Windows Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £319, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 392 510
Rank change year-on-year +35 +118 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 128 150 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.40% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 124 94
10th Percentile £152 £146 £173
25th Percentile £189 £204 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £319 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.94% +6.25% +53.26%
75th Percentile £468 £575 £529
90th Percentile £575 £598 £634
UK median daily rate £315 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -30.00% +12.50% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 8
10th Percentile - £16.07 -
25th Percentile - £16.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £17.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% +2.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile - £21.00 £25.75
90th Percentile - £68.30 £29.65
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £18.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 May 2025. 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 +34 59 £375 -16.67% 20
Midlands +29 20 £180 -6.49% 5
North of England +20 20 £385 -10.67% 1
West Midlands +29 16 £193 - 2
South East +24 16 £331 -42.39% 9
North West +13 10 £385 -24.88% 1
South West +48 9 £315 -6.67% 1
Yorkshire +14 9 £360 +50.00%
East of England +25 5 £155 -35.42% 1
East Midlands +2 4 £168 -12.73% 3
North East -1 1 £180 -57.45%
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 128 (100.00%) Windows
2 53 (41.41%) Social Skills
3 49 (38.28%) Windows 10
4 42 (32.81%) Microsoft
5 40 (31.25%) Active Directory
6 34 (26.56%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (25.78%) Windows Server
7 33 (25.78%) PowerShell
8 31 (24.22%) SCCM
9 26 (20.31%) Migration
9 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
10 25 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (18.75%) SC Cleared
12 23 (17.97%) Finance
12 23 (17.97%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (17.97%) Azure
13 18 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (13.28%) VMware
14 17 (13.28%) Banking
15 15 (11.72%) Linux
16 13 (10.16%) Dell
17 12 (9.38%) DHCP
17 12 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
17 12 (9.38%) Time Management
18 11 (8.59%) DevOps
18 11 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
18 11 (8.59%) QA
19 9 (7.03%) VMware Infrastructure
19 9 (7.03%) Python
19 9 (7.03%) ITIL

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 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) IIS
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.56%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (17.97%) Azure
3 7 (5.47%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.69%) AWS
5 5 (3.91%) GitHub
6 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (3.13%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.34%) SaaS
8 2 (1.56%) GCP
9 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.78%) IaaS
9 1 (0.78%) PaaS
9 1 (0.78%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.38%) DHCP
2 9 (7.03%) DNS
3 8 (6.25%) VPN
4 7 (5.47%) NAS
4 7 (5.47%) SAN
5 6 (4.69%) Firewall
6 4 (3.13%) Kerberos
6 4 (3.13%) LAN
7 3 (2.34%) DMZ
7 3 (2.34%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (2.34%) SMTP
7 3 (2.34%) Wireless
8 2 (1.56%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.56%) VLAN
9 1 (0.78%) SSL
9 1 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.78%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (3.91%) GitLab
2 4 (3.13%) Git
3 3 (2.34%) JIRA
4 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.97%) Finance
3 17 (13.28%) Banking
4 11 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.56%) Electronics
7 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.56%) International Banking
7 2 (1.56%) Marketing
7 2 (1.56%) Retail
7 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.78%) Law
8 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.13%) REST
2 3 (2.34%) LDAP
3 1 (0.78%) Classic ASP
3 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.47%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
2 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (1.56%) NHS
3 2 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (0.78%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.78%) Clustering
4 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.78%) iPhone
4 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.78%) Replication
4 1 (0.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 128 (100.00%) Windows
2 49 (38.28%) Windows 10
3 33 (25.78%) Windows Server
4 15 (11.72%) Linux
5 7 (5.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.91%) Android
6 5 (3.91%) Windows 7
7 4 (3.13%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.78%) Solaris
10 1 (0.78%) Unix
10 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.31%) Migration
2 25 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (9.38%) Time Management
5 11 (8.59%) DevOps
6 9 (7.03%) ITIL
7 7 (5.47%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (5.47%) Storage Management
7 7 (5.47%) Task Automation
8 6 (4.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (4.69%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (3.91%) Asset Management
9 5 (3.91%) Break/Fix
9 5 (3.91%) Configuration Management
9 5 (3.91%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (3.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 5 (3.91%) Security Patching
9 5 (3.91%) Server Building
9 5 (3.91%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.78%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.03%) Python
3 5 (3.91%) C#
4 4 (3.13%) Bash
5 2 (1.56%) VBScript
6 1 (0.78%) Java
6 1 (0.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.91%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.34%) Degree
6 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.59%) QA
2 2 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.34%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.34%) Docker
5 3 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (24.22%) SCCM
2 23 (17.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (7.03%) Ansible
4 6 (4.69%) Terraform
5 4 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.56%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.78%) Netcool
7 1 (0.78%) Packer
7 1 (0.78%) Plesk
7 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.78%) Puppet
7 1 (0.78%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.78%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (32.81%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.28%) VMware
3 13 (10.16%) Dell
4 9 (7.03%) Cisco
5 8 (6.25%) Apple
5 8 (6.25%) Citrix
5 8 (6.25%) CyberArk
6 5 (3.91%) HP
7 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.56%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.56%) Netskope
8 2 (1.56%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.56%) Oracle
8 2 (1.56%) SAP
8 2 (1.56%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.78%) Okta
9 1 (0.78%) Qualys
9 1 (0.78%) Serena
9 1 (0.78%) Sybase
9 1 (0.78%) Zscaler