Windows Engineer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Windows Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Engineer
Rank 500 561 540
Rank change year-on-year
+61 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 29 23 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.063% 0.039% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.043% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 20
Average daily rate £383 £365 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.79% -8.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £290 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £200 £370 £350
% change year-on-year
-45.94% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
Average hourly rate £18.46 - £23.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.46 - £23.36
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All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Windows Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Windows Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Windows Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows Engineer within the UK.

Windows Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Windows Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows Engineer within the UK.

Windows Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Windows Engineer
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +52 28 £383 +4.65%
London +41 16 £413 +15.38%
City of London +24 13 £413 +19.56%
South East +14 4 £125 -68.75%
Surrey - 3 - -
Staines - 3 - -
Birmingham +13 2 - -
West Midlands +8 2 - -
Midlands +3 2 £225 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
West Yorkshire - 2 - -
Leeds - 2 - -
South West +28 1 - -
Hampshire -9 1 £125 -77.27%
North West - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 £125 -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Chester - 1 - -
Cheltenham - 1 - -

Windows Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Windows Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Windows Engineer in their job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Windows
2 25 (60.98%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (53.66%) VMware
4 21 (51.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 20 (48.78%) Active Directory
6 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
7 11 (26.83%) VMware Infrastructure
7 11 (26.83%) Banking
8 10 (24.39%) IIS
9 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
9 9 (21.95%) HP
9 9 (21.95%) SCCM
10 8 (19.51%) Citrix
10 8 (19.51%) SAN
11 7 (17.07%) Finance
11 7 (17.07%) MS Exchange
11 7 (17.07%) Investment Banking
11 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
12 6 (14.63%) vSphere
12 6 (14.63%) MS Excel
13 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
13 5 (12.20%) Windows 2000
13 5 (12.20%) DNS
13 5 (12.20%) Cisco
13 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
13 5 (12.20%) Clustering
13 5 (12.20%) SCOM
14 4 (9.756%) Altiris
14 4 (9.756%) Capacity Management
14 4 (9.756%) Windows Server 2012

Windows Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Windows Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Windows Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (9.756%) Middleware
2 1 (2.439%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 10 (24.39%) IIS
2 7 (17.07%) MS Exchange
3 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
4 3 (7.317%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (4.878%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (2.439%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (2.439%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.439%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (2.439%) WorkSite
6 1 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (2.439%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (14.63%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.439%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) SAN
2 5 (12.20%) DNS
3 3 (7.317%) DHCP
3 3 (7.317%) NAS
4 1 (2.439%) L2TP
4 1 (2.439%) PPTP
4 1 (2.439%) VPN
4 1 (2.439%) SMS
4 1 (2.439%) VoIP
4 1 (2.439%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.439%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.439%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 11 (26.83%) Banking
2 7 (17.07%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Investment Banking
3 4 (9.756%) Front Office
4 3 (7.317%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.439%) Back Office
5 1 (2.439%) Law
5 1 (2.439%) Legal
5 1 (2.439%) Retail
5 1 (2.439%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Clustering
2 2 (4.878%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.439%) CLARiiON
3 1 (2.439%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.439%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.439%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.439%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) Windows
2 25 (60.98%) Windows Server 2008
3 21 (51.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (12.20%) Windows 2000
5 4 (9.756%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (9.756%) Linux
6 3 (7.317%) Windows XP
6 3 (7.317%) Windows 7
6 3 (7.317%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.439%) UNIX
7 1 (2.439%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (9.756%) Capacity Management
2 3 (7.317%) ITIL
3 2 (4.878%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (2.439%) Migration
4 1 (2.439%) Configuration Management
4 1 (2.439%) Project Management
4 1 (2.439%) Service Management
4 1 (2.439%) CRM
4 1 (2.439%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (2.439%) Change Control
4 1 (2.439%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (2.439%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.439%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.878%) SQL
2 2 (4.878%) VBScript
3 1 (2.439%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.756%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.756%) MCSE
3 3 (7.317%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.878%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.439%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) QA
System Software
1 20 (48.78%) Active Directory
2 11 (26.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (14.63%) vSphere
4 2 (4.878%) ISA Server
4 2 (4.878%) XenApp
4 2 (4.878%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.439%) VMware ESX
5 1 (2.439%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.439%) Xen
5 1 (2.439%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 1 (2.439%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (2.439%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.439%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) SCCM
2 5 (12.20%) SCOM
3 2 (4.878%) WSUS
3 2 (4.878%) NetBackup
3 2 (4.878%) BladeLogic
3 2 (4.878%) HP SIM
3 2 (4.878%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (4.878%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.439%) Legato
4 1 (2.439%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (2.439%) RepliStor
4 1 (2.439%) MAILsweeper
4 1 (2.439%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 1 (2.439%) WMI
Vendors
1 22 (53.66%) VMware
2 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (21.95%) HP
4 8 (19.51%) Citrix
5 5 (12.20%) Cisco
6 4 (9.756%) Altiris
6 4 (9.756%) Oracle
7 3 (7.317%) NetIQ
7 3 (7.317%) Symantec
8 2 (4.878%) Dell
8 2 (4.878%) EMC
8 2 (4.878%) McAfee
8 2 (4.878%) NetApp
8 2 (4.878%) Veritas
9 1 (2.439%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.439%) Sophos
9 1 (2.439%) Clearswift
9 1 (2.439%) Intel
9 1 (2.439%) Compaq
9 1 (2.439%) IBM
Server / Windows Engineer- SCCM / SCOM / Config Manager
Staines, Middlesex
Very strong SCCM and SCOM skills are required for the roles, the Server Engineer should have excellent experience throughout their previous roles. Essential experience for the Server Engineer...
ComputAppoint
Rate: market rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
Windows Engineer
Southampton, South East
This role for a Windows Desktop support Engineer is to join a small but busy team providing 1st / 2nd and some 3rd level support at a satellite office...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £120 - £130 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Senior Windows Engineer
City, London
Windows Engineer - Investment Bank, Windows, Virtualisation, Hardware. My Client a Global Investment Bank based in the City are currently recruiting for a Windows Engineer to join their Windows...
Cititec
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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