Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 352 376
Rank change year-on-year -138 +24 +134
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 95 126 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.56% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 91 141
10th Percentile £175 £163 £131
25th Percentile £255 £200 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -27.78%
75th Percentile £556 £473 £575
90th Percentile £600 £588 £582
UK median daily rate £400 £325 £388
% change year-on-year +23.08% -16.13% -12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 11
10th Percentile £19.54 - £16.25
25th Percentile £20.50 - £16.63
Median hourly rate £21.46 £24.66 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +37.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £23.50 - £20.48
90th Percentile £23.61 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £22.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -2.45% +22.22% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 35,200 22,534 34,941
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 92.95% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,188 15,074 23,351
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 836 2,308
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.91 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.86 £34.31 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.01% +5.55% -24.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.35 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%

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 April 2026.

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 April 2026. 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 -100 25 £475 +22.58% 3
South East -45 23 £300 -25.00% 1
North of England -73 14 £300 -25.00% 3
South West -22 13 £400 +21.21% 1
Midlands -81 11 £336 +86.81% 2
East of England -23 9 £425 +120.21%
North West -43 9 £300 -23.57% 2
East Midlands -31 5 £338 +100.89% 1
Yorkshire -56 5 £500 - 1
West Midlands -70 4 £375 +94.81% 1
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, 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 83 (87.37%) Windows
2 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
3 47 (49.47%) Windows 10
4 36 (37.89%) SC Cleared
5 33 (34.74%) Microsoft
6 29 (30.53%) Migration
7 25 (26.32%) PowerShell
7 25 (26.32%) Windows Server
8 23 (24.21%) Active Directory
8 23 (24.21%) Azure
9 22 (23.16%) SCCM
10 21 (22.11%) Workflow
11 20 (21.05%) Workflow Management
12 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (18.95%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (17.89%) VMware
15 14 (14.74%) DV Cleared
15 14 (14.74%) Logistics
16 13 (13.68%) Business Intelligence
16 13 (13.68%) Customer Service
16 13 (13.68%) Digital Marketing
16 13 (13.68%) Microsoft Intune
16 13 (13.68%) Programme Management
16 13 (13.68%) SAP
17 12 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
18 9 (9.47%) Linux
19 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
19 8 (8.42%) ITIL
19 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Office
20 7 (7.37%) 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 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.11%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.21%) Azure
2 18 (18.95%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.32%) OneDrive
5 5 (5.26%) AWS
6 2 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.11%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.05%) GitHub
7 1 (1.05%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) DNS
2 6 (6.32%) DHCP
2 6 (6.32%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.21%) 4G
3 4 (4.21%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (3.16%) Firewall
4 3 (3.16%) LAN
4 3 (3.16%) VPN
5 2 (2.11%) FTP
5 2 (2.11%) HTTP
5 2 (2.11%) SMTP
5 2 (2.11%) SNMP
5 2 (2.11%) SSH
5 2 (2.11%) SSL
5 2 (2.11%) Telnet
5 2 (2.11%) VLAN
5 2 (2.11%) Wireless
6 1 (1.05%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.05%) Network Security
6 1 (1.05%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Selenium
2 1 (1.05%) Appium
2 1 (1.05%) Git
2 1 (1.05%) GoCD
2 1 (1.05%) JUnit
2 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.05%) TestNG
General
1 41 (43.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 18 (18.95%) Finance
4 13 (13.68%) Electronics
4 13 (13.68%) Manufacturing
4 13 (13.68%) Marketing
4 13 (13.68%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.26%) Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.11%) Local Government
8 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.11%) .NET
1 2 (2.11%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
1 4 (4.21%) Replication
2 3 (3.16%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.11%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.11%) Legacy Code
3 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.11%) NHS
3 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.05%) Clustering
4 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.05%) Life Science
4 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.05%) PKI
4 1 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 83 (87.37%) Windows
2 47 (49.47%) Windows 10
3 25 (26.32%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.47%) Linux
5 4 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.16%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.11%) Android
7 2 (2.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.05%) CentOS
8 1 (1.05%) VMS
8 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.53%) Migration
2 21 (22.11%) Workflow
3 20 (21.05%) Workflow Management
4 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (14.74%) Logistics
6 13 (13.68%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (13.68%) Customer Service
6 13 (13.68%) Digital Marketing
6 13 (13.68%) Programme Management
7 8 (8.42%) ITIL
8 6 (6.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (5.26%) CI/CD
9 5 (5.26%) DevOps
9 5 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (4.21%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (4.21%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (4.21%) Server Building
11 3 (3.16%) Patch Management
11 3 (3.16%) Security Operations
11 3 (3.16%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 25 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.26%) Python
3 2 (2.11%) VBScript
4 1 (1.05%) Bash
Qualifications
1 48 (50.53%) Security Cleared
2 36 (37.89%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.74%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.21%) Degree
5 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.05%) MCITP
6 1 (1.05%) MCSE
6 1 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) GxP
3 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (24.21%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.16%) Docker
4 3 (3.16%) vSphere
5 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.05%) Firmware
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (23.16%) SCCM
2 13 (13.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.16%) Ansible
3 3 (3.16%) QRadar
3 3 (3.16%) SCOM
4 2 (2.11%) Backup Exec
4 2 (2.11%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.05%) FreeIPA
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.05%) Packer
5 1 (1.05%) PaperCut
5 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.05%) Terraform
5 1 (1.05%) vRealize
5 1 (1.05%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (1.05%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (34.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.89%) VMware
3 13 (13.68%) SAP
4 6 (6.32%) Citrix
4 6 (6.32%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.26%) Cisco
6 4 (4.21%) HP
6 4 (4.21%) Qualys
6 4 (4.21%) Veeam
7 3 (3.16%) Dell
7 3 (3.16%) Varonis
8 2 (2.11%) Apple
8 2 (2.11%) Broadcom
8 2 (2.11%) McAfee
8 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.05%) Autodesk
9 1 (1.05%) Google
9 1 (1.05%) Oracle
9 1 (1.05%) Sophos
9 1 (1.05%) Tenable