Windows 10 Contracts

Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Windows 10 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 10 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 101 109
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 892 1,445 2,247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.06% 2.42% 2.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.45% 14.87% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,041 1,530
10th Percentile £148 £140 £130
25th Percentile £185 £163 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £215 £205
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +5.13% -7.05%
75th Percentile £388 £375 £388
90th Percentile £575 £538 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £213 £205 £190
% change year-on-year +3.66% +7.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 96 188
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.85 £12.50
25th Percentile £11.07 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.90 £18.50 £17.91
Median % change year-on-year -8.66% +3.29% +15.85%
75th Percentile £20.00 £24.50 £22.25
90th Percentile £40.18 £52.13 £25.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.87 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -25.03% +5.71% +14.75%

All Operating Systems
UK

Windows 10 is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,775 9,719 13,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.34% 16.25% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 6,848 9,128
10th Percentile £184 £189 £175
25th Percentile £300 £326 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £615
90th Percentile £700 £717 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 422 633
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £31.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.80% +56.25% +17.65%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 10 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -3 826 £225 +2.27% 310
UK excluding London -3 603 £213 +3.66% 252
London -3 264 £263 +15.38% 77
South East +7 238 £215 +4.88% 64
Work from Home -20 165 £313 +18.48% 79
North of England +22 154 £220 +4.76% 53
North West +11 94 £225 +4.65% 34
Midlands -1 82 £200 +2.56% 43
South West -46 55 £225 -1.10% 47
Yorkshire +20 54 £190 -5.00% 17
West Midlands +14 49 £200 -9.09% 28
Scotland -4 38 £200 +21.21% 15
East Midlands -1 31 £160 +8.47% 15
East of England -34 29 £220 +20.55% 30
Wales 0 8 £190 -61.52% 3
North East +19 6 £141 -10.79% 2
Northern Ireland -2 2 £145 -21.62% 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
1 125 (14.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 87 (9.75%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.02%) Skype for Business
4 6 (0.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (0.45%) Confluence
6 2 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) nginx
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 251 (28.14%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.22%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) LabWindows
1 4 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.34%) Eikon
3 2 (0.22%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) assyst
4 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 485 (54.37%) Microsoft 365
2 185 (20.74%) Azure
3 91 (10.20%) Entra ID
4 51 (5.72%) OneDrive
5 15 (1.68%) AWS
6 13 (1.46%) OCI
7 10 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (0.78%) Power Platform
9 5 (0.56%) Mimecast
10 4 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.45%) IaaS
10 4 (0.45%) Yammer
11 3 (0.34%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.34%) SaaS
11 3 (0.34%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.22%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.22%) BigCommerce
12 2 (0.22%) GCP
12 2 (0.22%) PaaS
12 2 (0.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 98 (10.99%) DNS
2 88 (9.87%) VPN
3 75 (8.41%) Firewall
4 67 (7.51%) DHCP
5 53 (5.94%) LAN
6 37 (4.15%) Wi-Fi
7 34 (3.81%) TCP/IP
8 29 (3.25%) WAN
8 29 (3.25%) Wireless
9 28 (3.14%) Remote Desktop
10 23 (2.58%) Skype
11 20 (2.24%) SAN
11 20 (2.24%) VoIP
12 14 (1.57%) NetScaler
13 11 (1.23%) VLAN
14 8 (0.90%) WAAS
14 8 (0.90%) WebEx
15 6 (0.67%) Cisco IOS
15 6 (0.67%) Network Security
15 6 (0.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
3 2 (0.22%) Power BI
4 1 (0.11%) MS Access
4 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (1.68%) JIRA
2 6 (0.67%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.56%) Git
3 5 (0.56%) Subversion
4 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.22%) MSI
4 2 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.11%) Hudson
General
1 382 (42.83%) Social Skills
2 114 (12.78%) Finance
3 86 (9.64%) Organisational Skills
4 85 (9.53%) Public Sector
5 50 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.04%) Manufacturing
7 31 (3.48%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.03%) Marketing
9 23 (2.58%) Electronics
10 21 (2.35%) Legal
11 20 (2.24%) Banking
12 16 (1.79%) Financial Institution
13 15 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (1.68%) Law
14 14 (1.57%) French Language
15 11 (1.23%) Retail
16 9 (1.01%) German Language
17 6 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
18 5 (0.56%) Multimedia
18 5 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 185 (20.74%) Support Engineer
2 159 (17.83%) Analyst
3 113 (12.67%) Desktop Support
4 112 (12.56%) IT Support
5 108 (12.11%) Desktop Engineer
6 83 (9.30%) Service Analyst
6 83 (9.30%) Service Desk Analyst
7 76 (8.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 71 (7.96%) 2nd Line Support
9 70 (7.85%) IT Engineer
10 64 (7.17%) Windows Engineer
11 61 (6.84%) Support Analyst
12 56 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 49 (5.49%) Senior
14 45 (5.04%) IT Analyst
15 44 (4.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 40 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 40 (4.48%) IT Support Engineer
17 37 (4.15%) Deployment Engineer
18 35 (3.92%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.46%) XMPP
2 6 (0.67%) Software Packaging
3 4 (0.45%) .NET
4 3 (0.34%) WPF
5 2 (0.22%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.22%) MFC
5 2 (0.22%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.22%) VML
5 2 (0.22%) Web Services
5 2 (0.22%) WinForms
6 1 (0.11%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.11%) JSON
6 1 (0.11%) Middleware
6 1 (0.11%) OAuth
6 1 (0.11%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.11%) SAML
6 1 (0.11%) Universal Windows Platform
6 1 (0.11%) XML
6 1 (0.11%) X-Windows
6 1 (0.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.28%) Driving Licence
2 35 (3.92%) Video Conferencing
3 31 (3.48%) iPad
4 30 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.25%) iPhone
6 26 (2.91%) NHS
7 25 (2.80%) Management Information System
8 21 (2.35%) Smartphone
9 20 (2.24%) CMDB
10 19 (2.13%) Blackberry
11 17 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.79%) BYOD
13 14 (1.57%) Hedge funds
14 12 (1.35%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (1.12%) Clustering
17 8 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 8 (0.90%) PKI
18 7 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
18 7 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 886 (99.33%) Windows
2 173 (19.39%) Windows Server
3 137 (15.36%) Windows 7
4 89 (9.98%) Apple iOS
5 82 (9.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 69 (7.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 69 (7.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 50 (5.61%) Android
8 49 (5.49%) Mac OS
9 24 (2.69%) Linux
10 21 (2.35%) Windows NT
10 21 (2.35%) Windows Server 2008
11 17 (1.91%) Windows XP
12 13 (1.46%) Mac OS X
13 9 (1.01%) Windows 8
14 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.45%) Unix
15 4 (0.45%) VMS
16 2 (0.22%) CentOS
17 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (31.28%) Customer Service
2 207 (23.21%) ITIL
3 204 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (7.06%) Migration
5 62 (6.95%) Service Management
6 60 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 60 (6.73%) ITSM
7 53 (5.94%) Mobile Device Management
8 48 (5.38%) Time Management
9 46 (5.16%) Service Delivery
10 40 (4.48%) Asset Management
11 38 (4.26%) Decision-Making
12 35 (3.92%) Project Management
13 34 (3.81%) Software Deployment
14 30 (3.36%) Agile
14 30 (3.36%) Break/Fix
15 26 (2.91%) Deployment Automation
16 25 (2.80%) Customer Requirements
16 25 (2.80%) Proactive Monitoring
16 25 (2.80%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (12.33%) PowerShell
2 31 (3.48%) SQL
3 12 (1.35%) VBScript
4 8 (0.90%) VB
5 7 (0.78%) C#
6 6 (0.67%) Python
7 5 (0.56%) C
8 3 (0.34%) C++
8 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.22%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.11%) Bash
10 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 199 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 108 (12.11%) SC Cleared
3 105 (11.77%) Degree
4 98 (10.99%) DV Cleared
5 38 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.69%) CCNA
6 24 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
8 17 (1.91%) MCSE
9 16 (1.79%) CCNP
10 14 (1.57%) A+ Certification
11 11 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 9 (1.01%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (0.67%) MCP
14 6 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
15 5 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.45%) MCSA
16 4 (0.45%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (10.43%) SLA
2 29 (3.25%) QA
3 28 (3.14%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.56%) GDPR
5 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 508 (56.95%) Active Directory
2 77 (8.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (4.37%) Firmware
4 36 (4.04%) Hyper-V
5 28 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (2.24%) XenApp
8 16 (1.79%) XenDesktop
9 13 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
10 11 (1.23%) BitLocker
11 8 (0.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 8 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.78%) KVM
12 7 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
15 3 (0.34%) vSphere
16 2 (0.22%) Terminal Services
17 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 298 (33.41%) SCCM
2 149 (16.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (4.71%) WSUS
4 35 (3.92%) Jamf Pro
5 27 (3.03%) vCenter Server
6 21 (2.35%) Sysprep
7 19 (2.13%) SCOM
8 13 (1.46%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (1.46%) NetBackup
9 10 (1.12%) Autotask
10 9 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (1.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.45%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.34%) Ansible
13 3 (0.34%) AppManager
13 3 (0.34%) OPNET
13 3 (0.34%) Terraform
14 2 (0.22%) Kibana
14 2 (0.22%) logstash
Vendors
1 540 (60.54%) Microsoft
2 113 (12.67%) Apple
3 104 (11.66%) ServiceNow
4 99 (11.10%) VMware
5 95 (10.65%) Citrix
6 67 (7.51%) HP
7 59 (6.61%) Cisco
8 32 (3.59%) SAP
9 26 (2.91%) Dell
10 22 (2.47%) Adobe
11 20 (2.24%) Veeam
12 19 (2.13%) Ivanti
12 19 (2.13%) Symantec
13 18 (2.02%) Oracle
14 16 (1.79%) Palo Alto
15 14 (1.57%) EMC
15 14 (1.57%) Juniper
16 13 (1.46%) 3PAR
16 13 (1.46%) Extreme Networks
17 11 (1.23%) Bloomberg