Windows 10 Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 128 115
Rank change year-on-year -46 -13 -15
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 597 683 950
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.00% 2.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.53% 14.27% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 466 678
10th Percentile £134 £155 £143
25th Percentile £163 £190 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £233 £215
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +8.14% -4.44%
75th Percentile £350 £398 £360
90th Percentile £550 £537 £544
UK excluding London median daily rate £202 £225 £210
% change year-on-year -10.44% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 41 47
10th Percentile £18.61 £15.22 £15.85
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% +3.46%
75th Percentile £25.00 £24.18 £24.38
90th Percentile £25.15 £57.62 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% +21.62% +4.40%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,765 4,785 6,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.93% 14.04% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,093 2,985 4,509
10th Percentile £175 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £317 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £655 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £425 £430
% change year-on-year -4.41% -1.16% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 184 326
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.33 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £17.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.51% +34.62% +34.02%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.11 £43.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -41.60% +57.80% +23.86%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows 10 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Windows 10 job vacancy trend in the UK

Windows 10
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Windows 10.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Windows 10.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
England -32 569 £211 -11.21% 135
UK excluding London -32 454 £202 -10.44% 126
London -40 139 £225 -10.00% 30
South East -24 116 £211 -23.18% 37
North of England -34 111 £175 -22.22% 35
South West +18 92 £325 +44.44% 13
Work from Home -48 87 £356 +42.50% 32
North West -14 80 £175 -12.50% 19
Midlands -41 68 £175 -7.89% 16
East of England +2 52 £201 -10.56% 20
West Midlands -41 39 £175 -12.50% 10
East Midlands -7 29 £175 -7.89% 6
Yorkshire -54 21 £170 -29.17% 11
Scotland -29 17 £200 - 3
North East 0 10 £200 - 5
Wales -12 7 £200 - 5
Northern Ireland -18 1 £250 +68.92% 1

Windows 10
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 83 (13.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (12.73%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.17%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.17%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 95 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.01%) assyst
3 1 (0.17%) Eikon
3 1 (0.17%) Eze OMS
3 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 306 (51.26%) Microsoft 365
2 107 (17.92%) Azure
3 59 (9.88%) Entra ID
4 48 (8.04%) OneDrive
5 12 (2.01%) AWS
6 10 (1.68%) GCP
7 7 (1.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.34%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.17%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.17%) OCI
9 1 (0.17%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.17%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.17%) Serverless
9 1 (0.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 66 (11.06%) VPN
2 64 (10.72%) DNS
3 45 (7.54%) DHCP
4 41 (6.87%) TCP/IP
5 30 (5.03%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (4.36%) LAN
6 26 (4.36%) WAN
7 22 (3.69%) Skype
8 16 (2.68%) Wireless
9 14 (2.35%) Firewall
9 14 (2.35%) VLAN
10 9 (1.51%) 4G
11 8 (1.34%) PABX
12 5 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.84%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.84%) VSAN
12 5 (0.84%) WAAS
13 4 (0.67%) NetScaler
14 3 (0.50%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
2 10 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.17%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.50%) Power BI
5 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (2.85%) MSI
2 10 (1.68%) JIRA
3 9 (1.51%) InstallShield
4 6 (1.01%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.17%) GitLab
5 1 (0.17%) Hudson
5 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 308 (51.59%) Social Skills
2 64 (10.72%) Finance
3 54 (9.05%) Public Sector
4 34 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.02%) Banking
6 23 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (3.52%) Legal
7 21 (3.52%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.85%) Electronics
8 17 (2.85%) Marketing
8 17 (2.85%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.01%) Law
11 6 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.50%) French Language
13 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 173 (28.98%) Support Engineer
2 148 (24.79%) IT Support
3 105 (17.59%) IT Engineer
4 84 (14.07%) Analyst
4 84 (14.07%) Desktop Support
5 79 (13.23%) IT Support Engineer
6 74 (12.40%) Desktop Engineer
7 69 (11.56%) Windows Engineer
8 62 (10.39%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 57 (9.55%) Deployment Engineer
10 47 (7.87%) Support Analyst
11 44 (7.37%) 2nd Line Support
12 34 (5.70%) IT Analyst
13 32 (5.36%) Service Analyst
14 30 (5.03%) IT Support Analyst
14 30 (5.03%) Service Desk Analyst
14 30 (5.03%) Windows Support Engineer
15 29 (4.86%) 1st Line Support
16 24 (4.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 23 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.50%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.34%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.70%) Onboarding
2 31 (5.19%) Driving Licence
3 23 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.18%) Smartphone
5 15 (2.51%) iPhone
6 14 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
7 13 (2.18%) PKI
8 11 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.68%) iPad
10 8 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.01%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.84%) NHS
12 5 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 4 (0.67%) Blackberry
13 4 (0.67%) CMDB
14 3 (0.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 585 (97.99%) Windows
2 54 (9.05%) Android
3 53 (8.88%) Apple iOS
4 48 (8.04%) Mac OS
5 37 (6.20%) Windows Server
6 32 (5.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 31 (5.19%) Windows 7
8 23 (3.85%) Linux
9 12 (2.01%) Windows Server 2003
9 12 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (1.84%) AIX
11 5 (0.84%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.84%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.50%) CentOS
14 2 (0.34%) Unix
15 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (26.80%) Customer Service
2 103 (17.25%) ITIL
3 101 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (14.24%) Migration
5 65 (10.89%) ITSM
6 48 (8.04%) Service Management
7 38 (6.37%) User Experience
8 35 (5.86%) Application Packaging
9 30 (5.03%) Workflow
10 27 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (4.52%) Mobile Device Management
11 25 (4.19%) Inventory Management
12 24 (4.02%) Agile
12 24 (4.02%) Logistics
13 22 (3.69%) Change Management
13 22 (3.69%) Service Delivery
13 22 (3.69%) Workflow Management
14 21 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (3.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (3.35%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 20 (3.35%) VBScript
3 11 (1.84%) SQL
4 10 (1.68%) Bash
5 7 (1.17%) VB
6 4 (0.67%) Java
7 3 (0.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 174 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 132 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.20%) Degree
4 36 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (5.86%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.85%) A+ Certification
7 11 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.51%) MCP
10 6 (1.01%) MCSE
11 5 (0.84%) Citrix Certification
11 5 (0.84%) MCDST
12 4 (0.67%) MCSA
13 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.34%) CCA
15 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.17%) Dell Certification
15 1 (0.17%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.53%) SLA
2 18 (3.02%) GDPR
3 16 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.50%) NCSC
6 2 (0.34%) QA
7 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 312 (52.26%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.01%) BitLocker
5 10 (1.68%) Microsoft App-V
5 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.51%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.01%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.84%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.67%) Firmware
9 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.67%) vSphere
10 2 (0.34%) NFS
10 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.34%) XenApp
11 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 169 (28.31%) SCCM
2 103 (17.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (2.51%) vCenter Server
4 10 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.34%) WSUS
6 6 (1.01%) Norton AntiVirus
7 4 (0.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 3 (0.50%) OPNET
8 3 (0.50%) SCOM
8 3 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.17%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.17%) Ansible
9 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 336 (56.28%) Microsoft
2 90 (15.08%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.38%) VMware
4 48 (8.04%) Citrix
5 36 (6.03%) Apple
6 35 (5.86%) Cisco
7 25 (4.19%) HP
8 23 (3.85%) Dell
9 19 (3.18%) SAP
10 18 (3.02%) McAfee
10 18 (3.02%) Remedy
11 13 (2.18%) Oracle
12 10 (1.68%) iManage
13 9 (1.51%) Symantec
14 8 (1.34%) Starlink
15 7 (1.17%) Reuters
15 7 (1.17%) Veeam
16 6 (1.01%) Bloomberg
16 6 (1.01%) IBM
16 6 (1.01%) SolarWinds