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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 175 119
Rank change year-on-year -81 -56 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 579 550 737
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 1.66% 1.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.81% 12.04% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 367 480
10th Percentile £153 £145 £150
25th Percentile £185 £171 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £226 £225 £225
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £305 £366 £365
90th Percentile £459 £533 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £220 £225
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 74 45
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.98 £15.22
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £17.44
Median hourly rate £25.75 £22.23 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% +1.03% +13.77%
75th Percentile £33.75 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £64.85 - £57.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.38 £22.00
% change year-on-year +20.44% -2.82% +15.79%

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 5,358 4,569 5,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.69% 13.77% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,383 2,926 3,249
10th Percentile £193 £185 £200
25th Percentile £313 £275 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -4.26% -5.05%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £653 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £420 £444
% change year-on-year +7.14% -5.41% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 308 248
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.87 £23.63
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.00 £55.33
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -54.81% +21.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.32 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £23.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +12.04% -60.00% +35.29%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -77 525 £230 +2.22% 126
UK excluding London -67 423 £225 +2.27% 90
London -104 144 £239 -4.50% 45
North of England -24 117 £240 +37.14% 16
North West +2 90 £288 +64.29% 10
South East -83 87 £273 +9.00% 18
South West -51 64 £225 -23.73% 11
Midlands -39 59 £200 +14.29% 20
East of England -4 57 £190 -14.61% 12
Work from Home -83 57 £239 -32.91% 32
Scotland -21 32 £150 -25.00% 7
West Midlands -46 32 £200 +14.29% 7
East Midlands -5 27 £200 +51.14% 13
Yorkshire -37 19 £200 +21.21% 5
North East -42 8 £250 +25.00% 1
Wales -17 6 £200 -27.27% 6
Northern Ireland +8 3 - - 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 69 (11.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 68 (11.74%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.94%) Skype for Business
4 13 (2.25%) HCL Notes
5 7 (1.21%) Confluence
6 5 (0.86%) Apache
6 5 (0.86%) nginx
7 2 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 93 (16.06%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.52%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.35%) assyst
3 1 (0.17%) Eikon
3 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 349 (60.28%) Microsoft 365
2 158 (27.29%) Azure
3 133 (22.97%) Entra ID
4 31 (5.35%) OneDrive
5 8 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (0.86%) Mimecast
6 5 (0.86%) Power Platform
7 3 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.52%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.35%) IaaS
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.35%) PaaS
8 2 (0.35%) Slack
9 1 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 83 (14.34%) VPN
2 57 (9.84%) DNS
3 53 (9.15%) DHCP
4 51 (8.81%) TCP/IP
5 34 (5.87%) LAN
6 29 (5.01%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (4.49%) Skype
8 20 (3.45%) WAN
9 16 (2.76%) Wireless
10 15 (2.59%) Firewall
11 10 (1.73%) NetScaler
11 10 (1.73%) VLAN
12 8 (1.38%) Internet
12 8 (1.38%) Network Security
13 4 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.52%) VoIP
15 2 (0.35%) Telepresence
15 2 (0.35%) Unified Communications
16 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
16 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.21%) Oracle Database
2 6 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.35%) Power BI
3 2 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (5.18%) JIRA
2 9 (1.55%) MSI
3 5 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 349 (60.28%) Social Skills
2 66 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (7.08%) Finance
4 30 (5.18%) Legal
5 21 (3.63%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.90%) Front Office
10 10 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.38%) Banking
12 8 (1.38%) Local Government
13 5 (0.86%) French Language
13 5 (0.86%) Law
14 4 (0.69%) Marketing
14 4 (0.69%) Retail
15 3 (0.52%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.52%) Police
16 2 (0.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 201 (34.72%) Support Engineer
2 183 (31.61%) IT Support
3 166 (28.67%) IT Engineer
4 146 (25.22%) IT Support Engineer
5 61 (10.54%) Analyst
6 58 (10.02%) Desktop Engineer
7 49 (8.46%) Deployment Engineer
8 46 (7.94%) Desktop Support
9 45 (7.77%) 2nd Line Support
10 32 (5.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 32 (5.53%) Support Analyst
11 30 (5.18%) Windows Engineer
12 28 (4.84%) Service Analyst
13 27 (4.66%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 26 (4.49%) 1st Line Support
14 26 (4.49%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 26 (4.49%) Service Desk Analyst
15 24 (4.15%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 24 (4.15%) IT Analyst
16 20 (3.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.38%) Software Packaging
2 6 (1.04%) Terraform
3 1 (0.17%) .NET
3 1 (0.17%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.17%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.17%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.17%) LDAP
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.17%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.17%) SAML
3 1 (0.17%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 71 (12.26%) Onboarding
2 27 (4.66%) Video Conferencing
3 22 (3.80%) Driving Licence
4 20 (3.45%) Blackberry
4 20 (3.45%) CMDB
5 18 (3.11%) Smartphone
6 14 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.55%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.55%) iPhone
8 9 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.04%) BYOD
10 6 (1.04%) Fat Client
10 6 (1.04%) iPad
10 6 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.04%) Thin Client
11 5 (0.86%) Digital Signage
11 5 (0.86%) NHS
11 5 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 579 (100.00%) Windows
2 58 (10.02%) Windows Server
3 56 (9.67%) Android
4 53 (9.15%) Apple iOS
5 45 (7.77%) macOS
6 38 (6.56%) Windows 7
7 30 (5.18%) Linux
8 14 (2.42%) Ubuntu
9 12 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.73%) CentOS
11 7 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (1.21%) Solaris
12 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.35%) Debian
14 2 (0.35%) VMS
14 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (35.06%) Customer Service
2 164 (28.32%) ITIL
3 138 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (15.89%) ITSM
5 77 (13.30%) Service Management
6 65 (11.23%) Migration
7 62 (10.71%) User Experience
8 55 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (8.46%) Asset Management
10 41 (7.08%) Service Delivery
11 40 (6.91%) Root Cause Analysis
12 36 (6.22%) Application Packaging
13 31 (5.35%) Incident Management
14 28 (4.84%) Break/Fix
15 27 (4.66%) Customer Experience
16 25 (4.32%) Mobile Device Management
17 24 (4.15%) Change Management
17 24 (4.15%) Software Deployment
18 20 (3.45%) Disk Encryption
18 20 (3.45%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (17.79%) PowerShell
2 22 (3.80%) VBScript
3 16 (2.76%) VB
4 8 (1.38%) Python
5 6 (1.04%) SQL
6 2 (0.35%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) Bash
7 1 (0.17%) C#
7 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 145 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 122 (21.07%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.91%) Degree
4 31 (5.35%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (3.80%) A+ Certification
7 16 (2.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 11 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.90%) Network+ Certification
9 9 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.55%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.38%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.35%) ACSP
13 2 (0.35%) MCSE
14 1 (0.17%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.54%) SLA
2 7 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (0.69%) NCSC
5 2 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) GxP
6 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) QA
System Software
1 378 (65.28%) Active Directory
2 36 (6.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 25 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (4.15%) BitLocker
5 16 (2.76%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.73%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 8 (1.38%) XenApp
7 8 (1.38%) XenDesktop
8 6 (1.04%) Firmware
8 6 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.35%) KVM
10 2 (0.35%) vSphere
11 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 190 (32.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 151 (26.08%) SCCM
3 6 (1.04%) vCenter Server
3 6 (1.04%) WSUS
4 5 (0.86%) Packer
5 4 (0.69%) SysTrack
6 3 (0.52%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.35%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.35%) SCOM
8 1 (0.17%) Grafana
8 1 (0.17%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 402 (69.43%) Microsoft
2 134 (23.14%) ServiceNow
3 48 (8.29%) Apple
4 35 (6.04%) VMware
5 23 (3.97%) Citrix
6 19 (3.28%) HP
7 17 (2.94%) Cisco
8 16 (2.76%) Lotus
9 13 (2.25%) Remedy
10 9 (1.55%) Samsung
10 9 (1.55%) Sophos
11 8 (1.38%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.38%) iManage
11 8 (1.38%) McAfee
11 8 (1.38%) Oracle
12 7 (1.21%) Dell
13 6 (1.04%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.04%) Google
13 6 (1.04%) Ivanti
13 6 (1.04%) Meraki