Windows 10 Contracts

Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Windows 10 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 10 over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 118 113
Rank change year-on-year -43 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 539 843 1,275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.69% 1.94% 2.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.38% 14.22% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 549 952
10th Percentile £153 £150 £140
25th Percentile £195 £185 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £225 £220
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £388 £380 £388
90th Percentile £538 £575 £543
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £215 £205
% change year-on-year - +4.88% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 98 66
10th Percentile £17.57 £10.95 £14.26
25th Percentile £18.87 £11.07 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.07 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.72% -10.14% +8.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £24.93
90th Percentile £28.00 £37.38 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £15.00 £18.38
% change year-on-year +66.67% -18.38% +5.01%

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 4,354 5,927 8,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.69% 13.67% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,818 3,888 6,226
10th Percentile £200 £190 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -2.70% - +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 435 406
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.25 £18.28
Median hourly rate £22.78 £25.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% -41.18% +88.89%
75th Percentile £42.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.07 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -45.51% +16.67% +50.00%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 10.

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 10.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 18 Contract 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 5 July 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 -36 483 £238 +5.56% 658
UK excluding London -27 356 £215 - 500
London -12 167 £288 +6.48% 239
South East -10 106 £250 - 137
Work from Home -37 78 £250 -20.00% 163
North of England -58 62 £200 -9.09% 123
Midlands -15 59 £190 -5.00% 63
South West +40 58 £220 -2.22% 52
West Midlands -2 42 £190 -5.00% 28
North West -42 39 £195 -13.33% 58
Scotland -17 34 £200 - 36
East of England +19 27 £225 - 57
Yorkshire -22 21 £194 +1.97% 51
East Midlands -15 17 £185 +15.63% 35
Wales +2 7 £300 +57.89% 27
Northern Ireland -14 4 £160 -13.51% 11
North East -3 2 £300 +33.33% 16
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 65 (12.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (10.76%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.30%) Skype for Business
4 5 (0.93%) Confluence
5 4 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.37%) CMS
6 2 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (15.58%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.37%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 258 (47.87%) Microsoft 365
2 110 (20.41%) Azure
3 56 (10.39%) Entra ID
4 22 (4.08%) OneDrive
5 12 (2.23%) Google Workspace
6 6 (1.11%) AWS
7 4 (0.74%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.56%) GCP
9 2 (0.37%) Asana
9 2 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.37%) GitHub
9 2 (0.37%) IaaS
9 2 (0.37%) SaaS
9 2 (0.37%) Slack
9 2 (0.37%) Yammer
10 1 (0.19%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.19%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.19%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.19%) Route 53
10 1 (0.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (13.73%) VPN
2 53 (9.83%) DNS
3 42 (7.79%) DHCP
4 41 (7.61%) Firewall
5 30 (5.57%) Wi-Fi
6 27 (5.01%) LAN
6 27 (5.01%) TCP/IP
7 22 (4.08%) VLAN
8 21 (3.90%) WAN
9 19 (3.53%) Remote Desktop
10 15 (2.78%) Skype
11 14 (2.60%) VoIP
12 12 (2.23%) Wireless
13 8 (1.48%) Unified Communications
14 7 (1.30%) IP Telephony
15 5 (0.93%) VSAN
16 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
16 3 (0.56%) Internet
16 3 (0.56%) NAS
16 3 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (2.78%) MSI
2 11 (2.04%) JIRA
3 3 (0.56%) AdminStudio
3 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 215 (39.89%) Social Skills
2 72 (13.36%) Finance
3 46 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.98%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.64%) Banking
6 21 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (3.71%) Legal
8 17 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.41%) Law
10 12 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.67%) Marketing
11 9 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.48%) Electronics
12 8 (1.48%) Local Government
13 7 (1.30%) Military
14 5 (0.93%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.56%) German Language
15 3 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 124 (23.01%) Support Engineer
2 85 (15.77%) Analyst
3 67 (12.43%) IT Support
4 64 (11.87%) IT Engineer
5 59 (10.95%) Desktop Engineer
6 54 (10.02%) Desktop Support
7 51 (9.46%) Windows Engineer
8 46 (8.53%) 2nd Line Support
9 42 (7.79%) Deployment Engineer
9 42 (7.79%) IT Support Engineer
10 41 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (7.24%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 34 (6.31%) Service Analyst
12 34 (6.31%) Service Desk Analyst
12 34 (6.31%) Support Analyst
13 31 (5.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 27 (5.01%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 19 (3.53%) IT Analyst
16 18 (3.34%) Technical Support
17 17 (3.15%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.11%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.37%) Web Services
3 1 (0.19%) .NET
3 1 (0.19%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.19%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.01%) Onboarding
2 22 (4.08%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.53%) iPhone
3 19 (3.53%) Video Conferencing
4 17 (3.15%) iPad
5 15 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.41%) PKI
7 11 (2.04%) Smartphone
8 9 (1.67%) CMDB
8 9 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.67%) NHS
9 6 (1.11%) Blackberry
9 6 (1.11%) Clustering
9 6 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.74%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.56%) Fat Client
11 3 (0.56%) LIMS
11 3 (0.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 539 (100.00%) Windows
2 82 (15.21%) Windows Server
3 48 (8.91%) Windows 7
4 35 (6.49%) Mac OS
5 33 (6.12%) Android
6 26 (4.82%) Apple iOS
6 26 (4.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (4.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (3.71%) Linux
9 14 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (1.86%) Windows XP
11 8 (1.48%) Windows 8
12 6 (1.11%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.93%) VMS
14 4 (0.74%) Windows Vista
15 3 (0.56%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.56%) Solaris
16 2 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
17 1 (0.19%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (21.52%) ITIL
2 114 (21.15%) Customer Service
3 105 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (10.02%) Migration
5 50 (9.28%) Service Management
6 46 (8.53%) Asset Management
6 46 (8.53%) ITSM
7 45 (8.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 38 (7.05%) Time Management
9 30 (5.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (5.01%) Service Delivery
11 22 (4.08%) Application Packaging
12 21 (3.90%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (3.90%) Incident Management
13 18 (3.34%) Agile
13 18 (3.34%) Change Management
13 18 (3.34%) Project Delivery
14 16 (2.97%) Ticket Management
14 16 (2.97%) User Experience
15 15 (2.78%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 99 (18.37%) PowerShell
2 17 (3.15%) SQL
3 14 (2.60%) VBScript
4 11 (2.04%) VB
5 8 (1.48%) C#
6 2 (0.37%) Bash
6 2 (0.37%) Python
7 1 (0.19%) C++
7 1 (0.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 140 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 114 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.42%) DV Cleared
4 36 (6.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (6.49%) Degree
6 20 (3.71%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (2.78%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.86%) A+ Certification
9 9 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.67%) MCSE
10 6 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.74%) CCNA
12 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.74%) Citrix Certification
12 4 (0.74%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.74%) MCSA
13 3 (0.56%) MCP
14 2 (0.37%) CBAP
14 2 (0.37%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.91%) SLA
2 13 (2.41%) GDPR
3 11 (2.04%) QA
4 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 271 (50.28%) Active Directory
2 37 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (3.53%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (2.41%) vSphere
7 12 (2.23%) Microsoft App-V
8 11 (2.04%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.11%) XenApp
9 6 (1.11%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.37%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.19%) Firmware
13 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 127 (23.56%) SCCM
2 112 (20.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (2.41%) WSUS
4 6 (1.11%) SmoothWall
5 5 (0.93%) AirWatch
5 5 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.93%) Norton AntiVirus
6 4 (0.74%) AppManager
7 3 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.37%) Ansible
8 2 (0.37%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.37%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.37%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.37%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 1 (0.19%) Puppet
9 1 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 307 (56.96%) Microsoft
2 67 (12.43%) ServiceNow
3 60 (11.13%) VMware
4 37 (6.86%) Citrix
5 30 (5.57%) Cisco
6 28 (5.19%) Apple
7 27 (5.01%) Dell
8 19 (3.53%) HP
9 18 (3.34%) Remedy
10 15 (2.78%) Wyse
11 14 (2.60%) McAfee
12 13 (2.41%) Google
13 10 (1.86%) Symantec
14 8 (1.48%) iManage
14 8 (1.48%) Ivanti
14 8 (1.48%) SAP
15 7 (1.30%) Canon
15 7 (1.30%) SolarWinds
15 7 (1.30%) Zscaler
16 6 (1.11%) NETGEAR