The first table below looks at the demand for the Wintel Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wintel Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wintel Engineer
Rank 28 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 1 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.524% 1.792% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.549% 1.931% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £335 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £250
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -47.27%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
182 259 270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 95.29% 92.83% 92.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 126 129
Average daily rate £350 £363 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +11.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
Average hourly rate £20.70 £29.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.63% +114.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.96 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Wintel Engineer
East of England

Wintel Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Wintel Engineer across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bedfordshire Wintel Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Wintel Engineer across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Wintel Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Wintel Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Wintel Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Wintel Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Lync
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) LANDesk
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery

Wintel Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited Wintel Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Wintel Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Lync
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (50.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) LANDesk