Windows Engineer Contracts

Windows Engineer
UK

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the UK is £431 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 540 555
Rank change year-on-year +118 +15 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 176 180 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.30% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 120 232
10th Percentile £139 £179 £140
25th Percentile £205 £249 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% +45.45% -24.50%
75th Percentile £575 £523 £454
90th Percentile £613 £594 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £441 £268 £225
% change year-on-year +64.37% +19.11% -30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 15
10th Percentile £16.25 - £13.73
25th Percentile £16.63 £15.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +31.62%
75th Percentile £20.14 £25.75 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £29.65 £29.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +38.99%

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
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 £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +136 151 £415 +3.75% 30
UK excluding London +91 103 £441 +64.37% 15
London +88 64 £438 -12.50% 16
Work from Home +100 40 £482 +2.45% 12
South East +51 38 £575 +63.12% 4
North of England +33 19 £431 +115.50% 2
Scotland +35 16 £575 +112.96%
North West +23 14 £513 +192.86% 1
Midlands +22 12 £175 -46.97% 4
East Midlands +22 11 £175 -65.00% 1
East of England +18 11 £240 -4.00% 1
South West +21 7 £338 -15.63% 4
Yorkshire +14 3 £240 -12.73%
North East +20 2 £423 - 1
West Midlands +25 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 176 (100.00%) Windows
2 77 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 76 (43.18%) Active Directory
4 68 (38.64%) Windows Server
5 64 (36.36%) Windows 10
6 63 (35.80%) SCCM
7 58 (32.95%) Social Skills
8 47 (26.70%) Security Cleared
9 39 (22.16%) Customer Service
10 37 (21.02%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (19.32%) Azure
11 34 (19.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 32 (18.18%) PowerShell
13 31 (17.61%) ITIL
14 30 (17.05%) Finance
14 30 (17.05%) DV Cleared
15 29 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 28 (15.91%) Windows Server 2016
17 27 (15.34%) Windows Server 2019
18 26 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
18 26 (14.77%) Release Management
19 25 (14.20%) WSUS
19 25 (14.20%) Service Management
20 24 (13.64%) Linux
20 24 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
20 24 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
21 23 (13.07%) DevOps
21 23 (13.07%) QA
21 23 (13.07%) VMware
22 22 (12.50%) Windows 7

Windows 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.84%) IIS
4 2 (1.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.14%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 19 (10.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.02%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (19.32%) Azure
3 21 (11.93%) AWS
4 14 (7.95%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.98%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.27%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.14%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.14%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.57%) IaaS
8 1 (0.57%) PaaS
8 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.57%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.66%) VPN
2 10 (5.68%) DNS
2 10 (5.68%) Firewall
3 9 (5.11%) DHCP
4 7 (3.98%) DSL
4 7 (3.98%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.84%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (2.27%) Ethernet
6 4 (2.27%) SAN
7 3 (1.70%) HTTP
8 2 (1.14%) AMQP
8 2 (1.14%) DMZ
8 2 (1.14%) H.323
8 2 (1.14%) Modbus
8 2 (1.14%) MQTT
8 2 (1.14%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.14%) VSAN
8 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.14%) Wireless
9 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.70%) Power BI
3 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.14%) Tableau
4 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (7.39%) JIRA
2 11 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.70%) Git
4 2 (1.14%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.14%) Subversion
4 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 58 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.05%) Finance
3 26 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (6.82%) Banking
7 8 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
9 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.55%) .NET
2 3 (1.70%) Middleware
2 3 (1.70%) XMPP
3 2 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.14%) JSON
3 2 (1.14%) WCF
3 2 (1.14%) Web Services
3 2 (1.14%) WinForms
3 2 (1.14%) XML
3 2 (1.14%) XSLT
4 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.57%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.57%) Redfish
4 1 (0.57%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.68%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.55%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.98%) Clustering
3 7 (3.98%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.70%) BYOD
5 3 (1.70%) iPad
5 3 (1.70%) PKI
6 2 (1.14%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.14%) IoT
6 2 (1.14%) iPhone
6 2 (1.14%) IVR
7 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.57%) NHS
7 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 176 (100.00%) Windows
2 68 (38.64%) Windows Server
3 64 (36.36%) Windows 10
4 34 (19.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 28 (15.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 27 (15.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (13.64%) Linux
8 22 (12.50%) Windows 7
9 21 (11.93%) Windows NT
10 14 (7.95%) Unix
11 9 (5.11%) Mac OS
12 4 (2.27%) Windows Vista
13 3 (1.70%) Android
13 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
13 3 (1.70%) Mac OS X
13 3 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.16%) Customer Service
2 31 (17.61%) ITIL
3 29 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (14.77%) Release Management
5 25 (14.20%) Service Management
6 24 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
7 23 (13.07%) DevOps
8 21 (11.93%) Deployment Automation
9 18 (10.23%) Customer Requirements
10 16 (9.09%) Migration
11 15 (8.52%) Agile
12 10 (5.68%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (5.68%) Decision-Making
12 10 (5.68%) Project Delivery
12 10 (5.68%) Time Management
13 9 (5.11%) Knowledge Transfer
13 9 (5.11%) Server Building
14 8 (4.55%) CI/CD
14 8 (4.55%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 32 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 21 (11.93%) Python
3 11 (6.25%) SQL
4 7 (3.98%) C#
4 7 (3.98%) Ruby
5 3 (1.70%) C++
5 3 (1.70%) Perl
6 2 (1.14%) Bash
6 2 (1.14%) F#
6 2 (1.14%) Java
6 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.57%) C
7 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (26.70%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.05%) DV Cleared
3 16 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.82%) Degree
5 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.14%) CCNA
6 2 (1.14%) CCNP
6 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.14%) MCSA
7 1 (0.57%) ACMT
7 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.07%) QA
2 13 (7.39%) SLA
3 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 76 (43.18%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.93%) Firmware
3 17 (9.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.98%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.98%) vSphere
5 6 (3.41%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.70%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.14%) Docker
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (35.80%) SCCM
2 25 (14.20%) WSUS
3 21 (11.93%) Sysprep
4 13 (7.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (6.25%) Ansible
6 8 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 8 (4.55%) Puppet
7 7 (3.98%) CFEngine
7 7 (3.98%) PowerBroker
8 4 (2.27%) Autotask
9 3 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.70%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.14%) BladeLogic
10 2 (1.14%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.14%) Grafana
10 2 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (1.14%) SCOM
10 2 (1.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.57%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 77 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.07%) VMware
3 12 (6.82%) Citrix
4 9 (5.11%) Apple
5 8 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.98%) Splunk
7 6 (3.41%) Dell
7 6 (3.41%) HP
8 4 (2.27%) Cisco
8 4 (2.27%) Remedy
9 3 (1.70%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.70%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.14%) Altiris
10 2 (1.14%) Avaya
10 2 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.14%) MobileIron
10 2 (1.14%) Varonis
10 2 (1.14%) Veeam
10 2 (1.14%) Verint