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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 187 135
Rank change year-on-year -22 -52 +26
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 454 473 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.91% 1.56% 2.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.75% 10.11% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 332 288 1,096
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £27,712 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £34,750 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% +15.83% -4.76%
75th Percentile £36,625 £42,562 £39,000
90th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £52,500
UK median annual salary £32,500 £37,750 £32,500
% change year-on-year -13.91% +16.15% -7.14%

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 3,562 4,679 8,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.12% 15.42% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,619 2,628 7,073
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £46,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +9.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -8 124 £30,000 -8.40% 32
South East -3 93 £33,500 -10.67% 46
South West +14 82 £32,500 +1.56% 17
North West +8 82 £29,750 -12.50% 17
Midlands -85 50 £30,000 -4.76% 16
East of England +20 46 £28,500 -5.00% 13
Scotland +11 46 £35,000 -5.41% 9
Yorkshire -26 40 £32,500 - 13
East Midlands -53 25 £30,000 +9.09% 4
West Midlands -53 25 £30,750 -12.14% 12
Wales -2 12 £35,750 -6.54% 4
North East -11 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland -41 1 - - 3
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
1 107 (23.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 101 (22.25%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.42%) Exchange Server 2013
4 6 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (0.66%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
Applications
1 180 (39.65%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.44%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 386 (85.02%) Microsoft 365
2 158 (34.80%) Entra ID
3 146 (32.16%) Azure
4 34 (7.49%) OneDrive
5 32 (7.05%) Google Workspace
6 19 (4.19%) AWS
7 10 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (1.98%) Mimecast
9 6 (1.32%) Google Docs
9 6 (1.32%) Google Sheets
10 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.10%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.88%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 131 (28.85%) DNS
2 129 (28.41%) DHCP
3 99 (21.81%) VPN
4 82 (18.06%) TCP/IP
5 74 (16.30%) Firewall
6 63 (13.88%) VLAN
7 56 (12.33%) Wi-Fi
8 46 (10.13%) LAN
9 45 (9.91%) WAN
10 40 (8.81%) VoIP
11 16 (3.52%) Wireless
12 11 (2.42%) Broadband
12 11 (2.42%) SD-WAN
13 10 (2.20%) 4G
14 9 (1.98%) WLAN
15 6 (1.32%) Unified Communications
16 5 (1.10%) Internet
16 5 (1.10%) PBX
17 4 (0.88%) Ethernet
17 4 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.10%) Power BI
2 3 (0.66%) Data Mining
2 3 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.44%) MySQL
4 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (1.54%) JIRA
2 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 272 (59.91%) Social Skills
2 60 (13.22%) Back Office
3 33 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (3.74%) Finance
5 14 (3.08%) Law
5 14 (3.08%) Retail
6 13 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.64%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.42%) Legal
9 8 (1.76%) Advertising
10 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.88%) German Language
11 4 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.66%) Marketing
13 1 (0.22%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 223 (49.12%) IT Support
2 199 (43.83%) Support Engineer
3 121 (26.65%) IT Engineer
4 107 (23.57%) IT Support Engineer
5 84 (18.50%) 2nd Line Support
6 77 (16.96%) Analyst
6 77 (16.96%) Desktop Engineer
6 77 (16.96%) Desktop Support
7 71 (15.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 59 (13.00%) IT Analyst
9 57 (12.56%) Site Engineer
10 56 (12.33%) Support Analyst
11 55 (12.11%) Support Technician
12 50 (11.01%) IT Support Analyst
13 42 (9.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 41 (9.03%) IT Support Technician
14 41 (9.03%) IT Technician
15 39 (8.59%) 1st Line Support
16 37 (8.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 30 (6.61%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.10%) .NET
1 5 (1.10%) Software Packaging
2 3 (0.66%) HTML
3 1 (0.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (14.54%) Driving Licence
2 44 (9.69%) Onboarding
3 11 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (1.98%) iPad
6 5 (1.10%) Digital Signage
6 5 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Licensing
8 3 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.66%) CCTV
8 3 (0.66%) Educational Technology
8 3 (0.66%) Life Science
8 3 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (0.66%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.44%) CMDB
9 2 (0.44%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.44%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.22%) FMCG
10 1 (0.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 454 (100.00%) Windows
2 131 (28.85%) Windows Server
3 39 (8.59%) Mac OS
4 33 (7.27%) Apple iOS
5 31 (6.83%) Android
6 26 (5.73%) Windows 7
7 18 (3.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (3.74%) Linux
9 16 (3.52%) Windows 8
10 15 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.66%) Debian
13 1 (0.22%) AIX
13 1 (0.22%) Windows 2000
13 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (42.73%) Customer Service
2 147 (32.38%) ITIL
3 127 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
4 101 (22.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 101 (22.25%) Cybersecurity
5 88 (19.38%) Patch Management
6 86 (18.94%) ITSM
7 76 (16.74%) Software Deployment
8 69 (15.20%) Ticket Management
9 64 (14.10%) Customer Experience
10 60 (13.22%) Analytics
10 60 (13.22%) Customer Acquisition
11 56 (12.33%) Service Delivery
12 39 (8.59%) Service Management
13 37 (8.15%) Asset Management
14 29 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (5.29%) People Management
15 24 (5.29%) Remote Monitoring and Management
16 23 (5.07%) Mobile Device Management
17 22 (4.85%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (10.13%) PowerShell
2 20 (4.41%) SQL
3 10 (2.20%) VBScript
4 7 (1.54%) PL/SQL
5 5 (1.10%) VB
6 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (22.91%) Degree
2 88 (19.38%) Security Cleared
3 74 (16.30%) SC Cleared
4 60 (13.22%) CTC Cleared
5 36 (7.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (7.49%) A+ Certification
7 24 (5.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 16 (3.52%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.98%) HND
10 7 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (1.54%) MCSA
11 6 (1.32%) HNC
12 3 (0.66%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.66%) CCNA
12 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.66%) MCSE
13 2 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (23.35%) SLA
2 25 (5.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (1.32%) GDPR
6 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 287 (63.22%) Active Directory
2 59 (13.00%) Hyper-V
3 54 (11.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.98%) BitLocker
4 9 (1.98%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (0.88%) Terminal Services
6 3 (0.66%) vSphere
7 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 110 (24.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (15.86%) SCCM
3 17 (3.74%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (2.20%) Autotask
5 5 (1.10%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.44%) PaperCut
7 2 (0.44%) Plesk
7 2 (0.44%) SCOM
7 2 (0.44%) SCSM
8 1 (0.22%) Nagios
8 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.22%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 314 (69.16%) Microsoft
2 68 (14.98%) VMware
3 66 (14.54%) Cisco
4 39 (8.59%) ServiceNow
5 32 (7.05%) Apple
5 32 (7.05%) Google
6 19 (4.19%) Citrix
7 14 (3.08%) SolarWinds
8 13 (2.86%) Veeam
9 12 (2.64%) Freshdesk
10 10 (2.20%) ESET
10 10 (2.20%) HP
10 10 (2.20%) Sophos
10 10 (2.20%) Starlink
11 6 (1.32%) Dell
11 6 (1.32%) Logitech
11 6 (1.32%) Yealink
12 5 (1.10%) Datto
12 5 (1.10%) Mitel
13 4 (0.88%) Remedy