Windows Engineer Contracts

Windows Engineer
UK

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the UK is £441 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 515 562
Rank change year-on-year +111 +47 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 167 173 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 117 218
10th Percentile £144 £173 £140
25th Percentile £201 £243 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% +45.45% -26.67%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £450
90th Percentile £613 £590 £557
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £270 £220
% change year-on-year +57.41% +22.73% -32.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 15
10th Percentile £16.25 - £13.73
25th Percentile £16.63 £15.50 £16.88
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £20.14 £23.13 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £29.65 £29.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +33.20%

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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 +109 138 £425 +6.25% 34
UK excluding London +77 95 £425 +57.41% 22
London +86 60 £450 -4.76% 15
South East +56 34 £575 +63.12% 10
Work from Home +72 32 £482 +8.20% 6
Scotland +43 17 £575 +112.96% 1
North of England +28 13 £238 -2.06% 1
Midlands +19 13 £193 -14.44% 3
East Midlands +17 12 £193 -10.47% 1
East of England +9 12 £245 -7.55% 6
North West +22 9 £188 -6.25% 1
South West +4 6 £325 -18.75% 3
Yorkshire +10 3 £240 -12.73%
West Midlands +16 1 - - 2
North East +13 1 £431 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 167 (100.00%) Windows
2 73 (43.71%) Active Directory
3 71 (42.51%) Microsoft
4 67 (40.12%) Windows Server
5 61 (36.53%) Windows 10
5 61 (36.53%) SCCM
6 47 (28.14%) Security Cleared
7 46 (27.54%) Social Skills
8 35 (20.96%) Customer Service
9 33 (19.76%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (19.16%) PowerShell
11 30 (17.96%) Windows Server 2012
12 28 (16.77%) ITIL
12 28 (16.77%) Azure
12 28 (16.77%) DV Cleared
12 28 (16.77%) Windows Server 2019
12 28 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 27 (16.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 26 (15.57%) Finance
15 24 (14.37%) Release Management
16 22 (13.17%) User Acceptance Testing
16 22 (13.17%) VMware
16 22 (13.17%) Service Management
16 22 (13.17%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (12.57%) DevOps
17 21 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
17 21 (12.57%) QA
18 20 (11.98%) WSUS
18 20 (11.98%) Windows 7
18 20 (11.98%) Python

Windows 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.80%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (10.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.76%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (16.77%) Azure
3 17 (10.18%) AWS
4 13 (7.78%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.99%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.40%) GitHub
6 4 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.40%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.20%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.60%) IaaS
8 1 (0.60%) PaaS
8 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.60%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.60%) SaaS
8 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.58%) VPN
2 11 (6.59%) DNS
3 10 (5.99%) DHCP
4 8 (4.79%) Firewall
5 7 (4.19%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.99%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (2.99%) SAN
7 4 (2.40%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.20%) DSL
8 2 (1.20%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.20%) VLAN
8 2 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.20%) Wireless
9 1 (0.60%) AMQP
9 1 (0.60%) Modbus
9 1 (0.60%) MQTT
9 1 (0.60%) NAS
9 1 (0.60%) Network Security
9 1 (0.60%) Telnet
9 1 (0.60%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.80%) Power BI
3 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (4.19%) JIRA
2 6 (3.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.40%) Git
4 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.20%) Subversion
4 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 46 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.57%) Finance
3 22 (13.17%) Presentation Skills
4 21 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.18%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (7.19%) Banking
7 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.19%) .NET
2 3 (1.80%) Middleware
2 3 (1.80%) XMPP
3 2 (1.20%) WCF
3 2 (1.20%) WinForms
4 1 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.60%) JSON
4 1 (0.60%) Redfish
4 1 (0.60%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.60%) Web Services
4 1 (0.60%) XML
4 1 (0.60%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.39%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.19%) Clustering
3 5 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.40%) iPhone
5 3 (1.80%) BYOD
5 3 (1.80%) iPad
6 2 (1.20%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.60%) IoT
7 1 (0.60%) NHS
7 1 (0.60%) PKI
7 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 167 (100.00%) Windows
2 67 (40.12%) Windows Server
3 61 (36.53%) Windows 10
4 30 (17.96%) Windows Server 2012
5 28 (16.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (16.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (11.98%) Windows 7
8 19 (11.38%) Windows NT
9 17 (10.18%) Linux
10 9 (5.39%) Mac OS
11 8 (4.79%) Unix
12 4 (2.40%) Windows Vista
13 3 (1.80%) Android
13 3 (1.80%) Mac OS X
14 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.60%) VMS
15 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (20.96%) Customer Service
2 28 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (16.77%) ITIL
3 24 (14.37%) Release Management
4 22 (13.17%) Service Management
4 22 (13.17%) User Acceptance Testing
5 21 (12.57%) DevOps
6 20 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.38%) Deployment Automation
8 16 (9.58%) Agile
9 14 (8.38%) Customer Requirements
9 14 (8.38%) Decision-Making
9 14 (8.38%) Migration
9 14 (8.38%) Time Management
10 10 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (4.79%) CI/CD
11 8 (4.79%) High Availability
12 7 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (3.59%) Disk Encryption
13 6 (3.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.16%) PowerShell
2 20 (11.98%) Python
3 10 (5.99%) SQL
4 8 (4.79%) C#
5 3 (1.80%) C++
5 3 (1.80%) Perl
6 2 (1.20%) Bash
6 2 (1.20%) F#
6 2 (1.20%) Java
6 2 (1.20%) Ruby
7 1 (0.60%) C
7 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (28.14%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.77%) DV Cleared
3 18 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.78%) Degree
5 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.20%) CCNA
6 2 (1.20%) CCNP
6 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.20%) MCSA
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.57%) QA
2 13 (7.78%) SLA
3 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 73 (43.71%) Active Directory
2 20 (11.98%) Firmware
3 19 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.39%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.59%) vSphere
6 5 (2.99%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.60%) Docker
8 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (36.53%) SCCM
2 20 (11.98%) WSUS
3 19 (11.38%) Sysprep
4 15 (8.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.99%) Ansible
6 4 (2.40%) Autotask
7 3 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.20%) BladeLogic
8 2 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.20%) SCOM
8 2 (1.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.20%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.20%) vRealize
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.60%) Nessus
9 1 (0.60%) PowerBroker
9 1 (0.60%) Puppet
9 1 (0.60%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 71 (42.51%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.17%) VMware
3 11 (6.59%) Citrix
4 9 (5.39%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.79%) Apple
6 6 (3.59%) HP
6 6 (3.59%) Splunk
7 4 (2.40%) Cisco
7 4 (2.40%) Dell
7 4 (2.40%) Remedy
7 4 (2.40%) UiPath
8 3 (1.80%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.20%) Altiris
9 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.20%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.20%) MobileIron
9 2 (1.20%) Samsung
9 2 (1.20%) Varonis
10 1 (0.60%) Qualys