Windows Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Windows Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £175 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 152 179
Rank change year-on-year +26 +27 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 12 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.44% 0.38% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.40% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 19
10th Percentile £122 £164 £156
25th Percentile £163 £205 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £330 £225
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +46.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £215 £456 £265
90th Percentile £356 £490 £300
England median daily rate £415 £400 £261
% change year-on-year +3.75% +53.26% -25.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.82
Median hourly rate £17.00 £16.70 £17.41
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -4.08% +20.99%
75th Percentile - - £20.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,509 3,258 4,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.60% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,291 3,547
10th Percentile £213 £223 £208
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 128 175
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.35 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.21 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +15.74% +14.47%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.88 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £61.50 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the Midlands

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the Midlands

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the Midlands

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the Midlands

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
East Midlands +23 11 £175 -65.00% 1
West Midlands +26 1 - - 3
Windows Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Midlands region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Vista
4 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 4 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (25.00%) Ticket Management
5 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (25.00%) Autotask
5 3 (25.00%) JIRA
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco
5 3 (25.00%) Remedy
5 3 (25.00%) Ethernet
6 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (16.67%) Azure
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) SSH
7 1 (8.33%) FTP
7 1 (8.33%) HTTP
7 1 (8.33%) SNMP

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (25.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (8.33%) DHCP
3 1 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (8.33%) FTP
3 1 (8.33%) HTTP
3 1 (8.33%) SMTP
3 1 (8.33%) SNMP
3 1 (8.33%) SSH
3 1 (8.33%) SSL
3 1 (8.33%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Vista
4 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Ticket Management
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Autotask
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco
1 3 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft