Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 350 375
Rank change year-on-year -138 +25 +139
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 94 126 171
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.56% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 92 137
10th Percentile £175 £160 £127
25th Percentile £255 £200 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 £340
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -4.41% -24.44%
75th Percentile £556 £473 £575
90th Percentile £638 £586 £582
UK median daily rate £400 £325 £400
% change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 11
10th Percentile £19.54 - £16.25
25th Percentile £20.50 - £16.63
Median hourly rate £21.46 £24.66 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +37.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £23.50 - £20.48
90th Percentile £23.61 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £22.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -2.45% +22.22% +5.88%

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 35,703 22,640 34,614
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.87% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,481 15,159 23,114
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,372 844 2,312
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.09 £20.29 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.57%
75th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £31.76 £33.07
% change year-on-year +25.94% -3.95% -26.52%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -91 24 £475 +22.58% 3
South East -49 22 £501 +25.31% 1
South West -20 13 £425 +34.92% 1
North of England -78 13 £300 -25.00% 3
Midlands -77 12 £335 +86.11% 2
East of England -25 9 £425 +120.21%
North West -41 9 £300 -23.57% 2
East Midlands -31 6 £331 +97.17% 1
Yorkshire -57 4 £500 +25.00% 1
West Midlands -68 4 £375 +94.81% 1
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 April 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 82 (87.23%) Windows
2 48 (51.06%) Security Cleared
3 44 (46.81%) Windows 10
4 37 (39.36%) SC Cleared
5 31 (32.98%) Microsoft
6 28 (29.79%) Migration
7 25 (26.60%) Windows Server
8 24 (25.53%) Azure
8 24 (25.53%) PowerShell
9 22 (23.40%) Active Directory
10 21 (22.34%) Workflow
11 20 (21.28%) Workflow Management
12 19 (20.21%) SCCM
13 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (18.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (15.96%) VMware
16 14 (14.89%) Logistics
17 13 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
17 13 (13.83%) Customer Service
17 13 (13.83%) Digital Marketing
17 13 (13.83%) DV Cleared
17 13 (13.83%) Microsoft Intune
17 13 (13.83%) Programme Management
17 13 (13.83%) SAP
18 11 (11.70%) VMware Infrastructure
19 9 (9.57%) Linux
20 8 (8.51%) Entra ID
20 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
21 7 (7.45%) Disaster Recovery
21 7 (7.45%) DNS

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 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.19%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.53%) Azure
2 18 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.51%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.38%) AWS
5 5 (5.32%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.13%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.13%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub
8 1 (1.06%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) DNS
2 6 (6.38%) DHCP
2 6 (6.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.19%) 4G
3 3 (3.19%) Firewall
3 3 (3.19%) LAN
3 3 (3.19%) VPN
3 3 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.13%) FTP
4 2 (2.13%) HTTP
4 2 (2.13%) SMTP
4 2 (2.13%) SNMP
4 2 (2.13%) SSH
4 2 (2.13%) SSL
4 2 (2.13%) Telnet
4 2 (2.13%) VLAN
4 2 (2.13%) Wireless
5 1 (1.06%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.06%) Network Security
5 1 (1.06%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Selenium
2 1 (1.06%) Appium
2 1 (1.06%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.06%) GoCD
2 1 (1.06%) JUnit
2 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.06%) TestNG
General
1 38 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.21%) Public Sector
3 18 (19.15%) Finance
4 13 (13.83%) Electronics
4 13 (13.83%) Manufacturing
4 13 (13.83%) Marketing
4 13 (13.83%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.32%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.13%) Local Government
8 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.19%) .NET
1 3 (3.19%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.06%) WinForms
2 1 (1.06%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
1 4 (4.26%) Replication
2 3 (3.19%) Client/Server
2 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.13%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.13%) Legacy Code
3 2 (2.13%) NHS
3 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.06%) Clustering
4 1 (1.06%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.06%) Life Science
4 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.06%) PKI
4 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 82 (87.23%) Windows
2 44 (46.81%) Windows 10
3 25 (26.60%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.57%) Linux
5 4 (4.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.19%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.13%) Android
7 2 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.06%) CentOS
8 1 (1.06%) VMS
8 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.79%) Migration
2 21 (22.34%) Workflow
3 20 (21.28%) Workflow Management
4 17 (18.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (14.89%) Logistics
6 13 (13.83%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (13.83%) Customer Service
6 13 (13.83%) Digital Marketing
6 13 (13.83%) Programme Management
7 7 (7.45%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (7.45%) ITIL
8 5 (5.32%) DevOps
8 5 (5.32%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (4.26%) CI/CD
9 4 (4.26%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (4.26%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (3.19%) Project Delivery
10 3 (3.19%) Security Operations
10 3 (3.19%) Server Management
10 3 (3.19%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.53%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.32%) Python
3 2 (2.13%) C#
3 2 (2.13%) VBScript
4 1 (1.06%) Bash
Qualifications
1 48 (51.06%) Security Cleared
2 37 (39.36%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.83%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.26%) Degree
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.06%) MCITP
6 1 (1.06%) MCSE
6 1 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) GxP
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (23.40%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.19%) Docker
4 3 (3.19%) vSphere
5 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (20.21%) SCCM
2 13 (13.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.19%) Ansible
3 3 (3.19%) QRadar
3 3 (3.19%) SCOM
4 2 (2.13%) Backup Exec
4 2 (2.13%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.06%) FreeIPA
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.06%) Packer
5 1 (1.06%) PaperCut
5 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.06%) Terraform
5 1 (1.06%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.96%) VMware
3 13 (13.83%) SAP
4 5 (5.32%) Cisco
4 5 (5.32%) Citrix
4 5 (5.32%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.26%) HP
5 4 (4.26%) Qualys
5 4 (4.26%) Veeam
6 3 (3.19%) Dell
6 3 (3.19%) Varonis
7 2 (2.13%) Apple
7 2 (2.13%) Broadcom
7 2 (2.13%) McAfee
7 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.06%) Autodesk
8 1 (1.06%) Google
8 1 (1.06%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle
8 1 (1.06%) Sophos