Windows Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £420 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 519 530
Rank change year-on-year +120 +11 -90
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 141 138 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.28% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.30% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 90 207
10th Percentile £147 £173 £140
25th Percentile £204 £223 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £262
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +52.67% -25.14%
75th Percentile £575 £522 £450
90th Percentile £597 £626 £588
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £288
% change year-on-year +6.25% +39.13% -20.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 12
10th Percentile £16.07 - £14.82
25th Percentile £16.44 £15.50 £15.89
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £21.00 £25.75 -
90th Percentile £68.30 £29.65 -
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +31.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
London +73 60 £450 -4.76% 13
South East +49 36 £575 +64.29% 6
North of England +27 15 £328 +54.12% 1
Midlands +33 13 £193 -41.67% 3
East Midlands +29 12 £193 -61.50% 1
East of England +10 11 £240 -6.80% 4
North West +17 10 £200 +14.29% 1
South West +13 6 £325 -18.75% 4
Yorkshire +15 3 £240 -12.73%
North East +14 2 £423 -
West Midlands +15 1 - - 2
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 141 (100.00%) Windows
2 71 (50.35%) Active Directory
3 62 (43.97%) Microsoft
3 62 (43.97%) Windows Server
4 60 (42.55%) Windows 10
5 53 (37.59%) SCCM
6 42 (29.79%) Social Skills
7 41 (29.08%) Security Cleared
8 37 (26.24%) Customer Service
9 33 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (20.57%) Windows Server 2012
10 29 (20.57%) ITIL
11 28 (19.86%) DV Cleared
12 26 (18.44%) Windows Server 2019
13 25 (17.73%) Windows Server 2016
13 25 (17.73%) Release Management
13 25 (17.73%) Azure
14 23 (16.31%) User Acceptance Testing
14 23 (16.31%) Service Management
15 22 (15.60%) QA
16 21 (14.89%) WSUS
16 21 (14.89%) Finance
16 21 (14.89%) Firmware
17 20 (14.18%) Windows NT
17 20 (14.18%) VMware
17 20 (14.18%) Windows 7
17 20 (14.18%) Sysprep
17 20 (14.18%) Deployment Automation
18 19 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 18 (12.77%) PowerShell

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.71%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (17.73%) Azure
3 14 (9.93%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.38%) AWS
5 5 (3.55%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.42%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.42%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.71%) IaaS
7 1 (0.71%) PaaS
7 1 (0.71%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.35%) VPN
2 9 (6.38%) Firewall
3 8 (5.67%) DNS
4 7 (4.96%) DHCP
5 6 (4.26%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.55%) SAN
7 4 (2.84%) Ethernet
8 3 (2.13%) DSL
9 2 (1.42%) AMQP
9 2 (1.42%) DMZ
9 2 (1.42%) Modbus
9 2 (1.42%) MQTT
9 2 (1.42%) NetScaler
9 2 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.42%) Wireless
10 1 (0.71%) NAS
10 1 (0.71%) Network Security
10 1 (0.71%) SSH
10 1 (0.71%) VLAN
10 1 (0.71%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.42%) Tableau
3 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (5.67%) JIRA
2 6 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.42%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.42%) Git
3 2 (1.42%) Subversion
3 2 (1.42%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 42 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.89%) Finance
3 15 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (8.51%) Banking
5 11 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.96%) .NET
2 3 (2.13%) Middleware
2 3 (2.13%) XMPP
3 2 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.42%) JSON
3 2 (1.42%) WCF
3 2 (1.42%) Web Services
3 2 (1.42%) WinForms
3 2 (1.42%) XML
3 2 (1.42%) XSLT
4 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.71%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.96%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.26%) Clustering
3 3 (2.13%) BYOD
3 3 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.13%) iPad
4 2 (1.42%) Blackberry
4 2 (1.42%) IoT
4 2 (1.42%) iPhone
4 2 (1.42%) PKI
4 2 (1.42%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.71%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.71%) NHS
5 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 141 (100.00%) Windows
2 62 (43.97%) Windows Server
3 60 (42.55%) Windows 10
4 29 (20.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 26 (18.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (17.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (14.18%) Windows 7
7 20 (14.18%) Windows NT
8 16 (11.35%) Linux
9 4 (2.84%) Mac OS
9 4 (2.84%) Windows Vista
10 3 (2.13%) Android
10 3 (2.13%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.42%) Unix
12 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.71%) VMS
12 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.24%) Customer Service
2 29 (20.57%) ITIL
3 25 (17.73%) Release Management
4 23 (16.31%) Service Management
4 23 (16.31%) User Acceptance Testing
5 20 (14.18%) Deployment Automation
6 19 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (9.93%) Migration
8 13 (9.22%) Customer Requirements
9 11 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (7.09%) DevOps
11 7 (4.96%) High Availability
12 6 (4.26%) Agile
12 6 (4.26%) Decision-Making
12 6 (4.26%) Information Security
12 6 (4.26%) Time Management
13 5 (3.55%) Asset Management
13 5 (3.55%) Patch Management
13 5 (3.55%) Project Delivery
13 5 (3.55%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 18 (12.77%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.80%) Python
2 11 (7.80%) SQL
3 8 (5.67%) C#
4 3 (2.13%) C++
4 3 (2.13%) Ruby
5 2 (1.42%) Bash
5 2 (1.42%) F#
5 2 (1.42%) Java
5 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.71%) Perl
6 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 41 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.86%) DV Cleared
3 12 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.09%) Degree
5 9 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.42%) CCNA
6 2 (1.42%) CCNP
6 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.42%) MCSA
7 1 (0.71%) ACMT
7 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.60%) QA
2 11 (7.80%) SLA
3 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 71 (50.35%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.89%) Firmware
3 17 (12.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.26%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.55%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (3.55%) vSphere
6 2 (1.42%) Docker
6 2 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (37.59%) SCCM
2 21 (14.89%) WSUS
3 20 (14.18%) Sysprep
4 10 (7.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.84%) Ansible
5 4 (2.84%) Autotask
6 3 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.42%) BladeLogic
7 2 (1.42%) CFEngine
7 2 (1.42%) Grafana
7 2 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.42%) PowerBroker
7 2 (1.42%) Puppet
7 2 (1.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.71%) Nessus
8 1 (0.71%) Terraform
8 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (43.97%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.18%) VMware
3 12 (8.51%) Citrix
4 8 (5.67%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.26%) Apple
6 4 (2.84%) Cisco
6 4 (2.84%) Dell
6 4 (2.84%) HP
6 4 (2.84%) Remedy
7 3 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.42%) Altiris
8 2 (1.42%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.42%) MobileIron
9 1 (0.71%) BEA
9 1 (0.71%) Brocade
9 1 (0.71%) CA
9 1 (0.71%) Dell Compellent
9 1 (0.71%) Qualys
9 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.71%) Veeam