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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 127 119
Rank change year-on-year -43 -8 -20
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 596 704 954
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 1.97% 2.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.47% 13.99% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 468 679
10th Percentile £134 £155 £143
25th Percentile £168 £188 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £238 £215
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +10.47% -4.44%
75th Percentile £338 £400 £353
90th Percentile £550 £538 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £202 £225 £210
% change year-on-year -10.22% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 39 50
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.10 £16.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% +3.08%
75th Percentile £25.00 £24.18 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 £57.62 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £22.75 £18.95
% change year-on-year -3.30% +20.05% +6.94%

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 4,781 5,033 6,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 14.09% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,092 3,100 4,660
10th Percentile £175 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £608
90th Percentile £662 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £440 £440
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 200 347
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.96 £14.86
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +56.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £52.58 £67.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +81.82% +22.22%

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 17 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 11 December 2025. 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 -22 562 £214 -12.65% 164
UK excluding London -30 439 £202 -10.22% 153
London -38 154 £225 -10.00% 33
South East -22 111 £201 -36.11% 47
North of England -42 101 £175 -22.22% 37
South West +15 92 £325 +44.44% 16
Work from Home -53 87 £350 +40.00% 42
North West -11 71 £175 -18.60% 19
Midlands -40 62 £175 -7.89% 24
East of England +9 52 £220 -7.37% 23
West Midlands -38 38 £175 -12.50% 16
East Midlands -12 24 £132 -30.35% 8
Scotland -26 23 £200 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire -50 21 £175 -22.22% 12
North East +4 9 £200 -33.33% 6
Wales -12 7 £200 - 6
Northern Ireland -17 1 £250 +68.92% 1

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 80 (13.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 70 (11.74%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.17%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.17%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 94 (15.77%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.84%) assyst
3 1 (0.17%) Eikon
3 1 (0.17%) Eze OMS
3 1 (0.17%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 293 (49.16%) Microsoft 365
2 95 (15.94%) Azure
3 50 (8.39%) Entra ID
4 47 (7.89%) OneDrive
5 7 (1.17%) AWS
5 7 (1.17%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.84%) GCP
7 2 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (0.34%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.17%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.17%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.17%) OCI
8 1 (0.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.17%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.17%) SaaS
8 1 (0.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.74%) DNS
1 64 (10.74%) VPN
2 45 (7.55%) DHCP
2 45 (7.55%) TCP/IP
3 30 (5.03%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (3.86%) LAN
4 23 (3.86%) WAN
5 21 (3.52%) Skype
6 15 (2.52%) VLAN
7 13 (2.18%) Firewall
8 12 (2.01%) Wireless
9 9 (1.51%) 4G
10 8 (1.34%) PABX
11 6 (1.01%) IP Telephony
12 5 (0.84%) NetScaler
12 5 (0.84%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.84%) VSAN
12 5 (0.84%) WAAS
13 4 (0.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
2 10 (1.68%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.17%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.50%) Power BI
5 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (2.85%) MSI
2 9 (1.51%) InstallShield
2 9 (1.51%) JIRA
3 6 (1.01%) AdminStudio
4 1 (0.17%) GitLab
4 1 (0.17%) Hudson
4 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 299 (50.17%) Social Skills
2 65 (10.91%) Finance
3 54 (9.06%) Public Sector
4 30 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.70%) Banking
6 20 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (3.19%) Manufacturing
8 17 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.85%) Legal
9 15 (2.52%) Electronics
9 15 (2.52%) Marketing
9 15 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.68%) Law
11 7 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.34%) Back Office
15 2 (0.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 170 (28.52%) Support Engineer
2 145 (24.33%) IT Support
3 109 (18.29%) IT Engineer
4 91 (15.27%) Analyst
5 78 (13.09%) IT Support Engineer
6 77 (12.92%) Desktop Support
7 71 (11.91%) Desktop Engineer
8 68 (11.41%) Windows Engineer
9 62 (10.40%) Deployment Engineer
10 59 (9.90%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 47 (7.89%) Support Analyst
12 40 (6.71%) 2nd Line Support
13 39 (6.54%) Service Analyst
14 37 (6.21%) Service Desk Analyst
15 35 (5.87%) IT Analyst
16 30 (5.03%) IT Support Analyst
16 30 (5.03%) Windows Support Engineer
17 25 (4.19%) 1st Line Support
18 23 (3.86%) Field Engineer
19 22 (3.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.50%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.34%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.03%) Driving Licence
2 27 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.02%) iPhone
5 16 (2.68%) Video Conferencing
6 14 (2.35%) Smartphone
7 13 (2.18%) PKI
8 12 (2.01%) iPad
9 8 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.17%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.01%) CMDB
11 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.84%) NHS
12 5 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 4 (0.67%) Blackberry
14 3 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 586 (98.32%) Windows
2 53 (8.89%) Android
3 50 (8.39%) Apple iOS
4 41 (6.88%) Windows 7
5 38 (6.38%) Mac OS
6 37 (6.21%) Windows Server
7 31 (5.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (3.86%) Linux
9 14 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (2.01%) Windows Server 2003
10 12 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (1.85%) AIX
12 5 (0.84%) Mac OS X
13 4 (0.67%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.50%) CentOS
15 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.34%) Unix
16 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (25.50%) Customer Service
2 104 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (16.95%) ITIL
4 79 (13.26%) Migration
5 64 (10.74%) ITSM
6 51 (8.56%) Service Management
7 31 (5.20%) User Experience
8 30 (5.03%) Application Packaging
9 27 (4.53%) Workflow
10 26 (4.36%) Mobile Device Management
11 25 (4.19%) Asset Management
11 25 (4.19%) Inventory Management
12 24 (4.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (3.86%) Service Delivery
14 22 (3.69%) Agile
14 22 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (3.52%) Change Management
15 21 (3.52%) Logistics
16 20 (3.36%) Incident Management
16 20 (3.36%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (12.58%) PowerShell
2 21 (3.52%) VBScript
3 11 (1.85%) SQL
4 7 (1.17%) VB
5 5 (0.84%) Bash
6 4 (0.67%) Java
7 3 (0.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 178 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 140 (23.49%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 38 (6.38%) Degree
5 33 (5.54%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.02%) A+ Certification
7 11 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.51%) MCP
10 8 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.17%) MCSE
12 5 (0.84%) Citrix Certification
12 5 (0.84%) MCDST
12 5 (0.84%) MCSA
13 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.34%) CCA
16 1 (0.17%) BC Cleared
16 1 (0.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.87%) SLA
2 13 (2.18%) GDPR
3 11 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.50%) NCSC
5 3 (0.50%) QA
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 305 (51.17%) Active Directory
2 34 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.01%) BitLocker
5 11 (1.85%) Microsoft App-V
6 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.51%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.01%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.84%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.84%) vSphere
10 4 (0.67%) Firmware
11 2 (0.34%) NFS
11 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.34%) XenApp
11 2 (0.34%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 166 (27.85%) SCCM
2 96 (16.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (2.52%) vCenter Server
4 8 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (1.34%) WSUS
5 6 (1.01%) Norton AntiVirus
6 4 (0.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 3 (0.50%) OPNET
7 3 (0.50%) SCOM
7 3 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.17%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.17%) Ansible
8 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.17%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 334 (56.04%) Microsoft
2 84 (14.09%) ServiceNow
3 44 (7.38%) VMware
4 43 (7.21%) Citrix
5 36 (6.04%) Apple
6 33 (5.54%) Cisco
7 21 (3.52%) HP
8 18 (3.02%) Dell
8 18 (3.02%) McAfee
9 17 (2.85%) Remedy
9 17 (2.85%) SAP
10 12 (2.01%) Oracle
11 9 (1.51%) Symantec
12 8 (1.34%) Reuters
12 8 (1.34%) Starlink
13 7 (1.17%) iManage
13 7 (1.17%) Veeam
14 6 (1.01%) Bloomberg
14 6 (1.01%) IBM
14 6 (1.01%) SolarWinds