Windows Support Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Windows Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows Support Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 463 611
Rank change year-on-year +125 +148 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 10 13 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.066% 0.051% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.053% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 9
10th Percentile £103 £153 £231
25th Percentile £165 £240 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £255 £425
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% -40.00% +41.67%
75th Percentile £479 £293 -
90th Percentile £524 £297 £450
UK median daily rate £175 £255 £200
% change year-on-year -31.37% +27.50% -20.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £30.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -41.67% +71.43% +40.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Windows Support Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Windows Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Support Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Support Engineer.

Windows Support Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Support Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Windows Support Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Support Engineer.

Windows Support Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Windows Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (40.00%) VPN
4 4 (40.00%) Linux
4 4 (40.00%) SLA
4 4 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 4 (40.00%) Information Security
4 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) AWS
5 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (20.00%) Workforce Optimisation
6 2 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (20.00%) Change Management
6 2 (20.00%) Legal
6 2 (20.00%) Apache
6 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel

Windows Support 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 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) H.323
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) IVR
3 1 (10.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (40.00%) Information Security
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (20.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 2 (20.00%) Time Management
2 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (20.00%) WFM
2 2 (20.00%) Workforce Optimisation
3 1 (10.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (10.00%) Break/Fix
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) F#
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Avaya
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Verint
3 1 (10.00%) MobileIron
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow