Windows Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Windows Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £178, 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 313 374 430
Rank change year-on-year +61 +56 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 23 25 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 23
10th Percentile £126 £122 £173
25th Percentile £149 £126 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £178 £205 £260
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% -21.15% +73.33%
75th Percentile £252 £239 £280
90th Percentile £319 £245 £292
UK median daily rate £178 £175 £260
% change year-on-year +1.43% -32.69% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -40.00% +96.72%
75th Percentile £23.00 - -
90th Percentile - £18.16 -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +25.71% -41.67% +71.43%

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 Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Windows Support 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 Support 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
Scotland +15 5 £150 +19.05%
North of England +17 4 £151 -10.15%
South West - 4 £220 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £148 -
South East +44 2 £263 +16.67%
Midlands +17 2 £146 -16.36%
North West +15 2 £175 +24.11%
Yorkshire +8 2 £126 -46.95%
Wales - 2 £425 -
East of England +26 1 £226 -5.83%
East Midlands +4 1 £180 +2.86%
West Midlands - 1 £113 -
Windows Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Windows Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
3 15 (65.22%) Windows 10
4 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
5 12 (52.17%) ITIL
6 10 (43.48%) Customer Service
7 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (30.43%) Customer Experience
8 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
9 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
9 6 (26.09%) SCCM
9 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
9 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
10 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (21.74%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (21.74%) Time Management
10 5 (21.74%) QA
10 5 (21.74%) Device Driver
10 5 (21.74%) A+ Certification
10 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
11 4 (17.39%) Citrix
11 4 (17.39%) Banking
11 4 (17.39%) Azure
12 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
12 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
12 3 (13.04%) Software Licensing
12 3 (13.04%) Finance

Windows Support 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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) VPN
3 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Device Driver
2 2 (8.70%) BYOD
3 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.35%) iPhone
3 1 (4.35%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (65.22%) Windows 10
3 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
4 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.35%) Android
5 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) ITIL
2 10 (43.48%) Customer Service
3 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) Customer Experience
5 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Time Management
6 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
6 3 (13.04%) Service Management
6 3 (13.04%) Software Licensing
7 2 (8.70%) Coaching
7 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery
8 1 (4.35%) Analytics
8 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (4.35%) Change Management
8 1 (4.35%) Data Analytics
8 1 (4.35%) Digital Transformation Strategy
8 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (4.35%) Migration
8 1 (4.35%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) A+ Certification
4 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.35%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Citrix
3 2 (8.70%) Apple
3 2 (8.70%) Computacenter
3 2 (8.70%) Ivanti
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) Zscaler