Windows Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £220, 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 253 297 385
Rank change year-on-year +44 +88 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 83 103 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.50% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.54% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 88 46
10th Percentile £148 £162 £173
25th Percentile £168 £225 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £450 £268
Median % change year-on-year -51.11% +67.91% +19.11%
75th Percentile £400 £575 £354
90th Percentile £477 £592 £501
UK median daily rate £315 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -30.00% +12.50% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile - £17.00 -
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £23.00 £18.20 £25.75
90th Percentile - £41.64 £29.65
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £18.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Midlands +29 20 £180 -6.49% 5
North of England +20 20 £385 -10.67% 1
West Midlands +29 16 £193 - 2
South East +24 16 £331 -42.39% 9
North West +13 10 £385 -24.88% 1
South West +48 9 £315 -6.67% 1
Yorkshire +14 9 £360 +50.00%
Scotland +5 8 £163 -71.74%
East of England +25 5 £155 -35.42% 1
East Midlands +2 4 £168 -12.73% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £148 -
Wales - 3 £425 -
North East -1 1 £180 -57.45%
Windows Engineer
UK

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (100.00%) Windows
2 45 (54.22%) Social Skills
3 38 (45.78%) Windows 10
4 28 (33.73%) Active Directory
5 27 (32.53%) Microsoft
6 20 (24.10%) Windows Server
7 19 (22.89%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (20.48%) SCCM
8 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (19.28%) PowerShell
10 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
10 15 (18.07%) ITIL
11 14 (16.87%) Customer Service
12 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
13 11 (13.25%) Time Management
13 11 (13.25%) QA
13 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
13 11 (13.25%) Migration
13 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (12.05%) VMware
15 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Intune
15 9 (10.84%) Linux
15 9 (10.84%) Dell
16 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (8.43%) Remote Desktop
17 7 (8.43%) Customer Experience
17 7 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
17 7 (8.43%) Azure
17 7 (8.43%) Citrix
17 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Office

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.43%) Azure
3 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.61%) GitHub
4 3 (3.61%) Nutanix
5 2 (2.41%) AWS
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (7.23%) DHCP
2 6 (7.23%) VPN
3 5 (6.02%) Firewall
4 4 (4.82%) LAN
4 4 (4.82%) NAS
4 4 (4.82%) SAN
5 3 (3.61%) DMZ
5 3 (3.61%) DNS
5 3 (3.61%) SMTP
6 1 (1.20%) SSL
6 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (54.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Finance
4 5 (6.02%) Banking
5 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.41%) Retail
7 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Device Driver
2 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.41%) BYOD
4 2 (2.41%) NHS
5 1 (1.20%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.20%) iPhone
5 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 83 (100.00%) Windows
2 38 (45.78%) Windows 10
3 20 (24.10%) Windows Server
4 9 (10.84%) Linux
5 6 (7.23%) Windows 7
6 4 (4.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.20%) Android
8 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.20%) Unix
8 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.07%) ITIL
3 14 (16.87%) Customer Service
4 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (13.25%) Migration
4 11 (13.25%) Time Management
5 7 (8.43%) Customer Experience
6 5 (6.02%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 5 (6.02%) Server Building
6 5 (6.02%) Task Automation
7 4 (4.82%) CI/CD
7 4 (4.82%) DevOps
7 4 (4.82%) ITSM
7 4 (4.82%) Patch Management
7 4 (4.82%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (4.82%) Server Migrations
7 4 (4.82%) Storage Management
8 3 (3.61%) Service Delivery
8 3 (3.61%) Service Management
8 3 (3.61%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.28%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.41%) SQL
3 1 (1.20%) Bash
3 1 (1.20%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.66%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (6.02%) A+ Certification
4 5 (6.02%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.25%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (33.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.82%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.41%) BitLocker
4 2 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (20.48%) SCCM
2 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.82%) Ansible
3 4 (4.82%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 27 (32.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.05%) VMware
3 9 (10.84%) Dell
4 7 (8.43%) Citrix
5 4 (4.82%) Cisco
6 3 (3.61%) CyberArk
6 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.41%) Apple
7 2 (2.41%) Computacenter
7 2 (2.41%) HP
7 2 (2.41%) Ivanti
7 2 (2.41%) Nexthink
7 2 (2.41%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.20%) Okta
8 1 (1.20%) Oracle
8 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.20%) Remedy
8 1 (1.20%) Tanium