Windows 10 Contracts

Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows 10 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 10 over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 104 108
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 856 1,350 2,139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.02% 2.38% 2.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.03% 14.75% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 978 1,466
10th Percentile £150 £140 £130
25th Percentile £185 £165 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £215 £210
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £375 £388 £388
90th Percentile £575 £540 £523
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £204 £190
% change year-on-year +5.39% +7.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 85 168
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.21 £12.54
25th Percentile £10.98 £16.25 £14.19
Median hourly rate £16.13 £18.75 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +5.25% +14.94%
75th Percentile £20.00 £25.08 £21.69
90th Percentile £26.88 £55.07 £25.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.87 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -25.03% +5.71% +14.75%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 10 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,695 9,154 12,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.42% 16.17% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,861 6,386 8,831
10th Percentile £185 £189 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £616
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £470 £425
% change year-on-year -4.26% +10.59% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 405 593
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.10 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.79 £15.88
Median hourly rate £22.40 £40.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +77.78% +28.57%
75th Percentile £61.39 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.00% +56.25% +21.21%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 10.

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 10.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 17 Contract 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 May 2024. 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 -9 780 £225 +4.65% 361
UK excluding London -4 587 £215 +5.39% 308
London -23 247 £266 +12.70% 75
South East +1 212 £225 +9.76% 93
North of England +24 147 £220 +7.32% 68
Work from Home -41 147 £325 +25.00% 92
North West +19 92 £223 +3.49% 34
Midlands +6 85 £200 +5.26% 55
South West -44 55 £225 -2.17% 50
West Midlands +16 53 £200 -9.09% 26
Yorkshire +11 52 £190 +5.56% 32
Scotland +17 51 £200 +21.21% 20
East Midlands -5 31 £160 +31.15% 29
East of England -23 31 £223 +19.46% 27
Wales +4 6 £178 -66.10% 1
North East +8 3 £150 -8.40% 2
Northern Ireland -4 3 £173 -6.76% 3

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 107 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 75 (8.76%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.87%) Skype for Business
4 5 (0.58%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.35%) IIS
6 2 (0.23%) Confluence
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 239 (27.92%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.23%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) LabWindows
1 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.35%) Eikon
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) assyst
4 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 453 (52.92%) Microsoft 365
2 170 (19.86%) Azure
3 87 (10.16%) Entra ID
4 47 (5.49%) OneDrive
5 17 (1.99%) AWS
6 14 (1.64%) OCI
7 10 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.47%) IaaS
8 4 (0.47%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.35%) Mimecast
9 3 (0.35%) SaaS
10 2 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.23%) BigCommerce
10 2 (0.23%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.23%) GitHub
10 2 (0.23%) PaaS
10 2 (0.23%) Slack
10 2 (0.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 101 (11.80%) VPN
2 100 (11.68%) DNS
3 73 (8.53%) Firewall
4 69 (8.06%) DHCP
5 47 (5.49%) LAN
6 34 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
7 30 (3.50%) TCP/IP
8 26 (3.04%) WAN
9 24 (2.80%) Remote Desktop
9 24 (2.80%) Wireless
10 23 (2.69%) Skype
11 21 (2.45%) VoIP
12 20 (2.34%) SAN
13 12 (1.40%) NetScaler
14 11 (1.29%) VLAN
15 7 (0.82%) WAAS
15 7 (0.82%) WebEx
16 6 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
16 6 (0.70%) Internet
17 5 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.80%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.23%) Power BI
3 1 (0.12%) DTS
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (1.64%) JIRA
2 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.58%) Git
3 5 (0.58%) Subversion
4 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.23%) MSI
4 2 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 353 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 100 (11.68%) Finance
3 76 (8.88%) Public Sector
4 71 (8.29%) Organisational Skills
5 44 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 23 (2.69%) Manufacturing
8 20 (2.34%) Marketing
9 19 (2.22%) Legal
10 18 (2.10%) Banking
11 16 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.87%) Electronics
12 14 (1.64%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.52%) Retail
14 12 (1.40%) French Language
14 12 (1.40%) Law
15 10 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.70%) German Language
16 6 (0.70%) Mandarin Language
17 5 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 174 (20.33%) Support Engineer
2 156 (18.22%) Analyst
3 112 (13.08%) IT Support
4 108 (12.62%) Desktop Support
5 105 (12.27%) Desktop Engineer
6 80 (9.35%) Service Analyst
7 79 (9.23%) Service Desk Analyst
8 70 (8.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 69 (8.06%) 2nd Line Support
10 67 (7.83%) IT Engineer
11 64 (7.48%) Support Analyst
12 61 (7.13%) Windows Engineer
13 53 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (5.84%) IT Analyst
14 50 (5.84%) Senior
15 41 (4.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 39 (4.56%) Deployment Engineer
17 38 (4.44%) IT Support Analyst
18 37 (4.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
19 36 (4.21%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.52%) XMPP
2 4 (0.47%) Software Packaging
3 3 (0.35%) .NET
3 3 (0.35%) WPF
4 2 (0.23%) MFC
4 2 (0.23%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.23%) VML
4 2 (0.23%) WinForms
5 1 (0.12%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.12%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.12%) JSON
5 1 (0.12%) Middleware
5 1 (0.12%) OAuth
5 1 (0.12%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.12%) SAML
5 1 (0.12%) Universal Windows Platform
5 1 (0.12%) Web Services
5 1 (0.12%) XML
5 1 (0.12%) X-Windows
5 1 (0.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 38 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
3 37 (4.32%) iPhone
4 30 (3.50%) iPad
5 28 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.22%) Smartphone
8 18 (2.10%) Blackberry
8 18 (2.10%) CMDB
9 17 (1.99%) NHS
10 16 (1.87%) BYOD
11 10 (1.17%) Clustering
11 10 (1.17%) Hedge funds
11 10 (1.17%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 8 (0.93%) PKI
14 7 (0.82%) Digital Signage
15 6 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 849 (99.18%) Windows
2 169 (19.74%) Windows Server
3 127 (14.84%) Windows 7
4 83 (9.70%) Apple iOS
5 76 (8.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 71 (8.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 65 (7.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 51 (5.96%) Mac OS
9 43 (5.02%) Android
10 25 (2.92%) Linux
11 20 (2.34%) Windows Server 2008
12 19 (2.22%) Windows XP
13 18 (2.10%) Windows NT
14 12 (1.40%) Mac OS X
15 8 (0.93%) Windows 8
16 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.47%) VMS
18 3 (0.35%) Unix
19 2 (0.23%) CentOS
19 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (31.19%) Customer Service
2 191 (22.31%) ITIL
3 184 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (6.89%) Migration
5 57 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (6.19%) ITSM
7 52 (6.07%) Mobile Device Management
8 49 (5.72%) Service Management
8 49 (5.72%) Time Management
9 44 (5.14%) Service Delivery
10 38 (4.44%) Decision-Making
11 37 (4.32%) Break/Fix
12 33 (3.86%) Asset Management
13 31 (3.62%) Project Management
14 28 (3.27%) Proactive Monitoring
14 28 (3.27%) Software Deployment
15 24 (2.80%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (2.80%) Performance Monitoring
16 23 (2.69%) Deployment Automation
16 23 (2.69%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (12.62%) PowerShell
2 32 (3.74%) SQL
3 12 (1.40%) VBScript
4 8 (0.93%) VB
5 7 (0.82%) C#
6 6 (0.70%) Python
7 5 (0.58%) C
8 3 (0.35%) C++
8 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.23%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.12%) Bash
10 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 203 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 123 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 87 (10.16%) Degree
4 85 (9.93%) DV Cleared
5 39 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (2.69%) CCNA
6 23 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (2.22%) A+ Certification
8 16 (1.87%) CCNP
8 16 (1.87%) MCSE
9 14 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.70%) MCSA
14 4 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.47%) MCTS
14 4 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
15 3 (0.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (10.05%) SLA
2 28 (3.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 25 (2.92%) QA
4 5 (0.58%) GDPR
5 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 492 (57.48%) Active Directory
2 76 (8.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (4.09%) Hyper-V
4 32 (3.74%) Firmware
5 23 (2.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 22 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (1.99%) XenApp
8 14 (1.64%) BitLocker
9 13 (1.52%) XenDesktop
10 11 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
12 8 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.35%) KVM
14 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.35%) vSphere
15 2 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 293 (34.23%) SCCM
2 138 (16.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (4.79%) WSUS
4 36 (4.21%) Jamf Pro
5 22 (2.57%) vCenter Server
6 19 (2.22%) SCOM
6 19 (2.22%) Sysprep
7 14 (1.64%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (1.64%) NetBackup
8 10 (1.17%) Autotask
9 9 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (1.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.70%) AirWatch
11 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.35%) AppManager
12 3 (0.35%) OPNET
12 3 (0.35%) Terraform
13 2 (0.23%) Ansible
13 2 (0.23%) logstash
13 2 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 505 (59.00%) Microsoft
2 112 (13.08%) Apple
3 99 (11.57%) VMware
4 93 (10.86%) ServiceNow
5 87 (10.16%) Citrix
6 68 (7.94%) Cisco
7 65 (7.59%) HP
8 28 (3.27%) Dell
9 25 (2.92%) SAP
10 22 (2.57%) Adobe
11 19 (2.22%) Symantec
12 18 (2.10%) Veeam
13 17 (1.99%) Oracle
14 16 (1.87%) Ivanti
15 15 (1.75%) Juniper
15 15 (1.75%) Palo Alto
16 14 (1.64%) 3PAR
16 14 (1.64%) EMC
16 14 (1.64%) Extreme Networks
17 10 (1.17%) CA