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 £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 420 475
Rank change year-on-year +52 +55 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 26 31 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 27
10th Percentile £122 £173 £136
25th Percentile £126 £188 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £258 £150
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% +71.67% -54.20%
75th Percentile £238 £280 £225
90th Percentile £245 £292 £260
UK median daily rate £175 £253 £200
% change year-on-year -30.69% +26.25% -20.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £13.45
25th Percentile £17.00 - £14.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +96.72% +22.00%
75th Percentile - - £16.38
90th Percentile £18.16 - £17.05
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £30.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -41.67% +71.43% +40.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

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
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 10 May 2024. 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 7 £175 -18.60%
East Midlands +27 7 £175 -18.60%
North of England +30 6 £168 -4.29% 1
East of England +18 5 £240 +7.87%
Scotland +30 4 £126 -53.33% 1
North West +22 4 £141 -19.43% 1
South East - 4 £225 -
Yorkshire +17 2 £238 -13.64%
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 10 May 2024, 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 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
3 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
3 11 (42.31%) Windows 10
4 10 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (34.62%) Windows Server
5 9 (34.62%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (30.77%) Customer Requirements
6 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (30.77%) Windows 7
7 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
7 7 (26.92%) VPN
8 6 (23.08%) SLA
8 6 (23.08%) SCCM
9 5 (19.23%) Release Management
9 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (19.23%) High Availability
9 5 (19.23%) ITIL
9 5 (19.23%) Linux
9 5 (19.23%) VMware
9 5 (19.23%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (19.23%) Clustering
9 5 (19.23%) Apple
10 4 (15.38%) Ticket Management
10 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (15.38%) Autotask
10 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
10 4 (15.38%) Ethernet
10 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP

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 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) VPN
2 4 (15.38%) Ethernet
2 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 3 (11.54%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (7.69%) Firewall
5 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 9 (34.62%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Clustering
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) iPhone
3 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (42.31%) Windows 10
3 9 (34.62%) Windows Server
4 8 (30.77%) Windows 7
5 5 (19.23%) Linux
6 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (15.38%) Windows Vista
7 3 (11.54%) Mac OS X
8 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
8 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (19.23%) High Availability
2 5 (19.23%) ITIL
2 5 (19.23%) Release Management
3 4 (15.38%) Customer Service
3 4 (15.38%) Ticket Management
4 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
4 3 (11.54%) Time Management
5 2 (7.69%) Asset Management
5 2 (7.69%) Business Strategy
5 2 (7.69%) Customer Experience
5 2 (7.69%) Information Security
5 2 (7.69%) Inventory Management
5 2 (7.69%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (7.69%) Service Management
5 2 (7.69%) Software Deployment
5 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.85%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (19.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) SCCM
2 4 (15.38%) Autotask
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Apple
2 5 (19.23%) VMware
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco
3 4 (15.38%) Remedy
4 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) Samsung