Windows Build Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows/Wintel Build Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Windows/Wintel Build Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 448 505
Rank change year-on-year +81 +57 -90
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Build Engineer 21 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.021% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.023% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 2
10th Percentile - £214 £227
25th Percentile - £216 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £238 £319
Median % change year-on-year +142.11% -25.49% -15.00%
75th Percentile - £256 £383
90th Percentile - £256 £416
UK median daily rate £575 £244 £273
% change year-on-year +135.90% -10.55% -27.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £20.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Windows Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Build Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Build Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Build Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Build Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Build Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +36 20 £575 +135.90% 1
North of England +23 1 £431 +91.56%
North East - 1 £431 -
Windows Build Engineer
UK

Windows Build Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Windows Build 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 UK excluding London region featuring Windows Build Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Windows
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 21 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 20 (95.24%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (95.24%) Windows Server 2016
2 20 (95.24%) Windows Server 2019
2 20 (95.24%) Social Skills
2 20 (95.24%) Sysprep
2 20 (95.24%) Windows Server 2012
2 20 (95.24%) Windows 10
2 20 (95.24%) Customer Service
2 20 (95.24%) WSUS
2 20 (95.24%) QA
2 20 (95.24%) DV Cleared
2 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
2 20 (95.24%) Active Directory
2 20 (95.24%) Firmware
2 20 (95.24%) Release Management
2 20 (95.24%) User Acceptance Testing
2 20 (95.24%) SCCM
2 20 (95.24%) ITIL
2 20 (95.24%) Windows NT
2 20 (95.24%) Service Management
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) Security Management
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) Linux

Windows Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) AMQP
1 1 (4.76%) DMZ
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Modbus
1 1 (4.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
General
1 20 (95.24%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) Web Services
1 1 (4.76%) XML
1 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) IoT
1 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
1 21 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 20 (95.24%) Windows 10
2 20 (95.24%) Windows NT
2 20 (95.24%) Windows Server 2012
2 20 (95.24%) Windows Server 2016
2 20 (95.24%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Customer Service
1 20 (95.24%) Deployment Automation
1 20 (95.24%) ITIL
1 20 (95.24%) Release Management
1 20 (95.24%) Service Management
1 20 (95.24%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (4.76%) CRUD
2 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis
2 1 (4.76%) Data Engineering
2 1 (4.76%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (4.76%) Performance Management
2 1 (4.76%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (4.76%) Security Management
2 1 (4.76%) Server Building
2 1 (4.76%) Use Case
2 1 (4.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.76%) Python
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) DV Cleared
1 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (95.24%) QA
System Software
1 20 (95.24%) Active Directory
1 20 (95.24%) Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (95.24%) SCCM
1 20 (95.24%) Sysprep
1 20 (95.24%) WSUS
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft