Windows Build Engineer Contracts

Windows/Wintel Build Engineer
UK

The median Windows/Wintel Build Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575 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 570 711 851
Rank change year-on-year +141 +140 -177
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Build Engineer 24 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.008% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.009% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 4 4
10th Percentile £558 £214 £213
25th Percentile - £217 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £244 £273
Median % change year-on-year +135.90% -10.55% -27.33%
75th Percentile - £317 £346
90th Percentile - £427 £401
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £238 £319
% change year-on-year +142.11% -25.49% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Windows Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Build Engineer in the UK

Windows Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Build Engineer in the UK

Windows Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Build Engineer in the UK

Windows Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Build Engineer in the UK

Windows Build Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 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
England +136 24 £575 +135.90%
UK excluding London +85 24 £575 +142.11%
South East +38 21 £575 +135.90%
North of England +34 3 £431 +91.56%
North East - 2 £423 -
North West +23 1 £550 +144.44%

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

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

1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (95.83%) Windows Server
2 23 (95.83%) Microsoft
3 22 (91.67%) Social Skills
4 21 (87.50%) Windows 10
4 21 (87.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (87.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (87.50%) Customer Service
4 21 (87.50%) Active Directory
4 21 (87.50%) Firmware
4 21 (87.50%) Service Management
4 21 (87.50%) ITIL
4 21 (87.50%) WSUS
4 21 (87.50%) QA
4 21 (87.50%) Release Management
4 21 (87.50%) DV Cleared
4 21 (87.50%) Security Cleared
4 21 (87.50%) Deployment Automation
4 21 (87.50%) Windows NT
4 21 (87.50%) Sysprep
4 21 (87.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 21 (87.50%) SCCM
4 21 (87.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (12.50%) Linux
5 3 (12.50%) Server Building
6 2 (8.33%) Data Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Grafana
6 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript

Windows Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) AMQP
1 2 (8.33%) DMZ
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) Modbus
1 2 (8.33%) MQTT
2 1 (4.17%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 22 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (8.33%) JSON
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
1 2 (8.33%) XML
1 2 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) IoT
1 2 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 23 (95.83%) Windows Server
3 21 (87.50%) Windows 10
3 21 (87.50%) Windows NT
3 21 (87.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 21 (87.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (87.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (12.50%) Linux
5 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Customer Service
1 21 (87.50%) Deployment Automation
1 21 (87.50%) ITIL
1 21 (87.50%) Release Management
1 21 (87.50%) Service Management
1 21 (87.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (12.50%) Server Building
3 2 (8.33%) CRUD
3 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (8.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (8.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (8.33%) Security Management
3 2 (8.33%) Use Case
3 2 (8.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.17%) DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.33%) Python
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (87.50%) DV Cleared
1 21 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (87.50%) QA
System Software
1 21 (87.50%) Active Directory
1 21 (87.50%) Firmware
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (87.50%) SCCM
1 21 (87.50%) Sysprep
1 21 (87.50%) WSUS
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) CFEngine
3 1 (4.17%) PowerBroker
3 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Atlassian