Windows Support Engineer Contracts in London

Windows Support Engineer
England > London

The median Windows Support Engineer daily rate in London is £175 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 479 584
Rank change year-on-year +117 +105 -105
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 24 8 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.031% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.032% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 27
10th Percentile £103 - £168
25th Percentile £136 £153 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £178 £220
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -19.32% +33.33%
75th Percentile £450 £225 £413
90th Percentile £523 £234 £425
England median daily rate £200 £200 £200
% change year-on-year - - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - -
75th Percentile £57.13 - -
90th Percentile £81.65 - -
England median hourly rate £17.00 £25.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year -32.00% +5.26% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

Windows Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Support Engineer in London

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in London

Windows Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Support Engineer in London

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in London

Windows Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Support Engineer in London

Windows Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Support Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +41 3 £400 -
East London - 1 £450 -
Windows Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 job ads across the London region featuring Windows Support Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (37.50%) Windows 7
4 9 (37.50%) ServiceNow
5 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 8 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 8 (33.33%) Finance
6 7 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (29.17%) Windows 10
7 6 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (25.00%) Customer Service
7 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (25.00%) Linux
7 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
7 6 (25.00%) Time Management
7 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
8 5 (20.83%) SCCM
8 5 (20.83%) SLA
8 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
8 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
9 4 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
9 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
9 4 (16.67%) VPN
9 4 (16.67%) Degree
9 4 (16.67%) Azure
9 4 (16.67%) AWS
9 4 (16.67%) Banking

Windows Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
1 8 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Banking
4 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Hedge funds
2 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.33%) BYOD
3 2 (8.33%) iPad
3 2 (8.33%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows 7
3 7 (29.17%) Windows 10
4 6 (25.00%) Linux
5 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
6 2 (8.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (25.00%) Time Management
2 4 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.33%) Analytics
4 2 (8.33%) Customer Experience
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (8.33%) Information Security
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (8.33%) ITIL
4 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (8.33%) User Experience
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (4.17%) Inventory Management
5 1 (4.17%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (4.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) C#
1 2 (8.33%) F#
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
2 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.50%) Altiris
4 2 (8.33%) Citrix
4 2 (8.33%) MobileIron
4 2 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) HP