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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 182 131
Rank change year-on-year -82 -51 -18
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 544 515 709
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.01% 1.57% 1.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.41% 11.66% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 325 466
10th Percentile £150 £150 £150
25th Percentile £174 £175 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £225 £225
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £299 £375 £379
90th Percentile £443 £512 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £205 £220
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 74 80
10th Percentile £17.20 £17.49 £10.95
25th Percentile £20.18 £18.87 £11.04
Median hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £16.22
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% +41.80% -15.03%
75th Percentile £67.47 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £96.95 £27.18 £26.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £22.50 £14.14
% change year-on-year +14.44% +59.12% -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 5,228 4,415 5,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 13.46% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,313 2,816 3,567
10th Percentile £193 £191 £200
25th Percentile £316 £308 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £470
% change year-on-year - -4.26% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 271 325
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.56 £12.40
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £25.92 £25.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -9.09% -31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.64 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £24.00 £38.25
% change year-on-year +11.08% -37.25% +39.09%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -69 489 £225 - 143
UK excluding London -67 408 £210 +2.44% 104
North of England +4 133 £200 - 21
London -101 128 £240 -4.00% 57
North West +14 103 £220 +15.79% 13
South West -35 68 £225 - 11
South East -98 64 £250 +25.00% 36
Midlands -41 58 £190 +8.57% 18
Work from Home -86 49 £193 -35.83% 35
East of England -15 39 £175 -22.22% 17
West Midlands -49 34 £225 +18.42% 11
Scotland -17 33 £150 -25.00% 6
East Midlands -7 24 £131 -1.50% 7
Yorkshire -36 23 £200 - 4
Wales -15 11 £200 -27.27%
North East - 7 £250 - 5
Northern Ireland +2 4 £175 -14.63%
Channel Islands 0 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 81 (14.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 71 (13.05%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.13%) Skype for Business
4 14 (2.57%) HCL Notes
5 7 (1.29%) Confluence
6 5 (0.92%) Apache
6 5 (0.92%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 83 (15.26%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 12 (2.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.37%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 315 (57.90%) Microsoft 365
2 129 (23.71%) Azure
3 103 (18.93%) Entra ID
4 31 (5.70%) OneDrive
5 6 (1.10%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.92%) Mimecast
7 4 (0.74%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.55%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.37%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.37%) Slack
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 71 (13.05%) VPN
2 62 (11.40%) DNS
3 59 (10.85%) DHCP
4 43 (7.90%) TCP/IP
5 32 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
6 30 (5.51%) LAN
7 27 (4.96%) Skype
8 16 (2.94%) WAN
9 14 (2.57%) VLAN
10 11 (2.02%) Wireless
11 8 (1.47%) Internet
11 8 (1.47%) Network Security
12 7 (1.29%) Firewall
13 6 (1.10%) IPv4
13 6 (1.10%) IPv6
14 5 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (0.74%) NetScaler
15 4 (0.74%) VoIP
16 3 (0.55%) WAAS
17 1 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.29%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.92%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (4.41%) JIRA
2 6 (1.10%) MSI
3 5 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.37%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.37%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 325 (59.74%) Social Skills
2 62 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (7.54%) Finance
4 37 (6.80%) Legal
5 24 (4.41%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.57%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.21%) Banking
10 11 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.84%) Front Office
12 7 (1.29%) French Language
12 7 (1.29%) Law
12 7 (1.29%) Local Government
13 6 (1.10%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.92%) Retail
15 4 (0.74%) Marketing
15 4 (0.74%) Police
16 2 (0.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 187 (34.38%) Support Engineer
2 164 (30.15%) IT Support
3 146 (26.84%) IT Engineer
4 129 (23.71%) IT Support Engineer
5 70 (12.87%) Analyst
6 52 (9.56%) Desktop Engineer
7 46 (8.46%) Desktop Support
8 44 (8.09%) Deployment Engineer
9 39 (7.17%) 2nd Line Support
10 38 (6.99%) Support Analyst
11 34 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 33 (6.07%) Service Analyst
13 31 (5.70%) 1st Line Support
13 31 (5.70%) Service Desk Analyst
14 28 (5.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 27 (4.96%) IT Analyst
16 26 (4.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support
16 26 (4.78%) Windows Engineer
17 24 (4.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
18 21 (3.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.29%) Software Packaging
2 5 (0.92%) Terraform
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.18%) .NET
4 1 (0.18%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.18%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.18%) WinForms
4 1 (0.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 77 (14.15%) Onboarding
2 24 (4.41%) Video Conferencing
3 21 (3.86%) Blackberry
4 20 (3.68%) Driving Licence
5 19 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.31%) Smartphone
7 13 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.39%) iPhone
8 12 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.65%) iPad
10 8 (1.47%) CMDB
11 7 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.10%) BYOD
12 6 (1.10%) Fat Client
12 6 (1.10%) Thin Client
13 5 (0.92%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (0.92%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.92%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 544 (100.00%) Windows
2 54 (9.93%) Windows Server
3 43 (7.90%) Android
4 42 (7.72%) Mac OS
4 42 (7.72%) Windows 7
5 35 (6.43%) Apple iOS
6 23 (4.23%) Linux
7 10 (1.84%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (1.10%) CentOS
9 5 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.92%) Solaris
9 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.37%) Debian
11 2 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (34.74%) Customer Service
2 151 (27.76%) ITIL
3 140 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (15.63%) ITSM
5 63 (11.58%) Service Management
6 57 (10.48%) User Experience
7 55 (10.11%) Migration
8 54 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (8.27%) Asset Management
10 42 (7.72%) Service Delivery
11 34 (6.25%) Application Packaging
12 30 (5.51%) Incident Management
13 29 (5.33%) Root Cause Analysis
14 28 (5.15%) Customer Experience
15 23 (4.23%) Inventory Management
16 21 (3.86%) Break/Fix
16 21 (3.86%) Mobile Device Management
17 20 (3.68%) Computer Science
18 19 (3.49%) Change Management
18 19 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 82 (15.07%) PowerShell
2 22 (4.04%) VBScript
3 16 (2.94%) VB
4 8 (1.47%) Python
5 7 (1.29%) SQL
6 1 (0.18%) Bash
6 1 (0.18%) Bicep
6 1 (0.18%) C#
6 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 128 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 108 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 51 (9.38%) Degree
4 33 (6.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (4.78%) DV Cleared
6 24 (4.41%) A+ Certification
7 14 (2.57%) Network+ Certification
8 13 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 9 (1.65%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 6 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.55%) ACSP
14 3 (0.55%) MCSE
15 1 (0.18%) CCNA
15 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.18%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (11.21%) SLA
2 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (0.74%) NCSC
4 2 (0.37%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) GLP
5 1 (0.18%) GMP
5 1 (0.18%) GRC
5 1 (0.18%) GxP
5 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) QA
System Software
1 349 (64.15%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 23 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.86%) BitLocker
5 10 (1.84%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.29%) Firmware
7 6 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (0.74%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.55%) XenApp
10 1 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (29.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 124 (22.79%) SCCM
3 10 (1.84%) WSUS
4 6 (1.10%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.92%) AirWatch
5 5 (0.92%) Packer
6 4 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.55%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (0.55%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.37%) SCOM
8 2 (0.37%) WMI
9 1 (0.18%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 361 (66.36%) Microsoft
2 128 (23.53%) ServiceNow
3 44 (8.09%) Apple
4 34 (6.25%) VMware
5 18 (3.31%) HP
6 17 (3.13%) Cisco
6 17 (3.13%) Citrix
6 17 (3.13%) Lotus
7 13 (2.39%) iManage
7 13 (2.39%) McAfee
7 13 (2.39%) Remedy
8 10 (1.84%) Bomgar
9 9 (1.65%) Samsung
10 8 (1.47%) Bloomberg
10 8 (1.47%) Starlink
11 7 (1.29%) Sophos
12 6 (1.10%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.10%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.10%) Google
12 6 (1.10%) Meraki