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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 181 127
Rank change year-on-year -82 -54 -12
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 527 509 731
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.54% 1.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.13% 11.56% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 319 486
10th Percentile £143 £150 £150
25th Percentile £163 £175 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £225 £225
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £288 £356 £387
90th Percentile £425 £512 £553
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £220
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 70 82
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.64 £10.95
25th Percentile £20.56 £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 £107.18 £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 5,202 4,403 5,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 13.29% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,287 2,818 3,615
10th Percentile £193 £200 £200
25th Percentile £320 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.28% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 260 335
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.50 £12.45
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.13 £17.69
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -12.73% -35.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £55.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.05 £67.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £22.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +18.17% -46.92% +45.05%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -73 481 £220 - 123
UK excluding London -44 391 £200 - 114
London -117 129 £240 -4.19% 28
North of England -6 118 £200 - 33
North West +4 85 £200 +11.11% 23
South East -91 68 £250 +17.65% 35
South West -28 67 £225 +2.27% 15
Midlands -45 58 £190 +13.10% 14
Work from Home -84 52 £200 -20.00% 19
East of England -8 41 £175 -17.65% 11
West Midlands -51 33 £225 +20.00% 8
Scotland -21 26 £150 -25.00% 10
East Midlands -2 25 £131 -18.02% 6
Yorkshire -33 25 £200 -0.37% 7
Wales -13 11 £200 -27.27%
North East -36 8 £250 -16.67% 4
Northern Ireland +6 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 76 (14.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 73 (13.85%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.47%) HCL Notes
4 9 (1.71%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.33%) Confluence
6 5 (0.95%) Apache
6 5 (0.95%) nginx
7 2 (0.38%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 72 (13.66%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.38%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 315 (59.77%) Microsoft 365
2 125 (23.72%) Azure
3 92 (17.46%) Entra ID
4 31 (5.88%) OneDrive
5 6 (1.14%) 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 63 (11.95%) VPN
2 55 (10.44%) DNS
3 52 (9.87%) DHCP
4 37 (7.02%) TCP/IP
5 28 (5.31%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (4.17%) LAN
7 18 (3.42%) Skype
8 10 (1.90%) Wireless
9 9 (1.71%) WAN
10 8 (1.52%) VLAN
11 7 (1.33%) Firewall
11 7 (1.33%) Internet
11 7 (1.33%) Network Security
12 6 (1.14%) IPv4
12 6 (1.14%) IPv6
12 6 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (1.14%) VoIP
13 3 (0.57%) WAAS
14 1 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
14 1 (0.19%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.95%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (4.55%) 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
1 321 (60.91%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (7.40%) Finance
3 39 (7.40%) Legal
4 27 (5.12%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.85%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.66%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.28%) Banking
10 8 (1.52%) Front Office
10 8 (1.52%) Law
11 7 (1.33%) French Language
12 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.95%) Local Government
12 5 (0.95%) Retail
13 4 (0.76%) Marketing
13 4 (0.76%) Police
14 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (36.43%) Support Engineer
2 168 (31.88%) IT Support
3 147 (27.89%) IT Engineer
4 132 (25.05%) IT Support Engineer
5 69 (13.09%) Analyst
6 51 (9.68%) Desktop Engineer
7 45 (8.54%) Desktop Support
8 39 (7.40%) 2nd Line Support
9 38 (7.21%) Deployment Engineer
10 37 (7.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 33 (6.26%) 1st Line Support
11 33 (6.26%) Service Analyst
11 33 (6.26%) Support Analyst
12 32 (6.07%) Service Desk Analyst
13 31 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 27 (5.12%) 1st/2nd Line Support
15 26 (4.93%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 26 (4.93%) IT Analyst
15 26 (4.93%) Windows Engineer
16 22 (4.17%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.14%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
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
3 1 (0.19%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 69 (13.09%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.61%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.42%) Blackberry
3 18 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (3.42%) Video Conferencing
4 17 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (3.04%) Smartphone
6 12 (2.28%) iPhone
7 11 (2.09%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.71%) CMDB
8 9 (1.71%) iPad
8 9 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.14%) BYOD
9 6 (1.14%) 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
1 527 (100.00%) Windows
2 51 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 40 (7.59%) Android
4 38 (7.21%) Mac OS
5 29 (5.50%) Apple iOS
5 29 (5.50%) Windows 7
6 18 (3.42%) Linux
7 11 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.95%) Solaris
9 5 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.57%) CentOS
10 3 (0.57%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.38%) Debian
11 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.19%) AIX
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (33.97%) Customer Service
2 136 (25.81%) ITIL
3 128 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (12.52%) ITSM
5 60 (11.39%) Migration
6 54 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (9.11%) User Experience
8 46 (8.73%) Service Management
9 43 (8.16%) Service Delivery
10 41 (7.78%) Asset Management
11 30 (5.69%) Incident Management
12 28 (5.31%) Customer Experience
13 22 (4.17%) Application Packaging
14 21 (3.98%) Change Management
14 21 (3.98%) Root Cause Analysis
15 19 (3.61%) Break/Fix
15 19 (3.61%) Inventory Management
15 19 (3.61%) Mobile Device Management
16 18 (3.42%) Computer Science
16 18 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (11.57%) PowerShell
2 14 (2.66%) VBScript
3 8 (1.52%) VB
4 7 (1.33%) Python
4 7 (1.33%) SQL
5 1 (0.19%) Bicep
5 1 (0.19%) C#
5 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 104 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 87 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 52 (9.87%) Degree
4 33 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (3.98%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.42%) A+ Certification
7 11 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.76%) MCSE
13 3 (0.57%) ACSP
14 1 (0.19%) CCA
14 1 (0.19%) CCNA
14 1 (0.19%) Citrix Certification
14 1 (0.19%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.01%) 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
4 2 (0.38%) 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
1 335 (63.57%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.47%) BitLocker
5 8 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.14%) Firmware
6 6 (1.14%) 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
1 152 (28.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 106 (20.11%) SCCM
3 10 (1.90%) WSUS
4 6 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (1.14%) vCenter Server
5 5 (0.95%) AirWatch
5 5 (0.95%) Packer
5 5 (0.95%) Terraform
6 3 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.38%) SCOM
7 2 (0.38%) WMI
8 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 341 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 116 (22.01%) ServiceNow
3 38 (7.21%) Apple
4 26 (4.93%) VMware
5 18 (3.42%) Citrix
6 17 (3.23%) Cisco
6 17 (3.23%) HP
7 15 (2.85%) iManage
7 15 (2.85%) Lotus
8 13 (2.47%) Remedy
9 12 (2.28%) Bomgar
9 12 (2.28%) McAfee
10 8 (1.52%) Bloomberg
10 8 (1.52%) Samsung
10 8 (1.52%) Starlink
11 7 (1.33%) Oracle
11 7 (1.33%) Sophos
12 6 (1.14%) Dell
12 6 (1.14%) Tanium
13 5 (0.95%) Meraki