Windows 10 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows 10
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 60 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 594 838 1,393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.85% 3.66% 4.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.91% 19.24% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 600 917
10th Percentile £143 £136 £130
25th Percentile £183 £163 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £204 £190
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +7.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £303 £325 £283
90th Percentile £575 £519 £450
UK median daily rate £225 £215 £210
% change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 57 152
10th Percentile - £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.55 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +5.71% +14.75%
75th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.10
90th Percentile £30.75 £49.55 £23.75
UK median hourly rate £16.56 £18.84 £17.50
% change year-on-year -12.13% +7.66% +12.90%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,316 4,355 5,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.91% 19.00% 18.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,200 2,993 3,840
10th Percentile £175 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +9.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 307 433
10th Percentile £12.28 £13.29 £12.51
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.50 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.58 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% +92.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows 10 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows 10 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows 10 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows 10 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows 10 in the UK excluding London

Windows 10
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
South East -3 203 £245 +19.51% 68
North of England +13 148 £220 +10.00% 74
North West +14 95 £225 +4.65% 38
Midlands +13 90 £200 +5.26% 43
Scotland +24 60 £200 +21.21% 15
West Midlands +12 56 £200 -10.11% 21
South West -45 55 £225 -6.25% 42
Yorkshire +13 50 £190 +2.70% 34
East Midlands +3 34 £160 +31.15% 22
East of England -26 31 £225 +20.00% 27
Wales -4 6 £190 -58.92% 2
North East +9 3 £150 -8.40% 2
Northern Ireland -3 3 £173 -6.76% 5
Windows 10
UK

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 67 (11.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.35%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) nginx
5 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 172 (28.96%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) LabWindows
2 3 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.34%) Shopify
4 1 (0.17%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 273 (45.96%) Microsoft 365
2 106 (17.85%) Azure
3 42 (7.07%) Entra ID
4 30 (5.05%) OneDrive
5 14 (2.36%) OCI
6 8 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.67%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.34%) AWS
8 2 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.34%) BigCommerce
8 2 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.34%) IaaS
8 2 (0.34%) SaaS
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.17%) GCP
9 1 (0.17%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.17%) PaaS
9 1 (0.17%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 81 (13.64%) DNS
2 60 (10.10%) DHCP
3 57 (9.60%) VPN
4 36 (6.06%) Firewall
5 33 (5.56%) LAN
6 28 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (3.87%) TCP/IP
8 17 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
8 17 (2.86%) SAN
9 16 (2.69%) VoIP
10 15 (2.53%) WAN
11 13 (2.19%) Skype
12 10 (1.68%) NetScaler
13 9 (1.52%) VLAN
14 7 (1.18%) WAAS
15 6 (1.01%) Wireless
16 5 (0.84%) RS-232
16 5 (0.84%) WebEx
17 4 (0.67%) Ethernet
17 4 (0.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.34%) Power BI
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (1.18%) MSI
2 6 (1.01%) JIRA
2 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
3 5 (0.84%) InstallShield
3 5 (0.84%) Subversion
4 3 (0.51%) Git
5 2 (0.34%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 253 (42.59%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.44%) Public Sector
3 60 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
4 39 (6.57%) Finance
5 23 (3.87%) Manufacturing
6 20 (3.37%) Telecoms
7 19 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.03%) Marketing
9 16 (2.69%) Electronics
10 12 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.52%) Retail
12 8 (1.35%) Legal
12 8 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.18%) Law
14 4 (0.67%) Banking
15 3 (0.51%) French Language
15 3 (0.51%) Military
16 2 (0.34%) Local Government
16 2 (0.34%) Multimedia
16 2 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 125 (21.04%) Support Engineer
2 107 (18.01%) Analyst
3 87 (14.65%) IT Support
4 80 (13.47%) Desktop Engineer
5 77 (12.96%) Desktop Support
6 55 (9.26%) Service Analyst
7 54 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 54 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
8 50 (8.42%) 2nd Line Support
9 47 (7.91%) Support Analyst
10 43 (7.24%) IT Engineer
11 37 (6.23%) Windows Engineer
12 35 (5.89%) IT Analyst
13 34 (5.72%) Deployment Engineer
14 33 (5.56%) Senior
15 29 (4.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 29 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 27 (4.55%) 1st Line Support
16 27 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
17 26 (4.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.84%) XMPP
2 2 (0.34%) .NET
2 2 (0.34%) MFC
2 2 (0.34%) Software Packaging
2 2 (0.34%) VML
2 2 (0.34%) WinForms
2 2 (0.34%) WPF
3 1 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.17%) LDAP
3 1 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.90%) Driving Licence
2 32 (5.39%) iPhone
3 21 (3.54%) Data Centre
3 21 (3.54%) Video Conferencing
4 20 (3.37%) iPad
5 15 (2.53%) NHS
6 13 (2.19%) Smartphone
7 12 (2.02%) CMDB
8 11 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.35%) BYOD
9 8 (1.35%) Clustering
9 8 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.18%) Digital Signage
11 6 (1.01%) PKI
11 6 (1.01%) Video Editing
12 5 (0.84%) Device Driver
13 3 (0.51%) Fat Client
13 3 (0.51%) Thin Client
14 2 (0.34%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 588 (98.99%) Windows
2 112 (18.86%) Windows Server
3 88 (14.81%) Windows 7
4 69 (11.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 60 (10.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 58 (9.76%) Apple iOS
7 55 (9.26%) Windows Server 2019
8 23 (3.87%) Mac OS
9 20 (3.37%) Linux
10 17 (2.86%) Android
10 17 (2.86%) Windows NT
10 17 (2.86%) Windows XP
11 14 (2.36%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.34%) CentOS
13 2 (0.34%) Unix
13 2 (0.34%) VMS
13 2 (0.34%) Windows 8
13 2 (0.34%) Windows Vista
14 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (31.99%) Customer Service
2 148 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
3 135 (22.73%) ITIL
4 39 (6.57%) Time Management
5 38 (6.40%) Service Management
6 37 (6.23%) Migration
6 37 (6.23%) Service Delivery
7 36 (6.06%) Break/Fix
7 36 (6.06%) Decision-Making
8 35 (5.89%) Mobile Device Management
9 31 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (3.87%) Proactive Monitoring
10 23 (3.87%) Software Deployment
11 22 (3.70%) ITSM
12 21 (3.54%) Deployment Automation
12 21 (3.54%) Performance Monitoring
12 21 (3.54%) Project Management
13 20 (3.37%) Change Management
13 20 (3.37%) Release Management
14 19 (3.20%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 90 (15.15%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.04%) SQL
3 11 (1.85%) VBScript
4 10 (1.68%) VB
5 6 (1.01%) C#
6 4 (0.67%) C
6 4 (0.67%) Python
7 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.34%) C++
8 2 (0.34%) C++/CLI
Qualifications
1 175 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 110 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 76 (12.79%) DV Cleared
4 60 (10.10%) Degree
5 26 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (3.37%) CCNA
6 20 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (3.20%) A+ Certification
8 14 (2.36%) CCNP
8 14 (2.36%) MCSE
9 10 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.67%) MCTS
12 3 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.08%) SLA
2 28 (4.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 23 (3.87%) QA
4 5 (0.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 343 (57.74%) Active Directory
2 54 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (5.05%) Firmware
4 29 (4.88%) Hyper-V
5 20 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (2.53%) XenApp
7 13 (2.19%) BitLocker
7 13 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (1.85%) XenDesktop
9 9 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (1.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
12 4 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.34%) KVM
14 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.34%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.17%) DFS Replication
15 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 202 (34.01%) SCCM
2 93 (15.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (6.06%) WSUS
4 19 (3.20%) vCenter Server
5 18 (3.03%) Sysprep
6 17 (2.86%) SCOM
7 15 (2.53%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (2.36%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (2.36%) NetBackup
9 10 (1.68%) Autotask
10 7 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 4 (0.67%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.51%) AppManager
13 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.34%) OPNET
14 1 (0.17%) Norton AntiVirus
14 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 361 (60.77%) Microsoft
2 73 (12.29%) Apple
3 64 (10.77%) VMware
4 61 (10.27%) HP
5 57 (9.60%) Cisco
6 47 (7.91%) Citrix
6 47 (7.91%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.87%) SAP
8 22 (3.70%) Dell
9 19 (3.20%) Symantec
10 18 (3.03%) Veeam
11 17 (2.86%) Oracle
12 15 (2.53%) Juniper
13 14 (2.36%) 3PAR
13 14 (2.36%) EMC
13 14 (2.36%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (2.36%) Palo Alto
14 9 (1.52%) Ivanti
14 9 (1.52%) Samsung
15 8 (1.35%) NetApp