Windows Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Windows Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Berkshire 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 95 113 127
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 23 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.17% 0.11% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.12% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 2 8
10th Percentile - £360 -
25th Percentile - £375 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £400 £145
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% +175.86% -
75th Percentile - £425 £182
90th Percentile - £440 £289
South East median daily rate £575 £353 £238
% change year-on-year +63.12% +48.42% -35.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,858 1,723 2,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 94.88% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 1,107 1,469
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £376 £415 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 56 41
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £22.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.69 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.19 £79.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in Berkshire

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in Berkshire

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in Berkshire

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in Berkshire

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region 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
Reading - 23 £575 - 1
Windows Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 across the Berkshire region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (95.65%) Social Skills
2 22 (95.65%) Customer Service
3 21 (91.30%) ITIL
3 21 (91.30%) WSUS
3 21 (91.30%) QA
3 21 (91.30%) SCCM
3 21 (91.30%) DV Cleared
3 21 (91.30%) Security Cleared
3 21 (91.30%) Windows NT
3 21 (91.30%) Microsoft
3 21 (91.30%) Active Directory
3 21 (91.30%) Firmware
3 21 (91.30%) Service Management
3 21 (91.30%) Release Management
3 21 (91.30%) User Acceptance Testing
3 21 (91.30%) Sysprep
3 21 (91.30%) Windows Server 2012
3 21 (91.30%) Windows 10
3 21 (91.30%) Windows Server
3 21 (91.30%) Deployment Automation
3 21 (91.30%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (91.30%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (4.35%) Validation
4 1 (4.35%) Software Testing

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 22 (95.65%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (91.30%) Windows 10
2 21 (91.30%) Windows NT
2 21 (91.30%) Windows Server
2 21 (91.30%) Windows Server 2012
2 21 (91.30%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (91.30%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Customer Service
2 21 (91.30%) Deployment Automation
2 21 (91.30%) ITIL
2 21 (91.30%) Release Management
2 21 (91.30%) Service Management
2 21 (91.30%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (4.35%) Software Testing
3 1 (4.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Bash
1 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (91.30%) DV Cleared
1 21 (91.30%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) ACMT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (91.30%) QA
System Software
1 21 (91.30%) Active Directory
1 21 (91.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (91.30%) SCCM
1 21 (91.30%) Sysprep
1 21 (91.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Apple