Windows 10 Contracts

Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows 10 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 10 over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 104 108
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 892 1,418 2,219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.07% 2.40% 2.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.48% 14.69% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 1,017 1,508
10th Percentile £148 £140 £130
25th Percentile £185 £165 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £220 £204
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +7.84% -9.33%
75th Percentile £376 £388 £385
90th Percentile £575 £538 £523
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £205 £190
% change year-on-year +5.13% +7.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 95 183
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.97 £12.51
25th Percentile £11.07 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.86 £18.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +2.78% +16.13%
75th Percentile £21.00 £24.50 £22.25
90th Percentile £36.84 £52.13 £27.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.14 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -23.57% +5.71% +14.75%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 10 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,764 9,654 13,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.36% 16.34% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 6,776 9,081
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% +0.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 423 632
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.05 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.98
Median hourly rate £22.08 £38.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.66% +71.11% +26.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.65 £20.00
% change year-on-year -24.11% +48.25% +21.21%

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 May 2024.

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 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 17 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 May 2024. 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 -5 823 £225 +2.27% 354
UK excluding London -2 607 £215 +5.13% 293
London -12 260 £263 +12.90% 90
South East +12 236 £220 +7.32% 74
Work from Home -20 161 £313 +22.55% 94
North of England +29 156 £220 +3.53% 52
North West +17 94 £225 +2.27% 28
Midlands +7 81 £200 +6.38% 54
Yorkshire +24 57 £193 -3.75% 22
South West -39 56 £225 - 56
West Midlands +9 48 £200 -9.09% 27
Scotland +9 41 £200 +21.21% 22
East Midlands -1 32 £160 +17.65% 27
East of England -24 30 £220 +11.39% 33
Wales -1 8 £190 -63.81% 6
North East +15 5 £150 -4.76% 2
Northern Ireland -3 2 £145 -21.62% 4

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
1 123 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 84 (9.42%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.91%) Skype for Business
4 6 (0.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.34%) Confluence
6 2 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) nginx
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 250 (28.03%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.22%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) LabWindows
1 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.34%) Eikon
3 2 (0.22%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) assyst
4 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 486 (54.48%) Microsoft 365
2 183 (20.52%) Azure
3 90 (10.09%) Entra ID
4 51 (5.72%) OneDrive
5 15 (1.68%) AWS
6 14 (1.57%) OCI
7 10 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.45%) IaaS
8 4 (0.45%) Mimecast
8 4 (0.45%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.45%) Yammer
9 3 (0.34%) SaaS
9 3 (0.34%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.22%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.22%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.22%) BigCommerce
10 2 (0.22%) GCP
10 2 (0.22%) PaaS
10 2 (0.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 98 (10.99%) DNS
2 90 (10.09%) VPN
3 73 (8.18%) Firewall
4 70 (7.85%) DHCP
5 53 (5.94%) LAN
6 37 (4.15%) Wi-Fi
7 33 (3.70%) TCP/IP
8 29 (3.25%) Remote Desktop
8 29 (3.25%) WAN
9 25 (2.80%) Wireless
10 22 (2.47%) Skype
11 20 (2.24%) SAN
11 20 (2.24%) VoIP
12 14 (1.57%) NetScaler
13 11 (1.23%) VLAN
14 8 (0.90%) WAAS
15 7 (0.78%) Internet
15 7 (0.78%) WebEx
16 6 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
16 6 (0.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.22%) Power BI
4 1 (0.11%) MS Access
4 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (1.57%) JIRA
2 6 (0.67%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.56%) Git
3 5 (0.56%) Subversion
4 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.22%) MSI
4 2 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 382 (42.83%) Social Skills
2 110 (12.33%) Finance
3 84 (9.42%) Public Sector
4 83 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
5 46 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 31 (3.48%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.03%) Marketing
9 23 (2.58%) Electronics
10 22 (2.47%) Legal
11 20 (2.24%) Banking
12 16 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.68%) Law
14 14 (1.57%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.46%) French Language
16 11 (1.23%) Retail
17 8 (0.90%) German Language
17 8 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
19 5 (0.56%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 183 (20.52%) Support Engineer
2 163 (18.27%) Analyst
3 115 (12.89%) Desktop Support
4 111 (12.44%) IT Support
5 109 (12.22%) Desktop Engineer
6 86 (9.64%) Service Analyst
6 86 (9.64%) Service Desk Analyst
7 76 (8.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 70 (7.85%) IT Engineer
9 68 (7.62%) 2nd Line Support
10 64 (7.17%) Support Analyst
11 63 (7.06%) Windows Engineer
12 54 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 47 (5.27%) IT Analyst
13 47 (5.27%) Senior
14 43 (4.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 39 (4.37%) IT Support Engineer
16 38 (4.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 37 (4.15%) Deployment Engineer
18 36 (4.04%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.46%) XMPP
2 6 (0.67%) Software Packaging
3 3 (0.34%) .NET
3 3 (0.34%) WPF
4 2 (0.22%) MFC
4 2 (0.22%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.22%) VML
4 2 (0.22%) Web Services
4 2 (0.22%) WinForms
5 1 (0.11%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.11%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.11%) JSON
5 1 (0.11%) Middleware
5 1 (0.11%) OAuth
5 1 (0.11%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.11%) SAML
5 1 (0.11%) Universal Windows Platform
5 1 (0.11%) XML
5 1 (0.11%) X-Windows
5 1 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (6.05%) Driving Licence
2 34 (3.81%) Video Conferencing
3 32 (3.59%) iPad
4 31 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 30 (3.36%) iPhone
6 25 (2.80%) NHS
7 24 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.24%) Smartphone
9 19 (2.13%) Blackberry
9 19 (2.13%) CMDB
10 17 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.79%) BYOD
12 13 (1.46%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.35%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.12%) Clustering
15 9 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 7 (0.78%) PKI
17 7 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
18 6 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 886 (99.33%) Windows
2 173 (19.39%) Windows Server
3 135 (15.13%) Windows 7
4 89 (9.98%) Apple iOS
5 82 (9.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 73 (8.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 69 (7.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 50 (5.61%) Android
9 49 (5.49%) Mac OS
10 24 (2.69%) Linux
11 21 (2.35%) Windows NT
11 21 (2.35%) Windows Server 2008
12 19 (2.13%) Windows XP
13 13 (1.46%) Mac OS X
14 10 (1.12%) Windows 8
15 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.45%) Unix
16 4 (0.45%) VMS
17 1 (0.11%) AIX
17 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (31.73%) Customer Service
2 203 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
3 201 (22.53%) ITIL
4 64 (7.17%) Migration
5 59 (6.61%) ITSM
5 59 (6.61%) Service Management
6 58 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 53 (5.94%) Mobile Device Management
8 48 (5.38%) Time Management
9 46 (5.16%) Service Delivery
10 38 (4.26%) Asset Management
11 36 (4.04%) Decision-Making
12 34 (3.81%) Project Management
13 33 (3.70%) Break/Fix
14 32 (3.59%) Software Deployment
15 29 (3.25%) Agile
16 26 (2.91%) Deployment Automation
16 26 (2.91%) Proactive Monitoring
17 25 (2.80%) Release Management
18 24 (2.69%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 113 (12.67%) PowerShell
2 30 (3.36%) SQL
3 12 (1.35%) VBScript
4 8 (0.90%) VB
5 7 (0.78%) C#
6 6 (0.67%) Python
7 5 (0.56%) C
8 3 (0.34%) C++
8 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.22%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.11%) Bash
10 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 203 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 112 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 101 (11.32%) Degree
4 96 (10.76%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (2.80%) CCNA
6 25 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (1.91%) A+ Certification
8 17 (1.91%) CCNP
8 17 (1.91%) MCSE
9 11 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (0.67%) MCP
12 6 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.45%) MCSA
14 4 (0.45%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.09%) SLA
2 29 (3.25%) QA
3 28 (3.14%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.56%) GDPR
5 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 512 (57.40%) Active Directory
2 78 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (4.26%) Firmware
4 37 (4.15%) Hyper-V
5 27 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (2.24%) XenApp
8 16 (1.79%) XenDesktop
9 13 (1.46%) BitLocker
9 13 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
10 12 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.78%) KVM
12 7 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.34%) vSphere
15 2 (0.22%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 302 (33.86%) SCCM
2 146 (16.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (4.71%) WSUS
4 35 (3.92%) Jamf Pro
5 26 (2.91%) vCenter Server
6 21 (2.35%) Sysprep
7 20 (2.24%) SCOM
8 14 (1.57%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (1.57%) NetBackup
9 10 (1.12%) Autotask
10 9 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (1.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.45%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.34%) AppManager
13 3 (0.34%) OPNET
13 3 (0.34%) Terraform
14 2 (0.22%) Ansible
14 2 (0.22%) Kibana
14 2 (0.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 538 (60.31%) Microsoft
2 113 (12.67%) Apple
3 102 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 100 (11.21%) VMware
5 91 (10.20%) Citrix
6 67 (7.51%) HP
7 62 (6.95%) Cisco
8 32 (3.59%) SAP
9 28 (3.14%) Dell
10 22 (2.47%) Adobe
11 20 (2.24%) Symantec
11 20 (2.24%) Veeam
12 19 (2.13%) Oracle
13 18 (2.02%) Ivanti
14 17 (1.91%) Palo Alto
15 15 (1.68%) EMC
15 15 (1.68%) Juniper
16 14 (1.57%) 3PAR
16 14 (1.57%) Extreme Networks
17 11 (1.23%) Bloomberg