Windows 10 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows 10
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 221 162
Rank change year-on-year -100 -59 -18
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 417 428 818
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.26% 1.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.49% 9.13% 11.80%
Number of salaries quoted 325 349 511
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% - +4.84%
75th Percentile £37,250 £37,500 £40,000
90th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £52,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year - -9.72% +2.86%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows 10 falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,914 4,689 6,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.75% 13.75% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,734 2,881 4,102
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,125 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -16.68% -1.39%
75th Percentile £61,250 £51,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -4.76%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows 10 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Windows 10 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows 10.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 10 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -42 113 £30,000 +1.69% 25
Midlands -36 93 £29,813 -6.84% 30
South East -89 79 £35,000 +7.69% 37
North West -5 66 £30,000 +3.45% 19
East of England -29 57 £34,500 -1.43% 23
East Midlands 0 56 £29,625 -15.36% 18
Yorkshire -49 40 £30,000 +1.69% 4
Scotland +37 37 £28,500 -5.00% 8
West Midlands -53 37 £30,000 -4.76% 12
South West -110 34 £32,500 +8.33% 16
North East -67 7 £16,000 -48.39% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
Wales -84 1 - - 2
Windows 10
UK

Windows 10
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 117 (28.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 100 (23.98%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.40%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.68%) Apache
4 7 (1.68%) nginx
5 4 (0.96%) IIS
6 2 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 75 (17.99%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.24%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 359 (86.09%) Microsoft 365
2 92 (22.06%) Azure
3 91 (21.82%) Entra ID
4 25 (6.00%) OneDrive
5 22 (5.28%) Mimecast
6 12 (2.88%) Google Workspace
7 11 (2.64%) AWS
8 8 (1.92%) SaaS
9 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (1.20%) GCP
10 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.20%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.20%) ShareGate
11 4 (0.96%) Nutanix
12 3 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.48%) Azure Stack
13 2 (0.48%) Power Platform
14 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 1 (0.24%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 138 (33.09%) DNS
2 132 (31.65%) DHCP
3 96 (23.02%) Firewall
4 72 (17.27%) VPN
5 71 (17.03%) TCP/IP
6 64 (15.35%) Wi-Fi
7 55 (13.19%) WAN
8 52 (12.47%) LAN
9 41 (9.83%) VoIP
10 39 (9.35%) VLAN
11 29 (6.95%) Wireless
12 13 (3.12%) 4G
12 13 (3.12%) Broadband
13 11 (2.64%) Skype
14 6 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (1.44%) Network Security
15 5 (1.20%) Structured Cabling
16 4 (0.96%) NAS
17 3 (0.72%) WLAN
18 2 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.16%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.48%) Power BI
3 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (3.60%) JIRA
2 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.24%) AdminStudio
3 1 (0.24%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.24%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.24%) MSI
General
1 214 (51.32%) Social Skills
2 29 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (5.52%) Manufacturing
4 20 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
4 20 (4.80%) Retail
5 12 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (2.64%) Finance
7 6 (1.44%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.20%) Advertising
8 5 (1.20%) Law
9 4 (0.96%) Automotive
9 4 (0.96%) Back Office
9 4 (0.96%) Dutch Language
9 4 (0.96%) Legal
9 4 (0.96%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.96%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.72%) Electronics
10 3 (0.72%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (0.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 183 (43.88%) IT Support
2 138 (33.09%) IT Engineer
3 134 (32.13%) Support Engineer
4 107 (25.66%) IT Support Engineer
5 76 (18.23%) Analyst
6 58 (13.91%) 2nd Line Support
7 49 (11.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 46 (11.03%) Support Analyst
9 44 (10.55%) Support Technician
10 39 (9.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 39 (9.35%) IT Analyst
10 39 (9.35%) IT Technician
11 34 (8.15%) 1st Line Support
12 31 (7.43%) IT Support Analyst
12 31 (7.43%) IT Support Technician
13 29 (6.95%) Desktop Engineer
14 27 (6.47%) Desktop Support
15 26 (6.24%) 1st/2nd Line Support
16 25 (6.00%) Service Analyst
16 25 (6.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.68%) .NET
1 7 (1.68%) WinForms
2 5 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (1.20%) Web Services
3 3 (0.72%) Terraform
4 2 (0.48%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.24%) Google JAX
5 1 (0.24%) JAX
5 1 (0.24%) LDAP
5 1 (0.24%) OpenCV
5 1 (0.24%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 93 (22.30%) Driving Licence
2 40 (9.59%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.40%) Smartphone
5 9 (2.16%) FMCG
6 7 (1.68%) CCTV
7 6 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.96%) CMDB
10 3 (0.72%) EPoS
10 3 (0.72%) iPhone
10 3 (0.72%) Shadow IT
11 2 (0.48%) CSOC
11 2 (0.48%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.48%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.48%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.48%) Replication
11 2 (0.48%) Thin Client
11 2 (0.48%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 415 (99.52%) Windows
2 141 (33.81%) Windows Server
3 57 (13.67%) Android
4 52 (12.47%) Apple iOS
5 27 (6.47%) Linux
6 19 (4.56%) Mac OS
7 14 (3.36%) Windows 7
7 14 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (3.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.96%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.48%) CentOS
12 1 (0.24%) Debian
12 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (45.32%) Customer Service
2 131 (31.41%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (25.42%) ITIL
4 67 (16.07%) ITSM
5 51 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (9.59%) Service Management
7 33 (7.91%) User Experience
8 31 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (7.43%) Service Delivery
9 28 (6.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 28 (6.71%) Time Management
10 26 (6.24%) Proactive Monitoring
11 24 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (4.80%) Mobile Device Management
13 19 (4.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 19 (4.56%) Patch Management
13 19 (4.56%) Ticket Management
14 18 (4.32%) Service Catalogue
15 16 (3.84%) Asset Management
16 15 (3.60%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (14.87%) PowerShell
2 12 (2.88%) Python
3 9 (2.16%) VBScript
4 8 (1.92%) SQL
5 7 (1.68%) C#
5 7 (1.68%) VB
6 3 (0.72%) Ruby
7 2 (0.48%) Bash
8 1 (0.24%) C
8 1 (0.24%) Fortran
8 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.95%) Degree
3 52 (12.47%) SC Cleared
4 44 (10.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (8.15%) A+ Certification
6 20 (4.80%) DBS Check
7 16 (3.84%) CCNA
7 16 (3.84%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (3.84%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.48%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (12.23%) SLA
2 17 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.40%) QA
5 8 (1.92%) GDPR
6 5 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 265 (63.55%) Active Directory
2 41 (9.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (6.00%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.32%) BitLocker
5 11 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.20%) Squid
7 5 (1.20%) vSphere
8 4 (0.96%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.48%) UAG
10 1 (0.24%) Ceph
10 1 (0.24%) Firmware
10 1 (0.24%) Lustre
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.24%) NFS
10 1 (0.24%) Samba
10 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.24%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 82 (19.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (12.95%) SCCM
3 5 (1.20%) FortiGate
3 5 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.20%) WSUS
4 3 (0.72%) Ansible
4 3 (0.72%) Backup Exec
5 2 (0.48%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.48%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 333 (79.86%) Microsoft
2 60 (14.39%) VMware
3 42 (10.07%) Cisco
4 41 (9.83%) Sophos
5 35 (8.39%) ServiceNow
6 26 (6.24%) Apple
7 18 (4.32%) Logitech
7 18 (4.32%) TOWER Software
8 17 (4.08%) Google
8 17 (4.08%) Meraki
9 16 (3.84%) Veeam
10 13 (3.12%) Starlink
11 9 (2.16%) Citrix
11 9 (2.16%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.16%) SolarWinds
12 8 (1.92%) Freshdesk
13 5 (1.20%) Datto
13 5 (1.20%) iManage
13 5 (1.20%) McAfee
13 5 (1.20%) Thales