Windows Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £415 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 516 537
Rank change year-on-year +112 +21 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 144 140 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.28% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.30% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 91 207
10th Percentile £149 £173 £140
25th Percentile £203 £224 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £400 £262
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +52.67% -25.14%
75th Percentile £575 £524 £450
90th Percentile £595 £625 £580
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £275
% change year-on-year +6.25% +45.45% -24.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 12
10th Percentile £16.07 - £14.82
25th Percentile £16.44 £15.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £21.00 £25.75 -
90th Percentile £68.30 £29.65 -
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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +98 62 £450 -4.76% 12
South East +47 38 £575 +64.29% 6
North of England +24 15 £328 +54.12% 2
Midlands +29 13 £193 -41.67% 4
East Midlands +24 12 £193 -61.50% 1
North West +28 10 £200 +14.29% 1
East of England +10 10 £240 -6.80% 3
South West +21 6 £325 -18.75% 6
Yorkshire +16 3 £240 -12.73%
North East +18 2 £423 - 1
West Midlands +13 1 - - 3
Windows Engineer
UK

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

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

1 144 (100.00%) Windows
2 73 (50.69%) Active Directory
3 64 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 63 (43.75%) Windows 10
5 62 (43.06%) Windows Server
6 54 (37.50%) SCCM
7 45 (31.25%) Social Skills
8 42 (29.17%) Security Cleared
9 38 (26.39%) Customer Service
10 36 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
11 30 (20.83%) Windows Server 2012
11 30 (20.83%) ITIL
12 28 (19.44%) DV Cleared
13 27 (18.75%) Azure
14 26 (18.06%) Release Management
14 26 (18.06%) Windows Server 2019
15 25 (17.36%) Windows Server 2016
16 24 (16.67%) Service Management
16 24 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
17 23 (15.97%) WSUS
17 23 (15.97%) QA
18 22 (15.28%) Finance
19 21 (14.58%) Firmware
19 21 (14.58%) Windows NT
19 21 (14.58%) Sysprep
19 21 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
20 20 (13.89%) Windows 7
20 20 (13.89%) VMware
21 19 (13.19%) PowerShell
22 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (18.75%) Azure
3 14 (9.72%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.94%) AWS
5 6 (4.17%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.39%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.39%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.69%) IaaS
7 1 (0.69%) PaaS
7 1 (0.69%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.11%) VPN
2 10 (6.94%) Firewall
3 6 (4.17%) DNS
4 5 (3.47%) DHCP
4 5 (3.47%) SAN
4 5 (3.47%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.78%) DSL
5 4 (2.78%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.39%) AMQP
6 2 (1.39%) DMZ
6 2 (1.39%) Modbus
6 2 (1.39%) MQTT
6 2 (1.39%) NetScaler
6 2 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.39%) Wireless
7 1 (0.69%) NAS
7 1 (0.69%) Network Security
7 1 (0.69%) SSH
7 1 (0.69%) Telnet
7 1 (0.69%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.39%) Tableau
3 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (6.25%) JIRA
2 7 (4.86%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.39%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.39%) Git
3 2 (1.39%) Subversion
3 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 45 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.28%) Finance
3 15 (10.42%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (8.33%) Banking
5 11 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.86%) .NET
2 3 (2.08%) Middleware
2 3 (2.08%) XMPP
3 2 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.39%) JSON
3 2 (1.39%) WCF
3 2 (1.39%) Web Services
3 2 (1.39%) WinForms
3 2 (1.39%) XML
3 2 (1.39%) XSLT
4 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.86%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.17%) Clustering
3 3 (2.08%) BYOD
3 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.08%) iPad
3 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.39%) Blackberry
4 2 (1.39%) IoT
4 2 (1.39%) iPhone
4 2 (1.39%) PKI
5 1 (0.69%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.69%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.69%) NHS
5 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 144 (100.00%) Windows
2 63 (43.75%) Windows 10
3 62 (43.06%) Windows Server
4 30 (20.83%) Windows Server 2012
5 26 (18.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (17.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (14.58%) Windows NT
8 20 (13.89%) Windows 7
9 16 (11.11%) Linux
10 4 (2.78%) Mac OS
10 4 (2.78%) Windows Vista
11 3 (2.08%) Android
11 3 (2.08%) Apple iOS
11 3 (2.08%) Unix
12 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.39%) Customer Service
2 30 (20.83%) ITIL
3 26 (18.06%) Release Management
4 24 (16.67%) Service Management
4 24 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 21 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
6 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (10.42%) Migration
8 13 (9.03%) Customer Requirements
9 11 (7.64%) DevOps
10 10 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (4.86%) High Availability
12 6 (4.17%) Agile
12 6 (4.17%) Decision-Making
12 6 (4.17%) Information Security
12 6 (4.17%) Project Delivery
12 6 (4.17%) Server Building
12 6 (4.17%) Time Management
13 5 (3.47%) Knowledge Transfer
13 5 (3.47%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.19%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.64%) Python
3 10 (6.94%) SQL
4 8 (5.56%) C#
5 4 (2.78%) Ruby
6 3 (2.08%) C++
7 2 (1.39%) Bash
7 2 (1.39%) F#
7 2 (1.39%) Java
7 2 (1.39%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.69%) Perl
8 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.44%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.25%) Degree
5 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.39%) CCNA
6 2 (1.39%) CCNP
6 2 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.39%) MCSA
7 1 (0.69%) ACMT
7 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.97%) QA
2 10 (6.94%) SLA
3 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 73 (50.69%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.58%) Firmware
3 15 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.17%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.47%) vSphere
6 2 (1.39%) Docker
6 2 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (37.50%) SCCM
2 23 (15.97%) WSUS
3 21 (14.58%) Sysprep
4 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.17%) Ansible
6 4 (2.78%) Autotask
6 4 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.08%) CFEngine
7 3 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (2.08%) PowerBroker
7 3 (2.08%) Puppet
8 2 (1.39%) BladeLogic
8 2 (1.39%) Grafana
8 2 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (1.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.69%) Nessus
9 1 (0.69%) Terraform
9 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.89%) VMware
3 12 (8.33%) Citrix
4 8 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.17%) Apple
6 5 (3.47%) Dell
7 4 (2.78%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.78%) Cisco
7 4 (2.78%) HP
7 4 (2.78%) Remedy
8 2 (1.39%) Altiris
8 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.39%) MobileIron
9 1 (0.69%) BEA
9 1 (0.69%) Brocade
9 1 (0.69%) CA
9 1 (0.69%) Dell Compellent
9 1 (0.69%) EMC
9 1 (0.69%) Qualys
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat