Windows Engineer Contracts

Windows Engineer
UK

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the UK is £405 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 511 601
Rank change year-on-year +76 +90 -123
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 168 185 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.35% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 127 192
10th Percentile £153 £177 £140
25th Percentile £200 £244 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £415 £281
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% +47.56% -25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £450
90th Percentile £613 £655 £559
UK excluding London median daily rate £345 £280 £225
% change year-on-year +23.21% +24.44% -32.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 16
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.75 £14.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.80 £17.19
Median hourly rate £18.14 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -7.50% +36.61%
75th Percentile £21.95 £27.38 £20.25
90th Percentile £23.98 £29.75 £47.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.14 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.97% -7.50% +42.55%

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 9 June 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 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the UK

Windows Engineer
Top 16 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 9 June 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 +88 139 £400 -3.61% 25
UK excluding London +58 93 £345 +23.21% 9
London +64 64 £450 -4.00% 16
South East +36 31 £575 +50.33% 5
Work from Home +56 29 £482 +3.77% 6
Scotland +38 17 £575 +111.01% 1
Midlands +20 14 £193 -14.44% 1
East Midlands +17 13 £193 -10.47% 1
East of England +11 13 £245 -7.55% 2
North of England +18 11 £245 -10.91% 1
North West +11 7 £225 -43.75% 1
South West +7 6 £325 -35.96%
Yorkshire +8 3 £240 -12.73%
North East +13 1 £431 -
West Midlands +6 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £167 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 168 (100.00%) Windows
2 68 (40.48%) Microsoft
3 65 (38.69%) Active Directory
4 64 (38.10%) Windows 10
5 63 (37.50%) Windows Server
6 55 (32.74%) SCCM
7 45 (26.79%) Security Cleared
7 45 (26.79%) Social Skills
8 33 (19.64%) PowerShell
9 32 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (18.45%) Customer Service
11 29 (17.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (16.07%) Azure
13 26 (15.48%) Windows Server 2012
14 25 (14.88%) DV Cleared
14 25 (14.88%) Windows Server 2019
15 23 (13.69%) Finance
15 23 (13.69%) ITIL
15 23 (13.69%) Windows Server 2016
16 22 (13.10%) VMware
17 21 (12.50%) Migration
17 21 (12.50%) Release Management
17 21 (12.50%) Windows 7
18 20 (11.90%) DevOps
18 20 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
19 19 (11.31%) SC Cleared
19 19 (11.31%) VMware Infrastructure
20 18 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
20 18 (10.71%) QA
20 18 (10.71%) Linux

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 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.98%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.19%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (16.07%) Azure
3 14 (8.33%) AWS
4 11 (6.55%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.38%) GitHub
6 4 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.79%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.19%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.60%) IaaS
9 1 (0.60%) PaaS
9 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.60%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.60%) SaaS
9 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.52%) VPN
2 10 (5.95%) DNS
3 9 (5.36%) DHCP
4 8 (4.76%) Firewall
5 7 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.98%) SAN
7 4 (2.38%) Ethernet
7 4 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.19%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.19%) VLAN
8 2 (1.19%) Wireless
9 1 (0.60%) AMQP
9 1 (0.60%) Modbus
9 1 (0.60%) MQTT
9 1 (0.60%) NAS
9 1 (0.60%) Network Security
9 1 (0.60%) SSH
9 1 (0.60%) SSL
9 1 (0.60%) WAAS
9 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.19%) Power BI
3 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.57%) JIRA
2 5 (2.98%) Git
2 5 (2.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.19%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.19%) Subversion
3 2 (1.19%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.60%) Selenium
General
1 45 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.69%) Finance
3 20 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (10.12%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.36%) Banking
7 5 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.17%) .NET
2 3 (1.79%) Middleware
2 3 (1.79%) XMPP
3 2 (1.19%) WCF
3 2 (1.19%) WinForms
4 1 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.60%) JSON
4 1 (0.60%) Redfish
4 1 (0.60%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.60%) Web Services
4 1 (0.60%) XML
4 1 (0.60%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.17%) Clustering
1 7 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.38%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.79%) BYOD
4 3 (1.79%) iPad
4 3 (1.79%) NHS
4 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.19%) Blackberry
5 2 (1.19%) iPhone
5 2 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.60%) IoT
6 1 (0.60%) PKI
6 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) Replication
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 168 (100.00%) Windows
2 64 (38.10%) Windows 10
3 63 (37.50%) Windows Server
4 26 (15.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 25 (14.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (13.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (12.50%) Windows 7
8 18 (10.71%) Linux
9 16 (9.52%) Windows NT
10 7 (4.17%) Mac OS
10 7 (4.17%) Unix
11 5 (2.98%) Windows Vista
12 3 (1.79%) Android
12 3 (1.79%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.60%) VMS
13 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (18.45%) Customer Service
2 29 (17.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (13.69%) ITIL
4 21 (12.50%) Migration
4 21 (12.50%) Release Management
5 20 (11.90%) DevOps
6 18 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (10.12%) Agile
7 17 (10.12%) Service Management
8 16 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (8.33%) Decision-Making
9 14 (8.33%) Time Management
10 11 (6.55%) Customer Requirements
11 9 (5.36%) CI/CD
11 9 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (4.76%) High Availability
13 7 (4.17%) Scrum
13 7 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 6 (3.57%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.64%) PowerShell
2 18 (10.71%) Python
3 10 (5.95%) SQL
4 8 (4.76%) C#
5 3 (1.79%) C++
5 3 (1.79%) Perl
6 2 (1.19%) Bash
6 2 (1.19%) F#
6 2 (1.19%) Java
7 1 (0.60%) C
7 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.60%) Ruby
7 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (26.79%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.88%) DV Cleared
3 19 (11.31%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.74%) Degree
5 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.19%) CCNA
6 2 (1.19%) CCNP
6 2 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.19%) MCSA
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.71%) QA
2 11 (6.55%) SLA
3 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 65 (38.69%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (10.12%) Firmware
4 9 (5.36%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.57%) vSphere
6 5 (2.98%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.60%) Docker
8 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (32.74%) SCCM
2 17 (10.12%) WSUS
3 16 (9.52%) Sysprep
4 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.57%) Ansible
6 4 (2.38%) Autotask
6 4 (2.38%) vRealize
7 3 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.19%) BladeLogic
8 2 (1.19%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.19%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (1.19%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.60%) Grafana
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.60%) Nessus
9 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.60%) SCOM
9 1 (0.60%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.60%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 68 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.10%) VMware
3 11 (6.55%) Citrix
4 9 (5.36%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.57%) Apple
5 6 (3.57%) Splunk
6 5 (2.98%) Altiris
6 5 (2.98%) HP
7 4 (2.38%) Cisco
7 4 (2.38%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.38%) Dell
7 4 (2.38%) Remedy
7 4 (2.38%) UiPath
8 3 (1.79%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.19%) Samsung
10 1 (0.60%) BEA
10 1 (0.60%) CA
10 1 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.60%) Dell Compellent
10 1 (0.60%) Varonis