Windows Engineer Contracts in London

Windows Engineer
England > London

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in London is £375, 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 294 328 416
Rank change year-on-year +34 +88 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 59 63 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.38% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 49 57
10th Percentile £175 £129 £185
25th Percentile £278 £163 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +22.70%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £559
90th Percentile £606 £650 £671
England median daily rate £319 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -24.94% +6.25% +53.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 £16.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.75% - -
England median hourly rate £24.66 £17.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +40.91% +2.94% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +11 15 £325 -38.10% 2
North London - 2 £270 -
West London - 1 £225 -
Windows Engineer
England

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) Windows
2 24 (40.68%) PowerShell
3 22 (37.29%) Microsoft
4 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
5 18 (30.51%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (30.51%) Windows 10
6 17 (28.81%) Finance
6 17 (28.81%) Azure
7 16 (27.12%) SCCM
7 16 (27.12%) Migration
8 14 (23.73%) Windows Server
8 14 (23.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (20.34%) Active Directory
10 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
10 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
10 12 (20.34%) Banking
11 9 (15.25%) Python
12 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (13.56%) VMware
13 7 (11.86%) Linux
13 7 (11.86%) Task Automation
13 7 (11.86%) DevOps
14 6 (10.17%) Ansible
14 6 (10.17%) Terraform
14 6 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
14 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 6 (10.17%) DHCP
14 6 (10.17%) DNS
14 6 (10.17%) Apple

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (3.39%) Confluence
1 2 (3.39%) IIS
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.51%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (28.81%) Azure
3 5 (8.47%) AWS
4 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (5.08%) SaaS
5 2 (3.39%) GCP
5 2 (3.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.69%) IaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.69%) PaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) DHCP
1 6 (10.17%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) Kerberos
2 4 (6.78%) VPN
3 3 (5.08%) NAS
3 3 (5.08%) SAN
3 3 (5.08%) Wireless
4 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.39%) VLAN
5 1 (1.69%) Firewall
5 1 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.69%) GitLab
4 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.81%) Finance
3 12 (20.34%) Banking
4 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Electronics
5 2 (3.39%) International Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.39%) Marketing
5 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Law
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.08%) LDAP
2 1 (1.69%) Classic ASP
2 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.39%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.69%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.69%) Clustering
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 59 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (30.51%) Windows 10
3 14 (23.73%) Windows Server
4 7 (11.86%) Linux
5 4 (6.78%) Android
6 3 (5.08%) Mac OS
6 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.69%) Solaris
7 1 (1.69%) Unix
7 1 (1.69%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.12%) Migration
2 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (11.86%) DevOps
4 7 (11.86%) Task Automation
5 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (8.47%) Security Patching
6 5 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (6.78%) Agile
7 4 (6.78%) Configuration Management
7 4 (6.78%) Server Management
8 3 (5.08%) Break/Fix
8 3 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (5.08%) Storage Management
8 3 (5.08%) Time Management
9 2 (3.39%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.25%) Python
3 5 (8.47%) C#
4 3 (5.08%) Bash
5 2 (3.39%) VBScript
6 1 (1.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) Degree
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.39%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (5.08%) Docker
3 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.39%) vSphere
5 1 (1.69%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (27.12%) SCCM
2 14 (23.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (10.17%) Ansible
3 6 (10.17%) Terraform
4 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.69%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (1.69%) Netcool
5 1 (1.69%) Packer
5 1 (1.69%) Plesk
5 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.69%) Puppet
5 1 (1.69%) SysTrack
5 1 (1.69%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (37.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) VMware
3 6 (10.17%) Apple
4 5 (8.47%) Cisco
4 5 (8.47%) CyberArk
5 4 (6.78%) Dell
6 3 (5.08%) HP
6 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.39%) Bloomberg
7 2 (3.39%) Citrix
7 2 (3.39%) Netskope
7 2 (3.39%) SAP
7 2 (3.39%) Tradeweb
8 1 (1.69%) EMC
8 1 (1.69%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.69%) IBM
8 1 (1.69%) Oracle
8 1 (1.69%) Qualys
8 1 (1.69%) Serena
8 1 (1.69%) Sybase