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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 181 128
Rank change year-on-year -67 -53 -12
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 567 520 733
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.58% 1.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.62% 11.65% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 330 486
10th Percentile £150 £150 £156
25th Percentile £180 £175 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £225 £225
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £296 £374 £364
90th Percentile £438 £525 £508
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £220 £220
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 75 55
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.53 £13.65
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £63.10 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £75.50 £28.00 £52.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £23.58 £19.00
% change year-on-year +9.20% +24.11% -

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 5,337 4,462 5,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.78% 13.52% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,371 2,848 3,506
10th Percentile £190 £190 £200
25th Percentile £313 £304 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £675 £687
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £447 £450
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 275 280
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.53 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £19.91
Median hourly rate £26.33 £25.15 £48.78
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -48.44% +8.41%
75th Percentile £65.17 £58.13 £68.19
90th Percentile £74.36 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -49.70% +14.29%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -80 509 £225 - 163
UK excluding London -63 423 £210 -4.55% 146
London -86 137 £228 -8.80% 46
North of England -13 129 £205 +2.50% 21
North West +22 102 £230 +15.00% 11
South West -48 68 £225 -18.18% 12
South East -78 68 £250 +13.64% 50
Midlands -42 65 £195 +11.43% 26
Work from Home -86 52 £205 -41.43% 53
East of England -9 45 £175 -22.22% 25
West Midlands -53 38 £213 +21.43% 15
Scotland -22 36 £163 -18.75% 12
East Midlands -4 27 £141 +5.57% 11
Yorkshire -49 19 £200 +8.11% 4
Wales -13 10 £200 -27.27% 1
North East -42 8 £250 - 6
Northern Ireland +5 4 £175 -30.00% 2
Channel Islands -4 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 79 (13.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 72 (12.70%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.00%) Skype for Business
4 13 (2.29%) HCL Notes
5 7 (1.23%) Confluence
6 5 (0.88%) Apache
6 5 (0.88%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 91 (16.05%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.53%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.35%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 332 (58.55%) Microsoft 365
2 136 (23.99%) Azure
3 113 (19.93%) Entra ID
4 33 (5.82%) OneDrive
5 5 (0.88%) Mimecast
5 5 (0.88%) Power Platform
6 4 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.53%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 74 (13.05%) VPN
2 64 (11.29%) DNS
3 61 (10.76%) DHCP
4 51 (8.99%) TCP/IP
5 33 (5.82%) LAN
6 29 (5.11%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (4.76%) Skype
8 19 (3.35%) WAN
9 14 (2.47%) VLAN
10 11 (1.94%) Wireless
11 8 (1.41%) Firewall
11 8 (1.41%) Internet
11 8 (1.41%) NetScaler
11 8 (1.41%) Network Security
12 6 (1.06%) IPv4
12 6 (1.06%) IPv6
13 5 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.53%) VoIP
14 3 (0.53%) WAAS
15 1 (0.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.23%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.06%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (4.94%) JIRA
2 7 (1.23%) MSI
3 5 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.35%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.35%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 346 (61.02%) Social Skills
2 65 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (7.41%) Finance
4 36 (6.35%) Legal
5 18 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.29%) Front Office
10 11 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.59%) Banking
13 7 (1.23%) French Language
14 6 (1.06%) Law
15 5 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.88%) Local Government
15 5 (0.88%) Retail
16 4 (0.71%) Marketing
17 3 (0.53%) Police
18 2 (0.35%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 197 (34.74%) Support Engineer
2 177 (31.22%) IT Support
3 160 (28.22%) IT Engineer
4 140 (24.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 72 (12.70%) Analyst
6 56 (9.88%) Desktop Engineer
7 49 (8.64%) Deployment Engineer
8 45 (7.94%) Desktop Support
9 42 (7.41%) Support Analyst
10 37 (6.53%) 2nd Line Support
11 32 (5.64%) 1st Line Support
11 32 (5.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 31 (5.47%) Service Analyst
13 29 (5.11%) Service Desk Analyst
14 28 (4.94%) IT Analyst
14 28 (4.94%) Windows Engineer
15 25 (4.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 23 (4.06%) 1st/2nd Line Support
16 23 (4.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 20 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.06%) Software Packaging
2 5 (0.88%) Terraform
3 2 (0.35%) 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 76 (13.40%) Onboarding
2 26 (4.59%) Video Conferencing
3 20 (3.53%) Blackberry
3 20 (3.53%) Driving Licence
4 19 (3.35%) Smartphone
5 15 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.12%) CMDB
8 10 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.59%) iPhone
10 8 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.23%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.06%) BYOD
12 6 (1.06%) Fat Client
12 6 (1.06%) iPad
12 6 (1.06%) Thin Client
13 5 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.88%) Digital Signage
13 5 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 567 (100.00%) Windows
2 55 (9.70%) Windows Server
3 50 (8.82%) Android
4 44 (7.76%) Mac OS
5 42 (7.41%) Apple iOS
5 42 (7.41%) Windows 7
6 29 (5.11%) Linux
7 13 (2.29%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (1.59%) CentOS
10 6 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (1.06%) Solaris
10 6 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.35%) Debian
12 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (36.16%) Customer Service
2 159 (28.04%) ITIL
3 142 (25.04%) Problem-Solving
4 90 (15.87%) ITSM
5 70 (12.35%) Service Management
6 58 (10.23%) User Experience
7 56 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (9.88%) Migration
8 47 (8.29%) Asset Management
9 39 (6.88%) Service Delivery
10 33 (5.82%) Application Packaging
10 33 (5.82%) Incident Management
11 30 (5.29%) Root Cause Analysis
12 29 (5.11%) Customer Experience
13 27 (4.76%) Break/Fix
14 23 (4.06%) Inventory Management
15 22 (3.88%) Change Management
15 22 (3.88%) Mobile Device Management
16 20 (3.53%) Computer Science
16 20 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (15.17%) PowerShell
2 22 (3.88%) VBScript
3 16 (2.82%) VB
4 8 (1.41%) Python
5 6 (1.06%) SQL
6 1 (0.18%) Bash
6 1 (0.18%) Bicep
6 1 (0.18%) C#
6 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 147 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 122 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.29%) Degree
4 31 (5.47%) DV Cleared
4 31 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (4.94%) A+ Certification
6 15 (2.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
7 13 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.06%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.53%) ACSP
13 2 (0.35%) MCSE
14 1 (0.18%) CCNA
14 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.18%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.11%) SLA
2 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (0.71%) NCSC
4 2 (0.35%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) GLP
5 1 (0.18%) GMP
5 1 (0.18%) GxP
5 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) QA
System Software
1 366 (64.55%) Active Directory
2 29 (5.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 28 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.88%) BitLocker
5 14 (2.47%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 6 (1.06%) Firmware
7 6 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.06%) XenApp
7 6 (1.06%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.35%) vSphere
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 165 (29.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 135 (23.81%) SCCM
3 10 (1.76%) WSUS
4 6 (1.06%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.88%) Packer
6 4 (0.71%) AirWatch
6 4 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.71%) SysTrack
7 3 (0.53%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.35%) SCOM
9 1 (0.18%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 375 (66.14%) Microsoft
2 133 (23.46%) ServiceNow
3 46 (8.11%) Apple
4 39 (6.88%) VMware
5 21 (3.70%) Citrix
6 18 (3.17%) HP
7 17 (3.00%) Cisco
8 16 (2.82%) Lotus
9 13 (2.29%) Remedy
10 12 (2.12%) McAfee
11 10 (1.76%) iManage
11 10 (1.76%) Samsung
12 7 (1.23%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.23%) Bomgar
12 7 (1.23%) Oracle
12 7 (1.23%) Sophos
13 6 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.06%) Dell
13 6 (1.06%) Google
13 6 (1.06%) Ivanti