Wintel Engineer Contracts in England

Wintel Engineer
UK > England

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in England is £560 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 579 676
Rank change year-on-year +97 +97 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 59 94 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 64 83
10th Percentile £438 £359 £358
25th Percentile £515 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +3.53% +6.32%
75th Percentile £650 £530 £492
90th Percentile £818 £700 £544
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel 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 Wintel Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +103 23 £525 +10.53% 1
South West +5 12 £575 +30.68% 1
South East +18 9 £500 +0.50% 2
North of England +23 7 £563 +33.93%
Yorkshire - 6 £563 -
East of England -3 5 £900 +28.57%
Midlands +29 3 £300 -20.00%
West Midlands - 3 £300 -
North East +22 1 £550 +7.84%
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Wintel 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 Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (89.83%) Windows
2 47 (79.66%) Windows Server
3 46 (77.97%) Active Directory
4 38 (64.41%) Security Cleared
5 35 (59.32%) VMware
6 29 (49.15%) DV Cleared
7 23 (38.98%) VMware Infrastructure
8 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (30.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (30.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (30.51%) Microsoft
10 17 (28.81%) DNS
10 17 (28.81%) Migration
11 16 (27.12%) PKI
12 15 (25.42%) Microsoft Exchange
12 15 (25.42%) Hyper-V
13 14 (23.73%) PowerShell
13 14 (23.73%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (23.73%) DHCP
13 14 (23.73%) SQL
13 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
14 12 (20.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (18.64%) Veeam
15 11 (18.64%) vSphere
16 9 (15.25%) SCOM
16 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
16 9 (15.25%) Replication
17 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
17 8 (13.56%) Windows Server 2012
17 8 (13.56%) SCCM

Wintel 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 15 (25.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (11.86%) SharePoint
3 6 (10.17%) IIS
4 1 (1.69%) Confluence
4 1 (1.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (8.47%) Azure
3 3 (5.08%) AWS
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.69%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.69%) IaaS
5 1 (1.69%) PaaS
5 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.81%) DNS
2 14 (23.73%) DHCP
3 7 (11.86%) Skype
4 6 (10.17%) SAN
5 5 (8.47%) Firewall
5 5 (8.47%) NAS
6 4 (6.78%) LAN
6 4 (6.78%) WAN
7 3 (5.08%) SMTP
7 3 (5.08%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.39%) Network Security
8 2 (3.39%) VLAN
9 1 (1.69%) SNMP
9 1 (1.69%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.69%) VPN
9 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.78%) Big Data
3 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) JIRA
General
1 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Military
5 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) .NET
1 2 (3.39%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.12%) PKI
2 9 (15.25%) Replication
3 7 (11.86%) Clustering
4 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (5.08%) Fat Client
6 3 (5.08%) Thin Client
7 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 53 (89.83%) Windows
2 47 (79.66%) Windows Server
3 18 (30.51%) Windows Server 2016
3 18 (30.51%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (13.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (10.17%) Linux
5 6 (10.17%) VMS
6 5 (8.47%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.69%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (28.81%) Migration
3 5 (8.47%) Agile
3 5 (8.47%) Change Management
3 5 (8.47%) Security Patching
3 5 (8.47%) Service Management
4 4 (6.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (6.78%) ITIL
4 4 (6.78%) Project Management
5 3 (5.08%) Database Mirroring
5 3 (5.08%) ITSM
5 3 (5.08%) Matrix Management
5 3 (5.08%) Office Automation
5 3 (5.08%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (5.08%) PRINCE2
5 3 (5.08%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (5.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (5.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (5.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (5.08%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) PowerShell
1 14 (23.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (64.41%) Security Cleared
2 29 (49.15%) DV Cleared
3 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.78%) Degree
6 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.69%) CCNA
6 1 (1.69%) CCNP
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.69%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (77.97%) Active Directory
2 23 (38.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (25.42%) Hyper-V
4 11 (18.64%) vSphere
5 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (6.78%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (5.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (5.08%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.39%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (15.25%) SCOM
3 8 (13.56%) SCCM
4 4 (6.78%) WSUS
5 3 (5.08%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 3 (5.08%) OPNET
6 2 (3.39%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.69%) WMI
Vendors
1 35 (59.32%) VMware
2 18 (30.51%) Microsoft
3 11 (18.64%) Veeam
4 6 (10.17%) Dell
5 5 (8.47%) SolarWinds
6 3 (5.08%) Remedy
7 2 (3.39%) Cisco
7 2 (3.39%) Citrix
8 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.69%) Brocade
8 1 (1.69%) Dell Compellent
8 1 (1.69%) Google
8 1 (1.69%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.69%) Meraki
8 1 (1.69%) Red Hat