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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 59 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 592 839 1,401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.85% 3.66% 4.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.91% 19.26% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 601 923
10th Percentile £143 £136 £130
25th Percentile £183 £163 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £204 £190
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +7.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £300 £325 £283
90th Percentile £575 £519 £450
UK median daily rate £225 £215 £210
% change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 57 152
10th Percentile - £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +5.71% +14.75%
75th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.10
90th Percentile £32.75 £49.55 £23.75
UK median hourly rate £16.25 £18.84 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.75% +7.66% +12.90%

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 3,305 4,356 5,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.93% 19.01% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,194 2,994 3,873
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 307 434
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.52
25th Percentile £14.64 £17.50 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.79 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.81% +92.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -2 203 £245 +19.51% 71
North of England +9 146 £220 +10.00% 77
North West +10 93 £223 +3.49% 41
Midlands +12 90 £200 +5.26% 44
Scotland +28 60 £200 +21.21% 14
West Midlands +13 56 £200 -10.11% 22
South West -47 55 £225 -6.25% 40
Yorkshire +7 50 £190 - 34
East Midlands +3 34 £160 +31.15% 22
East of England -28 31 £225 +20.00% 25
Wales 0 6 £190 -58.92% 2
North East +9 3 £150 -8.40% 2
Northern Ireland -2 3 £173 -6.76% 5
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 67 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (7.60%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.35%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) nginx
5 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 171 (28.89%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (0.68%) LabWindows
2 3 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.34%) Shopify
4 1 (0.17%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 272 (45.95%) Microsoft 365
2 106 (17.91%) Azure
3 42 (7.09%) Entra ID
4 29 (4.90%) OneDrive
5 14 (2.36%) OCI
6 8 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.68%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.34%) AWS
8 2 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.34%) BigCommerce
8 2 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.34%) IaaS
8 2 (0.34%) SaaS
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.17%) GCP
9 1 (0.17%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.17%) PaaS
9 1 (0.17%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.68%) DNS
2 60 (10.14%) DHCP
3 57 (9.63%) VPN
4 36 (6.08%) Firewall
5 33 (5.57%) LAN
6 28 (4.73%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (3.89%) TCP/IP
8 17 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
8 17 (2.87%) SAN
9 16 (2.70%) VoIP
10 15 (2.53%) WAN
11 13 (2.20%) Skype
12 10 (1.69%) NetScaler
13 9 (1.52%) VLAN
14 6 (1.01%) WAAS
14 6 (1.01%) Wireless
15 5 (0.84%) RS-232
15 5 (0.84%) WebEx
16 4 (0.68%) Ethernet
16 4 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.34%) Power BI
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.18%) MSI
2 6 (1.01%) JIRA
2 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.84%) InstallShield
3 5 (0.84%) Subversion
4 3 (0.51%) Git
5 2 (0.34%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 253 (42.74%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.47%) Public Sector
3 60 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
4 39 (6.59%) Finance
5 23 (3.89%) Manufacturing
6 20 (3.38%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.04%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.04%) Marketing
8 16 (2.70%) Electronics
9 12 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.52%) Retail
11 8 (1.35%) Legal
11 8 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.18%) Law
13 4 (0.68%) Banking
14 3 (0.51%) French Language
14 3 (0.51%) Military
15 2 (0.34%) Local Government
15 2 (0.34%) Multimedia
15 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 125 (21.11%) Support Engineer
2 107 (18.07%) Analyst
3 87 (14.70%) IT Support
4 80 (13.51%) Desktop Engineer
5 77 (13.01%) Desktop Support
6 55 (9.29%) Service Analyst
7 54 (9.12%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 54 (9.12%) Service Desk Analyst
8 50 (8.45%) 2nd Line Support
9 47 (7.94%) Support Analyst
10 42 (7.09%) IT Engineer
11 37 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
12 35 (5.91%) IT Analyst
13 34 (5.74%) Deployment Engineer
14 32 (5.41%) Senior
15 29 (4.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 29 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 27 (4.56%) 1st Line Support
16 27 (4.56%) IT Support Analyst
17 26 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.84%) XMPP
2 2 (0.34%) .NET
2 2 (0.34%) MFC
2 2 (0.34%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.34%) VML
2 2 (0.34%) WinForms
2 2 (0.34%) WPF
3 1 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.17%) LDAP
3 1 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.93%) Driving Licence
2 32 (5.41%) iPhone
3 21 (3.55%) Data Centre
3 21 (3.55%) Video Conferencing
4 20 (3.38%) iPad
5 15 (2.53%) NHS
6 13 (2.20%) Smartphone
7 12 (2.03%) CMDB
8 11 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.35%) BYOD
9 8 (1.35%) Clustering
9 8 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.18%) Digital Signage
11 6 (1.01%) PKI
11 6 (1.01%) Video Editing
12 5 (0.84%) Device Driver
13 3 (0.51%) Fat Client
13 3 (0.51%) Thin Client
14 2 (0.34%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 586 (98.99%) Windows
2 112 (18.92%) Windows Server
3 88 (14.86%) Windows 7
4 69 (11.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 60 (10.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 57 (9.63%) Apple iOS
7 55 (9.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (3.72%) Mac OS
9 20 (3.38%) Linux
10 17 (2.87%) Android
10 17 (2.87%) Windows NT
10 17 (2.87%) Windows XP
11 14 (2.36%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.34%) CentOS
13 2 (0.34%) Unix
13 2 (0.34%) VMS
13 2 (0.34%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.34%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (31.93%) Customer Service
2 148 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 135 (22.80%) ITIL
4 39 (6.59%) Time Management
5 37 (6.25%) Migration
5 37 (6.25%) Service Delivery
5 37 (6.25%) Service Management
6 36 (6.08%) Break/Fix
6 36 (6.08%) Decision-Making
7 35 (5.91%) Mobile Device Management
8 31 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (3.89%) Proactive Monitoring
10 22 (3.72%) ITSM
10 22 (3.72%) Software Deployment
11 21 (3.55%) Deployment Automation
11 21 (3.55%) Performance Monitoring
11 21 (3.55%) Project Management
12 20 (3.38%) Change Management
12 20 (3.38%) Release Management
13 19 (3.21%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 89 (15.03%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.05%) SQL
3 11 (1.86%) VBScript
4 10 (1.69%) VB
5 6 (1.01%) C#
6 4 (0.68%) C
6 4 (0.68%) Python
7 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.34%) C++
8 2 (0.34%) C++/CLI
Qualifications
1 174 (29.39%) Security Cleared
2 109 (18.41%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.84%) DV Cleared
4 60 (10.14%) Degree
5 26 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (3.38%) CCNA
6 20 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (3.21%) A+ Certification
8 14 (2.36%) CCNP
8 14 (2.36%) MCSE
9 10 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.68%) MCTS
12 3 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.94%) SLA
2 28 (4.73%) Disclosure Scotland
3 23 (3.89%) QA
4 5 (0.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 342 (57.77%) Active Directory
2 54 (9.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (5.07%) Firmware
4 29 (4.90%) Hyper-V
5 20 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (2.53%) XenApp
7 13 (2.20%) BitLocker
7 13 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (1.86%) XenDesktop
9 9 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (1.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
12 4 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.34%) KVM
14 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.34%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.17%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 201 (33.95%) SCCM
2 92 (15.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (6.08%) WSUS
4 19 (3.21%) vCenter Server
5 18 (3.04%) Sysprep
6 17 (2.87%) SCOM
7 15 (2.53%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (2.36%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (2.36%) NetBackup
9 10 (1.69%) Autotask
10 7 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
11 6 (1.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.68%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.51%) AppManager
14 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.34%) OPNET
15 1 (0.17%) Norton AntiVirus
15 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 359 (60.64%) Microsoft
2 72 (12.16%) Apple
3 64 (10.81%) VMware
4 61 (10.30%) HP
5 57 (9.63%) Cisco
6 47 (7.94%) Citrix
7 46 (7.77%) ServiceNow
8 23 (3.89%) SAP
9 22 (3.72%) Dell
10 19 (3.21%) Symantec
11 18 (3.04%) Veeam
12 17 (2.87%) Oracle
13 15 (2.53%) Juniper
14 14 (2.36%) 3PAR
14 14 (2.36%) EMC
14 14 (2.36%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (2.36%) Palo Alto
15 9 (1.52%) Ivanti
15 9 (1.52%) Samsung
16 8 (1.35%) NetApp