Windows Specialist Contracts in England

Windows Specialist
UK > England

The median Windows Specialist daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 531 647
Rank change year-on-year +59 +116 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Specialist 13 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.030% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.032% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 6
10th Percentile £290 £289 £400
25th Percentile £439 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £512 -
90th Percentile - £517 -
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -12.64%

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Windows Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Windows Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Specialist in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Specialist in England

Windows Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +38 9 £450 -10.89% 2
South West - 3 £550 -
South East - 1 £600 - 1
Windows Specialist
UK

Windows Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Windows Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
3 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
3 8 (61.54%) Migration
4 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
5 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
6 4 (30.77%) ITIL
6 4 (30.77%) SCCM
6 4 (30.77%) Finance
6 4 (30.77%) VMware
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (30.77%) Disk Encryption
6 4 (30.77%) DevOps
7 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) Server Management
7 3 (23.08%) AWS
7 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
8 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
8 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
8 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 2 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (15.38%) Linux
8 2 (15.38%) Python
8 2 (15.38%) SMTP
8 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (15.38%) SAP
8 2 (15.38%) SAN

Windows Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) NAS
1 2 (15.38%) SAN
1 2 (15.38%) SMTP
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Electronics
3 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Disk Encryption
2 4 (30.77%) ITIL
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Server Management
3 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) ITSM
4 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
4 2 (15.38%) SIEM
4 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
5 1 (7.69%) Application Packaging
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (30.77%) SCCM
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix