Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £275, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
21 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 424 366
Rank change year-on-year +42 -58 +179
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 160 103 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.36% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 79 168
10th Percentile £153 £196 £160
25th Percentile £171 £245 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £330 £481
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -31.43% +13.24%
75th Percentile £488 £476 £613
90th Percentile £573 £575 £683
UK median daily rate £268 £330 £465
% change year-on-year -18.94% -28.96% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 5 4
10th Percentile £19.27 £21.37 £14.09
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.80 £17.21
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £38.23
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -39.83% +60.95%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £38.23
% change year-on-year -4.35% -39.83% +60.95%

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 27,858 28,874 36,736
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.96% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,854 17,655 25,362
10th Percentile £281 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -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 1,695 1,080 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £56.60 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +50.00%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -20 49 £425 +15.49% 15
South East +25 35 £260 -25.71% 7
North of England -26 29 £250 -23.08% 7
Midlands -13 21 £200 -5.88%
Yorkshire -24 20 £500 +25.00% 1
South West +12 18 £245 -25.83% 1
East of England +2 17 £175 -39.66% 6
East Midlands -4 11 £171 -
West Midlands -15 10 £200 -5.88%
North West -14 9 £180 +2.86% 6
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 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.

1 151 (94.38%) Windows
2 68 (42.50%) Microsoft
3 65 (40.63%) Windows 10
4 54 (33.75%) Security Cleared
5 49 (30.63%) Migration
5 49 (30.63%) SC Cleared
5 49 (30.63%) SCCM
6 32 (20.00%) Active Directory
7 31 (19.38%) PowerShell
8 30 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (18.13%) VMware
10 24 (15.00%) Workflow
11 23 (14.38%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (14.38%) Workflow Management
12 22 (13.75%) Azure
13 21 (13.13%) Windows Server
14 19 (11.88%) VMware Infrastructure
15 18 (11.25%) Microsoft Intune
16 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 15 (9.38%) QA
18 14 (8.75%) TCP/IP
18 14 (8.75%) Time Management
19 13 (8.13%) Ansible
19 13 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
19 13 (8.13%) Configuration Management
19 13 (8.13%) Digital Marketing
19 13 (8.13%) Firewall
19 13 (8.13%) Programme Management
19 13 (8.13%) SAP
20 12 (7.50%) DevOps

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 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.38%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (13.75%) Azure
3 9 (5.63%) OneDrive
4 5 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.25%) AWS
6 1 (0.63%) IaaS
6 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.75%) TCP/IP
2 13 (8.13%) Firewall
3 8 (5.00%) DNS
4 7 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (3.75%) 4G
5 6 (3.75%) DHCP
5 6 (3.75%) VPN
6 4 (2.50%) VLAN
7 3 (1.88%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (1.88%) SSL
8 2 (1.25%) Wireless
9 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.63%) LAN
9 1 (0.63%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.63%) Jenkins
1 9 (5.63%) Postman
2 7 (4.38%) Git
3 4 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) GoCD
4 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.25%) Finance
3 22 (13.75%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.63%) Marketing
6 13 (8.13%) Banking
6 13 (8.13%) Electronics
6 13 (8.13%) Manufacturing
6 13 (8.13%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.38%) Retail
8 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.88%) Law
9 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) International Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.63%) Middleware
1 1 (0.63%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.13%) Hedge funds
2 4 (2.50%) NHS
3 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.88%) PKI
4 2 (1.25%) Chip and PIN
4 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.25%) Replication
4 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.63%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.63%) Clustering
5 1 (0.63%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.63%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.63%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.63%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 151 (94.38%) Windows
2 65 (40.63%) Windows 10
3 21 (13.13%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.63%) Linux
5 5 (3.13%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.50%) Android
7 3 (1.88%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.25%) CentOS
8 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.25%) Unix
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.63%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (30.63%) Migration
2 30 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (15.00%) Workflow
4 23 (14.38%) Workflow Management
5 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (8.75%) Time Management
7 13 (8.13%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (8.13%) Configuration Management
7 13 (8.13%) Digital Marketing
7 13 (8.13%) Programme Management
8 12 (7.50%) DevOps
9 11 (6.88%) Customer Service
10 10 (6.25%) ITIL
10 10 (6.25%) Logistics
11 8 (5.00%) Agile
11 8 (5.00%) Data Management
12 7 (4.38%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (3.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (3.13%) Application Packaging
14 5 (3.13%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.38%) PowerShell
2 10 (6.25%) Python
3 6 (3.75%) SQL
4 1 (0.63%) Bash
4 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (33.75%) Security Cleared
2 49 (30.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.25%) Degree
6 2 (1.25%) MCSE
7 1 (0.63%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.63%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.63%) MCITP
7 1 (0.63%) MCSA
7 1 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) GDPR
2 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.00%) vSphere
4 7 (4.38%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.63%) Docker
8 1 (0.63%) Firmware
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (30.63%) SCCM
2 18 (11.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (8.13%) Ansible
4 9 (5.63%) Puppet
5 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (2.50%) SCOM
6 4 (2.50%) vRealize
7 3 (1.88%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.25%) SysTrack
8 2 (1.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.63%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.63%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.63%) QRadar
9 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (18.13%) VMware
3 13 (8.13%) SAP
4 10 (6.25%) HP
4 10 (6.25%) MuleSoft
4 10 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.63%) Citrix
6 5 (3.13%) Apple
6 5 (3.13%) Dell
6 5 (3.13%) Veeam
7 3 (1.88%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.88%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.25%) BMC
8 2 (1.25%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.25%) Cisco
8 2 (1.25%) Computacenter
8 2 (1.25%) Qualys
9 1 (0.63%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.63%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.63%) Remedy
34 Windows Engineer jobs in England