Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £339, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 318 414
Rank change year-on-year -215 +96 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 64 164 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.66% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.72% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 116 109
10th Percentile £175 £158 £160
25th Percentile £228 £197 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £339 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £488 £454 £575
90th Percentile £593 £575 £600
UK median daily rate £375 £325 £405
% change year-on-year +15.38% -19.75% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 14
10th Percentile £23.95 - £16.25
25th Percentile £24.63 £15.12 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £17.98 £19.55
Median % change year-on-year +43.21% -8.01% -2.28%
75th Percentile £25.76 £18.87 £23.13
90th Percentile £25.77 £22.34 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £20.44 £18.27
% change year-on-year +26.01% +11.85% -8.65%

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 39,651 22,840 34,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.32% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,409 15,016 22,678
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,798 1,018 2,675
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.83
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -16.67%

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 17 June 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
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 17 June 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 -121 15 £375 +7.14% 8
South West -26 13 £400 +49.53% 4
Midlands -70 13 £335 +95.91% 3
North of England -85 12 £300 -22.08% 6
South East -71 10 £350 -6.67% 7
East Midlands -20 8 £298 +75.52% 2
North West -44 6 £300 -22.08% 1
Yorkshire -69 4 £500 +11.11% 4
West Midlands -69 3 £463 +143.42% 1
North East -31 2 £270 +50.00% 1
East of England -31 1 £338 +117.74% 3
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 64 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (34.38%) Active Directory
3 20 (31.25%) Windows 10
4 19 (29.69%) Azure
4 19 (29.69%) Windows Server
5 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
5 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
6 17 (26.56%) PowerShell
7 16 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (20.31%) Entra ID
9 11 (17.19%) Migration
9 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
10 10 (15.63%) Customer Service
10 10 (15.63%) VMware
11 9 (14.06%) DNS
11 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (14.06%) SCCM
11 9 (14.06%) VMware Infrastructure
12 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (10.94%) DV Cleared
13 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
14 6 (9.38%) TCP/IP
14 6 (9.38%) Validation
15 5 (7.81%) .NET
15 5 (7.81%) DHCP
15 5 (7.81%) ITIL
15 5 (7.81%) Linux
15 5 (7.81%) Python
16 4 (6.25%) Ansible

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 (6.25%) IIS
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) Azure
2 16 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (20.31%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.25%) AWS
5 3 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.13%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.06%) DNS
2 6 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.81%) DHCP
4 4 (6.25%) FTP
4 4 (6.25%) SSL
5 2 (3.13%) Firewall
5 2 (3.13%) HTTP
5 2 (3.13%) SMTP
5 2 (3.13%) SNMP
5 2 (3.13%) SSH
5 2 (3.13%) Telnet
6 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.56%) Network Security
6 1 (1.56%) VLAN
6 1 (1.56%) VPN
6 1 (1.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Git
1 2 (3.13%) Selenium
2 1 (1.56%) Appium
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
2 1 (1.56%) GoCD
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) JUnit
2 1 (1.56%) Postman
2 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.56%) TestNG
General
1 21 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.13%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) .NET
2 3 (4.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.56%) WinForms
3 1 (1.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.13%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Code
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.13%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Life Science
4 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 64 (100.00%) Windows
2 20 (31.25%) Windows 10
3 19 (29.69%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.81%) Linux
5 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.13%) VMS
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.56%) Android
6 1 (1.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.19%) Migration
2 10 (15.63%) Customer Service
3 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (9.38%) Validation
6 5 (7.81%) ITIL
7 4 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 4 (6.25%) High Availability
7 4 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (6.25%) Server Building
8 3 (4.69%) Break/Fix
8 3 (4.69%) Configuration Management
8 3 (4.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (4.69%) Incident Management
8 3 (4.69%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (4.69%) Runbook
8 3 (4.69%) Service-Level Objective
8 3 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (4.69%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.56%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.81%) Python
3 4 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) Bash
4 2 (3.13%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.56%) ACSP
5 1 (1.56%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) GxP
2 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 9 (14.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (4.69%) vSphere
5 2 (3.13%) BitLocker
5 2 (3.13%) Firmware
5 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) SCCM
2 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (3.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.56%) FreeIPA
5 1 (1.56%) Packer
5 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.56%) QRadar
5 1 (1.56%) SCOM
5 1 (1.56%) Terraform
5 1 (1.56%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) VMware
3 4 (6.25%) Citrix
4 2 (3.13%) HP
4 2 (3.13%) McAfee
4 2 (3.13%) Qualys
5 1 (1.56%) Apple
5 1 (1.56%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) Tenable
5 1 (1.56%) Varonis