Windows 10 Jobs

Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Windows 10 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows 10 over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 155 200
Rank change year-on-year -123 +45 +53
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 613 1,875 1,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.81% 1.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.56% 13.34% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 439 1,596 1,395
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £32,500 £34,364
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -5.42% +7.39%
75th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £59,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,000 £30,500 £31,500
% change year-on-year +4.92% -3.17% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7,159 14,054 15,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 13.56% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,235 10,700 10,440
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows 10.

Salary trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -127 586 £35,000 +7.69% 279
UK excluding London -116 401 £32,000 +4.92% 221
London -49 202 £42,500 - 98
Work from Home -93 150 £35,000 -7.89% 92
North of England -81 111 £29,500 -1.67% 57
South East -101 111 £32,500 -4.41% 47
Midlands -24 103 £32,000 +8.47% 27
West Midlands -15 79 £32,500 +10.17% 15
Yorkshire +15 57 £29,000 -4.92% 21
North West -56 51 £30,500 +1.67% 32
South West -24 33 £29,500 -6.35% 32
East of England -81 29 £35,000 +16.67% 33
East Midlands +19 24 £32,000 +13.62% 12
Scotland +93 9 £35,000 +16.67% 25
Wales +22 4 £34,000 +25.93% 6
North East -2 3 £37,500 +36.36% 4
Northern Ireland +41 2 £52,500 -50.00% 4

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 128 (20.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 110 (17.94%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.63%) IIS
4 2 (0.33%) JOnAS
5 1 (0.16%) Confluence
5 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 187 (30.51%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.33%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.16%) 1Password
7 1 (0.16%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 10 (1.63%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.98%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.33%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.16%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 458 (74.71%) Microsoft 365
2 215 (35.07%) Azure
3 112 (18.27%) Entra ID
4 48 (7.83%) OneDrive
5 25 (4.08%) Google Workspace
6 24 (3.92%) AWS
7 20 (3.26%) Mimecast
8 15 (2.45%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.12%) SaaS
10 9 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (1.47%) Google Docs
11 8 (1.31%) IaaS
11 8 (1.31%) Nutanix
12 5 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.82%) PaaS
13 4 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.65%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 3 (0.49%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 117 (19.09%) Firewall
2 87 (14.19%) VoIP
2 87 (14.19%) VPN
3 83 (13.54%) DNS
4 81 (13.21%) LAN
5 78 (12.72%) WAN
6 69 (11.26%) DHCP
7 68 (11.09%) VLAN
8 64 (10.44%) Wi-Fi
9 44 (7.18%) TCP/IP
10 37 (6.04%) Wireless
11 33 (5.38%) SAN
12 21 (3.43%) Cisco IOS
12 21 (3.43%) WLAN
13 20 (3.26%) Network Security
14 18 (2.94%) WebEx
15 15 (2.45%) FTP
16 14 (2.28%) OSPF
16 14 (2.28%) PBX
17 13 (2.12%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.47%) Power BI
3 6 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.98%) DB2
4 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (1.31%) JIRA
1 8 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio
2 4 (0.65%) WiX
3 3 (0.49%) MSI
4 2 (0.33%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.16%) GitLab
5 1 (0.16%) Hudson
General
1 263 (42.90%) Social Skills
2 75 (12.23%) Finance
3 71 (11.58%) Law
4 51 (8.32%) Retail
5 39 (6.36%) Legal
6 36 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
7 34 (5.55%) Telecoms
8 30 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 15 (2.45%) Back Office
12 14 (2.28%) Automotive
13 12 (1.96%) Banking
14 8 (1.31%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.14%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.14%) Local Government
16 6 (0.98%) Front Office
17 5 (0.82%) Electronics
18 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
18 3 (0.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 229 (37.36%) IT Support
2 159 (25.94%) Analyst
3 121 (19.74%) Support Engineer
4 106 (17.29%) Support Analyst
5 96 (15.66%) IT Analyst
6 68 (11.09%) IT Engineer
7 67 (10.93%) IT Support Analyst
8 62 (10.11%) 2nd Line Support
9 60 (9.79%) Senior
10 55 (8.97%) Desktop Support
11 50 (8.16%) Support Specialist
12 46 (7.50%) IT Support Engineer
13 41 (6.69%) IT Support Specialist
14 40 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 40 (6.53%) Service Analyst
15 37 (6.04%) Service Desk Analyst
16 35 (5.71%) 1st Line Support
17 32 (5.22%) IT Technician
18 30 (4.89%) Administrator
18 30 (4.89%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.82%) LDAP
2 4 (0.65%) .NET
2 4 (0.65%) .NET Framework
2 4 (0.65%) Blazor
2 4 (0.65%) COM
2 4 (0.65%) Entity Framework
2 4 (0.65%) REST
2 4 (0.65%) SOAP
3 3 (0.49%) SAML
4 2 (0.33%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.16%) ServiceStack
5 1 (0.16%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.16%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.85%) CCTV
2 41 (6.69%) Driving Licence
3 36 (5.87%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (3.59%) Video Conferencing
6 17 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.45%) Smartphone
9 10 (1.63%) Blackberry
10 9 (1.47%) EPoS
10 9 (1.47%) Replication
11 8 (1.31%) iPhone
12 6 (0.98%) CMDB
13 5 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.82%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (0.82%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.65%) Learning Management System
14 4 (0.65%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 611 (99.67%) Windows
2 209 (34.09%) Windows Server
3 69 (11.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 63 (10.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 58 (9.46%) Linux
6 53 (8.65%) Android
6 53 (8.65%) Mac OS
7 49 (7.99%) Apple iOS
8 41 (6.69%) Windows Server 2012
9 28 (4.57%) Mac OS X
9 28 (4.57%) Windows 7
10 12 (1.96%) Ubuntu
11 10 (1.63%) AIX
12 7 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.65%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.33%) VMS
16 1 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
2 145 (23.65%) ITIL
3 144 (23.49%) Customer Service
4 88 (14.36%) Cybersecurity
5 70 (11.42%) ITSM
6 45 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 43 (7.01%) Service Delivery
8 42 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (5.38%) Mobile Device Management
10 30 (4.89%) Service Management
11 28 (4.57%) Problem Management
12 27 (4.40%) Time Management
13 22 (3.59%) Network Management
14 21 (3.43%) Incident Management
14 21 (3.43%) Project Delivery
15 20 (3.26%) Change Management
16 19 (3.10%) Virtual Environments
17 18 (2.94%) Disaster Recovery
17 18 (2.94%) Mentoring
18 17 (2.77%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 73 (11.91%) PowerShell
2 56 (9.14%) SQL
3 17 (2.77%) Python
4 7 (1.14%) T-SQL
5 4 (0.65%) Bash
5 4 (0.65%) C#
5 4 (0.65%) C++
6 2 (0.33%) VB
6 2 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 150 (24.47%) Degree
2 79 (12.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 47 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
4 29 (4.73%) A+ Certification
4 29 (4.73%) CCNA
5 26 (4.24%) CCNP
5 26 (4.24%) MCSA
6 23 (3.75%) Security Cleared
7 19 (3.10%) MCSE
7 19 (3.10%) Network+ Certification
7 19 (3.10%) SC Cleared
8 18 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
9 15 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.45%) HND
10 14 (2.28%) HNC
11 11 (1.79%) MCP
12 10 (1.63%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.31%) CTC Cleared
13 8 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (9.62%) SLA
2 13 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.14%) GDPR
4 3 (0.49%) NIST
5 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.33%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 409 (66.72%) Active Directory
2 92 (15.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (7.34%) Hyper-V
4 23 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (2.77%) vSphere
6 14 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.49%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.16%) Firmware
12 1 (0.16%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 122 (19.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (11.75%) SCCM
3 9 (1.47%) WSUS
4 7 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.65%) Ansible
6 4 (0.65%) Terraform
7 3 (0.49%) Autotask
7 3 (0.49%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.49%) WMI
8 2 (0.33%) SCOM
8 2 (0.33%) SCSM
8 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.33%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.16%) DameWare
9 1 (0.16%) Nessus
9 1 (0.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 465 (75.86%) Microsoft
2 124 (20.23%) VMware
3 101 (16.48%) Cisco
4 78 (12.72%) Apple
5 50 (8.16%) ServiceNow
6 49 (7.99%) Citrix
7 40 (6.53%) Veeam
8 31 (5.06%) Meraki
9 28 (4.57%) Google
10 24 (3.92%) HP
11 20 (3.26%) iManage
12 19 (3.10%) Fortinet
13 17 (2.77%) Dell
14 15 (2.45%) Ubiquiti
15 13 (2.12%) Adobe
15 13 (2.12%) Progress
15 13 (2.12%) Sophos
16 11 (1.79%) Okta
17 10 (1.63%) Remedy
18 9 (1.47%) Sage