Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £260, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 405 387
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 151 100 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.33% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.35% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 80 158
10th Percentile £153 £176 £157
25th Percentile £171 £245 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £328 £484
Median % change year-on-year -20.61% -32.30% +12.50%
75th Percentile £491 £476 £609
90th Percentile £575 £575 £675
UK median daily rate £260 £325 £465
% change year-on-year -20.00% -30.03% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 1 4
10th Percentile £19.54 - £29.39
25th Percentile £20.50 - £45.05
Median hourly rate £22.00 £24.18 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -57.95% +161.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £70.44
90th Percentile - - £86.98
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £24.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year -9.02% -57.95% +161.36%

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 28,419 28,527 35,622
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.94% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,252 17,617 24,501
10th Percentile £287 £300 £292
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,704 990 1,393
10th Percentile £14.28 £15.36 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.44 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.70% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £74.47 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +39.68%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -4 48 £450 +12.50%
South East +9 30 £260 -20.00% 17
North of England -33 22 £200 -38.46%
Midlands -14 21 £200 -
South West +5 19 £245 -25.83%
East of England -2 18 £175 -31.37% 2
Yorkshire -22 13 £400 -
East Midlands -3 11 £171 -
West Midlands -21 10 £200 -
North West -19 9 £180 +2.86%
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 2025, 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.

1 141 (93.38%) Windows
2 67 (44.37%) Windows 10
3 64 (42.38%) Microsoft
4 52 (34.44%) Security Cleared
5 47 (31.13%) Migration
5 47 (31.13%) SC Cleared
5 47 (31.13%) SCCM
6 34 (22.52%) PowerShell
7 33 (21.85%) Active Directory
8 25 (16.56%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (15.23%) Workflow
10 22 (14.57%) Windows Server
10 22 (14.57%) Workflow Management
11 21 (13.91%) VMware
12 20 (13.25%) Azure
12 20 (13.25%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (10.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (9.93%) VMware Infrastructure
15 14 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (9.27%) Digital Marketing
15 14 (9.27%) Programme Management
15 14 (9.27%) SAP
16 13 (8.61%) Logistics
17 12 (7.95%) Customer Service
18 11 (7.28%) QA
19 10 (6.62%) HP
19 10 (6.62%) ITIL
19 10 (6.62%) ServiceNow
19 10 (6.62%) Time Management

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 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (16.56%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (13.25%) Azure
3 9 (5.96%) OneDrive
4 5 (3.31%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.32%) AWS
6 1 (0.66%) IaaS
6 1 (0.66%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.64%) Firewall
1 7 (4.64%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.97%) 4G
3 5 (3.31%) DNS
3 5 (3.31%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.99%) DHCP
4 3 (1.99%) LAN
4 3 (1.99%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (1.99%) VPN
5 2 (1.32%) Wireless
6 1 (0.66%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (1.99%) Git
1 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.99%) Postman
2 1 (0.66%) GoCD
2 1 (0.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (41.06%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.22%) Finance
3 23 (15.23%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.92%) Marketing
5 14 (9.27%) Banking
5 14 (9.27%) Electronics
5 14 (9.27%) Manufacturing
5 14 (9.27%) Telecoms
6 12 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.64%) Retail
8 3 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.32%) Law
9 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.66%) International Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.66%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.31%) Hedge funds
2 4 (2.65%) NHS
2 4 (2.65%) Replication
3 3 (1.99%) Client/Server
3 3 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.99%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.99%) PKI
4 2 (1.32%) Chip and PIN
4 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.66%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 141 (93.38%) Windows
2 67 (44.37%) Windows 10
3 22 (14.57%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.96%) Linux
5 5 (3.31%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.65%) Android
7 3 (1.99%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.66%) CentOS
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.66%) Unix
9 1 (0.66%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.13%) Migration
2 25 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (15.23%) Workflow
4 22 (14.57%) Workflow Management
5 16 (10.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (9.27%) Digital Marketing
6 14 (9.27%) Programme Management
7 13 (8.61%) Logistics
8 12 (7.95%) Customer Service
9 10 (6.62%) ITIL
9 10 (6.62%) Time Management
10 7 (4.64%) Configuration Management
11 6 (3.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (3.97%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (3.97%) DevOps
11 6 (3.97%) Disaster Recovery
12 5 (3.31%) Application Packaging
13 4 (2.65%) Agile
13 4 (2.65%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.52%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.97%) SQL
3 4 (2.65%) Python
4 1 (0.66%) Bash
4 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (34.44%) Security Cleared
2 47 (31.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.65%) Degree
4 4 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.32%) MCSE
7 1 (0.66%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.66%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.66%) MCITP
7 1 (0.66%) MCSA
7 1 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.28%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) GDPR
2 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (21.85%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.65%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.65%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (2.65%) vSphere
5 3 (1.99%) Docker
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.66%) Firmware
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (31.13%) SCCM
2 20 (13.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.64%) Ansible
4 4 (2.65%) SCOM
4 4 (2.65%) vRealize
5 3 (1.99%) Puppet
6 2 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.32%) SysTrack
6 2 (1.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.66%) FreeIPA
7 1 (0.66%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.66%) QRadar
7 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (42.38%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.91%) VMware
3 14 (9.27%) SAP
4 10 (6.62%) HP
4 10 (6.62%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.97%) Citrix
6 5 (3.31%) Apple
6 5 (3.31%) Dell
7 4 (2.65%) Veeam
8 3 (1.99%) CyberArk
8 3 (1.99%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.32%) BMC
9 2 (1.32%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.32%) Cisco
9 2 (1.32%) Computacenter
9 2 (1.32%) Qualys
10 1 (0.66%) New Relic
10 1 (0.66%) Oracle
10 1 (0.66%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.66%) Remedy
19 Windows Engineer jobs in England