Windows Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 652 748
Rank change year-on-year +125 +96 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 21 16 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.032% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.033% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 26
10th Percentile £185 £425 £331
25th Percentile £319 £444 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +18.82% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £450
90th Percentile £606 £671 £505
UK median daily rate £475 £505 £425
% change year-on-year -5.94% +18.82% +17.24%

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in England

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in England

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in England

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in England

Windows Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +106 12 £450 -10.00% 3
North of England +33 3 £475 - 1
Midlands - 3 £338 -
South East +13 2 £463 -11.90%
North West - 2 £318 -
East Midlands - 2 £338 -
Yorkshire +25 1 £475 -
South West - 1 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Windows Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (71.43%) Active Directory
4 13 (61.90%) Azure
5 12 (57.14%) Windows Server
6 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
7 10 (47.62%) VMware
8 9 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (42.86%) Windows 10
9 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
9 6 (28.57%) Citrix
9 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
9 6 (28.57%) SCCM
10 5 (23.81%) Banking
10 5 (23.81%) Finance
10 5 (23.81%) Migration
11 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
11 4 (19.05%) Firewall
11 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
11 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
12 3 (14.29%) Agile
12 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
12 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
12 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
12 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (14.29%) SAN
12 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
12 3 (14.29%) vSphere
13 2 (9.52%) AWS
13 2 (9.52%) DevOps

Windows Infrastructure 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 3 (14.29%) SAN
3 2 (9.52%) DHCP
3 2 (9.52%) DNS
4 1 (4.76%) FTP
4 1 (4.76%) HTTP
4 1 (4.76%) NAS
4 1 (4.76%) Skype
4 1 (4.76%) SMTP
4 1 (4.76%) SNMP
4 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.76%) SSH
4 1 (4.76%) SSL
4 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.76%) Telnet
4 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
4 1 (4.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Banking
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 9 (42.86%) Windows 10
4 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 3 (14.29%) Agile
3 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Change Management
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL
4 2 (9.52%) Scrum
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (4.76%) Converged Infrastructure
5 1 (4.76%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (4.76%) Identity Management
5 1 (4.76%) Information Security
5 1 (4.76%) Inventory Management
5 1 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (4.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 1 (4.76%) NsoIT
5 1 (4.76%) Password Management
5 1 (4.76%) Service Management
5 1 (4.76%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 3 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) SCCM
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.76%) Puppet
3 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (47.62%) VMware
3 6 (28.57%) Citrix
4 2 (9.52%) HP
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Veeam