Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Windows Engineer
England > London

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in London is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 September 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
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 328 349
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 +168
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 53 61 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.38% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.40% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 47 81
10th Percentile £150 £192 £153
25th Percentile £252 £249 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -30.43% +35.29%
75th Percentile £466 £550 £675
90th Percentile £590 £603 £810
England median daily rate £300 £359 £500
% change year-on-year -16.43% -28.20% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £18.15 £21.16 -
25th Percentile £18.40 £21.27 -
Median hourly rate £18.84 £21.45 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% - -
75th Percentile £18.86 £21.62 -
90th Percentile £18.87 £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +9.35% -40.65% +63.16%

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 12,314 15,162 20,411
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 93.95% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,233 9,965 14,888
10th Percentile £329 £341 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 176 219
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.38 £18.13
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.80 £22.27
Median hourly rate £28.14 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% -6.67% +19.05%
75th Percentile £49.00 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.17 £75.63 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -44.11% -1.92% +76.46%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in London

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in London over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in London

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies 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 29 September 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 +14 13 £319 -25.00% 1
West London - 3 £162 -
East London +2 1 £350 +82.77%
Windows Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 September 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 53 (100.00%) Windows
2 25 (47.17%) PowerShell
3 19 (35.85%) SCCM
3 19 (35.85%) Azure
4 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
4 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
5 16 (30.19%) Windows 10
6 15 (28.30%) Finance
7 14 (26.42%) Active Directory
8 12 (22.64%) Migration
9 11 (20.75%) Banking
10 10 (18.87%) VMware
10 10 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (16.98%) Windows Server
11 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
12 8 (15.09%) Time Management
13 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
13 7 (13.21%) QA
13 7 (13.21%) DevOps
13 7 (13.21%) Information Security
13 7 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
14 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (11.32%) SQL
14 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
15 5 (9.43%) SaaS
15 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
15 5 (9.43%) Hedge funds

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 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.85%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (9.43%) SaaS
4 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.66%) AWS
6 1 (1.89%) IaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) VPN
2 4 (7.55%) DHCP
2 4 (7.55%) DNS
3 3 (5.66%) VLAN
4 2 (3.77%) Firewall
4 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.89%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.89%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Git
1 1 (1.89%) JIRA
1 1 (1.89%) MSI
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.30%) Finance
3 11 (20.75%) Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Marketing
6 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Law
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) International Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Hedge funds
1 5 (9.43%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) BYOD
4 1 (1.89%) Clustering
4 1 (1.89%) CMDB
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) Windows
2 16 (30.19%) Windows 10
3 9 (16.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.55%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.66%) Linux
6 1 (1.89%) Android
6 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.89%) CentOS
6 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.89%) Unix
6 1 (1.89%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.64%) Migration
2 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (15.09%) Time Management
4 7 (13.21%) DevOps
4 7 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (13.21%) Information Security
5 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (9.43%) Configuration Management
6 5 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (9.43%) Service Delivery
7 4 (7.55%) Remarketing
7 4 (7.55%) Security Operations
7 4 (7.55%) Task Automation
8 3 (5.66%) Application Packaging
8 3 (5.66%) Asset Management
8 3 (5.66%) ITIL
8 3 (5.66%) Patch Management
8 3 (5.66%) Workflow
8 3 (5.66%) Workflow Management
9 2 (3.77%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.32%) SQL
3 4 (7.55%) VBScript
4 1 (1.89%) Bash
4 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.55%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (3.77%) BitLocker
4 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (35.85%) SCCM
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.55%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (5.66%) Terraform
5 2 (3.77%) Ansible
6 1 (1.89%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.89%) QRadar
6 1 (1.89%) SysTrack
6 1 (1.89%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.87%) VMware
3 4 (7.55%) Citrix
4 3 (5.66%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.77%) Apple
5 2 (3.77%) Netskope
5 2 (3.77%) Qualys
5 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.89%) BMC
6 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.89%) Nexthink