Windows Build Engineer Contracts

Windows/Wintel Build Engineer
UK

The median Windows/Wintel Build Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 700 843
Rank change year-on-year +131 +143 -160
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Build Engineer 22 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.009% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.009% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 4
10th Percentile - £214 £213
25th Percentile - £217 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £244 £273
Median % change year-on-year +135.90% -10.55% -27.33%
75th Percentile - £317 £346
90th Percentile - £427 £401
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £238 £319
% change year-on-year +142.11% -25.49% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Windows Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Build Engineer in the UK

Windows Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Build Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Windows Build Engineer in the UK

Windows Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Build Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Build Engineer in the UK

Windows Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Build Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Build Engineer in the UK

Windows Build Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Build Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +132 22 £575 +135.90% 1
UK excluding London +69 22 £575 +142.11% 1
South East +42 20 £575 +135.90% 1
North of England +30 2 £423 +88.00%
North East - 2 £423 -

Windows Build Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Windows Build 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 featuring Windows Build Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Windows
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 22 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 20 (90.91%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (90.91%) Windows Server 2016
2 20 (90.91%) Windows Server 2019
2 20 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 20 (90.91%) Sysprep
2 20 (90.91%) Windows Server 2012
2 20 (90.91%) Windows 10
2 20 (90.91%) Customer Service
2 20 (90.91%) WSUS
2 20 (90.91%) QA
2 20 (90.91%) DV Cleared
2 20 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 20 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 20 (90.91%) Firmware
2 20 (90.91%) Release Management
2 20 (90.91%) User Acceptance Testing
2 20 (90.91%) SCCM
2 20 (90.91%) ITIL
2 20 (90.91%) Windows NT
2 20 (90.91%) Service Management
3 2 (9.09%) Firewall
3 2 (9.09%) Security Management
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis
3 2 (9.09%) PKI
3 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Python

Windows Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) AMQP
1 2 (9.09%) DMZ
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) Modbus
1 2 (9.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Tableau
General
1 20 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (9.09%) JSON
1 2 (9.09%) Web Services
1 2 (9.09%) XML
1 2 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) IoT
1 2 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
1 22 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 20 (90.91%) Windows 10
2 20 (90.91%) Windows NT
2 20 (90.91%) Windows Server 2012
2 20 (90.91%) Windows Server 2016
2 20 (90.91%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Customer Service
1 20 (90.91%) Deployment Automation
1 20 (90.91%) ITIL
1 20 (90.91%) Release Management
1 20 (90.91%) Service Management
1 20 (90.91%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (9.09%) CRUD
2 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis
2 2 (9.09%) Data Engineering
2 2 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (9.09%) Performance Management
2 2 (9.09%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (9.09%) Security Management
2 2 (9.09%) Server Building
2 2 (9.09%) Use Case
2 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 2 (9.09%) Python
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (90.91%) DV Cleared
1 20 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (90.91%) QA
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) Active Directory
1 20 (90.91%) Firmware
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (90.91%) SCCM
1 20 (90.91%) Sysprep
1 20 (90.91%) WSUS
2 2 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft