Windows Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £368, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 431 579
Rank change year-on-year +1 +148 -74
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 104 178 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.44% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 139 170
10th Percentile £184 £192 £156
25th Percentile £238 £285 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £500 £338
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% +48.15% -3.57%
75th Percentile £531 £634 £492
90th Percentile £600 £703 £576
UK median daily rate £368 £495 £350
% change year-on-year -25.66% +41.43% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 10
10th Percentile £21.37 £14.10 £17.28
25th Percentile £21.80 £17.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £38.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.65% +93.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £24.18 £61.25 £25.19
90th Percentile - - £77.08
UK median hourly rate £22.40 £38.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -42.19% +93.75% +38.99%

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 30,503 40,030 67,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 94.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,997 27,956 48,305
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,457 1,375 1,623
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +73.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.80 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £44.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -3.37% +71.15% +30.00%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer 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 20 September 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
London +41 65 £400 -28.89% 12
South East +16 15 £350 -17.65%
North of England +13 8 £250 -53.55% 1
North West +3 6 £225 -58.72% 1
Midlands +1 6 £213 -1.16% 1
East of England +27 5 £255 -40.00% 1
East Midlands +2 4 £343 +59.30% 1
South West +6 3 £219 -63.50% 1
Yorkshire +14 2 £353 -11.88%
West Midlands +3 2 £213 -19.89%
Windows Engineer
UK

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 England region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 104 (100.00%) Windows
2 39 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 37 (35.58%) Microsoft
4 35 (33.65%) PowerShell
5 29 (27.88%) Windows Server
6 28 (26.92%) Active Directory
7 26 (25.00%) Finance
8 25 (24.04%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (23.08%) Social Skills
10 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (19.23%) SCCM
11 20 (19.23%) VMware
12 19 (18.27%) Security Cleared
13 18 (17.31%) Azure
14 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared
15 15 (14.42%) VMware Infrastructure
16 14 (13.46%) Migration
16 14 (13.46%) DNS
17 13 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
17 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 12 (11.54%) Linux
18 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
19 9 (8.65%) ITIL
19 9 (8.65%) DHCP
19 9 (8.65%) Ansible
19 9 (8.65%) Customer Service
20 8 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
20 8 (7.69%) CI/CD
20 8 (7.69%) DevOps
20 8 (7.69%) Windows 7

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (24.04%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (17.31%) Azure
3 5 (4.81%) GitHub
4 3 (2.88%) AWS
5 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.92%) IaaS
5 2 (1.92%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.96%) GCP
6 1 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.96%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.96%) Mimecast
6 1 (0.96%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.96%) PaaS
6 1 (0.96%) Rubrik
6 1 (0.96%) SaaS
6 1 (0.96%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.46%) DNS
2 9 (8.65%) DHCP
3 8 (7.69%) VPN
4 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.85%) SAN
6 2 (1.92%) Firewall
6 2 (1.92%) NAS
6 2 (1.92%) VLAN
6 2 (1.92%) VoIP
7 1 (0.96%) BGP
7 1 (0.96%) DSL
7 1 (0.96%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.96%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.96%) LAN
7 1 (0.96%) Network Security
7 1 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.92%) Big Data
1 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.73%) JIRA
2 5 (4.81%) Git
3 4 (3.85%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.92%) MSI
4 2 (1.92%) Subversion
5 1 (0.96%) GitLab
5 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 26 (25.00%) Finance
2 24 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.73%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.73%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Banking
6 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Advertising
7 2 (1.92%) Electronics
7 2 (1.92%) Legal
7 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.92%) Marketing
8 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Local Government
8 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) .NET
1 2 (1.92%) REST
1 2 (1.92%) WCF
1 2 (1.92%) WinForms
2 1 (0.96%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.88%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.88%) Replication
3 3 (2.88%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.92%) Clustering
4 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.92%) NHS
4 2 (1.92%) PKI
4 2 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.96%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.96%) iPhone
5 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 104 (100.00%) Windows
2 39 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 29 (27.88%) Windows Server
4 12 (11.54%) Linux
5 8 (7.69%) Windows 7
5 8 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.92%) Android
8 2 (1.92%) CentOS
8 2 (1.92%) Unix
8 2 (1.92%) VMS
8 2 (1.92%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (13.46%) Migration
3 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (8.65%) Customer Service
4 9 (8.65%) ITIL
5 8 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 8 (7.69%) DevOps
6 7 (6.73%) Task Automation
7 6 (5.77%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (5.77%) Health Informatics
7 6 (5.77%) Informatics
7 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (5.77%) Server Management
8 5 (4.81%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (4.81%) Information Security
8 5 (4.81%) Patch Management
8 5 (4.81%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (4.81%) Storage Management
8 5 (4.81%) Time Management
9 4 (3.85%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (33.65%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.69%) C#
3 6 (5.77%) Bash
3 6 (5.77%) Python
3 6 (5.77%) SQL
4 3 (2.88%) VBScript
5 2 (1.92%) C++
5 2 (1.92%) Java
5 2 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.92%) Ruby
5 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.92%) VB
5 2 (1.92%) VBA
6 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.73%) Degree
4 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.92%) MCSA
6 2 (1.92%) MCSE
7 1 (0.96%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) SLA
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.92%) GDPR
3 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 28 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 15 (14.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.77%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (3.85%) BitLocker
5 4 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.92%) vSphere
7 1 (0.96%) Firmware
7 1 (0.96%) KVM
7 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.96%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (19.23%) SCCM
2 13 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (8.65%) Ansible
4 5 (4.81%) vRealize
5 4 (3.85%) Terraform
6 2 (1.92%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (1.92%) QRadar
6 2 (1.92%) Tivoli
6 2 (1.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.92%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.92%) WSUS
7 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.96%) Autotask
7 1 (0.96%) Control-M
7 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.96%) Nessus
7 1 (0.96%) Netcool
7 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.96%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 37 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 20 (19.23%) VMware
3 7 (6.73%) Cisco
3 7 (6.73%) CyberArk
4 6 (5.77%) Qualys
5 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.85%) Citrix
7 3 (2.88%) Altiris
7 3 (2.88%) Dell
8 2 (1.92%) Apple
8 2 (1.92%) EMC
8 2 (1.92%) HP
8 2 (1.92%) IBM
8 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.92%) Remedy
8 2 (1.92%) SAP
8 2 (1.92%) Splunk
8 2 (1.92%) Veeam
8 2 (1.92%) Wind River
9 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds