Windows 10 Contracts

Microsoft Windows 10
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Windows 10 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows 10 over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 116 111
Rank change year-on-year -47 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 531 849 1,262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.77% 1.94% 2.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.73% 14.40% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 551 942
10th Percentile £155 £150 £140
25th Percentile £195 £185 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £234 £225 £215
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% +4.65% -
75th Percentile £388 £386 £388
90th Percentile £538 £575 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £215 £204
% change year-on-year - +5.39% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 98 67
10th Percentile £16.55 £10.95 £14.31
25th Percentile £18.87 £11.07 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.07 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.72% -10.14% +8.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £25.54
90th Percentile £28.00 £37.38 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.83 £14.80 £18.50
% change year-on-year +67.83% -20.03% +5.71%

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 contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,171 5,896 8,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.90% 13.45% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,719 3,878 6,184
10th Percentile £200 £188 £190
25th Percentile £313 £313 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £452 £463
% change year-on-year -0.33% -2.38% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 434 399
10th Percentile £15.45 £12.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.41 £16.06 £18.32
Median hourly rate £21.95 £24.18 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.22% -47.43% +104.44%
75th Percentile £41.25 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £27.50 £38.55
% change year-on-year -31.38% -28.66% +92.75%

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 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK

Windows 10
Top 18 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 22 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -39 476 £240 +6.67% 750
UK excluding London -28 347 £215 - 532
London -9 168 £275 - 345
South East -9 95 £250 - 159
Work from Home -30 78 £250 -21.57% 237
North of England -48 63 £200 -9.09% 120
Midlands -18 61 £190 -5.00% 60
South West +47 60 £220 -2.22% 63
West Midlands -1 44 £190 -5.00% 25
North West -37 40 £195 -13.33% 64
Scotland -18 33 £200 - 50
East of England +16 24 £225 - 46
Yorkshire -20 21 £194 +1.97% 40
East Midlands -14 17 £185 +15.63% 34
Wales +4 7 £300 +57.89% 31
Northern Ireland -8 4 £160 -13.51% 12
North East 0 2 £300 +33.33% 17
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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 68 (12.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (11.49%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.32%) Skype for Business
4 5 (0.94%) Confluence
5 4 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.38%) CMS
6 2 (0.38%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.19%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 89 (16.76%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (2.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.38%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 257 (48.40%) Microsoft 365
2 111 (20.90%) Azure
3 52 (9.79%) Entra ID
4 24 (4.52%) OneDrive
5 12 (2.26%) Google Workspace
6 4 (0.75%) AWS
6 4 (0.75%) Power Platform
6 4 (0.75%) Yammer
7 2 (0.38%) Asana
7 2 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.38%) GitHub
7 2 (0.38%) IaaS
7 2 (0.38%) SaaS
7 2 (0.38%) Slack
8 1 (0.19%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.19%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.19%) GCP
8 1 (0.19%) Route 53
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.56%) VPN
2 50 (9.42%) DNS
3 42 (7.91%) Firewall
4 39 (7.34%) DHCP
5 32 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
6 27 (5.08%) LAN
7 22 (4.14%) TCP/IP
8 21 (3.95%) WAN
9 20 (3.77%) VLAN
10 19 (3.58%) Remote Desktop
11 15 (2.82%) Skype
12 14 (2.64%) VoIP
13 13 (2.45%) Wireless
14 8 (1.51%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.94%) IP Telephony
15 5 (0.94%) VSAN
16 4 (0.75%) Internet
17 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
17 3 (0.56%) NAS
17 3 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.88%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (2.82%) MSI
2 13 (2.45%) JIRA
3 3 (0.56%) AdminStudio
3 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 212 (39.92%) Social Skills
2 77 (14.50%) Finance
3 48 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.08%) Banking
6 21 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (3.39%) Legal
7 18 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.07%) Law
10 10 (1.88%) Marketing
10 10 (1.88%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.69%) Electronics
12 8 (1.51%) Local Government
13 7 (1.32%) Military
14 5 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.56%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 122 (22.98%) Support Engineer
2 82 (15.44%) Analyst
3 62 (11.68%) Desktop Engineer
4 61 (11.49%) IT Engineer
5 59 (11.11%) Desktop Support
5 59 (11.11%) IT Support
6 56 (10.55%) Windows Engineer
7 46 (8.66%) 2nd Line Support
8 44 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 43 (8.10%) Deployment Engineer
10 42 (7.91%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 40 (7.53%) IT Support Engineer
12 35 (6.59%) Service Analyst
12 35 (6.59%) Service Desk Analyst
13 31 (5.84%) Support Analyst
14 28 (5.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 25 (4.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 19 (3.58%) Windows Deployment Engineer
17 17 (3.20%) Senior
17 17 (3.20%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.13%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.38%) Web Services
3 1 (0.19%) .NET
3 1 (0.19%) CSS
3 1 (0.19%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.19%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.90%) Onboarding
2 22 (4.14%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.58%) Video Conferencing
4 15 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.82%) iPhone
5 14 (2.64%) iPad
5 14 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.45%) PKI
7 12 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.07%) NHS
8 11 (2.07%) Smartphone
9 9 (1.69%) CMDB
10 7 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.13%) Blackberry
11 6 (1.13%) Clustering
12 5 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.75%) Product Ownership
14 3 (0.56%) Fat Client
14 3 (0.56%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 531 (100.00%) Windows
2 83 (15.63%) Windows Server
3 46 (8.66%) Windows 7
4 34 (6.40%) Android
5 33 (6.21%) Mac OS
6 29 (5.46%) Apple iOS
7 25 (4.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 23 (4.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (3.77%) Linux
10 16 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (2.07%) Windows XP
12 8 (1.51%) Windows 8
13 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.94%) VMS
14 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (0.75%) Windows Vista
16 3 (0.56%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.56%) Solaris
17 2 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
18 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (22.03%) Customer Service
2 110 (20.72%) ITIL
3 107 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (10.17%) Migration
5 50 (9.42%) ITSM
5 50 (9.42%) Service Management
6 47 (8.85%) Asset Management
6 47 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 39 (7.34%) Time Management
8 31 (5.84%) Service Delivery
9 27 (5.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (3.77%) Agile
10 20 (3.77%) Project Delivery
11 19 (3.58%) Change Management
11 19 (3.58%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (3.39%) Application Packaging
12 18 (3.39%) Incident Management
13 17 (3.20%) Ticket Management
14 16 (3.01%) Break/Fix
15 15 (2.82%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 100 (18.83%) PowerShell
2 17 (3.20%) SQL
3 16 (3.01%) VBScript
4 13 (2.45%) VB
5 8 (1.51%) C#
6 2 (0.38%) Python
7 1 (0.19%) C++
7 1 (0.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 141 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 116 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.53%) DV Cleared
4 37 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (6.78%) Degree
6 19 (3.58%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (2.82%) DBS Check
8 12 (2.26%) A+ Certification
9 11 (2.07%) MCSE
10 6 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (1.13%) MCP
10 6 (1.13%) MCSA
11 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.75%) CCNA
13 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.38%) CBAP
13 2 (0.38%) MOS
13 2 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (9.04%) SLA
2 14 (2.64%) QA
3 8 (1.51%) GDPR
4 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.56%) NCSC
5 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
System Software
1 267 (50.28%) Active Directory
2 36 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (3.20%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.64%) BitLocker
5 14 (2.64%) Microsoft App-V
5 14 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (2.45%) vSphere
7 6 (1.13%) XenApp
7 6 (1.13%) XenDesktop
8 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.94%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.19%) Firmware
10 1 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 123 (23.16%) SCCM
2 110 (20.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (2.45%) WSUS
4 6 (1.13%) SmoothWall
5 5 (0.94%) AirWatch
5 5 (0.94%) Norton AntiVirus
6 4 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.75%) AppManager
6 4 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.38%) Ansible
8 2 (0.38%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.38%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.38%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.38%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 1 (0.19%) Puppet
9 1 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 298 (56.12%) Microsoft
2 71 (13.37%) ServiceNow
3 59 (11.11%) VMware
4 34 (6.40%) Cisco
5 32 (6.03%) Citrix
6 28 (5.27%) Apple
6 28 (5.27%) Dell
7 21 (3.95%) HP
8 19 (3.58%) Remedy
9 15 (2.82%) McAfee
9 15 (2.82%) Wyse
10 13 (2.45%) Google
11 12 (2.26%) Symantec
12 9 (1.69%) SAP
13 8 (1.51%) iManage
13 8 (1.51%) Ivanti
14 7 (1.32%) Canon
14 7 (1.32%) Meraki
14 7 (1.32%) SolarWinds
14 7 (1.32%) Zscaler
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