Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 422 420
Rank change year-on-year +62 -2 +152
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 152 104 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.32% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.34% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 85 133
10th Percentile £153 £170 £194
25th Percentile £171 £220 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +53.37%
75th Percentile £400 £538 £650
90th Percentile £525 £600 £710
UK median daily rate £275 £350 £500
% change year-on-year -21.43% -30.00% +48.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 4
10th Percentile £16.26 £21.37 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.84 £21.80 £17.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -40.65% +93.75%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £22.40 £38.75
% change year-on-year +12.28% -42.19% +93.75%

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 24,974 30,321 40,326
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 93.02% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,100 19,032 28,174
10th Percentile £280 £301 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,343 1,500 1,368
10th Percentile £13.66 £14.64 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% +73.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

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
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 September 2025.

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 15 September 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 +9 54 £325 -21.21% 3
North of England +7 31 £200 -20.00% 1
South East +36 25 £375 +8.70% 5
Midlands +3 23 £200 -5.33% 1
Yorkshire +5 20 £300 -14.89% 1
South West +43 19 £220 +0.46% 2
West Midlands -2 12 £200 -5.88%
East Midlands +4 11 £171 -18.57% 1
North West -8 10 £183 -18.89%
East of England +9 8 £155 -39.22% 10
North East - 1 £180 -
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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.

1 152 (100.00%) Windows
2 64 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 63 (41.45%) Microsoft
4 43 (28.29%) Windows 10
5 41 (26.97%) SCCM
6 38 (25.00%) Migration
7 34 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (22.37%) PowerShell
7 34 (22.37%) Active Directory
8 31 (20.39%) Azure
9 29 (19.08%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (17.76%) VMware
11 25 (16.45%) Security Cleared
12 24 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
13 23 (15.13%) SC Cleared
14 22 (14.47%) Finance
15 20 (13.16%) Time Management
15 20 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
16 19 (12.50%) QA
17 18 (11.84%) Banking
18 17 (11.18%) VMware Infrastructure
18 17 (11.18%) Windows Server
19 16 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 15 (9.87%) TCP/IP
21 14 (9.21%) Citrix
21 14 (9.21%) Configuration Management
21 14 (9.21%) DevOps
22 12 (7.89%) Firewall
22 12 (7.89%) DNS
23 11 (7.24%) VPN

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 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.29%) Confluence
3 3 (1.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.39%) Azure
2 29 (19.08%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (3.95%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.63%) SaaS
5 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (1.32%) AWS
7 1 (0.66%) IaaS
7 1 (0.66%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.66%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.87%) TCP/IP
2 12 (7.89%) DNS
2 12 (7.89%) Firewall
3 11 (7.24%) VPN
4 9 (5.92%) DHCP
5 8 (5.26%) VLAN
6 5 (3.29%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (3.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.66%) NAS
7 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.92%) Jenkins
1 9 (5.92%) Postman
2 6 (3.95%) Git
2 6 (3.95%) JIRA
3 1 (0.66%) GoCD
3 1 (0.66%) MSI
3 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.47%) Finance
3 20 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.84%) Banking
5 11 (7.24%) Retail
6 8 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.61%) Marketing
8 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Electronics
9 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.97%) Law
9 3 (1.97%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.97%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.66%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (1.97%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.97%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.32%) Chip and PIN
4 2 (1.32%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.32%) NHS
4 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.32%) PKI
5 1 (0.66%) CMDB
5 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.66%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.66%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.66%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.66%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 152 (100.00%) Windows
2 43 (28.29%) Windows 10
3 17 (11.18%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.58%) Linux
5 5 (3.29%) Mac OS
5 5 (3.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.63%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.32%) Android
7 2 (1.32%) CentOS
7 2 (1.32%) Unix
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.66%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.00%) Migration
2 34 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (13.16%) Time Management
4 16 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (9.21%) Configuration Management
5 14 (9.21%) DevOps
6 8 (5.26%) Agile
6 8 (5.26%) Application Packaging
6 8 (5.26%) Data Management
6 8 (5.26%) ITIL
7 7 (4.61%) Validation
8 6 (3.95%) Asset Management
8 6 (3.95%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (3.95%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (3.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (3.95%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (3.95%) Workflow
8 6 (3.95%) Workflow Management
9 5 (3.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (3.29%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.37%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.24%) Python
3 4 (2.63%) SQL
3 4 (2.63%) VBScript
4 1 (0.66%) Bash
4 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.66%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.66%) MCSA
5 1 (0.66%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (0.66%) GDPR
2 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (22.37%) Active Directory
2 17 (11.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.92%) vSphere
4 8 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.63%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.32%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (26.97%) SCCM
2 24 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (7.24%) Ansible
4 9 (5.92%) Puppet
5 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (3.29%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.97%) SCOM
7 3 (1.97%) Terraform
8 2 (1.32%) SysTrack
8 2 (1.32%) vRealize
9 1 (0.66%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.66%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 63 (41.45%) Microsoft
2 27 (17.76%) VMware
3 14 (9.21%) Citrix
4 10 (6.58%) MuleSoft
5 8 (5.26%) HP
6 6 (3.95%) Apple
7 5 (3.29%) SolarWinds
7 5 (3.29%) Veeam
8 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.97%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.97%) SAP
10 2 (1.32%) BMC
10 2 (1.32%) CheckPoint
10 2 (1.32%) Computacenter
10 2 (1.32%) Dell
10 2 (1.32%) Netskope
11 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.66%) New Relic
11 1 (0.66%) Qualys
11 1 (0.66%) Remedy