Windows Engineer Contracts in Northern Ireland

Windows Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Northern Ireland is £148, 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 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.89% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £148 - -
UK median daily rate £315 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -30.00% +12.50% +45.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 147 142 183
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 95.30% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 73 83
10th Percentile £155 £173 £166
25th Percentile £273 £313 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% +4.62%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £500
90th Percentile £625 £650 £618
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 8
10th Percentile £13.64 - £13.29
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £24.18 £15.38 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year +57.22% +5.40% -15.80%
75th Percentile £40.36 £21.00 £15.94
90th Percentile £75.85 £28.54 £16.87
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in Northern Ireland

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in Northern Ireland

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in Northern Ireland

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim - 3 £148 -
Windows Engineer
UK

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

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 Northern Ireland region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Computacenter
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (66.67%) BYOD
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Blockchain
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Process Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) BYOD
2 1 (33.33%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Computacenter
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler