Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 406 373
Rank change year-on-year +19 -33 +157
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 161 110 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.35% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.38% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 85 167
10th Percentile £155 £200 £160
25th Percentile £173 £245 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -26.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £481 £488 £613
90th Percentile £573 £575 £685
UK median daily rate £275 £350 £450
% change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 5 4
10th Percentile £18.94 £21.37 £14.09
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.80 £17.21
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £38.23
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -39.83% +49.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £38.23
% change year-on-year -4.35% -39.83% +49.90%

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 27,551 28,997 37,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 93.01% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,686 17,732 25,798
10th Percentile £281 £300 £295
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 1,090 1,422
10th Percentile £14.21 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.23 £19.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -14 50 £400 - 11
South East +26 34 £260 -25.71% 8
North of England -23 30 £200 -20.00% 6
Midlands -13 22 £200 -5.88%
Yorkshire -16 20 £500 +25.00% 1
South West +13 18 £245 -10.84% 2
East of England -9 16 £175 -46.15% 3
East Midlands -3 11 £171 -
West Midlands -19 11 £200 -5.88%
North West -18 10 £183 -2.67% 5
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 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.

1 154 (95.65%) Windows
2 71 (44.10%) Microsoft
3 61 (37.89%) Windows 10
4 51 (31.68%) SCCM
4 51 (31.68%) Security Cleared
5 47 (29.19%) Migration
6 46 (28.57%) SC Cleared
7 35 (21.74%) Active Directory
8 32 (19.88%) PowerShell
9 30 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (18.01%) VMware
11 25 (15.53%) Azure
11 25 (15.53%) Microsoft 365
12 22 (13.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (13.04%) Windows Server
14 20 (12.42%) Workflow
15 19 (11.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 19 (11.80%) VMware Infrastructure
15 19 (11.80%) Workflow Management
16 15 (9.32%) QA
17 14 (8.70%) Configuration Management
17 14 (8.70%) TCP/IP
17 14 (8.70%) Time Management
18 13 (8.07%) Ansible
18 13 (8.07%) DevOps
18 13 (8.07%) Firewall
19 11 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
19 11 (6.83%) Digital Marketing
19 11 (6.83%) ITIL
19 11 (6.83%) Programme Management

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 7 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.86%) Confluence
3 2 (1.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (15.53%) Azure
1 25 (15.53%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (6.21%) OneDrive
3 6 (3.73%) Entra ID
4 2 (1.24%) AWS
4 2 (1.24%) SaaS
5 1 (0.62%) IaaS
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (0.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.70%) TCP/IP
2 13 (8.07%) Firewall
3 8 (4.97%) DNS
4 7 (4.35%) VPN
4 7 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (3.73%) 4G
5 6 (3.73%) DHCP
6 4 (2.48%) VLAN
7 3 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (1.86%) SSL
8 1 (0.62%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.62%) LAN
8 1 (0.62%) NAS
8 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.59%) Jenkins
1 9 (5.59%) Postman
2 7 (4.35%) Git
3 4 (2.48%) JIRA
4 1 (0.62%) GoCD
4 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (40.37%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.53%) Finance
3 20 (12.42%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.32%) Marketing
6 14 (8.70%) Banking
7 11 (6.83%) Electronics
7 11 (6.83%) Manufacturing
7 11 (6.83%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (4.35%) Retail
10 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.86%) Law
11 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.62%) International Banking
12 1 (0.62%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.62%) Middleware
1 1 (0.62%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.11%) Hedge funds
2 4 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.48%) NHS
3 3 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (1.86%) PKI
4 2 (1.24%) Chip and PIN
4 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.24%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.24%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.24%) Replication
4 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.62%) Clustering
5 1 (0.62%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.62%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.62%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 154 (95.65%) Windows
2 61 (37.89%) Windows 10
3 21 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.21%) Linux
5 4 (2.48%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.86%) Android
6 3 (1.86%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.24%) CentOS
7 2 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.24%) Unix
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.62%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (29.19%) Migration
2 30 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (12.42%) Workflow
4 19 (11.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (11.80%) Workflow Management
5 14 (8.70%) Configuration Management
5 14 (8.70%) Time Management
6 13 (8.07%) DevOps
7 11 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (6.83%) Digital Marketing
7 11 (6.83%) ITIL
7 11 (6.83%) Programme Management
8 10 (6.21%) Customer Service
9 9 (5.59%) Agile
10 8 (4.97%) Data Management
10 8 (4.97%) Logistics
11 7 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (3.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (3.73%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (3.11%) Application Packaging
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.88%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.83%) Python
3 6 (3.73%) SQL
4 1 (0.62%) Bash
4 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (31.68%) Security Cleared
2 46 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.24%) Degree
6 2 (1.24%) MCSE
7 1 (0.62%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.62%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.62%) MCITP
7 1 (0.62%) MCSA
7 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.32%) QA
2 2 (1.24%) GDPR
2 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.97%) vSphere
4 7 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.48%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.62%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.62%) Docker
8 1 (0.62%) Firmware
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (31.68%) SCCM
2 22 (13.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (8.07%) Ansible
4 9 (5.59%) Puppet
5 8 (4.97%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (2.48%) SCOM
6 4 (2.48%) vRealize
7 3 (1.86%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.86%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.24%) SysTrack
8 2 (1.24%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.62%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.62%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.62%) QRadar
9 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (44.10%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.01%) VMware
3 11 (6.83%) SAP
3 11 (6.83%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.21%) MuleSoft
5 9 (5.59%) Citrix
5 9 (5.59%) HP
6 5 (3.11%) Veeam
7 4 (2.48%) Apple
7 4 (2.48%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.48%) Dell
8 3 (1.86%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.24%) BMC
9 2 (1.24%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.24%) Computacenter
9 2 (1.24%) Qualys
10 1 (0.62%) Cisco
10 1 (0.62%) Oracle
10 1 (0.62%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.62%) Remedy