Windows Engineer Contracts in the South West

Windows Engineer
England > South West

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the South West is £338 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 145 166 148
Rank change year-on-year +21 -18 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 7 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.22% 0.22% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.24% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £181 £355 £136
25th Percentile £238 £363 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £400 £210
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +90.48% -44.00%
75th Percentile £422 £438 £372
90th Percentile £531 £445 £435
England median daily rate £400 £400 £262
% change year-on-year - +52.67% -25.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £28.65 £18.50
25th Percentile - £28.88 -
Median hourly rate - £29.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +47.50% -
75th Percentile - £29.88 -
90th Percentile - £29.95 -
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
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,978 3,385 3,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 92.33% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,914 2,526 2,533
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 277 202
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £51.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £65.00 £45.60
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +42.54% +7.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.33
90th Percentile £77.60 £85.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the South West

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the South West

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the South West

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the South West

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire +7 4 £288 - 1
Gloucestershire +9 2 £375 -
Somerset - 1 - -
Windows Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 South West region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Windows 10
4 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
5 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (28.57%) ITIL
5 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
6 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (14.29%) Two-Factor Authentication
6 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (14.29%) Compliance Management
6 1 (14.29%) VSAN
6 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
6 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (14.29%) NsoIT
6 1 (14.29%) Tech Ops
6 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Server Management
6 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
6 1 (14.29%) PKI

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 1 (14.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Skype
1 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows 10
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Compliance Management
2 1 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (14.29%) NsoIT
2 1 (14.29%) Open Source
2 1 (14.29%) Server Management
2 1 (14.29%) System Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Tech Ops
2 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
2 1 (14.29%) Two-Factor Authentication
2 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
1 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) BEA
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Veeam
2 1 (14.29%) VMware