Windows Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Windows Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £391 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 50 59 56
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.21% 0.37% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.41% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £122 £240 -
25th Percentile £139 £282 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £358 £213
Median % change year-on-year +9.37% +68.24% -50.00%
75th Percentile £582 £427 £219
90th Percentile - £465 -
North West median daily rate £200 £175 £190
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -45.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 464 486 499
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 90.17% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 337 278
10th Percentile £272 £263 £181
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% -1.24%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £635 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £20.00 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £30.54 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.15% +32.78% +28.49%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £31.89
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.31
% change year-on-year -23.83% +72.33% +13.46%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in Cheshire

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in Cheshire

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in Cheshire

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in Cheshire

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Knutsford +15 3 £582 +18.78%
Macclesfield - 2 £122 - 1
Warrington - 1 £200 -
Windows Engineer
North West

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

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 job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) DSL
4 3 (50.00%) Unix
4 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (50.00%) Ruby
4 3 (50.00%) JIRA
4 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (50.00%) Ansible
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Puppet
4 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) CFEngine
4 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
4 3 (50.00%) PowerBroker
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (50.00%) Server Building
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
5 2 (33.33%) Customer Service

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

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DSL
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Unix
4 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Server Building
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) CFEngine
1 3 (50.00%) PowerBroker
1 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (33.33%) Apple
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow