Windows 10 Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Windows 10
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 153 230
Rank change year-on-year -48 +77 -67
Contract jobs citing Windows 10 145 380 536
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.98% 1.59% 1.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.22% 11.73% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 295 380
10th Percentile £160 £151 £150
25th Percentile £199 £181 £187
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £275 £375
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -26.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £481 £500 £500
90th Percentile £606 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £225 £215 £210
% change year-on-year +4.65% +2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 28
10th Percentile - £13.45 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.00 £15.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £13.25 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% -11.63% +34.38%
75th Percentile £16.52 £22.41 £23.19
90th Percentile £17.90 £30.41 £25.25
UK median hourly rate £16.86 £18.93 £17.72
% change year-on-year -10.94% +6.83% +14.32%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,572 3,239 5,309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.65% 13.57% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,268 3,789
10th Percentile £229 £245 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.94% +9.57%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £620
90th Percentile £685 £731 £694
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 113 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

Windows 10
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows 10 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows 10 trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows 10
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows 10.

Windows 10 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows 10
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows 10 over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Windows 10 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows 10
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows 10.

Windows 10 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows 10
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 31 (21.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.28%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.38%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (24.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.76%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.69%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 88 (60.69%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (33.79%) Azure
3 42 (28.97%) Entra ID
4 15 (10.34%) OneDrive
5 9 (6.21%) AWS
6 4 (2.76%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.38%) BigCommerce
7 2 (1.38%) GitHub
7 2 (1.38%) SaaS
7 2 (1.38%) Slack
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.69%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.69%) IaaS
8 1 (0.69%) PaaS
8 1 (0.69%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.69%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.79%) VPN
2 17 (11.72%) DNS
3 16 (11.03%) Firewall
4 7 (4.83%) DHCP
5 4 (2.76%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.76%) VoIP
5 4 (2.76%) WAAS
5 4 (2.76%) WebEx
6 3 (2.07%) Internet
7 2 (1.38%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.38%) LAN
7 2 (1.38%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.38%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (1.38%) Skype
7 2 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.69%) NAS
8 1 (0.69%) RS-232
8 1 (0.69%) WAN
8 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.45%) JIRA
2 3 (2.07%) Git
3 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.69%) MSI
4 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.24%) Finance
3 11 (7.59%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.52%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.76%) Marketing
6 4 (2.76%) Retail
7 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.38%) French Language
8 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.38%) Legal
8 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.69%) Automotive
9 1 (0.69%) Banking
9 1 (0.69%) German Language
9 1 (0.69%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Local Government
9 1 (0.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (20.69%) Analyst
2 17 (11.72%) Service Analyst
2 17 (11.72%) Service Desk Analyst
3 14 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (9.66%) Support Analyst
4 13 (8.97%) IT Support
5 10 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (6.21%) Architect
6 9 (6.21%) Support Engineer
7 8 (5.52%) IT Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Desktop Support
8 7 (4.83%) IT Analyst
8 7 (4.83%) Security Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Senior
9 6 (4.14%) 1st Line Support
9 6 (4.14%) Consultant
9 6 (4.14%) Coordinator
9 6 (4.14%) Project Coordinator
10 5 (3.45%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (3.45%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.38%) .NET
1 2 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (1.38%) VML
1 2 (1.38%) WPF
2 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.69%) JSON
2 1 (0.69%) MFC
2 1 (0.69%) OAuth
2 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.69%) SAML
2 1 (0.69%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.69%) Universal Windows Platform
2 1 (0.69%) WebRTC
2 1 (0.69%) WinForms
2 1 (0.69%) XML
2 1 (0.69%) X-Windows
2 1 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.59%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (6.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (4.14%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.14%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.45%) Blackberry
5 4 (2.76%) Smartphone
6 3 (2.07%) iPad
6 3 (2.07%) iPhone
6 3 (2.07%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.69%) Clustering
8 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.69%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.69%) PKI
8 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 145 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (18.62%) Windows Server
3 13 (8.97%) Windows 7
4 12 (8.28%) Apple iOS
5 10 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (5.52%) Mac OS
7 6 (4.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (3.45%) Android
9 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (2.07%) Linux
10 3 (2.07%) Mac OS X
11 2 (1.38%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.69%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.24%) ITIL
2 23 (15.86%) Customer Service
3 18 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (11.03%) Migration
6 15 (10.34%) Mobile Device Management
7 10 (6.90%) Vulnerability Management
8 9 (6.21%) DDoS Mitigation
9 8 (5.52%) Agile
9 8 (5.52%) Service Management
9 8 (5.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 7 (4.83%) Time Management
11 6 (4.14%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (4.14%) ITSM
12 5 (3.45%) Computer Science
12 5 (3.45%) Data Loss Prevention
12 5 (3.45%) DevOps
12 5 (3.45%) Information Security
12 5 (3.45%) Service Delivery
13 4 (2.76%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.86%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.83%) SQL
3 5 (3.45%) VBScript
4 4 (2.76%) Python
5 2 (1.38%) C#
5 2 (1.38%) C++
6 1 (0.69%) Bash
6 1 (0.69%) C
6 1 (0.69%) C++/CLI
6 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 19 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.90%) Degree
4 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.38%) CCNA
6 2 (1.38%) CCNP
6 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.38%) MCSA
7 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.69%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.03%) SLA
2 4 (2.76%) GDPR
3 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.07%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.07%) QA
4 2 (1.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 99 (68.28%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (3.45%) XenApp
5 4 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.38%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.69%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (32.41%) SCCM
2 34 (23.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.76%) AirWatch
4 2 (1.38%) Ansible
4 2 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.38%) Kibana
4 2 (1.38%) logstash
4 2 (1.38%) Packer
4 2 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.38%) Terraform
4 2 (1.38%) WSUS
5 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.69%) SCOM
5 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (59.31%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.48%) VMware
3 18 (12.41%) Citrix
4 14 (9.66%) Apple
4 14 (9.66%) ServiceNow
5 10 (6.90%) CA
6 8 (5.52%) Qualys
7 7 (4.83%) Adobe
8 6 (4.14%) Cisco
8 6 (4.14%) HP
9 5 (3.45%) Dell
9 5 (3.45%) Ivanti
10 4 (2.76%) Symantec
11 3 (2.07%) Bloomberg
11 3 (2.07%) F5
11 3 (2.07%) Google
11 3 (2.07%) Planview
11 3 (2.07%) Reuters
11 3 (2.07%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.38%) Sitecore