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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 179 125
Rank change year-on-year -76 -54 -11
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 524 511 741
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.55% 1.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.19% 11.64% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 319 495
10th Percentile £143 £150 £150
25th Percentile £163 £175 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £221 £225
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% -1.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile £288 £344 £388
90th Percentile £425 £511 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £220
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 68 82
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.41 £10.95
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.87 £11.07
Median hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% +42.06% -14.79%
75th Percentile £67.47 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £137.85 £28.00 £25.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £25.00 £14.14
% change year-on-year +3.00% +76.80% -25.58%

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 5,144 4,391 5,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.65% 13.34% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,245 2,817 3,626
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £315 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £658 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +1.11% -4.26% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 256 336
10th Percentile £14.80 £15.50 £12.46
25th Percentile £17.68 £18.13 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -12.73% -35.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.85 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.88 £22.53 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.75% -43.68% +36.52%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -64 478 £213 -3.41% 119
UK excluding London -64 389 £200 - 105
London -91 128 £244 -2.60% 28
North of England -11 120 £200 - 32
North West -3 86 £200 +11.11% 22
South West -29 67 £225 +2.27% 12
South East -83 67 £250 +21.21% 34
Midlands -51 54 £190 +13.10% 17
Work from Home -79 52 £200 -20.00% 21
East of England -7 42 £175 -17.65% 10
West Midlands -59 32 £225 +20.00% 7
Scotland -14 26 £150 -25.00% 4
Yorkshire -41 26 £200 -0.37% 7
East Midlands -2 22 £131 -18.02% 10
Wales -6 11 £200 -27.27%
North East -34 8 £250 -16.67% 4
Northern Ireland +4 4 £175 -14.63% 2
Channel Islands +2 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 75 (14.31%) SharePoint
2 74 (14.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.48%) HCL Notes
4 9 (1.72%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.34%) Confluence
6 5 (0.95%) Apache
6 5 (0.95%) nginx
7 2 (0.38%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 74 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.38%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 310 (59.16%) Microsoft 365
2 122 (23.28%) Azure
3 89 (16.98%) Entra ID
4 31 (5.92%) OneDrive
5 6 (1.15%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.95%) Mimecast
7 4 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.38%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.38%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.19%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.19%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 59 (11.26%) VPN
2 53 (10.11%) DNS
3 50 (9.54%) DHCP
4 35 (6.68%) TCP/IP
5 30 (5.73%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (4.39%) LAN
7 19 (3.63%) Skype
8 10 (1.91%) Wireless
9 9 (1.72%) WAN
10 8 (1.53%) Firewall
10 8 (1.53%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (1.53%) VLAN
11 6 (1.15%) Internet
11 6 (1.15%) IPv4
11 6 (1.15%) IPv6
11 6 (1.15%) Network Security
11 6 (1.15%) VoIP
12 3 (0.57%) WAAS
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
13 1 (0.19%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.53%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.95%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (4.96%) JIRA
2 5 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (0.95%) Bitbucket
2 5 (0.95%) MSI
3 2 (0.38%) AdminStudio
3 2 (0.38%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 320 (61.07%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (7.44%) Finance
3 39 (7.44%) Legal
4 27 (5.15%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.48%) Banking
8 13 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.53%) Law
10 7 (1.34%) French Language
10 7 (1.34%) Front Office
11 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.95%) Local Government
11 5 (0.95%) Retail
12 4 (0.76%) Marketing
12 4 (0.76%) Police
13 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (35.88%) Support Engineer
2 165 (31.49%) IT Support
3 142 (27.10%) IT Engineer
4 128 (24.43%) IT Support Engineer
5 69 (13.17%) Analyst
6 50 (9.54%) Desktop Engineer
7 44 (8.40%) Desktop Support
8 39 (7.44%) 2nd Line Support
9 37 (7.06%) Deployment Engineer
10 36 (6.87%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 33 (6.30%) 1st Line Support
11 33 (6.30%) Service Analyst
11 33 (6.30%) Support Analyst
12 32 (6.11%) Service Desk Analyst
13 30 (5.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 26 (4.96%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 26 (4.96%) IT Analyst
15 25 (4.77%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 25 (4.77%) Windows Engineer
16 22 (4.20%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.95%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (0.38%) X-Windows
3 1 (0.19%) .NET
3 1 (0.19%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.19%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.19%) WinForms
3 1 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (13.36%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.63%) Driving Licence
2 19 (3.63%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (3.44%) Blackberry
3 18 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.24%) Smartphone
5 12 (2.29%) iPhone
6 11 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.72%) iPad
8 8 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.15%) BYOD
9 6 (1.15%) CMDB
9 6 (1.15%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.95%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.95%) Fat Client
10 5 (0.95%) Thin Client
10 5 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 524 (100.00%) Windows
2 50 (9.54%) Windows Server
3 40 (7.63%) Android
4 37 (7.06%) Mac OS
5 30 (5.73%) Windows 7
6 28 (5.34%) Apple iOS
7 18 (3.44%) Linux
8 11 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.34%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.95%) Solaris
10 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.76%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.57%) CentOS
13 2 (0.38%) Debian
13 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (33.97%) Customer Service
2 136 (25.95%) ITIL
3 125 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (12.40%) ITSM
5 57 (10.88%) Migration
6 53 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 47 (8.97%) User Experience
8 46 (8.78%) Service Management
9 43 (8.21%) Service Delivery
10 41 (7.82%) Asset Management
11 28 (5.34%) Incident Management
12 27 (5.15%) Customer Experience
13 22 (4.20%) Application Packaging
14 20 (3.82%) Change Management
14 20 (3.82%) Root Cause Analysis
15 19 (3.63%) Break/Fix
15 19 (3.63%) Mobile Device Management
16 18 (3.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 18 (3.44%) Inventory Management
17 17 (3.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 60 (11.45%) PowerShell
2 13 (2.48%) VBScript
3 8 (1.53%) VB
4 6 (1.15%) Python
4 6 (1.15%) SQL
5 1 (0.19%) Bicep
5 1 (0.19%) C#
5 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 101 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 84 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.73%) Degree
4 33 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.01%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.24%) A+ Certification
7 10 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.91%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (0.95%) MCSE
11 3 (0.57%) ACSP
12 1 (0.19%) CCA
12 1 (0.19%) CCNA
12 1 (0.19%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.19%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.07%) SLA
2 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.76%) NCSC
3 3 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (0.57%) GDPR
4 2 (0.38%) GLP
4 2 (0.38%) GMP
5 1 (0.19%) GRC
5 1 (0.19%) GxP
5 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.19%) QA
System Software
1 329 (62.79%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.48%) BitLocker
5 8 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.15%) Firmware
6 6 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.38%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.19%) KVM
8 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 148 (28.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 100 (19.08%) SCCM
3 9 (1.72%) WSUS
4 7 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (1.15%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.95%) AirWatch
6 5 (0.95%) Packer
6 5 (0.95%) Terraform
7 3 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.38%) SCOM
8 2 (0.38%) WMI
9 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 338 (64.50%) Microsoft
2 116 (22.14%) ServiceNow
3 36 (6.87%) Apple
4 26 (4.96%) VMware
5 19 (3.63%) Citrix
6 18 (3.44%) Cisco
7 17 (3.24%) HP
8 15 (2.86%) iManage
8 15 (2.86%) Lotus
9 14 (2.67%) Remedy
10 12 (2.29%) Bomgar
11 11 (2.10%) McAfee
12 9 (1.72%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.53%) Starlink
14 7 (1.34%) Oracle
14 7 (1.34%) Samsung
14 7 (1.34%) Sophos
15 6 (1.15%) Dell
15 6 (1.15%) Tanium
16 5 (0.95%) Meraki