Windows Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 695 825
Rank change year-on-year +137 +130 -160
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 29 20 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.033% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.035% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 29
10th Percentile £236 £405 £331
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +25.00%
75th Percentile £613 £568 £475
90th Percentile £625 £660 £502
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £488 £440
% change year-on-year +17.95% +10.80% +35.38%

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 40,554 57,501 85,863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.56% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,500 40,089 60,302
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,611 1,615 2,125
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.65 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 April 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 +131 21 £450 -10.00% 3
UK excluding London +59 17 £575 +17.95% 2
London +111 12 £450 -10.00% 1
Scotland - 8 £575 -
Work from Home +129 4 £463 -11.90% 1
North of England +35 3 £475 - 1
Midlands - 3 £338 -
South East +24 2 £463 -11.90%
North West - 2 £318 -
East Midlands - 2 £338 -
Yorkshire +15 1 £475 -
South West - 1 £600 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Windows Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Windows
2 26 (89.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
4 15 (51.72%) Active Directory
4 15 (51.72%) Azure
5 12 (41.38%) Windows Server
6 11 (37.93%) Agile
6 11 (37.93%) SCCM
7 10 (34.48%) VMware
7 10 (34.48%) DevOps
7 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
8 9 (31.03%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (31.03%) Windows 10
8 9 (31.03%) Python
9 8 (27.59%) Finance
10 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
10 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
10 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (20.69%) Splunk
10 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
10 6 (20.69%) Citrix
10 6 (20.69%) Unix
11 5 (17.24%) Migration
11 5 (17.24%) Refactoring
11 5 (17.24%) Banking
11 5 (17.24%) Mac OS
11 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (17.24%) Disk Encryption
11 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving

Windows Infrastructure 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 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
4 4 (13.79%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) SAN
3 2 (6.90%) DHCP
3 2 (6.90%) DNS
4 1 (3.45%) FTP
4 1 (3.45%) HTTP
4 1 (3.45%) NAS
4 1 (3.45%) Skype
4 1 (3.45%) SMTP
4 1 (3.45%) SNMP
4 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.45%) SSH
4 1 (3.45%) SSL
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.45%) Telnet
4 1 (3.45%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
1 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.45%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (41.38%) Windows Server
3 9 (31.03%) Windows 10
4 6 (20.69%) Unix
5 5 (17.24%) Mac OS
6 4 (13.79%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.45%) Linux
7 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (17.24%) Disk Encryption
4 5 (17.24%) Migration
4 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.24%) Refactoring
4 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.90%) Change Management
6 2 (6.90%) ITIL
6 2 (6.90%) Scrum
6 2 (6.90%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 1 (3.45%) Critical Thinking
7 1 (3.45%) Identity Management
7 1 (3.45%) Information Security
7 1 (3.45%) NsoIT
7 1 (3.45%) Password Management
7 1 (3.45%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
2 9 (31.03%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) C
4 1 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.34%) vSphere
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) SCCM
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.45%) Puppet
4 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (34.48%) VMware
3 6 (20.69%) Citrix
3 6 (20.69%) Splunk
4 3 (10.34%) HP
5 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.45%) Dell
6 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.45%) Veeam