Windows Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Windows Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 305 406
Rank change year-on-year +34 +101 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 33 40 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.28% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 53
10th Percentile £220 £314 £243
25th Percentile £304 £363 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £482 £470
Median % change year-on-year -16.93% +2.45% +10.59%
75th Percentile £513 £583 £550
90th Percentile £543 £672 £590
UK median daily rate £315 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -30.00% +12.50% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £18.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Windows Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows Engineer.

Windows Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Windows Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Windows Engineer.

Windows Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 15 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
4 10 (30.30%) Windows 10
4 10 (30.30%) Windows Server
4 10 (30.30%) SCCM
4 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
5 9 (27.27%) DNS
5 9 (27.27%) ITIL
5 9 (27.27%) Migration
6 8 (24.24%) VMware
6 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
6 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
6 8 (24.24%) Azure
7 7 (21.21%) AWS
7 7 (21.21%) Linux
7 7 (21.21%) DHCP
8 6 (18.18%) Finance
8 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (18.18%) Terraform
9 5 (15.15%) Ansible
9 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
9 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
10 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (12.12%) Banking
10 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
10 4 (12.12%) CyberArk
10 4 (12.12%) DevOps
10 4 (12.12%) Entra ID

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 3 (9.09%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) IaaS
6 2 (6.06%) PaaS
6 2 (6.06%) SaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.03%) Rubrik
7 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) DNS
2 7 (21.21%) DHCP
3 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.06%) Firewall
4 2 (6.06%) VLAN
4 2 (6.06%) VPN
5 1 (3.03%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.03%) NAS
5 1 (3.03%) SAN
5 1 (3.03%) SMTP
5 1 (3.03%) SSL
5 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.03%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.03%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) LDAP
1 1 (3.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.03%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Clustering
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (30.30%) Windows 10
2 10 (30.30%) Windows Server
3 7 (21.21%) Linux
4 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.06%) Unix
5 2 (6.06%) Windows 7
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.03%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) ITIL
1 9 (27.27%) Migration
2 4 (12.12%) DevOps
2 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (9.09%) Patch Management
3 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (9.09%) Service Management
3 3 (9.09%) Software Licensing
4 2 (6.06%) Configuration Management
4 2 (6.06%) Customer Service
4 2 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (6.06%) ITSM
4 2 (6.06%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (6.06%) Service-Level Objective
4 2 (6.06%) Technical Debt
5 1 (3.03%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (3.03%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) VBScript
3 2 (6.06%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) MCSA
4 1 (3.03%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) vSphere
4 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.03%) Docker
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) SCCM
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 5 (15.15%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Packer
4 3 (9.09%) WSUS
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.03%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.03%) Netcool
6 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.03%) SCOM
6 1 (3.03%) SysTrack
6 1 (3.03%) Tivoli
6 1 (3.03%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) CyberArk
4 3 (9.09%) Cisco
5 2 (6.06%) Apple
5 2 (6.06%) Citrix
5 2 (6.06%) Ivanti
6 1 (3.03%) EMC
6 1 (3.03%) HP
6 1 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (3.03%) Isilon
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle
6 1 (3.03%) Qualys
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.03%) Remedy
6 1 (3.03%) Serena
6 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) Sybase
6 1 (3.03%) Veeam