Windows 10 Contract Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft Windows 10
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 29 40
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 7 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.97% 4.26% 3.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.59% 24.66% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 10
10th Percentile - £140 £151
25th Percentile £230 £174 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £200 £175
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £325 £234 £437
90th Percentile £333 £343 £604
UK median daily rate £225 £225 £220
% change year-on-year - +2.27% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £15.28 - -
25th Percentile £15.69 £21.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £17.25 £22.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - +73.08%
75th Percentile £18.69 £23.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.03 - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £21.45 £19.00
% change year-on-year +7.25% +12.87% +8.57%

All Operating Systems
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 34 73 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.55% 17.26% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 49 121
10th Percentile £156 £137 £153
25th Percentile £195 £185 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £325 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% -31.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £300 £538 £575
90th Percentile £513 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 4
10th Percentile £15.55 £21.15 £28.75
25th Percentile £16.38 £43.44 £40.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £47.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -61.05% -2.56% +261.11%
75th Percentile £19.88 £50.00 £52.19
90th Percentile £20.25 £53.88 £56.13
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% +5.26% +98.66%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in Wales

Windows 10
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Windows 10.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Windows 10.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
South Wales +1 5 £278 +42.31% 4
West Wales +1 1 - - 4
North Wales -5 1 £275 +25.00%
Windows 10
UK

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) VoIP
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Support
2 2 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Technical Support
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Android
2 2 (28.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITSM
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Break/Fix
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 3 (42.86%) Remedy
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) HP