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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 225 162
Rank change year-on-year -103 -63 -20
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 406 431 802
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 1.24% 1.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.24% 9.26% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 314 348 483
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £27,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,250 £31,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -3.08% +4.84%
75th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £40,000
90th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £53,750
UK median annual salary £32,500 £32,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year - -12.16% +5.71%

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 4,925 4,656 6,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.69% 13.40% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,701 2,846 3,921
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -20.00% +1.06%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
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 5 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 5 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 -51 105 £30,000 - 28
Midlands -25 93 £30,000 -4.76% 34
South East -86 79 £35,000 +7.69% 32
North West -21 64 £30,000 +3.45% 19
East Midlands -5 55 £29,813 -14.82% 21
East of England -28 55 £34,000 +4.62% 26
Scotland +30 39 £28,000 -6.67% 10
West Midlands -46 38 £34,500 +9.52% 12
Yorkshire -55 35 £30,000 +1.69% 8
South West -109 31 £32,500 +10.17% 13
North East -61 6 £16,000 -48.39% 1
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
1 113 (27.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 95 (23.40%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.22%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.72%) Apache
4 7 (1.72%) nginx
5 4 (0.99%) IIS
Applications
1 71 (17.49%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.25%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 348 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 91 (22.41%) Entra ID
3 89 (21.92%) Azure
4 25 (6.16%) Mimecast
4 25 (6.16%) OneDrive
5 14 (3.45%) Google Workspace
6 11 (2.71%) AWS
7 8 (1.97%) SaaS
8 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.23%) GCP
9 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.23%) ShareGate
10 4 (0.99%) Nutanix
10 4 (0.99%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.49%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 1 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 139 (34.24%) DNS
2 133 (32.76%) DHCP
3 100 (24.63%) Firewall
4 73 (17.98%) TCP/IP
5 72 (17.73%) VPN
6 62 (15.27%) Wi-Fi
7 54 (13.30%) WAN
8 53 (13.05%) LAN
9 44 (10.84%) VLAN
10 41 (10.10%) VoIP
11 31 (7.64%) Wireless
12 13 (3.20%) Broadband
13 12 (2.96%) 4G
14 10 (2.46%) Skype
15 8 (1.97%) Network Security
16 7 (1.72%) Cisco IOS
17 5 (1.23%) Structured Cabling
18 3 (0.74%) NAS
19 2 (0.49%) SAN
19 2 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (3.69%) JIRA
2 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.25%) AdminStudio
3 1 (0.25%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.25%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.25%) MSI
General
1 210 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 30 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.16%) Manufacturing
4 22 (5.42%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (4.93%) Retail
6 14 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.71%) Finance
8 7 (1.72%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.23%) Back Office
10 4 (0.99%) Advertising
10 4 (0.99%) Automotive
10 4 (0.99%) Electronics
10 4 (0.99%) Law
10 4 (0.99%) Public Sector
10 4 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.74%) Legal
11 3 (0.74%) Local Government
12 2 (0.49%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.49%) French Language
Job Titles
1 187 (46.06%) IT Support
2 133 (32.76%) IT Engineer
3 131 (32.27%) Support Engineer
4 105 (25.86%) IT Support Engineer
5 74 (18.23%) Analyst
6 56 (13.79%) 2nd Line Support
7 47 (11.58%) Support Analyst
8 46 (11.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 45 (11.08%) Support Technician
10 44 (10.84%) IT Analyst
11 38 (9.36%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 38 (9.36%) IT Technician
12 36 (8.87%) IT Support Analyst
13 33 (8.13%) 1st Line Support
14 31 (7.64%) IT Support Technician
15 28 (6.90%) Desktop Engineer
16 26 (6.40%) 1st/2nd Line Support
17 25 (6.16%) Field Engineer
18 24 (5.91%) Desktop Support
19 22 (5.42%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.46%) .NET
2 9 (2.22%) WinForms
3 7 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (1.23%) Web Services
5 3 (0.74%) Terraform
6 2 (0.49%) .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 90 (22.17%) Driving Licence
2 37 (9.11%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.67%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.22%) FMCG
4 9 (2.22%) Smartphone
5 7 (1.72%) CCTV
6 6 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.99%) CMDB
8 4 (0.99%) iPhone
9 3 (0.74%) EPoS
9 3 (0.74%) Shadow IT
10 2 (0.49%) CSOC
10 2 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.49%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.49%) IoT
10 2 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.49%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.49%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 404 (99.51%) Windows
2 144 (35.47%) Windows Server
3 62 (15.27%) Android
4 55 (13.55%) Apple iOS
5 29 (7.14%) Linux
6 20 (4.93%) Mac OS
7 14 (3.45%) Windows 7
8 13 (3.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.49%) 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
1 184 (45.32%) Customer Service
2 128 (31.53%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (25.62%) ITIL
4 67 (16.50%) ITSM
5 49 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (10.34%) Service Management
7 35 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
8 34 (8.37%) User Experience
9 33 (8.13%) Service Delivery
10 31 (7.64%) Disaster Recovery
11 28 (6.90%) Time Management
12 27 (6.65%) Proactive Monitoring
13 26 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (5.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 20 (4.93%) Service Catalogue
16 18 (4.43%) Mobile Device Management
16 18 (4.43%) Ticket Management
17 17 (4.19%) Asset Management
17 17 (4.19%) Patch Management
18 15 (3.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.76%) PowerShell
2 11 (2.71%) Python
3 10 (2.46%) SQL
4 9 (2.22%) C#
4 9 (2.22%) VBScript
5 7 (1.72%) VB
6 4 (0.99%) Ruby
7 2 (0.49%) Bash
8 1 (0.25%) C
8 1 (0.25%) Fortran
8 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (12.56%) Security Cleared
2 49 (12.07%) Degree
3 48 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 46 (11.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 35 (8.62%) A+ Certification
6 20 (4.93%) DBS Check
7 17 (4.19%) CCNA
7 17 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (3.94%) Network+ Certification
9 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 9 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (1.97%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
14 3 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.49%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.58%) SLA
2 17 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.46%) QA
5 9 (2.22%) GDPR
6 5 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 254 (62.56%) Active Directory
2 42 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.43%) BitLocker
5 12 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.72%) vSphere
8 5 (1.23%) Squid
8 5 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.74%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.49%) UAG
11 1 (0.25%) Ceph
11 1 (0.25%) Firmware
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 77 (18.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (12.07%) SCCM
3 6 (1.48%) Backup Exec
4 5 (1.23%) FortiGate
4 5 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.74%) Ansible
6 2 (0.49%) AirWatch
6 2 (0.49%) HAProxy
6 2 (0.49%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.49%) WSUS
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.25%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 330 (81.28%) Microsoft
2 62 (15.27%) VMware
3 45 (11.08%) Cisco
4 42 (10.34%) Sophos
5 36 (8.87%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.67%) Apple
7 21 (5.17%) Veeam
8 20 (4.93%) Logitech
8 20 (4.93%) TOWER Software
9 19 (4.68%) Google
9 19 (4.68%) Meraki
10 12 (2.96%) Starlink
11 9 (2.22%) Citrix
11 9 (2.22%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.97%) Datto
12 8 (1.97%) SolarWinds
13 7 (1.72%) Freshdesk
14 6 (1.48%) SonicWALL
14 6 (1.48%) Thales
15 5 (1.23%) iManage