Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £336, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 353 410
Rank change year-on-year -190 +57 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 83 154 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.55% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.60% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 113 85
10th Percentile £194 £153 £156
25th Percentile £225 £171 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £336 £315 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -10.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £488 £400 £526
90th Percentile £563 £525 £592
UK median daily rate £375 £300 £400
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 11
10th Percentile £24.40 £15.12 £16.25
25th Percentile - £18.19 £16.63
Median hourly rate £25.75 £22.01 £21.09
Median % change year-on-year +16.99% +4.36% -45.57%
75th Percentile £25.77 £25.15 £22.75
90th Percentile £48.17 - £24.18
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £22.01 £19.68
% change year-on-year +16.99% +11.84% -49.21%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 42,419 25,455 30,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.59% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,676 16,439 20,225
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,186 1,350 1,784
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.19
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.48% -43.94% +8.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.84% -41.51% +2.38%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Windows Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Windows Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in England

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in England

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

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 16 August 2026. 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 -109 30 £325 - 2
Midlands -49 18 £335 +95.91% 1
North of England -91 14 £250 +25.00% 3
South East -83 12 £525 +40.00% 3
East Midlands -16 11 £235 +37.43% 1
South West -57 9 £400 +81.82% 1
North East -35 6 £250 +38.89%
West Midlands -57 5 £475 +182.74%
North West -47 4 £315 +65.79% 1
Yorkshire -58 4 £500 +100.00% 2
East of England -27 1 £338 +117.74% 5
Windows Engineer
UK

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 August 2026, Windows Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) Windows
2 40 (48.19%) Active Directory
3 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
4 31 (37.35%) Azure
5 28 (33.73%) Windows Server
6 26 (31.33%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (31.33%) Security Cleared
7 24 (28.92%) PowerShell
7 24 (28.92%) Windows 10
8 22 (26.51%) Entra ID
9 19 (22.89%) DNS
9 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
10 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (20.48%) Linux
11 17 (20.48%) SCCM
12 15 (18.07%) Customer Service
12 15 (18.07%) Microsoft Intune
12 15 (18.07%) Migration
12 15 (18.07%) VMware
13 14 (16.87%) Hyper-V
14 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 9 (10.84%) Security Hardening
15 9 (10.84%) Terraform
15 9 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
16 8 (9.64%) DHCP
16 8 (9.64%) ITIL
17 7 (8.43%) Ansible
17 7 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 7 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
17 7 (8.43%) ServiceNow

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.82%) IIS
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.35%) Azure
2 26 (31.33%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (26.51%) Entra ID
4 6 (7.23%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (6.02%) GitHub
6 4 (4.82%) AWS
6 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.20%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.20%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (22.89%) DNS
2 8 (9.64%) DHCP
3 7 (8.43%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.82%) Firewall
4 4 (4.82%) SSL
5 3 (3.61%) Internet
6 2 (2.41%) FTP
6 2 (2.41%) VPN
7 1 (1.20%) Network Security
7 1 (1.20%) VLAN
7 1 (1.20%) WebEx
7 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Git
1 2 (2.41%) Selenium
2 1 (1.20%) Appium
2 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.20%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.20%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) JUnit
2 1 (1.20%) Postman
2 1 (1.20%) TestNG
General
1 29 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Finance
4 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Banking
5 2 (2.41%) Law
5 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) .NET
2 3 (3.61%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.61%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.20%) WinForms
3 1 (1.20%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.82%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.61%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.41%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.41%) PKI
5 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.41%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.20%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.20%) Clustering
6 1 (1.20%) CMDB
6 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 83 (100.00%) Windows
2 28 (33.73%) Windows Server
3 24 (28.92%) Windows 10
4 17 (20.48%) Linux
5 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.61%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.41%) VMS
7 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.07%) Customer Service
2 15 (18.07%) Migration
3 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (10.84%) Security Hardening
5 8 (9.64%) ITIL
6 7 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (7.23%) Configuration Management
7 6 (7.23%) DevOps
7 6 (7.23%) High Availability
7 6 (7.23%) Incident Management
7 6 (7.23%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 5 (6.02%) Break/Fix
8 5 (6.02%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (6.02%) Server Building
8 5 (6.02%) Validation
9 4 (4.82%) Antivirus Management
9 4 (4.82%) Patch Management
9 4 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.92%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.02%) Bash
2 5 (6.02%) Python
3 4 (4.82%) C#
4 3 (3.61%) Bicep
5 2 (2.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 26 (31.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.82%) Degree
6 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.20%) ACSP
7 1 (1.20%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) QA
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
2 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (48.19%) Active Directory
2 14 (16.87%) Hyper-V
3 9 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (7.23%) vSphere
5 3 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.41%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.41%) Firmware
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (20.48%) SCCM
2 15 (18.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (10.84%) Terraform
4 7 (8.43%) Ansible
5 3 (3.61%) WSUS
6 2 (2.41%) Backup Exec
6 2 (2.41%) Packer
6 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.07%) VMware
3 7 (8.43%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.82%) Altiris
4 4 (4.82%) Apple
5 3 (3.61%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.61%) Samsung
6 2 (2.41%) Citrix
6 2 (2.41%) HP
6 2 (2.41%) McAfee
6 2 (2.41%) Qualys
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco
7 1 (1.20%) Google
7 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle
7 1 (1.20%) Tanium
7 1 (1.20%) Tenable
7 1 (1.20%) Varonis