Windows Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Windows Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 111 143
Rank change year-on-year +23 +32 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.21% 0.055% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.057% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £466 - £172
25th Percentile £472 £456 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £185
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +150.00% +13.85%
75th Percentile £497 £469 £194
90th Percentile £499 - £195
North West median daily rate £200 £175 £190
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% -45.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,389 1,745 2,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.73% 96.30% 97.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 964 1,295 1,978
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +12.94%
75th Percentile £585 £590 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 46 68
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.19 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.92 £13.83
Median hourly rate £27.00 £31.35 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +73.61% +11.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.94 £33.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £24.75
% change year-on-year -17.88% +32.84% +36.63%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in Manchester

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in Manchester

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in Manchester

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Cheadle - 1 - -
Windows Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft