Windows Engineer Contracts in the South East

Windows Engineer
England > South East

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the South East is £331, 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 143 167 209
Rank change year-on-year +24 +42 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 16 38 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.68% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.74% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 32 12
10th Percentile £248 £225 £213
25th Percentile £252 £448 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £575 £353
Median % change year-on-year -42.39% +63.12% +48.42%
75th Percentile £400 - £519
90th Percentile £415 - £524
England median daily rate £319 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -24.94% +6.25% +53.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 2,767 5,141 5,491
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.50% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 3,084 3,829
10th Percentile £250 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.42%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £606
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 481 240
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £18.04
25th Percentile £20.06 £18.32 £22.16
Median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £65.16
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the South East

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the South East

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the South East

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the South East

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Surrey +30 14 £400 +150.00%
Thames Valley +16 2 £263 -54.35%
Berkshire +10 2 £263 -54.35%
Windows Engineer
England

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Windows 10
3 6 (37.50%) Migration
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (25.00%) Server Migrations
5 3 (18.75%) Nutanix
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 2 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
6 2 (12.50%) SCCM
6 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
6 2 (12.50%) Finance
7 1 (6.25%) VMware
7 1 (6.25%) Linux
7 1 (6.25%) Cisco
7 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
7 1 (6.25%) Citrix
7 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Server Management

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (18.75%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Windows 10
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (25.00%) Server Migrations
3 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (6.25%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco
1 1 (6.25%) Citrix
1 1 (6.25%) VMware