Wintel Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 377 447
Rank change year-on-year +18 +70 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 37 70 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 50 49
10th Percentile £504 £355 £325
25th Percentile £525 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year +26.40% +4.71% +13.33%
75th Percentile £678 £536 £469
90th Percentile £914 £700 £528
UK median daily rate £550 £466 £425
% change year-on-year +17.96% +9.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £42.25
25th Percentile - - £45.63
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £60.63
90th Percentile - - £64.75
UK median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wintel Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wintel Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +27 11 £550 +10.55% 2
South West +2 11 £575 +30.68% 5
North of England +21 7 £563 +33.93%
Yorkshire - 6 £563 -
East of England -3 5 £900 +58.59%
Scotland +40 2 £538 -0.21% 1
Wales +19 1 - -
North East +13 1 £550 +7.84%
Wintel Engineer
UK

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (83.78%) Windows
2 29 (78.38%) Active Directory
2 29 (78.38%) Security Cleared
3 28 (75.68%) Windows Server
4 24 (64.86%) VMware
5 22 (59.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 21 (56.76%) DV Cleared
7 13 (35.14%) Hyper-V
8 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
9 11 (29.73%) DNS
10 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (24.32%) PKI
11 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (21.62%) DHCP
12 8 (21.62%) SQL
12 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
13 7 (18.92%) WSUS
13 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
13 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
14 6 (16.22%) Migration
14 6 (16.22%) IIS
14 6 (16.22%) VMS
15 5 (13.51%) Clustering
15 5 (13.51%) Change Management
15 5 (13.51%) Data Centre
15 5 (13.51%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (13.51%) Degree
15 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
16 4 (10.81%) SCCM

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (16.22%) IIS
3 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (2.70%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) AWS
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.11%) Azure
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
3 1 (2.70%) IaaS
3 1 (2.70%) PaaS
3 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (29.73%) DNS
2 8 (21.62%) DHCP
3 4 (10.81%) Firewall
3 4 (10.81%) Skype
4 3 (8.11%) LAN
4 3 (8.11%) WAN
5 2 (5.41%) NAS
5 2 (5.41%) Network Security
5 2 (5.41%) SAN
5 2 (5.41%) SMTP
5 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.41%) VLAN
6 1 (2.70%) SNMP
6 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.70%) VPN
6 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Military
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) PKI
2 5 (13.51%) Clustering
2 5 (13.51%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.51%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 31 (83.78%) Windows
2 28 (75.68%) Windows Server
3 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (16.22%) VMS
5 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (10.81%) Windows 10
6 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (8.11%) Linux
8 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.70%) CentOS
9 1 (2.70%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (16.22%) Migration
3 5 (13.51%) Change Management
4 4 (10.81%) Agile
4 4 (10.81%) ITIL
4 4 (10.81%) Project Management
4 4 (10.81%) Service Management
5 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (5.41%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (5.41%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (5.41%) Matrix Management
6 2 (5.41%) Office Automation
6 2 (5.41%) Open Source
6 2 (5.41%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2
6 2 (5.41%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (5.41%) Security Patching
6 2 (5.41%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (5.41%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (78.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (56.76%) DV Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.51%) Degree
5 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.41%) MCSE
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.70%) CCNA
6 1 (2.70%) CCNP
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 29 (78.38%) Active Directory
2 22 (59.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (35.14%) Hyper-V
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) WSUS
2 4 (10.81%) SCCM
3 3 (8.11%) SCOM
3 3 (8.11%) vCenter Server
4 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.41%) OPNET
5 1 (2.70%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.70%) WMI
Vendors
1 24 (64.86%) VMware
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.41%) Remedy
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.70%) Citrix
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) HP
5 1 (2.70%) McAfee
5 1 (2.70%) Meraki
5 1 (2.70%) Symantec
5 1 (2.70%) Veeam
5 1 (2.70%) Veritas