Windows Engineer Contracts in England

Windows Engineer
UK > England

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 486 562
Rank change year-on-year +72 +76 -90
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 136 150 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.32% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.34% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 100 172
10th Percentile £160 £171 £140
25th Percentile £207 £227 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £415 £269
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +54.42% -25.86%
75th Percentile £575 £541 £450
90th Percentile £600 £683 £559
UK median daily rate £405 £415 £300
% change year-on-year -2.41% +38.33% -22.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 13
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.75 £15.45
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.80 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.55 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.65% -7.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £23.13 £27.38 -
90th Percentile £24.18 £29.75 £32.20
UK median hourly rate £18.27 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.24% -7.50% +36.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows Engineer in England

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +60 63 £450 -4.00% 16
South East +34 30 £575 +38.55% 5
Midlands +14 14 £210 -6.67% 1
East of England +14 13 £245 -7.55% 2
East Midlands +12 13 £210 -2.33% 1
North of England +9 10 £240 -12.73% 1
North West +13 7 £225 -43.75% 1
South West -3 6 £325 -35.96%
Yorkshire +10 3 £240 -12.73%
West Midlands +10 1 - -
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the England region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 136 (100.00%) Windows
2 63 (46.32%) Active Directory
3 61 (44.85%) Windows 10
4 57 (41.91%) Microsoft
5 55 (40.44%) Windows Server
6 45 (33.09%) SCCM
7 38 (27.94%) Security Cleared
8 36 (26.47%) Social Skills
9 31 (22.79%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (21.32%) Customer Service
11 24 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 24 (17.65%) Azure
12 23 (16.91%) DV Cleared
13 22 (16.18%) ITIL
13 22 (16.18%) Windows Server 2019
14 21 (15.44%) Windows Server 2016
14 21 (15.44%) VMware
14 21 (15.44%) Windows 7
14 21 (15.44%) PowerShell
15 20 (14.71%) Release Management
15 20 (14.71%) Migration
16 19 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 18 (13.24%) Finance
17 18 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
18 17 (12.50%) QA
18 17 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
19 16 (11.76%) WSUS
19 16 (11.76%) Service Management
19 16 (11.76%) Firmware
19 16 (11.76%) VPN

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.79%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (17.65%) Azure
3 11 (8.09%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.68%) AWS
5 2 (1.47%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.47%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.74%) IaaS
6 1 (0.74%) PaaS
6 1 (0.74%) Rubrik
6 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.76%) VPN
2 9 (6.62%) DNS
3 8 (5.88%) DHCP
4 7 (5.15%) Firewall
4 7 (5.15%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.68%) SAN
6 4 (2.94%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.47%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.47%) VLAN
7 2 (1.47%) Wireless
8 1 (0.74%) DSL
8 1 (0.74%) FTP
8 1 (0.74%) HTTP
8 1 (0.74%) NAS
8 1 (0.74%) Network Security
8 1 (0.74%) SNMP
8 1 (0.74%) SSH
8 1 (0.74%) Telnet
8 1 (0.74%) WAAS
8 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.41%) JIRA
2 4 (2.94%) Git
2 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.47%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.47%) Subversion
3 2 (1.47%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 36 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.24%) Finance
3 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.62%) Banking
3 9 (6.62%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (3.68%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.15%) .NET
2 3 (2.21%) Middleware
2 3 (2.21%) XMPP
3 2 (1.47%) WCF
3 2 (1.47%) WinForms
4 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.74%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.41%) Clustering
1 6 (4.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.94%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.21%) BYOD
3 3 (2.21%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.21%) iPad
3 3 (2.21%) NHS
3 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.47%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 136 (100.00%) Windows
2 61 (44.85%) Windows 10
3 55 (40.44%) Windows Server
4 24 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (16.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 21 (15.44%) Windows 7
6 21 (15.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (11.03%) Linux
7 15 (11.03%) Windows NT
8 5 (3.68%) Windows Vista
9 3 (2.21%) Android
10 2 (1.47%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.74%) VMS
11 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.32%) Customer Service
2 22 (16.18%) ITIL
3 20 (14.71%) Migration
3 20 (14.71%) Release Management
4 19 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 16 (11.76%) Service Management
7 15 (11.03%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (7.35%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (5.88%) DevOps
10 7 (5.15%) Agile
10 7 (5.15%) Customer Requirements
10 7 (5.15%) High Availability
11 6 (4.41%) Decision-Making
11 6 (4.41%) Health Informatics
11 6 (4.41%) Informatics
11 6 (4.41%) Information Security
11 6 (4.41%) Scrum
11 6 (4.41%) Time Management
12 5 (3.68%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.44%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.62%) SQL
3 8 (5.88%) C#
4 7 (5.15%) Python
5 3 (2.21%) C++
6 2 (1.47%) Bash
6 2 (1.47%) F#
6 2 (1.47%) Java
7 1 (0.74%) Perl
7 1 (0.74%) Ruby
7 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.91%) DV Cleared
3 14 (10.29%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.62%) Degree
4 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.47%) CCNA
5 2 (1.47%) CCNP
5 2 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.47%) MCSA
6 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.50%) QA
2 8 (5.88%) SLA
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 63 (46.32%) Active Directory
2 18 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (11.76%) Firmware
4 7 (5.15%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.68%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (3.68%) vSphere
6 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (33.09%) SCCM
2 16 (11.76%) WSUS
3 15 (11.03%) Sysprep
4 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.41%) Ansible
6 4 (2.94%) Autotask
6 4 (2.94%) vRealize
7 3 (2.21%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.47%) BladeLogic
8 2 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.74%) Nessus
9 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.74%) Terraform
9 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (41.91%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.44%) VMware
3 11 (8.09%) Citrix
4 9 (6.62%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.68%) Altiris
6 4 (2.94%) Cisco
6 4 (2.94%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.94%) Remedy
7 3 (2.21%) Apple
8 2 (1.47%) Dell
8 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.47%) HP
9 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.74%) BEA
9 1 (0.74%) Brocade
9 1 (0.74%) CA
9 1 (0.74%) Dell Compellent
9 1 (0.74%) Qualys
9 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.74%) Veeam