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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 102 109
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 857 1,366 2,165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.01% 2.39% 2.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.15% 14.75% 16.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 983 1,479
10th Percentile £148 £140 £130
25th Percentile £185 £166 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £215 £210
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £383 £384 £386
90th Percentile £575 £540 £504
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £205 £190
% change year-on-year +4.88% +7.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 88 172
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.36 £12.55
25th Percentile £11.01 £16.44 £14.44
Median hourly rate £16.25 £18.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.17% +16.43%
75th Percentile £20.00 £25.08 £22.25
90th Percentile £26.50 £53.60 £28.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.14 £18.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -23.57% +4.40% +18.13%

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 5,658 9,258 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 16.21% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,818 6,479 8,883
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 404 604
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.25 £13.38
25th Percentile £15.31 £17.97 £16.08
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%
75th Percentile £60.56 £64.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -8 783 £225 +2.27% 333
UK excluding London -5 588 £215 +4.88% 276
London -7 247 £270 +17.39% 72
South East 0 220 £225 +9.76% 78
Work from Home -28 151 £331 +32.50% 76
North of England +13 145 £220 +7.32% 53
North West +14 91 £225 +4.65% 24
Midlands +10 83 £200 +5.26% 54
South West -41 56 £225 -6.25% 46
West Midlands +12 52 £200 -9.09% 27
Yorkshire +18 50 £190 -2.56% 27
Scotland +25 49 £200 +21.21% 16
East Midlands -4 30 £160 +31.15% 27
East of England -29 30 £220 +12.82% 28
Wales +5 6 £178 -66.10% 4
North East +9 4 £185 +17.46% 2
Northern Ireland -3 2 £145 -21.62% 3

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
1 114 (13.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (8.98%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.98%) Skype for Business
4 5 (0.58%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.35%) Confluence
6 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 240 (28.00%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.23%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) LabWindows
1 4 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.35%) Eikon
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) assyst
4 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 454 (52.98%) Microsoft 365
2 174 (20.30%) Azure
3 90 (10.50%) Entra ID
4 47 (5.48%) OneDrive
5 18 (2.10%) AWS
6 14 (1.63%) OCI
7 10 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.47%) IaaS
9 4 (0.47%) Mimecast
9 4 (0.47%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.35%) SaaS
10 3 (0.35%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.23%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.23%) BigCommerce
11 2 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.23%) GitHub
11 2 (0.23%) PaaS
11 2 (0.23%) Slack
11 2 (0.23%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 98 (11.44%) VPN
2 97 (11.32%) DNS
3 74 (8.63%) Firewall
4 68 (7.93%) DHCP
5 50 (5.83%) LAN
6 34 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
7 29 (3.38%) TCP/IP
8 28 (3.27%) Remote Desktop
8 28 (3.27%) WAN
9 25 (2.92%) Wireless
10 24 (2.80%) Skype
11 21 (2.45%) SAN
12 20 (2.33%) VoIP
13 13 (1.52%) NetScaler
14 11 (1.28%) VLAN
15 7 (0.82%) WAAS
15 7 (0.82%) WebEx
16 6 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
16 6 (0.70%) Internet
17 5 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.80%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.23%) Power BI
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (1.87%) JIRA
2 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.58%) Git
3 5 (0.58%) Subversion
4 2 (0.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.23%) MSI
4 2 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 359 (41.89%) Social Skills
2 104 (12.14%) Finance
3 79 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 75 (8.75%) Organisational Skills
5 47 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 26 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 23 (2.68%) Marketing
8 20 (2.33%) Legal
9 19 (2.22%) Electronics
10 17 (1.98%) Banking
11 16 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.52%) Law
14 12 (1.40%) French Language
14 12 (1.40%) Retail
15 10 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.70%) German Language
16 6 (0.70%) Mandarin Language
17 5 (0.58%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 170 (19.84%) Support Engineer
2 162 (18.90%) Analyst
3 111 (12.95%) Desktop Support
4 108 (12.60%) IT Support
5 106 (12.37%) Desktop Engineer
6 84 (9.80%) Service Analyst
6 84 (9.80%) Service Desk Analyst
7 72 (8.40%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 65 (7.58%) 2nd Line Support
8 65 (7.58%) Support Analyst
9 64 (7.47%) IT Engineer
10 61 (7.12%) Windows Engineer
11 53 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 50 (5.83%) IT Analyst
13 47 (5.48%) Senior
14 40 (4.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 38 (4.43%) IT Support Analyst
16 36 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 34 (3.97%) IT Support Engineer
18 33 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.52%) XMPP
2 4 (0.47%) Software Packaging
3 3 (0.35%) .NET
3 3 (0.35%) WPF
4 2 (0.23%) MFC
4 2 (0.23%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.23%) VML
4 2 (0.23%) WinForms
5 1 (0.12%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.12%) JSON
5 1 (0.12%) LDAP
5 1 (0.12%) Middleware
5 1 (0.12%) OAuth
5 1 (0.12%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.12%) SAML
5 1 (0.12%) Universal Windows Platform
5 1 (0.12%) Web Services
5 1 (0.12%) XML
5 1 (0.12%) X-Windows
5 1 (0.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.48%) Driving Licence
2 39 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
3 36 (4.20%) iPhone
4 29 (3.38%) iPad
5 28 (3.27%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.33%) NHS
8 19 (2.22%) CMDB
8 19 (2.22%) Smartphone
9 18 (2.10%) Blackberry
9 18 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.87%) BYOD
11 11 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.17%) Clustering
12 10 (1.17%) Hedge funds
13 9 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 8 (0.93%) PKI
15 7 (0.82%) Digital Signage
15 7 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 851 (99.30%) Windows
2 170 (19.84%) Windows Server
3 128 (14.94%) Windows 7
4 85 (9.92%) Apple iOS
5 76 (8.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 70 (8.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 65 (7.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 51 (5.95%) Mac OS
9 47 (5.48%) Android
10 26 (3.03%) Linux
11 20 (2.33%) Windows Server 2008
12 19 (2.22%) Windows NT
12 19 (2.22%) Windows XP
13 12 (1.40%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.93%) Windows 8
15 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.47%) Unix
16 4 (0.47%) VMS
17 2 (0.23%) CentOS
17 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (31.62%) Customer Service
2 196 (22.87%) ITIL
3 191 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (7.00%) Migration
5 58 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 55 (6.42%) ITSM
6 55 (6.42%) Mobile Device Management
7 54 (6.30%) Service Management
8 49 (5.72%) Time Management
9 44 (5.13%) Service Delivery
10 38 (4.43%) Decision-Making
11 35 (4.08%) Break/Fix
12 33 (3.85%) Asset Management
13 30 (3.50%) Project Management
14 29 (3.38%) Proactive Monitoring
14 29 (3.38%) Software Deployment
15 24 (2.80%) Deployment Automation
15 24 (2.80%) Performance Monitoring
16 23 (2.68%) Agile
16 23 (2.68%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (13.07%) PowerShell
2 31 (3.62%) SQL
3 12 (1.40%) VBScript
4 8 (0.93%) VB
5 7 (0.82%) C#
6 6 (0.70%) Python
7 5 (0.58%) C
8 3 (0.35%) C++
8 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.23%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.12%) Bash
10 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 203 (23.69%) Security Cleared
2 120 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.74%) Degree
4 89 (10.39%) DV Cleared
5 39 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.80%) CCNA
6 24 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.10%) A+ Certification
7 18 (2.10%) MCSE
8 17 (1.98%) CCNP
9 16 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.47%) MCP
13 4 (0.47%) MCSA
13 4 (0.47%) MCTS
13 4 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.50%) SLA
2 28 (3.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 26 (3.03%) QA
4 5 (0.58%) GDPR
5 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 494 (57.64%) Active Directory
2 77 (8.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (3.97%) Firmware
3 34 (3.97%) Hyper-V
4 24 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (2.45%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (1.98%) XenApp
7 15 (1.75%) BitLocker
8 13 (1.52%) XenDesktop
9 12 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
11 8 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.35%) KVM
14 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.35%) vSphere
15 2 (0.23%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.12%) NFS
Systems Management
1 300 (35.01%) SCCM
2 136 (15.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (5.13%) WSUS
4 36 (4.20%) Jamf Pro
5 22 (2.57%) vCenter Server
6 20 (2.33%) Sysprep
7 19 (2.22%) SCOM
8 14 (1.63%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (1.63%) NetBackup
9 10 (1.17%) Autotask
10 9 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
10 9 (1.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 7 (0.82%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.35%) AppManager
13 3 (0.35%) OPNET
13 3 (0.35%) Terraform
14 2 (0.23%) Ansible
14 2 (0.23%) Kibana
14 2 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 510 (59.51%) Microsoft
2 113 (13.19%) Apple
3 100 (11.67%) VMware
4 95 (11.09%) ServiceNow
5 85 (9.92%) Citrix
6 69 (8.05%) HP
7 68 (7.93%) Cisco
8 29 (3.38%) Dell
9 28 (3.27%) SAP
10 21 (2.45%) Adobe
11 20 (2.33%) Veeam
12 19 (2.22%) Symantec
13 16 (1.87%) Ivanti
13 16 (1.87%) Oracle
14 15 (1.75%) Juniper
14 15 (1.75%) Palo Alto
15 14 (1.63%) 3PAR
15 14 (1.63%) EMC
15 14 (1.63%) Extreme Networks
16 10 (1.17%) CA