Windows Support Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Support Engineer daily rate in England is £175 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 637 733
Rank change year-on-year +138 +96 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 42 24 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.048% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.051% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 56
10th Percentile £105 £153 £140
25th Percentile £133 £173 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £175 £200
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -10.11%
75th Percentile £239 £245 £264
90th Percentile £261 £269 £425
UK median daily rate £175 £255 £200
% change year-on-year -31.37% +27.50% -20.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £16.25 - £18.25
25th Percentile £16.63 - £19.38
Median hourly rate £17.00 £30.00 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £18.00 - £30.63
90th Percentile £50.00 - £33.25
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £30.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -41.67% +71.43% +40.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Windows Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Support Engineer in England

Windows Support 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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +126 20 £144 -18.87% 1
Midlands +34 7 £175 +28.21%
East Midlands - 7 £175 -
North of England +27 6 £168 -4.29% 2
East of England +20 5 £240 +7.87%
North West +26 4 £141 -19.43% 1
South East - 4 £225 -
Yorkshire +17 2 £238 -13.64%
Windows Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Windows Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 20 (47.62%) Active Directory
3 17 (40.48%) Windows 7
3 17 (40.48%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (40.48%) Windows 10
4 15 (35.71%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (35.71%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 13 (30.95%) Windows Server
6 13 (30.95%) Customer Requirements
7 11 (26.19%) VPN
7 11 (26.19%) SCCM
8 10 (23.81%) Finance
8 10 (23.81%) Customer Service
9 9 (21.43%) SLA
10 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
10 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (16.67%) ServiceNow
11 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
11 7 (16.67%) Azure
11 7 (16.67%) ITIL
11 7 (16.67%) Linux
11 7 (16.67%) VMware
12 6 (14.29%) Time Management
12 6 (14.29%) Banking
12 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
12 6 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
13 5 (11.90%) Entra ID

Windows Support 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 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (16.67%) Azure
3 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.52%) AWS
5 2 (4.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.19%) VPN
2 5 (11.90%) Firewall
3 4 (9.52%) Ethernet
3 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.76%) Wireless
5 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 15 (35.71%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Finance
3 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Banking
4 6 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) .NET
1 2 (4.76%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Clustering
2 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.76%) BYOD
3 2 (4.76%) iPad
3 2 (4.76%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 42 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (40.48%) Windows 10
2 17 (40.48%) Windows 7
3 13 (30.95%) Windows Server
4 7 (16.67%) Linux
5 4 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (9.52%) Windows Vista
6 2 (4.76%) Android
6 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Customer Requirements
2 10 (23.81%) Customer Service
3 7 (16.67%) ITIL
4 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 6 (14.29%) Time Management
5 5 (11.90%) High Availability
5 5 (11.90%) Release Management
6 4 (9.52%) Customer Experience
6 4 (9.52%) Information Security
6 4 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (9.52%) Ticket Management
7 3 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (4.76%) Analytics
8 2 (4.76%) Asset Management
8 2 (4.76%) Data Analytics
8 2 (4.76%) Mobile Device Management
8 2 (4.76%) Service Delivery
8 2 (4.76%) Service Management
8 2 (4.76%) User Experience
8 2 (4.76%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.76%) C#
1 2 (4.76%) F#
1 2 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (9.52%) Degree
4 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) SLA
2 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 20 (47.62%) Active Directory
2 7 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (11.90%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) SCCM
2 4 (9.52%) Autotask
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 7 (16.67%) VMware
3 4 (9.52%) Cisco
3 4 (9.52%) Remedy
4 2 (4.76%) Apple
4 2 (4.76%) Citrix
4 2 (4.76%) Dell
4 2 (4.76%) HP
4 2 (4.76%) MobileIron