Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 426 408
Rank change year-on-year +57 -18 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 160 102 182
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.32% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.34% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 81 145
10th Percentile £153 £200 £190
25th Percentile £171 £245 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £368 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -26.40% +29.03%
75th Percentile £438 £523 £630
90th Percentile £550 £600 £708
UK median daily rate £281 £368 £481
% change year-on-year -23.57% -23.53% +24.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 5 4
10th Percentile £18.32 £21.37 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.57 £21.80 £17.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -40.65% +63.16%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +9.35% -40.65% +76.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 25,491 30,015 39,142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.96% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,452 18,397 27,353
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £728 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,389 1,357 1,375
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -0.46% +71.64%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.82% +70.19%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Windows Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Windows Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in England

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in England

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 October 2025. 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
London +19 54 £350 -12.50% 2
North of England -5 31 £200 -30.43% 3
South East +25 28 £375 +8.70% 6
Midlands +5 22 £200 -41.82% 2
Yorkshire -1 20 £350 -14.63% 3
South West +32 18 £205 -6.39% 1
East of England +14 15 £155 -39.22% 3
East Midlands +3 11 £171 -64.00%
West Midlands -8 11 £200 -5.88% 2
North West -9 10 £183 -18.89%
North East - 1 £180 -
Windows Engineer
UK

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, Windows Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 160 (100.00%) Windows
2 68 (42.50%) Microsoft
3 59 (36.88%) Social Skills
4 46 (28.75%) SCCM
4 46 (28.75%) Windows 10
5 41 (25.63%) Migration
6 37 (23.13%) Active Directory
6 37 (23.13%) PowerShell
7 31 (19.38%) Azure
7 31 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (18.75%) Security Cleared
9 29 (18.13%) VMware
10 28 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (16.25%) SC Cleared
12 22 (13.75%) Finance
13 21 (13.13%) Microsoft Intune
14 20 (12.50%) Windows Server
15 19 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
16 18 (11.25%) Time Management
16 18 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 17 (10.63%) QA
17 17 (10.63%) DevOps
17 17 (10.63%) VMware Infrastructure
18 16 (10.00%) Banking
18 16 (10.00%) TCP/IP
19 15 (9.38%) Configuration Management
20 13 (8.13%) Ansible
20 13 (8.13%) Firewall
20 13 (8.13%) Citrix
21 12 (7.50%) DNS

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (1.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.38%) Azure
2 28 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.38%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.13%) SaaS
5 4 (2.50%) OneDrive
6 3 (1.88%) AWS
7 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.63%) IaaS
8 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 13 (8.13%) Firewall
3 12 (7.50%) DNS
4 11 (6.88%) VPN
5 9 (5.63%) DHCP
6 8 (5.00%) VLAN
7 5 (3.13%) SSL
8 4 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.25%) 4G
11 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.63%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.63%) Jenkins
1 9 (5.63%) Postman
2 7 (4.38%) Git
3 6 (3.75%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) GoCD
4 1 (0.63%) MSI
4 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.75%) Finance
3 19 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.00%) Banking
5 10 (6.25%) Retail
6 8 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.38%) Marketing
8 5 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Electronics
9 3 (1.88%) Law
9 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.63%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.88%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.13%) Hedge funds
2 5 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (1.88%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.25%) Chip and PIN
4 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.25%) NHS
4 2 (1.25%) PKI
5 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.63%) Clustering
5 1 (0.63%) CMDB
5 1 (0.63%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.63%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.63%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.63%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 160 (100.00%) Windows
2 46 (28.75%) Windows 10
3 20 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.63%) Linux
5 5 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.50%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.88%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.25%) Android
8 2 (1.25%) CentOS
8 2 (1.25%) Unix
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.63%) Migration
2 31 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (11.25%) Time Management
4 17 (10.63%) DevOps
5 15 (9.38%) Configuration Management
6 9 (5.63%) Agile
6 9 (5.63%) Application Packaging
7 8 (5.00%) Data Management
7 8 (5.00%) ITIL
8 7 (4.38%) Customer Service
8 7 (4.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (4.38%) Information Security
8 7 (4.38%) Validation
8 7 (4.38%) Workflow
9 6 (3.75%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (3.75%) Deployment Automation
9 6 (3.75%) Workflow Management
10 5 (3.13%) Asset Management
10 5 (3.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.13%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.88%) Python
3 6 (3.75%) SQL
4 4 (2.50%) VBScript
5 1 (0.63%) Bash
5 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.63%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.63%) MCSA
5 1 (0.63%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) GDPR
2 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (23.13%) Active Directory
2 17 (10.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.63%) Hyper-V
3 9 (5.63%) vSphere
4 4 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (1.25%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (28.75%) SCCM
2 21 (13.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (8.13%) Ansible
4 9 (5.63%) Puppet
5 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (3.13%) Tivoli
7 4 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.88%) SCOM
8 3 (1.88%) Terraform
8 3 (1.88%) vRealize
9 2 (1.25%) SysTrack
10 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.63%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.63%) QRadar
10 1 (0.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 68 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.13%) VMware
3 13 (8.13%) Citrix
4 10 (6.25%) MuleSoft
5 8 (5.00%) HP
6 7 (4.38%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 5 (3.13%) Veeam
8 4 (2.50%) Apple
8 4 (2.50%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.88%) SAP
10 2 (1.25%) BMC
10 2 (1.25%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.25%) Computacenter
10 2 (1.25%) Dell
10 2 (1.25%) Netskope
10 2 (1.25%) Qualys
11 1 (0.63%) Nexthink
11 1 (0.63%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.63%) Remedy