Windows Engineer Contracts in the North West

Windows Engineer
England > North West

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the North West is £385, 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 110 123 150
Rank change year-on-year +13 +27 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 10 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 0.51% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.54% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £163 £126 -
25th Percentile £225 £162 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £513 £175
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% +192.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £471 £582 £208
90th Percentile £473 - £339
England median daily rate £319 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -24.94% +6.25% +53.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
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
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the North West

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the North West

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the North West

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the North West

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +20 5 £385 -18.95%
Cheshire -7 3 £465 -20.10% 1
Merseyside +4 2 £175 +4.48%
Windows Engineer
England

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

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 North West region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (60.00%) DHCP
4 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
5 5 (50.00%) Firewall
6 4 (40.00%) Finance
6 4 (40.00%) Dell
6 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (40.00%) DevOps
6 4 (40.00%) GitLab
6 4 (40.00%) Server Building
6 4 (40.00%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (30.00%) CyberArk
7 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
7 3 (30.00%) SCCM
7 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (30.00%) DMZ
8 2 (20.00%) Migration
8 2 (20.00%) VMware
8 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (20.00%) DNS
8 2 (20.00%) Linux
8 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (20.00%) ITIL
8 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
8 2 (20.00%) Azure
8 2 (20.00%) Banking

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) DMZ
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Server Building
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Dell
3 3 (30.00%) CyberArk
4 2 (20.00%) VMware