Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Windows Engineer
Cheshire > Warrington

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Warrington is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 21 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 2.33% 1.56% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.56% 1.67% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £200
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +100.00% -
75th Percentile £438 - £210
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £363 £455 £582
% change year-on-year -20.33% -21.82% +30.64%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Warrington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Warrington. 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 Warrington with a recognized job title 78 60 77
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.70% 93.75% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 37 43
10th Percentile £223 £203 £158
25th Percentile £367 £230 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £546 £519 £500
90th Percentile £593 £568 £536
Cheshire median daily rate £458 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.58% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 12
10th Percentile £13.47 - £11.00
25th Percentile £13.98 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £24.25
75th Percentile £20.63 - £28.52
90th Percentile £23.74 - £43.91
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £35.20 £21.04
% change year-on-year -35.09% +67.34% +5.18%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Windows Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Windows Engineer job vacancy trend in Warrington

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Warrington.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Warrington

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Warrington.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Warrington

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington

For the 6 months to 13 March 2026, Windows Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Warrington region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft