The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Wintel Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Wintel Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 currently tracked.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Wintel Engineer
Rank 529 576 587
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Wintel Engineer 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.004% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £440 £350 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.71% +2.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Senior Wintel Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Wintel Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Senior Wintel Engineer within the UK.

Senior Wintel Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Wintel Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Senior Wintel Engineer within the UK.

Senior Wintel Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Wintel Engineer
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Wintel Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +47 1 £440 +25.71%
London +20 1 £440 +25.71%

Senior Wintel Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Wintel Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (66.67%) VMware
4 5 (55.56%) SCCM
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
4 5 (55.56%) Citrix
5 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
5 4 (44.44%) XenApp
5 4 (44.44%) vSphere
6 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (33.33%) CCEE
6 3 (33.33%) Cisco
6 3 (33.33%) MS Exchange
6 3 (33.33%) CCA
6 3 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
6 3 (33.33%) SAN
6 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (33.33%) Clustering
7 2 (22.22%) Replication
7 2 (22.22%) Banking
7 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (22.22%) SCOM
7 2 (22.22%) HP
7 2 (22.22%) IIS
7 2 (22.22%) Office 365
7 2 (22.22%) High Availability
8 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
8 1 (11.11%) UAG

Senior Wintel Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Wintel Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (22.22%) IIS
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Office 365
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Clustering
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
3 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (11.11%) SUSE
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) CRM
2 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCA
1 3 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
1 3 (33.33%) CCEE
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (11.11%) MCSE
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) XenApp
1 4 (44.44%) vSphere
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) UAG
3 1 (11.11%) ISA Server
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESX
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) SCOM
3 1 (11.11%) HP SIM
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) IBM
5 1 (11.11%) CA
5 1 (11.11%) NetApp
5 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 1 (11.11%) Symantec
5 1 (11.11%) Sophos
5 1 (11.11%) AppSense
5 1 (11.11%) 3PAR
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle