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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 176 123
Rank change year-on-year -86 -53 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 499 510 786
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.95% 1.56% 1.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.85% 11.62% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 311 512
10th Percentile £135 £150 £150
25th Percentile £163 £181 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £201 £225 £225
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £283 £375 £385
90th Percentile £428 £514 £573
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £205 £220
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 64 94
10th Percentile £19.31 £16.96 £10.95
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.87 £11.07
Median hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £16.56
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% +38.93% -12.87%
75th Percentile £67.47 £25.15 £22.00
90th Percentile £178.75 £28.00 £28.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £25.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year +3.00% +66.67% -21.05%

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 5,066 4,388 5,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.61% 13.47% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,216 2,821 3,773
10th Percentile £191 £200 £190
25th Percentile £319 £313 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 248 401
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £23.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -6.12% -42.35%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.02 £67.30 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.58 £21.90 £31.00
% change year-on-year +21.37% -29.35% +3.33%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -71 463 £210 -6.67% 108
UK excluding London -66 372 £200 -2.44% 111
London -102 121 £236 -14.09% 16
North of England -13 120 £195 -2.50% 33
North West -2 85 £190 - 18
South West -26 61 £225 +2.27% 12
South East -102 59 £250 +17.65% 36
Midlands -41 58 £190 - 12
Work from Home -79 53 £205 -18.00% 16
East of England -5 45 £175 -22.22% 11
West Midlands -58 33 £225 +18.42% 4
Yorkshire -42 30 £193 -3.75% 10
East Midlands -3 24 £131 -27.13% 8
Scotland -34 17 £150 -29.41% 11
Wales -12 10 £200 -27.27% 1
North East -39 5 £250 -16.67% 6
Northern Ireland +3 4 £175 +9.38%
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 64 (12.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 64 (12.83%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.00%) HCL Notes
3 8 (1.60%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.00%) Confluence
5 3 (0.60%) Apache
5 3 (0.60%) nginx
6 2 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 70 (14.03%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.40%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.40%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 289 (57.92%) Microsoft 365
2 111 (22.24%) Azure
3 78 (15.63%) Entra ID
4 24 (4.81%) OneDrive
5 7 (1.40%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (0.80%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.40%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.20%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.20%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.20%) IaaS
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.20%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 53 (10.62%) VPN
2 47 (9.42%) DNS
3 45 (9.02%) DHCP
4 36 (7.21%) Wi-Fi
5 31 (6.21%) TCP/IP
6 26 (5.21%) LAN
7 20 (4.01%) Skype
8 13 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (2.20%) WAN
9 11 (2.20%) Wireless
10 8 (1.60%) VLAN
11 7 (1.40%) Firewall
12 6 (1.20%) Internet
12 6 (1.20%) IPv4
12 6 (1.20%) IPv6
12 6 (1.20%) VoIP
13 5 (1.00%) Network Security
14 3 (0.60%) WAAS
15 1 (0.20%) NetScaler
15 1 (0.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.60%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.60%) Power BI
4 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (5.41%) JIRA
2 6 (1.20%) MSI
3 3 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.60%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.40%) AdminStudio
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 299 (59.92%) Social Skills
2 45 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (7.82%) Legal
4 35 (7.01%) Finance
5 26 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.21%) Banking
8 16 (3.21%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.40%) Law
11 6 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.20%) Local Government
12 5 (1.00%) French Language
12 5 (1.00%) Retail
13 4 (0.80%) Front Office
13 4 (0.80%) Marketing
13 4 (0.80%) Police
14 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (34.87%) Support Engineer
2 160 (32.06%) IT Support
3 132 (26.45%) IT Engineer
4 120 (24.05%) IT Support Engineer
5 68 (13.63%) Analyst
6 48 (9.62%) Desktop Engineer
7 42 (8.42%) Desktop Support
8 38 (7.62%) 2nd Line Support
9 36 (7.21%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 33 (6.61%) Deployment Engineer
11 32 (6.41%) 1st Line Support
11 32 (6.41%) Service Analyst
11 32 (6.41%) Support Analyst
12 31 (6.21%) Service Desk Analyst
13 30 (6.01%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 27 (5.41%) IT Analyst
15 24 (4.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 24 (4.81%) Windows Engineer
16 23 (4.61%) 1st/2nd Line Support
16 23 (4.61%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.00%) X-Windows
2 4 (0.80%) Software Packaging
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.20%) .NET
4 1 (0.20%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.20%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.20%) WinForms
4 1 (0.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (12.42%) Onboarding
2 21 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.81%) Driving Licence
4 14 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
5 13 (2.61%) Blackberry
6 12 (2.40%) Smartphone
7 10 (2.00%) iPhone
7 10 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.80%) iPad
9 6 (1.20%) BYOD
9 6 (1.20%) CMDB
9 6 (1.20%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.00%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (1.00%) Virtual Reality
11 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.80%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.40%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 499 (100.00%) Windows
2 41 (8.22%) Windows Server
3 36 (7.21%) Mac OS
4 35 (7.01%) Android
5 27 (5.41%) Apple iOS
6 24 (4.81%) Windows 7
7 17 (3.41%) Linux
8 10 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.40%) Mac OS X
10 6 (1.20%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (1.00%) Solaris
12 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.40%) CentOS
13 2 (0.40%) Debian
14 1 (0.20%) AIX
14 1 (0.20%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (31.46%) Customer Service
2 126 (25.25%) ITIL
3 112 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (12.02%) ITSM
5 56 (11.22%) Migration
6 47 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (8.02%) Service Delivery
7 40 (8.02%) Service Management
8 38 (7.62%) Asset Management
8 38 (7.62%) User Experience
9 24 (4.81%) Application Packaging
10 20 (4.01%) Customer Experience
10 20 (4.01%) Incident Management
11 19 (3.81%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (3.61%) Change Management
13 17 (3.41%) Computer Science
13 17 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (3.41%) Inventory Management
14 16 (3.21%) Break/Fix
15 15 (3.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 59 (11.82%) PowerShell
2 13 (2.61%) VBScript
3 8 (1.60%) VB
4 5 (1.00%) SQL
5 4 (0.80%) Python
6 1 (0.20%) Bicep
6 1 (0.20%) C#
6 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 92 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 77 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 48 (9.62%) Degree
4 31 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.81%) A+ Certification
7 10 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (1.40%) MCSE
10 6 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.60%) ACSP
12 3 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.20%) CCA
13 1 (0.20%) CCNA
13 1 (0.20%) Citrix Certification
13 1 (0.20%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.82%) SLA
2 4 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.80%) NCSC
3 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (0.60%) GDPR
4 2 (0.40%) GLP
4 2 (0.40%) GMP
4 2 (0.40%) QA
5 1 (0.20%) GRC
5 1 (0.20%) GxP
5 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 312 (62.53%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (2.40%) BitLocker
5 8 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.60%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) KVM
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 132 (26.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 94 (18.84%) SCCM
3 10 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (1.60%) WSUS
5 5 (1.00%) AirWatch
6 3 (0.60%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (0.60%) Packer
6 3 (0.60%) Terraform
6 3 (0.60%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.40%) WMI
8 1 (0.20%) SCOM
8 1 (0.20%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.20%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 317 (63.53%) Microsoft
2 105 (21.04%) ServiceNow
3 35 (7.01%) Apple
4 23 (4.61%) Citrix
4 23 (4.61%) VMware
5 18 (3.61%) Cisco
6 17 (3.41%) HP
7 16 (3.21%) Remedy
8 14 (2.81%) iManage
9 12 (2.40%) Bomgar
10 10 (2.00%) Lotus
10 10 (2.00%) McAfee
11 9 (1.80%) Starlink
12 8 (1.60%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.40%) Oracle
13 7 (1.40%) Samsung
14 6 (1.20%) Dell
15 5 (1.00%) Reuters
16 4 (0.80%) Sophos
16 4 (0.80%) Tanium