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 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 290 371
Rank change year-on-year +35 +81 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 88 96 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 0.47% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.51% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 82 50
10th Percentile £148 £160 £173
25th Percentile £168 £216 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £428 £270
Median % change year-on-year -48.60% +58.52% +20.00%
75th Percentile £400 £575 £394
90th Percentile £505 £582 £492
UK median daily rate £325 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -24.07% +7.00% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 9
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 £24.50
90th Percentile - £41.64 £29.60
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 11,781 18,945 22,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 92.49% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,499 11,550 15,483
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 2,261 1,134
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.08
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -4.94% +110.39%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%

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 13 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 13 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 +27 21 £183 -5.19% 1
South East +30 19 £400 -30.43% 21
North of England +25 18 £385 +60.42% 3
West Midlands +34 17 £190 - 1
South West +51 12 £315 -3.08% 2
North West +18 9 £385 +92.50% 2
Yorkshire +20 8 £320 +33.33% 1
Scotland +1 8 £163 -71.74%
East of England +17 5 £155 -35.42% 1
East Midlands +1 4 £168 -12.73%
Northern Ireland - 3 £148 -
Wales - 3 £425 -
North East -6 1 £180 -58.24%
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 88 (100.00%) Windows
2 45 (51.14%) Social Skills
3 38 (43.18%) Windows 10
4 28 (31.82%) Microsoft
4 28 (31.82%) Active Directory
5 21 (23.86%) Windows Server
6 19 (21.59%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (20.45%) PowerShell
7 18 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (19.32%) SCCM
9 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
9 16 (18.18%) Migration
10 14 (15.91%) ITIL
10 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
10 14 (15.91%) Customer Service
11 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (12.50%) VMware
12 11 (12.50%) Time Management
12 11 (12.50%) QA
13 9 (10.23%) Linux
13 9 (10.23%) Dell
13 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (9.09%) Citrix
14 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (7.95%) Remote Desktop
15 7 (7.95%) Customer Experience
15 7 (7.95%) DHCP
15 7 (7.95%) VPN
15 7 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure

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 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.59%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (6.82%) Azure
3 3 (3.41%) GitHub
3 3 (3.41%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.27%) AWS
4 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) DHCP
1 7 (7.95%) Remote Desktop
1 7 (7.95%) VPN
2 5 (5.68%) DNS
3 4 (4.55%) Firewall
3 4 (4.55%) LAN
3 4 (4.55%) NAS
3 4 (4.55%) SAN
4 3 (3.41%) DMZ
4 3 (3.41%) SMTP
5 2 (2.27%) SSL
6 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.14%) VLAN
6 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (1.14%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (51.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.82%) Finance
4 4 (4.55%) Banking
4 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.55%) Retail
5 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) REST
2 1 (1.14%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.68%) Device Driver
2 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.27%) BYOD
4 2 (2.27%) NHS
5 1 (1.14%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.14%) iPhone
5 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.14%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 88 (100.00%) Windows
2 38 (43.18%) Windows 10
3 21 (23.86%) Windows Server
4 9 (10.23%) Linux
5 5 (5.68%) Windows 7
6 4 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.14%) Android
8 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.14%) Unix
8 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (18.18%) Migration
3 14 (15.91%) Customer Service
3 14 (15.91%) ITIL
4 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (12.50%) Time Management
6 7 (7.95%) Customer Experience
7 5 (5.68%) Server Building
7 5 (5.68%) Task Automation
8 4 (4.55%) Application Packaging
8 4 (4.55%) CI/CD
8 4 (4.55%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (4.55%) DevOps
8 4 (4.55%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 4 (4.55%) Patch Management
8 4 (4.55%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (4.55%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (4.55%) Server Migrations
8 4 (4.55%) Storage Management
8 4 (4.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.45%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.27%) SQL
3 1 (1.14%) Bash
3 1 (1.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.68%) A+ Certification
4 5 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.27%) BitLocker
4 2 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (19.32%) SCCM
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.55%) Ansible
3 4 (4.55%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 28 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.50%) VMware
3 9 (10.23%) Dell
4 8 (9.09%) Citrix
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco
6 3 (3.41%) CyberArk
6 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.27%) Apple
7 2 (2.27%) Computacenter
7 2 (2.27%) HP
7 2 (2.27%) Ivanti
7 2 (2.27%) Nexthink
7 2 (2.27%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.14%) Okta
8 1 (1.14%) Oracle
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.14%) Remedy
8 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.14%) Tanium
8 1 (1.14%) Veeam