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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 178 118
Rank change year-on-year -72 -60 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 577 541 746
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.64% 1.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.76% 12.02% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 362 483
10th Percentile £150 £150 £150
25th Percentile £185 £172 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £226 £225 £225
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £305 £350 £364
90th Percentile £469 £525 £496
UK excluding London median daily rate £218 £215 £225
% change year-on-year +1.16% -4.44% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 75 46
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.53 £14.74
25th Percentile £19.59 £18.87 £17.44
Median hourly rate £25.75 £22.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% +2.27% +14.70%
75th Percentile £40.25 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £67.47 - £57.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.46 £21.00
% change year-on-year +19.99% +2.19% +10.53%

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 5,362 4,501 5,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.77% 13.63% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,380 2,875 3,270
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £281 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £660 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £449
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.24% -0.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 301 250
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £22.65
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.47% -53.43% +23.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £57.38
% change year-on-year +3.38% -56.17% +43.44%

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 7 October 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 7 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 18 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 7 October 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 -78 520 £230 +2.22% 170
UK excluding London -67 425 £218 +1.16% 133
London -89 140 £240 -4.00% 51
North of England -16 124 £230 +29.58% 26
North West +21 96 £250 +42.86% 18
South East -83 83 £273 +10.10% 25
South West -59 63 £225 -23.08% 15
Midlands -36 60 £175 - 28
Work from Home -83 58 £250 -28.57% 40
East of England -2 53 £190 -15.56% 22
Scotland -19 33 £150 -25.00% 9
West Midlands -52 31 £188 +7.14% 11
East Midlands -4 29 £150 +13.35% 16
Yorkshire -39 20 £200 +17.65% 7
North East -40 8 £250 +25.00% 1
Wales -14 7 £200 -27.27% 7
Northern Ireland +9 4 £175 -30.00% 2
Channel Islands -5 1 £535 -

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 72 (12.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (11.96%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.95%) Skype for Business
4 13 (2.25%) HCL Notes
5 7 (1.21%) Confluence
6 5 (0.87%) Apache
6 5 (0.87%) nginx
7 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 93 (16.12%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.52%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.35%) assyst
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 345 (59.79%) Microsoft 365
2 156 (27.04%) Azure
3 133 (23.05%) Entra ID
4 31 (5.37%) OneDrive
5 8 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (0.87%) Mimecast
6 5 (0.87%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.52%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.35%) IaaS
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.35%) PaaS
9 1 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.17%) GitHub
9 1 (0.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 82 (14.21%) VPN
2 59 (10.23%) DNS
3 55 (9.53%) DHCP
4 51 (8.84%) TCP/IP
5 32 (5.55%) LAN
6 29 (5.03%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (4.51%) Skype
8 19 (3.29%) WAN
9 14 (2.43%) Firewall
9 14 (2.43%) Wireless
10 11 (1.91%) VLAN
11 10 (1.73%) Network Security
12 9 (1.56%) NetScaler
13 8 (1.39%) Internet
14 5 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
15 3 (0.52%) IPv4
15 3 (0.52%) IPv6
15 3 (0.52%) VoIP
16 2 (0.35%) Telepresence
16 2 (0.35%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.21%) Oracle Database
2 6 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (5.20%) JIRA
2 10 (1.73%) MSI
3 5 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (0.87%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 347 (60.14%) Social Skills
2 67 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (6.93%) Finance
4 31 (5.37%) Legal
5 20 (3.47%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (1.91%) Front Office
8 11 (1.91%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.39%) Banking
10 8 (1.39%) Local Government
11 6 (1.04%) French Language
12 5 (0.87%) Law
13 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.69%) Marketing
13 4 (0.69%) Retail
14 3 (0.52%) Police
15 2 (0.35%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 198 (34.32%) Support Engineer
2 180 (31.20%) IT Support
3 164 (28.42%) IT Engineer
4 142 (24.61%) IT Support Engineer
5 62 (10.75%) Analyst
6 57 (9.88%) Desktop Engineer
7 50 (8.67%) Deployment Engineer
8 45 (7.80%) Desktop Support
9 40 (6.93%) 2nd Line Support
10 32 (5.55%) Support Analyst
11 31 (5.37%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 30 (5.20%) Windows Engineer
13 29 (5.03%) Service Analyst
14 27 (4.68%) Service Desk Analyst
15 26 (4.51%) 1st Line Support
16 25 (4.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
17 24 (4.16%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 24 (4.16%) IT Analyst
18 23 (3.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
19 20 (3.47%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.39%) Software Packaging
2 6 (1.04%) Terraform
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.17%) .NET
4 1 (0.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.17%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.17%) LDAP
4 1 (0.17%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.17%) SAML
4 1 (0.17%) WinForms
4 1 (0.17%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.31%) Onboarding
2 27 (4.68%) Video Conferencing
3 21 (3.64%) Driving Licence
4 20 (3.47%) Blackberry
5 18 (3.12%) CMDB
5 18 (3.12%) Smartphone
6 14 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.56%) iPhone
10 8 (1.39%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.21%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.04%) BYOD
12 6 (1.04%) Fat Client
12 6 (1.04%) iPad
12 6 (1.04%) Thin Client
13 5 (0.87%) Digital Signage
13 5 (0.87%) NHS
13 5 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 577 (100.00%) Windows
2 57 (9.88%) Windows Server
3 55 (9.53%) Android
4 50 (8.67%) Apple iOS
5 44 (7.63%) Mac OS
6 41 (7.11%) Windows 7
7 30 (5.20%) Linux
8 14 (2.43%) Ubuntu
9 12 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.73%) CentOS
11 7 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (1.21%) Solaris
12 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.35%) Debian
14 2 (0.35%) VMS
14 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (34.84%) Customer Service
2 162 (28.08%) ITIL
3 138 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (15.25%) ITSM
5 74 (12.82%) Service Management
6 66 (11.44%) Migration
7 59 (10.23%) User Experience
8 55 (9.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (7.80%) Asset Management
10 40 (6.93%) Service Delivery
11 38 (6.59%) Root Cause Analysis
12 37 (6.41%) Application Packaging
13 31 (5.37%) Incident Management
14 29 (5.03%) Break/Fix
15 28 (4.85%) Customer Experience
16 25 (4.33%) Mobile Device Management
17 24 (4.16%) Change Management
18 22 (3.81%) Software Deployment
19 20 (3.47%) Disk Encryption
19 20 (3.47%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (17.85%) PowerShell
2 22 (3.81%) VBScript
3 16 (2.77%) VB
4 8 (1.39%) Python
5 6 (1.04%) SQL
6 2 (0.35%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) Bash
7 1 (0.17%) C#
7 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 149 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 126 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.28%) Degree
4 31 (5.37%) DV Cleared
5 28 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (4.33%) A+ Certification
7 16 (2.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 12 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.56%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.56%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.35%) ACSP
14 2 (0.35%) MCSE
15 1 (0.17%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.57%) SLA
2 7 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (0.87%) NCSC
5 2 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) GxP
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) QA
System Software
1 375 (64.99%) Active Directory
2 35 (6.07%) Virtual Desktop
3 27 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (4.16%) BitLocker
5 15 (2.60%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 7 (1.21%) XenApp
7 7 (1.21%) XenDesktop
8 6 (1.04%) Firmware
8 6 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.35%) KVM
10 2 (0.35%) vSphere
11 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 186 (32.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 145 (25.13%) SCCM
3 7 (1.21%) WSUS
4 6 (1.04%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.87%) Packer
6 4 (0.69%) SysTrack
7 3 (0.52%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.35%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.35%) SCOM
9 1 (0.17%) Grafana
9 1 (0.17%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 396 (68.63%) Microsoft
2 132 (22.88%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.67%) Apple
4 37 (6.41%) VMware
5 20 (3.47%) Citrix
6 18 (3.12%) Cisco
6 18 (3.12%) HP
7 16 (2.77%) Lotus
8 13 (2.25%) Remedy
9 9 (1.56%) Samsung
10 8 (1.39%) iManage
10 8 (1.39%) McAfee
10 8 (1.39%) Oracle
11 7 (1.21%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.21%) Sophos
12 6 (1.04%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.04%) Dell
12 6 (1.04%) Google
12 6 (1.04%) Ivanti
12 6 (1.04%) Meraki