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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 101 109
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 861 1,368 2,168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.02% 2.39% 2.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.14% 14.79% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 986 1,488
10th Percentile £148 £140 £130
25th Percentile £185 £165 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £215 £210
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +2.63% -6.89%
75th Percentile £378 £388 £388
90th Percentile £575 £540 £506
UK excluding London median daily rate £215 £204 £190
% change year-on-year +5.39% +7.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 86 169
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.26 £12.54
25th Percentile £11.01 £16.31 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.25 £18.75 £17.91
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.69% +15.70%
75th Percentile £20.00 £25.08 £22.25
90th Percentile £26.50 £54.58 £27.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.14 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -23.57% +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 5,687 9,251 13,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.37% 16.16% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,850 6,458 8,915
10th Percentile £185 £190 £175
25th Percentile £300 £338 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +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 393 404 594
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.08 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.74 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -8 786 £225 +4.65% 359
UK excluding London -6 596 £215 +5.39% 299
London -15 244 £270 +16.13% 83
South East 0 220 £225 +9.76% 89
Work from Home -34 150 £325 +24.40% 85
North of England +18 149 £220 +7.32% 66
North West +13 94 £225 +4.65% 33
Midlands +1 85 £200 +5.26% 49
South West -43 56 £225 - 46
Yorkshire +13 52 £190 +8.57% 31
West Midlands +12 52 £200 -9.09% 23
Scotland +20 50 £200 +21.21% 20
East Midlands +4 32 £160 +31.15% 26
East of England -22 30 £220 +17.33% 33
Wales +2 6 £178 -66.10% 1
North East +10 3 £150 -8.40% 2
Northern Ireland -5 3 £173 -6.76% 2

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
1 111 (12.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 77 (8.94%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.97%) 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
1 245 (28.46%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.44%) 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 (0.46%) LabWindows
1 4 (0.46%) 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
1 456 (52.96%) Microsoft 365
2 173 (20.09%) Azure
3 88 (10.22%) Entra ID
4 48 (5.57%) OneDrive
5 17 (1.97%) AWS
6 14 (1.63%) OCI
7 10 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.46%) IaaS
8 4 (0.46%) Mimecast
8 4 (0.46%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.35%) SaaS
9 3 (0.35%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.23%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.23%) BigCommerce
10 2 (0.23%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.23%) GitHub
10 2 (0.23%) PaaS
10 2 (0.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 101 (11.73%) VPN
2 99 (11.50%) DNS
3 73 (8.48%) Firewall
4 70 (8.13%) DHCP
5 50 (5.81%) LAN
6 34 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
7 31 (3.60%) TCP/IP
8 28 (3.25%) WAN
9 25 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
10 24 (2.79%) Skype
10 24 (2.79%) Wireless
11 21 (2.44%) SAN
12 20 (2.32%) VoIP
13 12 (1.39%) NetScaler
14 11 (1.28%) VLAN
15 7 (0.81%) WAAS
15 7 (0.81%) WebEx
16 6 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
16 6 (0.70%) Internet
17 5 (0.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.23%) Power BI
3 1 (0.12%) DTS
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (1.74%) 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
1 360 (41.81%) Social Skills
2 101 (11.73%) Finance
3 78 (9.06%) Public Sector
4 74 (8.59%) Organisational Skills
5 45 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 24 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 21 (2.44%) Marketing
9 20 (2.32%) Legal
10 18 (2.09%) Banking
11 17 (1.97%) Electronics
12 16 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.63%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.51%) Law
15 12 (1.39%) French Language
15 12 (1.39%) Retail
16 10 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.70%) German Language
17 6 (0.70%) Mandarin Language
18 5 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 171 (19.86%) Support Engineer
2 161 (18.70%) Analyst
3 111 (12.89%) IT Support
4 108 (12.54%) Desktop Support
5 106 (12.31%) Desktop Engineer
6 84 (9.76%) Service Analyst
7 83 (9.64%) Service Desk Analyst
8 71 (8.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 68 (7.90%) 2nd Line Support
10 66 (7.67%) IT Engineer
11 65 (7.55%) Support Analyst
12 62 (7.20%) Windows Engineer
13 54 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 50 (5.81%) IT Analyst
15 48 (5.57%) Senior
16 40 (4.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 39 (4.53%) Deployment Engineer
18 38 (4.41%) IT Support Analyst
19 36 (4.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
20 35 (4.07%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.51%) XMPP
2 4 (0.46%) 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%) Elastic Stack
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%) XML
5 1 (0.12%) X-Windows
5 1 (0.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.46%) Driving Licence
2 39 (4.53%) Video Conferencing
3 37 (4.30%) iPhone
4 29 (3.37%) iPad
5 28 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.21%) CMDB
7 19 (2.21%) Smartphone
8 18 (2.09%) Blackberry
8 18 (2.09%) NHS
8 18 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.86%) BYOD
10 10 (1.16%) Clustering
10 10 (1.16%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.16%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (1.05%) PKI
12 7 (0.81%) Digital Signage
13 6 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 855 (99.30%) Windows
2 169 (19.63%) Windows Server
3 129 (14.98%) Windows 7
4 83 (9.64%) Apple iOS
5 78 (9.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 72 (8.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 66 (7.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 52 (6.04%) Mac OS
9 44 (5.11%) Android
10 26 (3.02%) Linux
11 20 (2.32%) Windows Server 2008
12 19 (2.21%) Windows NT
12 19 (2.21%) Windows XP
13 12 (1.39%) Mac OS X
14 8 (0.93%) Windows 8
15 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.46%) Unix
16 4 (0.46%) VMS
17 2 (0.23%) CentOS
17 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (31.94%) Customer Service
2 196 (22.76%) ITIL
3 189 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (6.97%) Migration
5 58 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 54 (6.27%) ITSM
6 54 (6.27%) Service Management
7 52 (6.04%) Mobile Device Management
8 49 (5.69%) Time Management
9 44 (5.11%) Service Delivery
10 39 (4.53%) Decision-Making
11 36 (4.18%) Break/Fix
12 35 (4.07%) Asset Management
13 30 (3.48%) Project Management
14 29 (3.37%) Software Deployment
15 28 (3.25%) Proactive Monitoring
16 24 (2.79%) Deployment Automation
16 24 (2.79%) Disaster Recovery
16 24 (2.79%) Performance Monitoring
17 23 (2.67%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 111 (12.89%) PowerShell
2 32 (3.72%) SQL
3 12 (1.39%) VBScript
4 8 (0.93%) VB
5 7 (0.81%) 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
1 207 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 123 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 92 (10.69%) Degree
4 89 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 41 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.79%) CCNA
6 24 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (2.21%) A+ Certification
8 18 (2.09%) MCSE
9 17 (1.97%) CCNP
10 16 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 7 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.70%) MCSA
15 4 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.46%) MCP
15 4 (0.46%) MCTS
15 4 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (10.22%) SLA
2 28 (3.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 26 (3.02%) QA
4 5 (0.58%) GDPR
5 4 (0.46%) 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
1 497 (57.72%) Active Directory
2 77 (8.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (4.07%) Hyper-V
4 34 (3.95%) Firmware
5 24 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 21 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (1.97%) XenApp
8 15 (1.74%) BitLocker
9 13 (1.51%) XenDesktop
10 12 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
12 8 (0.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 4 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.46%) 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
1 298 (34.61%) SCCM
2 138 (16.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (4.99%) WSUS
4 37 (4.30%) Jamf Pro
5 22 (2.56%) vCenter Server
6 20 (2.32%) SCOM
6 20 (2.32%) Sysprep
7 14 (1.63%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (1.63%) NetBackup
8 10 (1.16%) Autotask
9 9 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
9 9 (1.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 6 (0.70%) AirWatch
11 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.35%) AppManager
12 3 (0.35%) OPNET
12 3 (0.35%) Terraform
13 2 (0.23%) Ansible
13 2 (0.23%) Kibana
13 2 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 515 (59.81%) Microsoft
2 111 (12.89%) Apple
3 100 (11.61%) VMware
4 96 (11.15%) ServiceNow
5 87 (10.10%) Citrix
6 69 (8.01%) HP
7 68 (7.90%) Cisco
8 28 (3.25%) Dell
9 26 (3.02%) SAP
10 22 (2.56%) Adobe
11 20 (2.32%) Veeam
12 19 (2.21%) Symantec
13 17 (1.97%) Oracle
14 16 (1.86%) Ivanti
15 15 (1.74%) Juniper
15 15 (1.74%) Palo Alto
16 14 (1.63%) 3PAR
16 14 (1.63%) EMC
16 14 (1.63%) Extreme Networks
17 10 (1.16%) CA