLAN
15 8 (1.31%) WAAS
15 8 (1.31%) Wireless
16 6 (0.99%) Network Security
17 5 (0.82%) RS-232
17 5 (0.82%) WebEx
18 4 (0.66%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.49%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (1.48%) JIRA
2 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.82%) Subversion
4 3 (0.49%) Git
5 2 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 273 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 71 (11.66%) Organisational Skills
3 67 (11.00%) Public Sector
4 49 (8.05%) Finance
5 29 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 24 (3.94%) Telecoms
7 22 (3.61%) Marketing
8 20 (3.28%) Electronics
9 19 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.64%) Law
12 9 (1.48%) Banking
13 8 (1.31%) Retail
14 6 (0.99%) Legal
14 6 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.49%) French Language
16 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.33%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 133 (21.84%) Support Engineer
2 113 (18.56%) Analyst
3 86 (14.12%) IT Support
4 80 (13.14%) Desktop Engineer
4 80 (13.14%) Desktop Support
5 63 (10.34%) Service Analyst
6 62 (10.18%) Service Desk Analyst
7 59 (9.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 50 (8.21%) IT Engineer
9 49 (8.05%) 2nd Line Support
10 45 (7.39%) Support Analyst
11 38 (6.24%) Windows Engineer
12 33 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 31 (5.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 31 (5.09%) IT Analyst
13 31 (5.09%) Senior
14 30 (4.93%) Deployment Engineer
15 28 (4.60%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 27 (4.43%) 1st Line Support
16 27 (4.43%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.82%) XMPP
2 2 (0.33%) .NET
2 2 (0.33%) MFC
2 2 (0.33%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.33%) VML
2 2 (0.33%) WinForms
2 2 (0.33%) WPF
3 1 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.16%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.05%) Driving Licence
2 27 (4.43%) iPhone
3 26 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 22 (3.61%) NHS
5 20 (3.28%) iPad
6 18 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
7 13 (2.13%) CMDB
7 13 (2.13%) Smartphone
8 12 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.31%) BYOD
10 8 (1.31%) Clustering
10 8 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 6 (0.99%) Digital Signage
11 6 (0.99%) Video Editing
12 5 (0.82%) Device Driver
12 5 (0.82%) PKI
13 4 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 3 (0.49%) Fat Client
14 3 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 603 (99.01%) Windows
2 121 (19.87%) Windows Server
3 96 (15.76%) Windows 7
4 72 (11.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 64 (10.51%) Apple iOS
6 63 (10.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 60 (9.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (3.78%) Mac OS
9 20 (3.28%) Linux
9 20 (3.28%) Windows NT
10 19 (3.12%) Android
11 17 (2.79%) Windows Server 2008
11 17 (2.79%) Windows XP
12 6 (0.99%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.66%) Unix
14 2 (0.33%) VMS
14 2 (0.33%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.16%) CentOS
15 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (33.66%) Customer Service
2 153 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
3 141 (23.15%) ITIL
4 49 (8.05%) Service Management
5 42 (6.90%) Migration
6 40 (6.57%) Time Management
7 35 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 35 (5.75%) Mobile Device Management
8 34 (5.58%) Decision-Making
9 33 (5.42%) Service Delivery
10 30 (4.93%) Software Deployment
11 28 (4.60%) Break/Fix
12 26 (4.27%) Asset Management
13 25 (4.11%) ITSM
13 25 (4.11%) Project Management
14 24 (3.94%) Deployment Automation
15 23 (3.78%) Proactive Monitoring
16 22 (3.61%) Release Management
17 21 (3.45%) Customer Requirements
17 21 (3.45%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 82 (13.46%) PowerShell
2 21 (3.45%) SQL
3 11 (1.81%) VBScript
4 8 (1.31%) VB
5 6 (0.99%) C#
6 4 (0.66%) C
6 4 (0.66%) Python
7 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.33%) C++
8 2 (0.33%) C++/CLI
Qualifications
1 170 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 97 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 85 (13.96%) DV Cleared
4 74 (12.15%) Degree
5 28 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (3.78%) CCNA
6 23 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (2.46%) A+ Certification
7 15 (2.46%) CCNP
7 15 (2.46%) MCSE
8 13 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (1.31%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.66%) MCP
13 4 (0.66%) MCTS
14 3 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 2 (0.33%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.36%) SLA
2 28 (4.60%) Disclosure Scotland
3 26 (4.27%) QA
4 5 (0.82%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 354 (58.13%) Active Directory
2 57 (9.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (5.91%) Firmware
4 32 (5.25%) Hyper-V
5 24 (3.94%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (2.96%) XenApp
7 14 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (2.30%) XenDesktop
8 11 (1.81%) BitLocker
9 9 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (1.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 8 (1.31%) VMware Workstation
11 7 (1.15%) KVM
12 5 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.33%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
16 1 (0.16%) DFS Replication
16 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 209 (34.32%) SCCM
2 94 (15.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (6.40%) WSUS
4 24 (3.94%) vCenter Server
5 21 (3.45%) Sysprep
6 17 (2.79%) SCOM
7 15 (2.46%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (2.30%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (2.30%) NetBackup
9 10 (1.64%) Autotask
10 9 (1.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 7 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.66%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.49%) AppManager
14 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.33%) OPNET
15 1 (0.16%) Norton AntiVirus
15 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 378 (62.07%) Microsoft
2 79 (12.97%) Apple
3 66 (10.84%) VMware
4 65 (10.67%) HP
5 55 (9.03%) ServiceNow
6 52 (8.54%) Cisco
7 50 (8.21%) Citrix
8 29 (4.76%) SAP
9 23 (3.78%) Dell
10 20 (3.28%) Veeam
11 19 (3.12%) Symantec
12 18 (2.96%) Oracle
13 15 (2.46%) EMC
13 15 (2.46%) Juniper
13 15 (2.46%) Palo Alto
14 14 (2.30%) 3PAR
14 14 (2.30%) Extreme Networks
15 9 (1.48%) Ivanti
16 8 (1.31%) NetApp
17 7 (1.15%) Remedy