Windows Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Windows Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £315, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 August 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
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 73 79
Rank change year-on-year +32 +6 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 12 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 2.58% 0.40% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 0.46% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £153 £207 -
25th Percentile £220 £209 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -
75th Percentile £323 £306 -
90th Percentile £325 £348 -
South West median daily rate £220 £219 £600
% change year-on-year +0.46% -63.50% +135.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 417 652 921
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.48% 87.99% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 521 702
10th Percentile £270 £325 £313
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £644 £641 £638
90th Percentile £695 £700 £712
South West median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 16
10th Percentile £18.69 - £40.85
25th Percentile £18.87 - £45.75
Median hourly rate £22.25 £12.79 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.96% -76.75% +1.85%
75th Percentile £25.15 £16.98 £65.75
90th Percentile - £25.00 £73.50
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £61.78
% change year-on-year -61.60% +6.03% +23.55%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in Wiltshire

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in Wiltshire

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in Wiltshire

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in Wiltshire

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Swindon +6 6 £315 +50.00%
Salisbury - 3 £220 -
Tidworth - 2 £153 -
Windows Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 2025, 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 across the Wiltshire region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Migration
2 6 (50.00%) Retail
2 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) Application Packaging
4 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Software Licensing
5 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (25.00%) Service Management
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
6 2 (16.67%) Workflow Management
6 2 (16.67%) QA
6 2 (16.67%) Workflow
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (16.67%) Time Management
7 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (8.33%) Ansible
7 1 (8.33%) FreeIPA
7 1 (8.33%) vSphere
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GoCD
1 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (50.00%) Retail
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Application Packaging
2 5 (41.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 3 (25.00%) Software Licensing
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
5 2 (16.67%) Workflow
5 2 (16.67%) Workflow Management
6 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) FreeIPA
2 1 (8.33%) SCOM
2 1 (8.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) VMware