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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 504 583
Rank change year-on-year +97 +79 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 169 179 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 122 198
10th Percentile £151 £173 £140
25th Percentile £200 £240 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +45.45% -26.67%
75th Percentile £575 £520 £450
90th Percentile £613 £636 £553
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £270 £223
% change year-on-year +29.63% +21.35% -26.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 15
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.10 £13.90
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £16.88
Median hourly rate £18.14 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.68% -15.00% +36.61%
75th Percentile £21.95 £25.25 -
90th Percentile £23.98 £29.70 £29.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.14 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.68% -15.00% +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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £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 1 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 1 June 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 1 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 +81 141 £400 -1.84% 25
UK excluding London +57 94 £350 +29.63% 12
London +75 64 £438 -1.69% 15
South East +33 32 £575 +50.33% 5
Work from Home +65 30 £482 +11.33% 5
Scotland +39 17 £575 +112.96% 1
Midlands +20 14 £193 -14.44% 3
East Midlands +16 13 £193 -10.47% 1
East of England +13 13 £245 -7.55% 2
North of England +17 12 £240 -7.69%
North West +20 8 £200 +14.29%
South West +2 6 £325 -35.96% 1
Yorkshire +14 3 £240 -12.73%
North East +12 1 £431 -
West Midlands +7 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 169 (100.00%) Windows
2 69 (40.83%) Microsoft
3 66 (39.05%) Active Directory
3 66 (39.05%) Windows 10
4 64 (37.87%) Windows Server
5 57 (33.73%) SCCM
6 46 (27.22%) Security Cleared
7 45 (26.63%) Social Skills
8 33 (19.53%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (18.93%) Customer Service
10 31 (18.34%) PowerShell
11 28 (16.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (15.98%) Windows Server 2012
13 26 (15.38%) DV Cleared
13 26 (15.38%) ITIL
13 26 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
14 25 (14.79%) Azure
15 24 (14.20%) Windows Server 2016
16 23 (13.61%) Finance
17 22 (13.02%) VMware
17 22 (13.02%) Release Management
18 21 (12.43%) Windows 7
18 21 (12.43%) Migration
19 20 (11.83%) DevOps
20 19 (11.24%) QA
20 19 (11.24%) SC Cleared
20 19 (11.24%) User Acceptance Testing
20 19 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
20 19 (11.24%) Service Management
20 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills

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
2 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.18%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (10.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.53%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (14.79%) Azure
3 14 (8.28%) AWS
4 11 (6.51%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (2.37%) GitHub
6 4 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.37%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.78%) 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%) SAN
7 4 (2.37%) Ethernet
7 4 (2.37%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.18%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.18%) VLAN
8 2 (1.18%) Wireless
9 1 (0.59%) AMQP
9 1 (0.59%) FTP
9 1 (0.59%) HTTP
9 1 (0.59%) Modbus
9 1 (0.59%) NAS
9 1 (0.59%) Network Security
9 1 (0.59%) SSH
9 1 (0.59%) WAAS
9 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.18%) Power BI
3 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.55%) JIRA
2 5 (2.96%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.37%) Git
4 2 (1.18%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.18%) Subversion
4 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 45 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.61%) Finance
3 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.24%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (10.06%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.92%) Banking
6 5 (2.96%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.37%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 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 4 (2.37%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.37%) iPhone
5 3 (1.78%) BYOD
5 3 (1.78%) iPad
5 3 (1.78%) NHS
5 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.18%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.59%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.59%) IoT
7 1 (0.59%) PKI
7 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.59%) Replication
7 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 169 (100.00%) Windows
2 66 (39.05%) Windows 10
3 64 (37.87%) Windows Server
4 27 (15.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 26 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 24 (14.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (12.43%) Windows 7
8 18 (10.65%) Linux
9 17 (10.06%) Windows NT
10 8 (4.73%) Mac OS
11 7 (4.14%) Unix
12 5 (2.96%) Windows Vista
13 3 (1.78%) Android
13 3 (1.78%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.59%) VMS
14 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.93%) Customer Service
2 28 (16.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (15.38%) ITIL
4 22 (13.02%) Release Management
5 21 (12.43%) Migration
6 20 (11.83%) DevOps
7 19 (11.24%) Service Management
7 19 (11.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 18 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (10.06%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (9.47%) Agile
11 14 (8.28%) Decision-Making
11 14 (8.28%) Time Management
12 11 (6.51%) Customer Requirements
13 9 (5.33%) Cybersecurity
14 8 (4.73%) High Availability
15 7 (4.14%) CI/CD
15 7 (4.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 6 (3.55%) Disk Encryption
16 6 (3.55%) Health Informatics
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.34%) PowerShell
2 18 (10.65%) Python
3 10 (5.92%) SQL
4 8 (4.73%) C#
5 3 (1.78%) C++
5 3 (1.78%) Perl
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%) Ruby
7 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 19 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.69%) 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%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.24%) QA
2 12 (7.10%) SLA
3 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 66 (39.05%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (10.65%) Firmware
4 9 (5.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.55%) vSphere
6 5 (2.96%) VMware Workstation
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 57 (33.73%) SCCM
2 18 (10.65%) WSUS
3 17 (10.06%) Sysprep
4 13 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.37%) Ansible
5 4 (2.37%) Autotask
6 3 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.18%) BladeLogic
7 2 (1.18%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.18%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.18%) vRealize
8 1 (0.59%) Grafana
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Nessus
8 1 (0.59%) SCOM
8 1 (0.59%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.59%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (40.83%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.02%) VMware
3 11 (6.51%) Citrix
3 11 (6.51%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.14%) Apple
5 6 (3.55%) Splunk
6 5 (2.96%) Altiris
6 5 (2.96%) HP
7 4 (2.37%) Cisco
7 4 (2.37%) Remedy
7 4 (2.37%) UiPath
8 3 (1.78%) Dell
8 3 (1.78%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.18%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.18%) MobileIron
9 2 (1.18%) Samsung
10 1 (0.59%) BEA
10 1 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.59%) Dell Compellent
10 1 (0.59%) Varonis