Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £335, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 547 346 427
Rank change year-on-year -201 +81 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 73 155 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.57% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.62% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 110 101
10th Percentile £198 £153 £156
25th Percentile £225 £172 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £325 £340
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -4.41% -28.42%
75th Percentile £447 £445 £550
90th Percentile £553 £550 £600
UK median daily rate £358 £319 £388
% change year-on-year +12.07% -17.68% -13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 14
10th Percentile £24.18 £15.12 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.19 £16.55 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.76 £18.84 £19.55
Median % change year-on-year +36.77% -3.63% -33.75%
75th Percentile £35.10 £22.01 £23.13
90th Percentile £51.90 £25.15 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £25.76 £18.85 £18.27
% change year-on-year +36.64% +3.19% -38.07%

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 41,413 25,002 33,620
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.90% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,306 16,263 22,078
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,966 1,234 2,327
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.26 £17.87 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.70 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.46% -30.75% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.03 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £25.31 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.82% -36.73% -5.88%

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 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -135 20 £325 -7.14% 2
Midlands -62 18 £335 +95.91% 3
North of England -87 14 £250 +25.00% 1
East Midlands -14 11 £270 +57.89% 2
South West -44 11 £400 +81.82%
South East -74 9 £475 +28.81% 1
North East -32 6 £250 +38.89%
West Midlands -66 5 £475 +165.36% 1
Yorkshire -53 4 £500 +166.67% 1
North West -56 4 £315 +7.69%
East of England -26 1 £338 +117.74%
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 73 (100.00%) Windows
2 31 (42.47%) Active Directory
3 23 (31.51%) Microsoft
4 22 (30.14%) Azure
4 22 (30.14%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (30.14%) Windows 10
5 21 (28.77%) Windows Server
6 20 (27.40%) Security Cleared
7 18 (24.66%) PowerShell
8 16 (21.92%) Entra ID
9 14 (19.18%) DNS
9 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
10 13 (17.81%) Migration
10 13 (17.81%) VMware
11 12 (16.44%) Customer Service
11 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (13.70%) VMware Infrastructure
13 9 (12.33%) SCCM
14 8 (10.96%) Linux
14 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (10.96%) TCP/IP
15 7 (9.59%) DHCP
16 6 (8.22%) Disaster Recovery
16 6 (8.22%) Hyper-V
16 6 (8.22%) ITIL
16 6 (8.22%) Validation
17 5 (6.85%) .NET
17 5 (6.85%) Break/Fix
17 5 (6.85%) Configuration 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 4 (5.48%) IIS
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) Confluence
4 1 (1.37%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.14%) Azure
1 22 (30.14%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (21.92%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.48%) AWS
4 3 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.74%) GitHub
5 2 (2.74%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.37%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.18%) DNS
2 8 (10.96%) TCP/IP
3 7 (9.59%) DHCP
4 5 (6.85%) SSL
5 4 (5.48%) FTP
6 3 (4.11%) Firewall
6 3 (4.11%) Internet
7 2 (2.74%) HTTP
7 2 (2.74%) SMTP
7 2 (2.74%) SNMP
7 2 (2.74%) SSH
7 2 (2.74%) Telnet
8 1 (1.37%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.37%) Network Security
8 1 (1.37%) VLAN
8 1 (1.37%) VPN
8 1 (1.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Git
1 2 (2.74%) Selenium
2 1 (1.37%) Appium
2 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.37%) GitLab
2 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.37%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) JUnit
2 1 (1.37%) Postman
2 1 (1.37%) TestNG
General
1 23 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.22%) Finance
3 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Banking
5 2 (2.74%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.85%) .NET
2 3 (4.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.37%) WinForms
3 1 (1.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.74%) Legacy Code
3 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.74%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.74%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.37%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Life Science
4 1 (1.37%) PKI
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 73 (100.00%) Windows
2 22 (30.14%) Windows 10
3 21 (28.77%) Windows Server
4 8 (10.96%) Linux
5 4 (5.48%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.11%) Mac OS
6 3 (4.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.74%) VMS
8 1 (1.37%) Android
8 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.81%) Migration
2 12 (16.44%) Customer Service
2 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (8.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (8.22%) ITIL
4 6 (8.22%) Validation
5 5 (6.85%) Break/Fix
5 5 (6.85%) Configuration Management
6 4 (5.48%) Antivirus Management
6 4 (5.48%) High Availability
6 4 (5.48%) Security Hardening
6 4 (5.48%) Server Building
6 4 (5.48%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (4.11%) CI/CD
7 3 (4.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (4.11%) DevOps
7 3 (4.11%) Inventory Management
7 3 (4.11%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (4.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.85%) Python
3 4 (5.48%) C#
4 2 (2.74%) Bash
4 2 (2.74%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
4 3 (4.11%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) ACSP
5 1 (1.37%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) GDPR
2 1 (1.37%) GxP
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (42.47%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.22%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.48%) vSphere
5 3 (4.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.74%) BitLocker
6 2 (2.74%) Firmware
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) SCCM
2 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.48%) Ansible
4 3 (4.11%) Terraform
5 2 (2.74%) Backup Exec
5 2 (2.74%) Packer
5 2 (2.74%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.37%) QRadar
6 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (31.51%) Microsoft
2 13 (17.81%) VMware
3 4 (5.48%) Apple
4 3 (4.11%) Samsung
5 2 (2.74%) Citrix
5 2 (2.74%) HP
5 2 (2.74%) McAfee
5 2 (2.74%) Qualys
5 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) Broadcom
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco
6 1 (1.37%) Google
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.37%) Tanium
6 1 (1.37%) Tenable
6 1 (1.37%) Varonis