Windows Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Windows Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 142 187
Rank change year-on-year +24 +45 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 9 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.42% 0.29% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.31% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £313 £455 £435
25th Percentile £322 £500 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £521
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +3.12% +272.32%
75th Percentile £513 £600 £608
90th Percentile £588 £623 £637
Central London median daily rate £400 £531 £425
% change year-on-year -24.71% +25.00% +203.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,978 2,612 4,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 94.06% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 1,841 2,835
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £17.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £28.06 £17.97 £18.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £38.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.63% -9.52% +29.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £50.63 £58.13
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.75 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -6.17% +20.90%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in the City of London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in the City of London

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in the City of London

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in the City of London

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 14 November 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 across the City of London region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Terraform
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Apple
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Linux
5 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
5 1 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco
5 1 (11.11%) Adobe
5 1 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (11.11%) Advertising
5 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
5 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (11.11%) Citrix
5 1 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Google
5 1 (11.11%) WSUS

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
2 1 (11.11%) Mimecast
2 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Advertising
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Inventory Management
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
2 1 (11.11%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
3 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow