Windows Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 455 495
Rank change year-on-year +80 +40 -82
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 18 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.017% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.018% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 10
10th Percentile £319 - £232
25th Percentile £441 £513 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £440
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +19.32% +34.35%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £450
90th Percentile £723 - £463
UK median daily rate £475 £518 £425
% change year-on-year -8.21% +21.76% +24.09%

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 19,264 22,670 29,611
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,896 20,739
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £595 £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 2,236 1,165 1,484
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.45 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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

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

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

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

Windows Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Scotland - 9 £575 -
North of England +29 3 £475 - 1
Midlands - 3 £338 -
South East +19 2 £463 -11.90%
North West - 2 £318 -
East Midlands - 2 £338 -
Yorkshire +21 1 £475 -
South West - 1 £600 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 UK excluding London region featuring Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (94.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (61.11%) Agile
4 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 8 (44.44%) Python
5 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
5 8 (44.44%) Azure
5 8 (44.44%) DevOps
6 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
6 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
7 6 (33.33%) SCCM
7 6 (33.33%) Unix
7 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (33.33%) Splunk
7 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
7 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (27.78%) Disk Encryption
8 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (27.78%) Refactoring
8 5 (27.78%) Mac OS
8 5 (27.78%) Finance
9 4 (22.22%) VMware
10 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
10 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
10 3 (16.67%) AWS
10 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
10 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
10 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills

Windows Infrastructure 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DHCP
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) FTP
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) NAS
2 1 (5.56%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) Skype
2 1 (5.56%) SMTP
2 1 (5.56%) SNMP
2 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (5.56%) SSH
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) Telnet
2 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
2 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.56%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Unix
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Mac OS
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.56%) Linux
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (61.11%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (27.78%) Disk Encryption
5 5 (27.78%) Refactoring
5 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 2 (11.11%) Change Management
7 2 (11.11%) ITIL
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) Scrum
8 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (5.56%) Information Security
8 1 (5.56%) Open Source
8 1 (5.56%) Password Management
8 1 (5.56%) Service Management
8 1 (5.56%) System Testing
8 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) PowerShell
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Splunk
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) Dell
4 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.56%) HP
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Veeam