Windows 10 Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Windows 10
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 65 63 70
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 42 51 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.72% 2.47% 2.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 17.53% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 41 47
10th Percentile £146 £133 £160
25th Percentile £150 £158 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £200 £220
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +17.33%
75th Percentile £282 £250 £331
90th Percentile £513 £344 £426
England median daily rate £238 £225 £220
% change year-on-year +5.56% +2.27% +0.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £16.14 £14.73 -
25th Percentile £17.66 £16.00 -
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.61% - -
75th Percentile £24.75 £19.50 -
90th Percentile £24.90 - -
England median hourly rate £23.00 £16.56 £19.00
% change year-on-year +38.93% -12.87% +7.31%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 210 291 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.60% 14.12% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 188 219
10th Percentile £150 £183 £173
25th Percentile £209 £275 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £444 £430
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +3.14% +1.18%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £575 £675 £700
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 13
10th Percentile £15.90 £14.99 £13.58
25th Percentile £16.67 £18.50 £16.23
Median hourly rate £17.83 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% +12.50% +21.58%
75th Percentile £23.12 £23.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.83 £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £20.38 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.50% -41.18% +93.18%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the West Midlands

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in the West Midlands

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the West Midlands

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in the West Midlands

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +13 18 £174 -13.00% 7
Warwickshire -3 8 £220 +46.67%
Worcestershire +6 6 £145 -12.12%
Coventry -1 4 £200 -54.55% 3
Solihull +6 2 £550 +144.44%
Staffordshire +1 1 - - 3
Shropshire -4 1 - - 2
Windows 10
England

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (14.29%) Azure
3 5 (11.90%) OneDrive
4 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.38%) AWS
6 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Firewall
1 6 (14.29%) VPN
2 5 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (7.14%) DHCP
3 3 (7.14%) Wireless
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.76%) Ethernet
4 2 (4.76%) Internet
4 2 (4.76%) Telepresence
4 2 (4.76%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.38%) DNS
5 1 (2.38%) NAS
5 1 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.38%) SAN
5 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.76%) Legal
3 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Desktop Engineer
1 8 (19.05%) Support Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Desktop Support
4 4 (9.52%) Deployment Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Service Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) IT Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) IT Support
6 2 (4.76%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Windows Support Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Desktop Migration Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Software Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Driving Licence
2 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) CMDB
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (11.90%) Mac OS
3 3 (7.14%) Windows 7
3 3 (7.14%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Customer Service
2 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (11.90%) Asset Management
3 5 (11.90%) Time Management
4 4 (9.52%) ITIL
4 4 (9.52%) Mobile Device Management
5 3 (7.14%) Change Control
5 3 (7.14%) Migration
5 3 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.76%) Computer Science
6 2 (4.76%) Information Management
6 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (4.76%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (4.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 1 (2.38%) Antivirus Management
7 1 (2.38%) Application Packaging
7 1 (2.38%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (2.38%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.38%) Inventory Management
7 1 (2.38%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) Degree
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.14%) CCNA
4 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.76%) MCSE
6 1 (2.38%) MCP
6 1 (2.38%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.38%) Firmware
4 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) SCCM
2 11 (26.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.81%) Cisco
3 8 (19.05%) Dell
3 8 (19.05%) HP
4 5 (11.90%) ServiceNow
5 4 (9.52%) Citrix
5 4 (9.52%) VMware
6 3 (7.14%) Apple
6 3 (7.14%) Nexthink
7 2 (4.76%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.38%) Symantec
8 1 (2.38%) Veeam