Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 365 425
Rank change year-on-year -184 +60 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 98 156 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.55% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.61% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 104 82
10th Percentile £200 £154 £200
25th Percentile £225 £179 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £306 £378
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -18.87% -22.96%
75th Percentile £488 £441 £520
90th Percentile £607 £543 £598
UK median daily rate £388 £275 £372
% change year-on-year +40.91% -25.98% -20.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 5
10th Percentile £25.75 £18.32 £21.37
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.57 £21.80
Median hourly rate £70.50 £25.15 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.32% +9.35% -40.65%
75th Percentile £72.63 - £24.18
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.50 £25.15 £23.00
% change year-on-year +180.32% +9.35% -40.65%

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 43,070 25,660 29,897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 91.15% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,333 16,528 18,273
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,798 1,445 1,249
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £67.85 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £41.27
% change year-on-year +65.23% -39.05% -8.30%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -101 32 £325 -18.75% 32
Midlands -46 23 £400 +100.00% 16
East of England -22 19 - - 14
East Midlands -7 15 £270 +57.89% 9
South East -86 10 £579 +74.79% 11
West Midlands -46 8 £475 +137.50% 7
North of England -94 8 £250 +25.00% 3
North East -30 7 £250 +38.89%
South West -50 5 £323 +57.32% 5
Yorkshire -59 1 - - 2
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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 98 (100.00%) Windows
2 63 (64.29%) Active Directory
3 52 (53.06%) Security Cleared
4 45 (45.92%) Windows Server
5 41 (41.84%) Microsoft
6 31 (31.63%) Azure
7 30 (30.61%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (27.55%) SC Cleared
8 27 (27.55%) Windows 10
9 26 (26.53%) Configuration Management
9 26 (26.53%) Linux
10 25 (25.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (25.51%) Entra ID
11 23 (23.47%) SCCM
12 22 (22.45%) Root Cause Analysis
13 21 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 20 (20.41%) DV Cleared
15 19 (19.39%) DNS
15 19 (19.39%) Incident Management
15 19 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (17.35%) Incident Response
16 17 (17.35%) PowerShell
16 17 (17.35%) VMware
17 16 (16.33%) Migration
17 16 (16.33%) Network Management
18 15 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 15 (15.31%) SLA
19 14 (14.29%) Storage Management
20 13 (13.27%) Customer Service
21 11 (11.22%) Hyper-V

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 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.02%) Apache
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) IIS
2 1 (1.02%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.63%) Azure
2 30 (30.61%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (25.51%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.12%) GitHub
5 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.04%) AWS
9 1 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.02%) IaaS
9 1 (1.02%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.02%) PaaS
9 1 (1.02%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.39%) DNS
2 9 (9.18%) DHCP
3 7 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.08%) Firewall
4 4 (4.08%) Internet
4 4 (4.08%) VPN
5 3 (3.06%) Network Security
5 3 (3.06%) SSL
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.02%) FTP
6 1 (1.02%) VLAN
6 1 (1.02%) WebEx
6 1 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.02%) Git
1 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.02%) JIRA
1 1 (1.02%) Postman
1 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (31.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (11.22%) Finance
3 5 (5.10%) Law
4 4 (4.08%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) Terraform
2 3 (3.06%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Security Posture
2 7 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.10%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.08%) CMDB
4 4 (4.08%) Hedge funds
4 4 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.06%) ARM Cortex
5 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.04%) PKI
6 2 (2.04%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.02%) Clustering
7 1 (1.02%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 98 (100.00%) Windows
2 45 (45.92%) Windows Server
3 27 (27.55%) Windows 10
4 26 (26.53%) Linux
5 4 (4.08%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.06%) Android
6 3 (3.06%) macOS
7 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.53%) Configuration Management
2 25 (25.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (22.45%) Root Cause Analysis
4 19 (19.39%) Incident Management
4 19 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (17.35%) Incident Response
6 16 (16.33%) Migration
6 16 (16.33%) Network Management
7 15 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (14.29%) Storage Management
9 13 (13.27%) Customer Service
10 9 (9.18%) DevOps
11 8 (8.16%) ITIL
11 8 (8.16%) Security Hardening
12 6 (6.12%) Break/Fix
12 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (6.12%) Logistics
12 6 (6.12%) Service Management
13 5 (5.10%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (5.10%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.35%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.14%) Bash
3 5 (5.10%) Python
4 3 (3.06%) Bicep
5 2 (2.04%) SQL
6 1 (1.02%) Java
6 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 52 (53.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.55%) SC Cleared
3 20 (20.41%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.08%) Degree
5 2 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.02%) ACSP
6 1 (1.02%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.31%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.22%) Hyper-V
2 11 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.16%) vSphere
4 2 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.02%) Docker
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (23.47%) SCCM
2 21 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (9.18%) Ansible
4 2 (2.04%) WSUS
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.02%) Packer
5 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.35%) VMware
3 9 (9.18%) ServiceNow
4 7 (7.14%) Altiris
5 4 (4.08%) Apple
6 3 (3.06%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (3.06%) Samsung
7 2 (2.04%) NetApp
8 1 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.02%) Cisco
8 1 (1.02%) Citrix
8 1 (1.02%) Commvault
8 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.02%) Tanium
8 1 (1.02%) Veeam