Windows Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £315, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 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
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 416 458
Rank change year-on-year +63 +42 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 153 116 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.37% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 89 120
10th Percentile £153 £154 £159
25th Percentile £171 £210 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £350 £456
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.29% +48.37%
75th Percentile £400 £538 £625
90th Percentile £505 £600 £676
UK median daily rate £313 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -21.88% -11.11% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 4
10th Percentile £15.12 £16.25 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.19 £16.81 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.01 £21.45 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -44.66% +93.75%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.67 £61.25
90th Percentile - £24.18 -
UK median hourly rate £22.01 £21.09 £38.75
% change year-on-year +4.36% -45.57% +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 25,321 30,942 42,278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 92.85% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,397 20,300 29,786
10th Percentile £285 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £652
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,322 1,795 1,328
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.16 £14.72
25th Percentile £17.44 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +8.43% +61.60%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.87% +62.77%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 11 August 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 +11 67 £325 -18.75% 7
North of England +6 30 £200 -11.11% 2
Midlands +2 21 £171 -49.33% 3
South East +32 19 £375 -3.23% 8
South West +44 17 £220 -0.90% 2
Yorkshire +11 17 £200 -38.46% 2
North West -2 12 £200 -
East Midlands -5 11 £171 -49.33% 1
West Midlands - 10 £168 - 2
East of England +8 6 £155 -38.00% 1
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 11 August 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.

1 153 (100.00%) Windows
2 64 (41.83%) Social Skills
3 63 (41.18%) Microsoft
4 42 (27.45%) Windows 10
5 37 (24.18%) Migration
5 37 (24.18%) SCCM
6 35 (22.88%) PowerShell
7 33 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (21.57%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (20.92%) Active Directory
9 31 (20.26%) Security Cleared
10 29 (18.95%) Finance
10 29 (18.95%) SC Cleared
11 28 (18.30%) Azure
12 27 (17.65%) VMware
13 25 (16.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 23 (15.03%) Windows Server
14 23 (15.03%) Banking
15 22 (14.38%) Time Management
15 22 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
16 21 (13.73%) QA
17 19 (12.42%) DevOps
18 18 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 18 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
19 15 (9.80%) Configuration Management
20 14 (9.15%) TCP/IP
20 14 (9.15%) DHCP
21 13 (8.50%) Linux
21 13 (8.50%) Citrix
22 12 (7.84%) 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 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.27%) Confluence
3 3 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.57%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (18.30%) Azure
3 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.61%) SaaS
5 1 (0.65%) AWS
5 1 (0.65%) IaaS
5 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.15%) DHCP
1 14 (9.15%) TCP/IP
2 12 (7.84%) DNS
2 12 (7.84%) Firewall
2 12 (7.84%) VPN
3 8 (5.23%) VLAN
4 5 (3.27%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (3.27%) SSL
5 3 (1.96%) DMZ
5 3 (1.96%) NAS
6 2 (1.31%) LAN
6 2 (1.31%) SAN
7 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
1 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 9 (5.88%) Postman
2 6 (3.92%) Git
2 6 (3.92%) JIRA
3 4 (2.61%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) GoCD
4 1 (0.65%) MSI
4 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.95%) Finance
3 23 (15.03%) Banking
4 22 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.19%) Retail
6 5 (3.27%) Marketing
7 4 (2.61%) Law
7 4 (2.61%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.96%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Electronics
10 1 (0.65%) International Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.96%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.65%) LDAP
2 1 (0.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
2 3 (1.96%) Driving Licence
2 3 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.31%) Chip and PIN
3 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.31%) Hedge funds
3 2 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.65%) BYOD
4 1 (0.65%) CMDB
4 1 (0.65%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.65%) NHS
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 153 (100.00%) Windows
2 42 (27.45%) Windows 10
3 23 (15.03%) Windows Server
4 13 (8.50%) Linux
5 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.61%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.61%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.96%) Android
7 3 (1.96%) Unix
8 2 (1.31%) CentOS
8 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.65%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.65%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (24.18%) Migration
2 33 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (14.38%) Time Management
4 19 (12.42%) DevOps
5 18 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (9.80%) Configuration Management
7 9 (5.88%) ITIL
8 8 (5.23%) Agile
8 8 (5.23%) Data Management
9 7 (4.58%) Application Packaging
10 6 (3.92%) Asset Management
10 6 (3.92%) Customer Service
10 6 (3.92%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (3.92%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (3.92%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (3.92%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (3.92%) Validation
10 6 (3.92%) Workflow
10 6 (3.92%) Workflow Management
11 5 (3.27%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.88%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.84%) Python
3 4 (2.61%) SQL
3 4 (2.61%) VBScript
4 1 (0.65%) Bash
4 1 (0.65%) C#
4 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.65%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.73%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (20.92%) Active Directory
2 18 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.23%) vSphere
4 6 (3.92%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.96%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (1.31%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (24.18%) SCCM
2 25 (16.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (7.19%) Ansible
4 9 (5.88%) Puppet
5 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (3.27%) Tivoli
7 4 (2.61%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.96%) SysTrack
8 3 (1.96%) Terraform
9 1 (0.65%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.65%) SCOM
9 1 (0.65%) vRealize
Vendors
1 63 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 27 (17.65%) VMware
3 13 (8.50%) Citrix
4 10 (6.54%) Dell
4 10 (6.54%) MuleSoft
5 8 (5.23%) Apple
5 8 (5.23%) HP
6 7 (4.58%) CyberArk
7 5 (3.27%) SolarWinds
7 5 (3.27%) Veeam
8 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.31%) BMC
9 2 (1.31%) Cisco
9 2 (1.31%) Netskope
9 2 (1.31%) Oracle
10 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.65%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.65%) Nexthink
10 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.65%) Tradeweb