Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Windows Engineer
England > South West

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the South West is £220, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 135 148
Rank change year-on-year +41 +13 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 19 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.99% 0.15% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 0.16% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 4
10th Percentile £157 £206 £458
25th Percentile £171 £208 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £219 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -63.50% +135.29%
75th Percentile £323 £231 £625
90th Percentile £325 £235 -
England median daily rate £300 £350 £481
% change year-on-year -14.29% -27.27% +42.59%

All DemandTrendContract 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 1,706 2,460 3,161
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.90% 92.34% 95.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 975 1,534 2,182
10th Percentile £223 £225 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 279 276
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.69 £18.18
25th Percentile £18.13 £37.07 £39.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +10.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £70.79
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies 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 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the South West

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies 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 6 September 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 +22 10 £315 +44.83%
Dorset - 3 £198 -
Somerset +4 2 - - 1
Bristol - 2 - -
Gloucestershire - 2 £171 - 1
Devon - 1 - -
Cornwall - 1 - -
Windows Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 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 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Migration
3 7 (36.84%) Windows 10
4 6 (31.58%) Retail
4 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
5 5 (26.32%) Application Packaging
5 5 (26.32%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (21.05%) Time Management
6 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
6 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (21.05%) QA
7 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
7 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
8 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
8 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (10.53%) Runbook
8 2 (10.53%) HP
8 2 (10.53%) Dell
8 2 (10.53%) Chip and PIN
8 2 (10.53%) Workflow
8 2 (10.53%) Workflow Management
8 2 (10.53%) Banking
9 1 (5.26%) Programme Management
9 1 (5.26%) VMware
9 1 (5.26%) Marketing
9 1 (5.26%) Software Packaging

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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GoCD
1 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Retail
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Electronics
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Chip and PIN
2 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) Application Packaging
2 5 (26.32%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Time Management
4 2 (10.53%) Runbook
4 2 (10.53%) Workflow
4 2 (10.53%) Workflow Management
5 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) ITIL
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.26%) Service Management
5 1 (5.26%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) FreeIPA
2 1 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) SCOM
2 1 (5.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Dell
2 2 (10.53%) HP
3 1 (5.26%) Citrix
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) VMware