Windows Engineer Contracts in London

Windows Engineer
England > London

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 407 490
Rank change year-on-year +85 +83 -94
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 60 76 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.34% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.30% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 56 99
10th Percentile £136 £166 £175
25th Percentile £166 £271 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.18% +10.39%
75th Percentile £598 £556 £528
90th Percentile £650 £673 £638
England median daily rate £415 £400 £262
% change year-on-year +3.75% +52.67% -25.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £15.19 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - -
75th Percentile £22.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
England median hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% +21.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Engineer in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London +35 7 £500 -6.98%
East London -1 4 £170 -32.00%
Windows Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 London region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 22 (36.67%) Active Directory
4 19 (31.67%) SCCM
4 19 (31.67%) Windows Server
5 16 (26.67%) Finance
5 16 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (23.33%) Azure
7 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 11 (18.33%) Windows 7
8 11 (18.33%) Migration
8 11 (18.33%) Citrix
9 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
10 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
10 9 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (15.00%) Customer Service
10 9 (15.00%) VPN
10 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
10 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
10 9 (15.00%) Banking
11 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
12 7 (11.67%) Degree
12 7 (11.67%) AWS
12 7 (11.67%) .NET
12 7 (11.67%) SQL
12 7 (11.67%) VMware
13 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
13 6 (10.00%) DevOps

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (23.33%) Azure
3 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 7 (11.67%) AWS
5 3 (5.00%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.33%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.67%) IaaS
7 1 (1.67%) PaaS
7 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) VPN
2 5 (8.33%) Firewall
3 3 (5.00%) SAN
4 2 (3.33%) DNS
4 2 (3.33%) NetScaler
4 2 (3.33%) Wireless
5 1 (1.67%) DHCP
5 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.33%) Subversion
1 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 9 (15.00%) Banking
2 9 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
2 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) .NET
2 3 (5.00%) Middleware
2 3 (5.00%) XMPP
3 2 (3.33%) WCF
3 2 (3.33%) WinForms
4 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.67%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.00%) BYOD
2 3 (5.00%) iPad
3 2 (3.33%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.33%) iPhone
4 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 19 (31.67%) Windows Server
4 11 (18.33%) Windows 7
5 3 (5.00%) Android
5 3 (5.00%) Linux
5 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.33%) Migration
2 9 (15.00%) Customer Service
2 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (10.00%) Decision-Making
3 6 (10.00%) DevOps
3 6 (10.00%) Time Management
4 5 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (6.67%) Analytics
5 4 (6.67%) Fintech
5 4 (6.67%) User Experience
5 4 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 3 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (3.33%) Asset Management
7 2 (3.33%) Configuration Management
7 2 (3.33%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (3.33%) High Availability
7 2 (3.33%) Information Security
7 2 (3.33%) ITIL
7 2 (3.33%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (11.67%) SQL
3 6 (10.00%) C#
3 6 (10.00%) Python
4 2 (3.33%) C++
4 2 (3.33%) F#
4 2 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) Degree
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.33%) CCNA
5 2 (3.33%) CCNP
5 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) SLA
2 2 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 22 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.00%) vSphere
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (31.67%) SCCM
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
3 2 (3.33%) BladeLogic
3 2 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) Citrix
3 7 (11.67%) VMware
4 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.67%) HP
6 3 (5.00%) Apple
6 3 (5.00%) Dell
7 2 (3.33%) Altiris
7 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.33%) MobileIron
8 1 (1.67%) Brocade
8 1 (1.67%) CA
8 1 (1.67%) Dell Compellent
8 1 (1.67%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.67%) Veeam