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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 128 119
Rank change year-on-year -43 -9 -19
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 599 683 948
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 2.00% 2.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.54% 14.27% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 468 676
10th Percentile £134 £155 £143
25th Percentile £163 £190 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £238 £215
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +10.47% -4.44%
75th Percentile £350 £400 £360
90th Percentile £550 £538 £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £202 £225 £210
% change year-on-year -10.22% +7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 38 47
10th Percentile £18.65 £15.22 £15.85
25th Percentile £19.54 £19.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.40 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +23.16% +3.46%
75th Percentile £25.00 £24.18 £24.38
90th Percentile £25.15 £57.62 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £22.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year -3.30% +22.97% +4.40%

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 4,778 4,787 6,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.98% 14.00% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,101 2,995 4,544
10th Percentile £175 £200 £181
25th Percentile £263 £317 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £408 £425 £431
% change year-on-year -4.12% -1.28% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 180 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +53.23% +27.84%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.51 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £26.09
% change year-on-year -48.67% +87.81% +18.59%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -30 570 £211 -11.98% 209
UK excluding London -31 452 £202 -10.22% 198
London -43 142 £223 -11.00% 39
South East -24 116 £211 -23.18% 59
North of England -36 109 £175 -22.22% 55
South West +16 92 £325 +44.44% 22
Work from Home -43 87 £356 +35.71% 49
North West -18 78 £175 -12.50% 29
Midlands -38 68 £175 -7.89% 24
East of England +2 52 £201 -12.97% 28
West Midlands -43 39 £175 -12.50% 16
East Midlands -6 29 £175 -7.89% 8
Yorkshire -46 21 £170 -29.17% 19
Scotland -32 17 £200 - 6
North East +3 10 £200 - 7
Wales -11 7 £200 - 10
Northern Ireland -17 1 £250 +68.92%

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 82 (13.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (12.69%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.17%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.17%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 95 (15.86%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.00%) 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
1 308 (51.42%) Microsoft 365
2 106 (17.70%) Azure
3 60 (10.02%) Entra ID
4 48 (8.01%) OneDrive
5 12 (2.00%) AWS
6 10 (1.67%) GCP
7 7 (1.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.33%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.17%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.17%) OCI
9 1 (0.17%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.17%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.17%) Serverless
9 1 (0.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 67 (11.19%) VPN
2 65 (10.85%) DNS
3 46 (7.68%) DHCP
4 42 (7.01%) TCP/IP
5 30 (5.01%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (4.34%) LAN
6 26 (4.34%) WAN
7 22 (3.67%) Skype
8 16 (2.67%) Wireless
9 15 (2.50%) VLAN
10 14 (2.34%) Firewall
11 9 (1.50%) 4G
12 8 (1.34%) PABX
13 5 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (0.83%) Structured Cabling
13 5 (0.83%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.83%) VSAN
13 5 (0.83%) WAAS
14 4 (0.67%) IP Telephony
14 4 (0.67%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
2 10 (1.67%) 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 (2.84%) MSI
2 10 (1.67%) JIRA
3 9 (1.50%) InstallShield
4 6 (1.00%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.17%) GitLab
5 1 (0.17%) Hudson
5 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
General
1 310 (51.75%) Social Skills
2 64 (10.68%) Finance
3 54 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 34 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (4.01%) Banking
6 23 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (3.51%) Manufacturing
8 20 (3.34%) Legal
9 17 (2.84%) Electronics
9 17 (2.84%) Marketing
9 17 (2.84%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.00%) Law
12 6 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.50%) French Language
14 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 173 (28.88%) Support Engineer
2 150 (25.04%) IT Support
3 106 (17.70%) IT Engineer
4 86 (14.36%) Analyst
5 83 (13.86%) Desktop Support
6 80 (13.36%) IT Support Engineer
7 73 (12.19%) Desktop Engineer
8 70 (11.69%) Windows Engineer
9 61 (10.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 59 (9.85%) Deployment Engineer
11 49 (8.18%) Support Analyst
12 44 (7.35%) 2nd Line Support
13 35 (5.84%) IT Analyst
14 32 (5.34%) Service Analyst
15 31 (5.18%) IT Support Analyst
16 30 (5.01%) Service Desk Analyst
16 30 (5.01%) Windows Support Engineer
17 28 (4.67%) 1st Line Support
18 24 (4.01%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 23 (3.84%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.50%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.84%) Onboarding
2 31 (5.18%) Driving Licence
3 23 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.17%) Smartphone
5 17 (2.84%) iPhone
6 15 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
7 13 (2.17%) PKI
8 11 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.84%) iPad
9 8 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.00%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.83%) NHS
11 5 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.67%) Blackberry
12 4 (0.67%) CMDB
13 3 (0.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 587 (98.00%) Windows
2 55 (9.18%) Android
3 53 (8.85%) Apple iOS
4 49 (8.18%) Mac OS
5 37 (6.18%) Windows Server
6 32 (5.34%) Windows 7
6 32 (5.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (3.84%) Linux
8 12 (2.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (1.84%) AIX
10 5 (0.83%) Mac OS X
10 5 (0.83%) Windows 8
11 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.50%) CentOS
13 2 (0.33%) Unix
14 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (26.71%) Customer Service
2 103 (17.20%) ITIL
3 101 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (14.19%) Migration
5 65 (10.85%) ITSM
6 48 (8.01%) Service Management
7 38 (6.34%) User Experience
8 35 (5.84%) Application Packaging
9 30 (5.01%) Workflow
10 27 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (4.51%) Mobile Device Management
11 25 (4.17%) Inventory Management
12 24 (4.01%) Agile
12 24 (4.01%) Logistics
13 22 (3.67%) Change Management
13 22 (3.67%) Service Delivery
13 22 (3.67%) Workflow Management
14 21 (3.51%) Incident Management
14 21 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (3.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 77 (12.85%) PowerShell
2 20 (3.34%) VBScript
3 11 (1.84%) SQL
4 10 (1.67%) Bash
5 7 (1.17%) VB
6 4 (0.67%) Java
7 3 (0.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 174 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 132 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.18%) Degree
4 36 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (5.84%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.84%) A+ Certification
7 11 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.50%) MCP
10 6 (1.00%) MCSE
11 5 (0.83%) Citrix Certification
11 5 (0.83%) MCDST
12 4 (0.67%) MCSA
13 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.33%) CCA
15 1 (0.17%) BC Cleared
15 1 (0.17%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.68%) SLA
2 18 (3.01%) GDPR
3 16 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.50%) NCSC
6 2 (0.33%) QA
7 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 314 (52.42%) Active Directory
2 40 (6.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.00%) BitLocker
5 10 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 10 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.50%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.00%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.83%) Terminal Services
9 4 (0.67%) Firmware
9 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.67%) vSphere
10 2 (0.33%) NFS
10 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.33%) XenApp
11 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 170 (28.38%) SCCM
2 103 (17.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (2.50%) vCenter Server
4 11 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 8 (1.34%) WSUS
6 6 (1.00%) Norton AntiVirus
7 4 (0.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 3 (0.50%) OPNET
8 3 (0.50%) SCOM
8 3 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.17%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.17%) Ansible
9 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.17%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 338 (56.43%) Microsoft
2 89 (14.86%) ServiceNow
3 50 (8.35%) VMware
4 48 (8.01%) Citrix
5 37 (6.18%) Apple
6 35 (5.84%) Cisco
7 25 (4.17%) HP
8 22 (3.67%) Dell
9 19 (3.17%) SAP
10 18 (3.01%) McAfee
10 18 (3.01%) Remedy
11 13 (2.17%) Oracle
12 9 (1.50%) iManage
12 9 (1.50%) Symantec
13 8 (1.34%) Starlink
14 7 (1.17%) Reuters
14 7 (1.17%) Veeam
15 6 (1.00%) Bloomberg
15 6 (1.00%) IBM
15 6 (1.00%) SolarWinds