Windows Engineer Contracts in the South West

Windows Engineer
England > South West

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the South West is £315, 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 102 150 159
Rank change year-on-year +48 +9 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 9 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.54% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.23% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile - £181 £355
25th Percentile £220 £238 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £338 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -15.63% +81.82%
75th Percentile £399 £422 £438
90th Percentile £575 £531 £445
England median daily rate £319 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -24.94% +6.25% +53.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.65
25th Percentile - - £28.88
Median hourly rate - - £29.50
75th Percentile - - £29.88
90th Percentile - - £29.95
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 West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,546 2,986 3,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.34% 92.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,903 2,516
10th Percentile £220 £208 £263
25th Percentile £386 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £620 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 400 267
10th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £18.09
25th Percentile £26.62 £27.50 £50.62
Median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £85.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the South West

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the South West

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the South West

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the South West

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire +36 8 £315 +9.57%
Bristol - 1 - -
Windows Engineer
England

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 South West region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) ITIL
4 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
4 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (33.33%) Software Licensing
5 3 (33.33%) Service Management
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (22.22%) Retail
6 2 (22.22%) Application Packaging
6 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
6 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
7 1 (11.11%) Server Building
7 1 (11.11%) Server Virtualisation
7 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Service Management
2 3 (33.33%) Software Licensing
3 2 (22.22%) Application Packaging
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) ITSM
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Server Building
4 1 (11.11%) Server Virtualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) VMware