Windows Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Windows Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 678 815
Rank change year-on-year +118 +137 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Infrastructure Engineer 30 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.036% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.038% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 23
10th Percentile £220 £425 £331
25th Percentile £425 £463 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +25.88% +20.14%
75th Percentile £613 £584 £469
90th Percentile £620 £665 £508
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £563 £440
% change year-on-year -13.33% +27.84% +34.35%

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 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
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 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +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 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +109 21 £450 -15.89% 9
UK excluding London +67 19 £488 -13.33% 7
London +96 11 £450 -14.69% 4
Scotland - 9 £575 - 1
Work from Home +112 5 £450 -17.81% 2
North of England +35 4 £475 -
Midlands - 3 £338 -
North West - 3 £475 -
South East +19 2 £463 -11.90% 3
East Midlands - 2 £338 -
Yorkshire +15 1 £475 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £250 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Windows Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Windows
2 27 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (53.33%) Microsoft
4 15 (50.00%) Azure
5 14 (46.67%) Active Directory
6 12 (40.00%) Windows Server
7 11 (36.67%) SCCM
8 10 (33.33%) Agile
8 10 (33.33%) DevOps
9 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
9 9 (30.00%) Finance
9 9 (30.00%) VMware
9 9 (30.00%) Python
10 8 (26.67%) Windows 10
11 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
12 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
12 6 (20.00%) Unix
12 6 (20.00%) Citrix
12 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
13 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
13 5 (16.67%) Migration
13 5 (16.67%) Banking
13 5 (16.67%) Refactoring
13 5 (16.67%) Splunk
13 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
13 5 (16.67%) AWS

Windows Infrastructure 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 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
1 3 (10.00%) SAN
2 2 (6.67%) DHCP
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) FTP
3 1 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (3.33%) NAS
3 1 (3.33%) SMTP
3 1 (3.33%) SNMP
3 1 (3.33%) SSH
3 1 (3.33%) SSL
3 1 (3.33%) Telnet
3 1 (3.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (26.67%) Windows 10
4 6 (20.00%) Unix
5 5 (16.67%) Mac OS
6 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.33%) Linux
7 1 (3.33%) VMS
7 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (33.33%) Agile
2 10 (33.33%) DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (16.67%) Disk Encryption
4 5 (16.67%) Migration
4 5 (16.67%) Refactoring
4 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.67%) Change Management
6 2 (6.67%) Scrum
6 2 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 1 (3.33%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.33%) Identity Management
7 1 (3.33%) Inventory Management
7 1 (3.33%) ITIL
7 1 (3.33%) Observability
7 1 (3.33%) Password Management
7 1 (3.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) C
3 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.00%) vSphere
5 1 (3.33%) Firmware
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) SCCM
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) VMware
3 6 (20.00%) Citrix
4 5 (16.67%) Splunk
5 3 (10.00%) HP
6 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.33%) Dell
7 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace