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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 147 109
Rank change year-on-year -70 -38 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 550 559 911
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.20% 1.91% 2.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.56% 13.70% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 399 624
10th Percentile £133 £157 £148
25th Percentile £161 £195 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £238 £223
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +6.74% +3.49%
75th Percentile £297 £414 £384
90th Percentile £496 £570 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £190 £215 £210
% change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 32 91
10th Percentile £19.00 £18.13 £10.95
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.75 £11.07
Median hourly rate £22.00 £24.09 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% +39.37% -6.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.86 £21.38
90th Percentile £158.30 £28.37 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.20 £24.18 £14.41
% change year-on-year -8.21% +67.80% -22.11%

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 4,757 4,080 5,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.39% 13.96% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,112 2,723 4,002
10th Percentile £181 £200 £181
25th Percentile £304 £320 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £594
90th Percentile £660 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 172 411
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.51 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £26.47 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% +12.09% -26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £24.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.53% +20.90% -24.53%

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 11 April 2026.

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 11 April 2026.

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 11 April 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
England -55 524 £200 -15.79% 113
UK excluding London -55 397 £190 -11.63% 103
London -85 146 £250 -20.00% 26
North of England -11 145 £174 -13.13% 23
North West +18 110 £170 -10.53% 17
Work from Home -39 86 £205 -18.00% 16
Midlands -60 74 £180 -5.26% 22
South East -86 62 £200 -20.00% 25
East of England +5 55 £200 -11.11% 11
South West -46 43 £235 +4.44% 16
East Midlands -20 38 £175 -7.89% 12
West Midlands -81 35 £185 -2.63% 10
Yorkshire -40 32 £190 -18.28% 5
Scotland -21 11 £163 -23.53% 6
Wales -10 8 £200 -31.91% 2
North East -16 3 £180 -40.00% 2
Northern Ireland -13 1 £175 +13.64% 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 87 (15.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 64 (11.64%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.82%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.18%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 92 (16.73%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.91%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (3.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.73%) assyst
3 1 (0.18%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 325 (59.09%) Microsoft 365
2 124 (22.55%) Azure
3 81 (14.73%) Entra ID
4 27 (4.91%) OneDrive
5 8 (1.45%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.09%) AWS
7 5 (0.91%) GCP
8 4 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.55%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.36%) SaaS
10 2 (0.36%) Slack
10 2 (0.36%) Viva Engage
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.18%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.18%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.18%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.18%) IaaS
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.18%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 60 (10.91%) VPN
2 46 (8.36%) DNS
3 44 (8.00%) DHCP
3 44 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
4 39 (7.09%) LAN
5 32 (5.82%) WAN
6 25 (4.55%) Skype
7 23 (4.18%) TCP/IP
8 22 (4.00%) Wireless
9 20 (3.64%) VLAN
10 13 (2.36%) Remote Desktop
11 12 (2.18%) NetScaler
12 7 (1.27%) VoIP
13 6 (1.09%) Firewall
14 4 (0.73%) IPv4
14 4 (0.73%) IPv6
14 4 (0.73%) WAAS
15 3 (0.55%) 4G
15 3 (0.55%) Network Security
16 2 (0.36%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.09%) Power BI
3 5 (0.91%) Oracle Database
3 5 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 19 (3.45%) JIRA
2 10 (1.82%) MSI
3 7 (1.27%) InstallShield
4 3 (0.55%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
General
1 284 (51.64%) Social Skills
2 50 (9.09%) Finance
3 47 (8.55%) Public Sector
4 37 (6.73%) Banking
5 33 (6.00%) Legal
6 31 (5.64%) Manufacturing
7 29 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (4.00%) Telecoms
10 18 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.36%) Electronics
11 13 (2.36%) Marketing
12 12 (2.18%) Law
13 8 (1.45%) French Language
13 8 (1.45%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.91%) Front Office
14 5 (0.91%) Local Government
15 4 (0.73%) Police
16 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 167 (30.36%) Support Engineer
2 147 (26.73%) IT Support
3 115 (20.91%) IT Engineer
4 93 (16.91%) IT Support Engineer
5 85 (15.45%) Analyst
6 57 (10.36%) Desktop Support
7 49 (8.91%) Desktop Engineer
8 47 (8.55%) Windows Engineer
9 45 (8.18%) Support Analyst
10 43 (7.82%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 42 (7.64%) 1st Line Support
12 38 (6.91%) 2nd Line Support
13 32 (5.82%) Service Analyst
14 29 (5.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 29 (5.27%) Service Desk Analyst
15 26 (4.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 26 (4.73%) IT Analyst
16 25 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
16 25 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
16 25 (4.55%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.09%) X-Windows
2 4 (0.73%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.36%) Web Services
4 1 (0.18%) EDI
4 1 (0.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.45%) Onboarding
2 27 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (4.36%) Smartphone
4 23 (4.18%) Driving Licence
5 21 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.00%) iPhone
7 7 (1.27%) CMDB
7 7 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.09%) iPad
9 5 (0.91%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.73%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.55%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.55%) NHS
11 3 (0.55%) PKI
11 3 (0.55%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.36%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.36%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 538 (97.82%) Windows
2 45 (8.18%) Android
3 42 (7.64%) Mac OS
4 41 (7.45%) Apple iOS
5 39 (7.09%) Windows 7
5 39 (7.09%) Windows Server
6 20 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (2.36%) Windows Server 2003
8 10 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (1.64%) Linux
9 9 (1.64%) Mac OS X
10 7 (1.27%) AIX
11 6 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.73%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.55%) CentOS
14 1 (0.18%) Unix
14 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (32.00%) Customer Service
2 111 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (19.09%) ITIL
4 97 (17.64%) Migration
5 72 (13.09%) ITSM
6 46 (8.36%) Service Management
7 41 (7.45%) User Experience
8 36 (6.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (6.18%) Asset Management
10 32 (5.82%) Application Packaging
11 31 (5.64%) Logistics
12 30 (5.45%) Change Management
13 29 (5.27%) Workflow
14 24 (4.36%) Incident Management
15 23 (4.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (3.82%) Service Delivery
16 21 (3.82%) Workflow Management
17 17 (3.09%) Business Intelligence
18 16 (2.91%) Agile
18 16 (2.91%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (12.36%) PowerShell
2 17 (3.09%) VBScript
3 12 (2.18%) VB
4 10 (1.82%) SQL
5 5 (0.91%) Bash
6 2 (0.36%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 114 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 95 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.55%) Degree
4 28 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (4.91%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.55%) MCSE
7 11 (2.00%) A+ Certification
8 9 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.45%) CCA
9 8 (1.45%) Citrix Certification
9 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.36%) HNC
13 2 (0.36%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) CCNA
14 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.73%) SLA
2 6 (1.09%) GDPR
2 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.36%) GLP
4 2 (0.36%) GMP
5 1 (0.18%) GRC
5 1 (0.18%) NCSC
5 1 (0.18%) QA
System Software
1 303 (55.09%) Active Directory
2 22 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (2.55%) BitLocker
5 8 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.27%) XenDesktop
7 5 (0.91%) XenApp
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.36%) NFS
10 1 (0.18%) Firmware
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (22.18%) SCCM
2 119 (21.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (2.55%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (2.00%) WSUS
5 5 (0.91%) SCVMM
6 4 (0.73%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.36%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (0.36%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.36%) WMI
8 1 (0.18%) SCOM
8 1 (0.18%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 336 (61.09%) Microsoft
2 89 (16.18%) ServiceNow
3 49 (8.91%) Citrix
4 26 (4.73%) Apple
5 25 (4.55%) Cisco
5 25 (4.55%) VMware
6 22 (4.00%) HP
6 22 (4.00%) Remedy
7 17 (3.09%) Bomgar
7 17 (3.09%) Dell
7 17 (3.09%) iManage
8 14 (2.55%) SAP
9 9 (1.64%) Starlink
10 8 (1.45%) McAfee
10 8 (1.45%) Oracle
11 5 (0.91%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.91%) Google
11 5 (0.91%) IBM
12 4 (0.73%) Qualys
13 3 (0.55%) SolarWinds