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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 220 164
Rank change year-on-year -110 -56 -17
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 400 430 782
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.23% 1.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.12% 9.30% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 310 347 464
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £27,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £31,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £40,000
90th Percentile £43,900 £41,850 £53,375
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year - -10.96% +4.29%

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 4,929 4,626 6,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.71% 13.29% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,694 2,825 3,782
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,125 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -20.00% +0.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £76,150
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -74 103 £30,000 - 14
Midlands -18 92 £30,000 -4.76% 21
South East -86 79 £35,000 +7.69% 20
North West -11 65 £30,000 +0.84% 10
East Midlands -1 53 £30,000 -14.29% 14
East of England -39 53 £35,000 +7.69% 17
West Midlands -48 39 £35,000 +11.11% 7
Scotland +38 38 £28,250 -5.83% 5
Yorkshire -52 32 £30,000 +1.69% 4
South West -110 31 £32,500 +10.17% 14
North East -64 6 £16,000 -48.39%
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
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
1 112 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 94 (23.50%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.00%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.75%) Apache
4 7 (1.75%) nginx
5 4 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 69 (17.25%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 340 (85.00%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (22.75%) Entra ID
3 89 (22.25%) Azure
4 26 (6.50%) OneDrive
5 24 (6.00%) Mimecast
6 13 (3.25%) Google Workspace
7 11 (2.75%) AWS
8 8 (2.00%) SaaS
9 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (1.25%) GCP
10 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.25%) ShareGate
11 4 (1.00%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.75%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.50%) Azure Stack
14 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 1 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
14 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 138 (34.50%) DNS
2 132 (33.00%) DHCP
3 97 (24.25%) Firewall
4 76 (19.00%) TCP/IP
5 73 (18.25%) VPN
6 62 (15.50%) Wi-Fi
7 52 (13.00%) LAN
8 51 (12.75%) WAN
9 46 (11.50%) VLAN
10 40 (10.00%) VoIP
11 30 (7.50%) Wireless
12 13 (3.25%) Broadband
13 12 (3.00%) 4G
14 10 (2.50%) Network Security
15 9 (2.25%) Skype
16 7 (1.75%) Cisco IOS
17 5 (1.25%) Structured Cabling
18 3 (0.75%) NAS
19 2 (0.50%) NetScaler
19 2 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (3.50%) JIRA
2 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.25%) AdminStudio
3 1 (0.25%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.25%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.25%) MSI
General
1 205 (51.25%) Social Skills
2 30 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (6.50%) Manufacturing
4 22 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (5.00%) Retail
6 13 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.75%) Finance
8 7 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.25%) Back Office
9 5 (1.25%) Law
9 5 (1.25%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.00%) Automotive
10 4 (1.00%) Electronics
10 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.75%) Advertising
11 3 (0.75%) Legal
11 3 (0.75%) Local Government
12 2 (0.50%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.25%) French Language
Job Titles
1 186 (46.50%) IT Support
2 130 (32.50%) IT Engineer
3 128 (32.00%) Support Engineer
4 103 (25.75%) IT Support Engineer
5 73 (18.25%) Analyst
6 55 (13.75%) 2nd Line Support
7 47 (11.75%) Support Analyst
8 46 (11.50%) IT Analyst
9 45 (11.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 44 (11.00%) Support Technician
11 38 (9.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 38 (9.50%) IT Support Analyst
12 36 (9.00%) IT Technician
13 32 (8.00%) 1st Line Support
14 30 (7.50%) IT Support Technician
15 28 (7.00%) Desktop Engineer
16 25 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
17 24 (6.00%) Field Engineer
18 23 (5.75%) Desktop Support
19 21 (5.25%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.50%) .NET
2 9 (2.25%) WinForms
3 7 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (1.25%) Web Services
5 3 (0.75%) Terraform
6 2 (0.50%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.25%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.25%) JAX
7 1 (0.25%) LDAP
7 1 (0.25%) OpenCV
7 1 (0.25%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.25%) Driving Licence
2 35 (8.75%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.00%) FMCG
4 8 (2.00%) Smartphone
5 7 (1.75%) CCTV
6 6 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.25%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.00%) CMDB
8 4 (1.00%) IoT
8 4 (1.00%) iPhone
8 4 (1.00%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.75%) Shadow IT
9 3 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.50%) CSOC
10 2 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.50%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.50%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 398 (99.50%) Windows
2 142 (35.50%) Windows Server
3 62 (15.50%) Android
4 54 (13.50%) Apple iOS
5 30 (7.50%) Linux
6 20 (5.00%) Mac OS
7 15 (3.75%) Windows 7
8 13 (3.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.50%) CentOS
11 1 (0.25%) Debian
11 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (45.25%) Customer Service
2 126 (31.50%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (25.50%) ITIL
4 64 (16.00%) ITSM
5 49 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (10.25%) Service Management
7 36 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
8 35 (8.75%) Service Delivery
9 32 (8.00%) User Experience
10 31 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 26 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 26 (6.50%) Proactive Monitoring
11 26 (6.50%) Time Management
12 21 (5.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 19 (4.75%) Service Catalogue
14 18 (4.50%) Asset Management
15 17 (4.25%) Mobile Device Management
15 17 (4.25%) Patch Management
15 17 (4.25%) Ticket Management
16 15 (3.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (15.75%) PowerShell
2 10 (2.50%) Python
2 10 (2.50%) SQL
3 9 (2.25%) C#
3 9 (2.25%) VBScript
4 7 (1.75%) VB
5 4 (1.00%) Ruby
6 2 (0.50%) Bash
7 1 (0.25%) C
7 1 (0.25%) Fortran
7 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (12.25%) Degree
1 49 (12.25%) Security Cleared
2 47 (11.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (11.50%) SC Cleared
4 35 (8.75%) A+ Certification
5 21 (5.25%) DBS Check
6 16 (4.00%) CCNA
6 16 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (3.75%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 9 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.25%) SLA
2 17 (4.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.50%) GDPR
4 10 (2.50%) QA
5 5 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 247 (61.75%) Active Directory
2 42 (10.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (7.00%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.50%) BitLocker
5 12 (3.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.75%) vSphere
8 5 (1.25%) Squid
8 5 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.75%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.50%) Firmware
10 2 (0.50%) UAG
11 1 (0.25%) Ceph
11 1 (0.25%) Lustre
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.25%) NFS
11 1 (0.25%) Samba
11 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.25%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 75 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (12.00%) SCCM
3 6 (1.50%) Backup Exec
4 5 (1.25%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.75%) Ansible
6 2 (0.50%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.50%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.50%) WSUS
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.25%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 327 (81.75%) Microsoft
2 61 (15.25%) VMware
3 44 (11.00%) Cisco
4 41 (10.25%) Sophos
5 36 (9.00%) ServiceNow
6 24 (6.00%) Apple
7 21 (5.25%) Veeam
8 20 (5.00%) Meraki
9 19 (4.75%) Logitech
9 19 (4.75%) TOWER Software
10 18 (4.50%) Google
11 12 (3.00%) Starlink
12 9 (2.25%) Citrix
12 9 (2.25%) Fortinet
13 8 (2.00%) Datto
13 8 (2.00%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.50%) Freshdesk
14 6 (1.50%) SonicWALL
14 6 (1.50%) Thales
15 5 (1.25%) iManage