Windows Engineer Contracts

Windows Engineer
UK

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the UK is £428 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 525 545
Rank change year-on-year +111 +20 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 169 178 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 119 230
10th Percentile £144 £173 £140
25th Percentile £204 £236 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £400 £281
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +42.22% -22.41%
75th Percentile £575 £517 £474
90th Percentile £613 £589 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £268 £225
% change year-on-year +59.70% +19.11% -25.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 14
10th Percentile £16.25 - £13.55
25th Percentile £16.63 £15.50 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +31.62%
75th Percentile £20.14 £25.75 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £29.65 £30.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +38.99%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +96 140 £425 +6.25% 28
UK excluding London +75 96 £428 +59.70% 18
London +78 60 £450 -4.76% 13
South East +45 36 £575 +64.29% 6
Work from Home +83 34 £482 +7.60% 8
Scotland +40 16 £575 +112.96% 2
North of England +31 14 £240 +12.94% 1
Midlands +22 13 £193 -14.44% 3
East Midlands +25 12 £193 -10.47% 1
East of England +17 11 £240 -6.80% 4
North West +25 10 £200 +14.29% 1
South West +16 6 £325 -18.75% 4
Yorkshire +15 3 £240 -12.73%
North East +16 1 £431 -
West Midlands +11 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 169 (100.00%) Windows
2 73 (43.20%) Active Directory
3 71 (42.01%) Microsoft
4 68 (40.24%) Windows Server
5 62 (36.69%) SCCM
6 61 (36.09%) Windows 10
7 48 (28.40%) Social Skills
8 46 (27.22%) Security Cleared
9 37 (21.89%) Customer Service
10 34 (20.12%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (18.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 29 (17.16%) PowerShell
12 29 (17.16%) ITIL
12 29 (17.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (16.57%) Windows Server 2019
13 28 (16.57%) DV Cleared
13 28 (16.57%) Azure
14 27 (15.98%) Windows Server 2016
15 26 (15.38%) Finance
16 25 (14.79%) Release Management
17 23 (13.61%) User Acceptance Testing
17 23 (13.61%) Service Management
18 22 (13.02%) QA
18 22 (13.02%) Presentation Skills
18 22 (13.02%) DevOps
18 22 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
19 21 (12.43%) WSUS
19 21 (12.43%) VMware
19 21 (12.43%) Firmware
20 20 (11.83%) Python

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.55%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.37%) IIS
3 1 (0.59%) Apache
3 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (10.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.12%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (16.57%) Azure
3 18 (10.65%) AWS
4 14 (8.28%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.55%) OneDrive
6 5 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.37%) GitHub
7 4 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.37%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.18%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.59%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.59%) IaaS
9 1 (0.59%) PaaS
9 1 (0.59%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.59%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.59%) SaaS
9 1 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.47%) VPN
2 10 (5.92%) DNS
3 9 (5.33%) DHCP
4 8 (4.73%) Firewall
5 7 (4.14%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.96%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (2.96%) SAN
7 4 (2.37%) Ethernet
8 3 (1.78%) DSL
9 2 (1.18%) HTTP
9 2 (1.18%) NetScaler
9 2 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.18%) Wireless
10 1 (0.59%) DMZ
10 1 (0.59%) H.323
10 1 (0.59%) Modbus
10 1 (0.59%) MQTT
10 1 (0.59%) SNMP
10 1 (0.59%) SSL
10 1 (0.59%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.78%) Power BI
3 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.73%) JIRA
2 7 (4.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.78%) Git
4 2 (1.18%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.18%) Subversion
4 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 48 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 26 (15.38%) Finance
3 22 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.02%) Presentation Skills
4 16 (9.47%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (7.10%) Banking
6 4 (2.37%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.59%) Legal
8 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.14%) .NET
2 3 (1.78%) Middleware
2 3 (1.78%) XMPP
3 2 (1.18%) WCF
3 2 (1.18%) WinForms
4 1 (0.59%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.59%) JSON
4 1 (0.59%) Redfish
4 1 (0.59%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.59%) Web Services
4 1 (0.59%) XML
4 1 (0.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.33%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.14%) Clustering
3 5 (2.96%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.78%) BYOD
4 3 (1.78%) iPad
4 3 (1.78%) iPhone
4 3 (1.78%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.18%) Blackberry
5 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.59%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.59%) IoT
6 1 (0.59%) IVR
6 1 (0.59%) NHS
6 1 (0.59%) PKI
6 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.59%) Replication
6 1 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 169 (100.00%) Windows
2 68 (40.24%) Windows Server
3 61 (36.09%) Windows 10
4 31 (18.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 28 (16.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (15.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (11.83%) Windows 7
7 20 (11.83%) Windows NT
8 18 (10.65%) Linux
9 9 (5.33%) Mac OS
9 9 (5.33%) Unix
10 4 (2.37%) Windows Vista
11 3 (1.78%) Android
11 3 (1.78%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.78%) Mac OS X
12 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.59%) VMS
13 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.89%) Customer Service
2 29 (17.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (17.16%) ITIL
3 25 (14.79%) Release Management
4 23 (13.61%) Service Management
4 23 (13.61%) User Acceptance Testing
5 22 (13.02%) DevOps
6 20 (11.83%) Deployment Automation
6 20 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (8.88%) Agile
7 15 (8.88%) Customer Requirements
7 15 (8.88%) Migration
8 13 (7.69%) Decision-Making
8 13 (7.69%) Time Management
9 10 (5.92%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (4.73%) High Availability
11 7 (4.14%) CI/CD
11 7 (4.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (3.55%) Disk Encryption
12 6 (3.55%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.16%) PowerShell
2 20 (11.83%) Python
3 10 (5.92%) SQL
4 8 (4.73%) C#
5 3 (1.78%) C++
5 3 (1.78%) Perl
5 3 (1.78%) Ruby
6 2 (1.18%) Bash
6 2 (1.18%) F#
6 2 (1.18%) Java
7 1 (0.59%) C
7 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.57%) DV Cleared
3 17 (10.06%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.10%) Degree
5 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.18%) CCNA
6 2 (1.18%) CCNP
6 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.18%) MCSA
7 1 (0.59%) ACMT
7 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.02%) QA
2 13 (7.69%) SLA
3 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 73 (43.20%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.43%) Firmware
3 18 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.73%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.55%) vSphere
6 5 (2.96%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.59%) Docker
8 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (36.69%) SCCM
2 21 (12.43%) WSUS
3 20 (11.83%) Sysprep
4 15 (8.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.37%) Ansible
5 4 (2.37%) Autotask
6 3 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.78%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.18%) BladeLogic
7 2 (1.18%) CFEngine
7 2 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.18%) PowerBroker
7 2 (1.18%) Puppet
7 2 (1.18%) SCOM
7 2 (1.18%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (1.18%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Nessus
8 1 (0.59%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 71 (42.01%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.43%) VMware
3 12 (7.10%) Citrix
4 9 (5.33%) Apple
5 8 (4.73%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.55%) HP
6 6 (3.55%) Splunk
7 5 (2.96%) Dell
8 4 (2.37%) Cisco
8 4 (2.37%) Remedy
8 4 (2.37%) UiPath
9 3 (1.78%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.18%) Altiris
10 2 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.18%) MobileIron
10 2 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.18%) Varonis
11 1 (0.59%) Dell Compellent
11 1 (0.59%) Verint
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