Windows Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £385, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 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
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 567 665
Rank change year-on-year +41 +98 +178
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 20 29 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.067% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.072% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 23
10th Percentile £359 £210 £425
25th Percentile £375 £319 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% -20.83% +41.18%
75th Percentile £400 £613 £650
90th Percentile £510 £623 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -25.00% -16.67% +55.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 29,425 40,103 54,114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 92.99% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,757 25,815 37,579
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.03%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,334 2,768 1,584
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.62 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.58
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.07% +96.06%

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 8 July 2025.

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 10 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 8 July 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
England +51 20 £385 -3.75% 2
UK excluding London +41 14 £375 -25.00% 1
Work from Home +40 7 £375 +11.11%
South East +45 6 £375 -23.27% 1
London +27 6 £400 +14.29% 2
Midlands +8 5 £450 +33.33%
West Midlands +5 5 £450 -
North of England +5 3 £353 -25.79%
Yorkshire +3 2 £320 -32.63%
North West +2 1 £385 -18.95%

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 2025, 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 20 (100.00%) Windows
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) VMware
3 9 (45.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (40.00%) Linux
4 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
5 6 (30.00%) Citrix
5 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (30.00%) DHCP
5 6 (30.00%) DNS
5 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
6 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (25.00%) vSphere
6 5 (25.00%) Confluence
6 5 (25.00%) Veeam
6 5 (25.00%) SSL
6 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (25.00%) VPN
6 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (25.00%) Tivoli
6 5 (25.00%) VLAN
6 5 (25.00%) JIRA
7 4 (20.00%) Information Security
7 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery

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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DHCP
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 5 (25.00%) SSL
2 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (25.00%) VLAN
2 5 (25.00%) VPN
3 4 (20.00%) LAN
3 4 (20.00%) NAS
3 4 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (40.00%) Linux
4 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps
2 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (20.00%) Information Security
2 4 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (20.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (5.00%) Agile
5 1 (5.00%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (5.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) vSphere
3 4 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) VMware
2 6 (30.00%) Citrix
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 5 (25.00%) Veeam
4 4 (20.00%) Dell
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) Netskope
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle