Windows Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Windows Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 156 181
Rank change year-on-year +37 +25 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 6 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.39% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.41% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 9
10th Percentile - £438 £355
25th Percentile £425 £474 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +24.29%
75th Percentile £606 £683 -
90th Percentile - £700 £573
Central London median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.45% +20.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,071 3,377 3,976
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 95.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,468 2,292 3,001
10th Percentile £348 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £563
% change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 52
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -2.78% +105.71%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.97 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the City of London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the City of London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the City of London

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Windows Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (33.33%) SCCM
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Terraform

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) VMware