Windows Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Windows Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £482 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 404 545
Rank change year-on-year +92 +141 -178
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 36 72 77
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.30% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 53 56
10th Percentile £318 £241 £269
25th Percentile £363 £294 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +5.88% -5.97%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £525
90th Percentile £700 £590 £581
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £275
% change year-on-year +6.25% +45.45% -24.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +31.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Windows Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Engineer.

Windows Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Windows Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Engineer.

Windows Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
4 10 (27.78%) Finance
4 10 (27.78%) Active Directory
5 9 (25.00%) Azure
5 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 9 (25.00%) SCCM
5 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 8 (22.22%) DevOps
6 8 (22.22%) Linux
7 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
7 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
7 7 (19.44%) AWS
8 6 (16.67%) VPN
8 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
8 6 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
9 5 (13.89%) Ansible
9 5 (13.89%) Windows 10
9 5 (13.89%) Migration
9 5 (13.89%) IIS
9 5 (13.89%) C#
9 5 (13.89%) .NET
9 5 (13.89%) Python
10 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
10 4 (11.11%) Windows 7

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (13.89%) IIS
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) VPN
2 4 (11.11%) DNS
3 3 (8.33%) DHCP
3 3 (8.33%) DSL
4 2 (5.56%) H.323
4 2 (5.56%) HTTP
4 2 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.78%) Network Security
5 1 (2.78%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Power BI
2 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Subversion
4 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 10 (27.78%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.56%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.56%) IVR
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.78%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (22.22%) Linux
4 5 (13.89%) Windows 10
5 4 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (8.33%) Unix
6 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (22.22%) DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (13.89%) Migration
5 4 (11.11%) Analytics
5 4 (11.11%) Capacity Management
5 4 (11.11%) Change Management
5 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 4 (11.11%) Information Security
5 4 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (11.11%) Time Management
6 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.33%) Fintech
6 3 (8.33%) High Availability
6 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
6 3 (8.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.89%) C#
2 5 (13.89%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) C++
4 3 (8.33%) Ruby
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) F#
5 2 (5.56%) Java
6 1 (2.78%) Perl
6 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) CCNA
3 2 (5.56%) CCNP
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.56%) MCSA
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) SLA
2 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 4 (11.11%) vSphere
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) SCCM
2 5 (13.89%) Ansible
3 3 (8.33%) CFEngine
3 3 (8.33%) PowerBroker
3 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 3 (8.33%) Puppet
4 2 (5.56%) BladeLogic
4 2 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (5.56%) SCOM
4 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.78%) Nessus
5 1 (2.78%) SCOrch
5 1 (2.78%) SCVMM
5 1 (2.78%) Terraform
5 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) Altiris
3 2 (5.56%) Avaya
3 2 (5.56%) Citrix
3 2 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (5.56%) HP
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.56%) Varonis
3 2 (5.56%) Verint
3 2 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) MobileIron
4 1 (2.78%) Qualys
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow