Windows Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Windows Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £482 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 390 554
Rank change year-on-year +75 +164 -169
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 30 75 72
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.31% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.32% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 54 53
10th Percentile £314 £240 £275
25th Percentile £383 £282 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.64% -6.67% -0.88%
75th Percentile £597 £536 £530
90th Percentile £700 £584 £572
UK median daily rate £405 £400 £275
% change year-on-year +1.25% +45.45% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.14 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.68% -15.00% +42.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,688 23,105 42,192
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.27% 95.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,248 16,369 30,559
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 533 576
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.71 £19.39
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £77.90 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

Windows Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Windows Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Engineer.

Windows Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Windows Engineer over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Windows Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Windows Engineer.

Windows Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (56.67%) Windows Server
3 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
4 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (26.67%) SCCM
5 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
6 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
6 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
6 7 (23.33%) Finance
7 6 (20.00%) VPN
7 6 (20.00%) Azure
7 6 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) Windows 10
8 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 5 (16.67%) Python
8 5 (16.67%) C#
8 5 (16.67%) .NET
8 5 (16.67%) Migration
9 4 (13.33%) Information Security
9 4 (13.33%) SQL
9 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (13.33%) SLA
9 4 (13.33%) Time Management
9 4 (13.33%) AWS
9 4 (13.33%) Windows 7
9 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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%) IIS
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) VPN
2 3 (10.00%) DNS
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.33%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Subversion
3 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Blackberry
1 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Clustering
2 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.33%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (56.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 4 (13.33%) Windows 7
5 3 (10.00%) Linux
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 5 (16.67%) DevOps
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (16.67%) Migration
2 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.33%) Analytics
3 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
3 4 (13.33%) Information Security
3 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (13.33%) Time Management
4 3 (10.00%) Application Packaging
4 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.00%) Fintech
4 3 (10.00%) High Availability
5 2 (6.67%) Agile
5 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.67%) Scrum
5 2 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (16.67%) C#
2 5 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 3 (10.00%) C++
5 2 (6.67%) Bash
5 2 (6.67%) F#
5 2 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (3.33%) Perl
6 1 (3.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) CCNA
3 2 (6.67%) CCNP
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.67%) MCSA
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) SLA
2 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 4 (13.33%) vSphere
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) SCCM
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (6.67%) BladeLogic
2 2 (6.67%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (6.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.33%) Nessus
3 1 (3.33%) SCOM
3 1 (3.33%) SCOrch
3 1 (3.33%) SCVMM
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.67%) Altiris
3 2 (6.67%) Citrix
3 2 (6.67%) HP
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.33%) MobileIron
4 1 (3.33%) Qualys
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Varonis