Wintel Engineer Contracts

Wintel Engineer
UK

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 597 719
Rank change year-on-year +60 +122 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 61 122 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 91 94
10th Percentile £432 £363 £327
25th Percentile £515 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £530 £493
90th Percentile £853 £600 £548
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £440 £425
% change year-on-year +29.26% +3.53% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £50.00
25th Percentile - - £60.63
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.13
90th Percentile - - £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +91 55 £563 +27.84% 4
UK excluding London +34 37 £569 +29.26% 3
London +102 22 £515 +8.42% 1
South West +13 12 £575 +23.66% 1
Work from Home +75 9 £563 +27.84%
North of England +25 7 £563 +32.35%
South East +23 6 £483 -3.02% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £563 -
East of England +5 5 £900 +28.57%
Scotland +33 3 £538 -0.21%
Midlands +24 3 £300 -20.00%
West Midlands - 3 £300 -
North East +20 1 £550 +7.84%
Wales +16 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (90.16%) Windows
2 51 (83.61%) Windows Server
3 47 (77.05%) Active Directory
4 39 (63.93%) Security Cleared
5 35 (57.38%) VMware
6 30 (49.18%) DV Cleared
7 23 (37.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (36.07%) VMware Infrastructure
9 20 (32.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (31.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 19 (31.15%) DNS
10 19 (31.15%) Microsoft
11 18 (29.51%) Migration
12 17 (27.87%) PKI
13 16 (26.23%) Microsoft Exchange
13 16 (26.23%) DHCP
14 15 (24.59%) PowerShell
15 14 (22.95%) Hyper-V
15 14 (22.95%) Public Sector
16 13 (21.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 13 (21.31%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (19.67%) Veeam
17 12 (19.67%) vSphere
17 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
18 11 (18.03%) SQL
19 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
19 10 (16.39%) Replication
20 9 (14.75%) SCOM
21 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
21 8 (13.11%) Clustering

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (26.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.84%) IIS
2 6 (9.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (8.20%) AWS
3 4 (6.56%) Azure
3 4 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.64%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.64%) IaaS
4 1 (1.64%) PaaS
4 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (31.15%) DNS
2 16 (26.23%) DHCP
3 6 (9.84%) Skype
4 5 (8.20%) Firewall
4 5 (8.20%) SAN
5 4 (6.56%) LAN
5 4 (6.56%) NAS
5 4 (6.56%) WAN
6 3 (4.92%) SMTP
6 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.28%) Network Security
7 2 (3.28%) VLAN
8 1 (1.64%) SNMP
8 1 (1.64%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.64%) VPN
8 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) JIRA
General
1 14 (22.95%) Public Sector
2 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Finance
4 3 (4.92%) Military
5 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Banking
6 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.87%) PKI
2 10 (16.39%) Replication
3 8 (13.11%) Clustering
4 7 (11.48%) Data Centre
5 5 (8.20%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.28%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.28%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (90.16%) Windows
2 51 (83.61%) Windows Server
3 20 (32.79%) Windows Server 2019
4 19 (31.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (13.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (9.84%) VMS
7 5 (8.20%) Linux
7 5 (8.20%) Windows 10
8 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.64%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (29.51%) Migration
3 6 (9.84%) Project Management
4 5 (8.20%) Agile
4 5 (8.20%) Change Management
4 5 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (8.20%) Service Management
5 4 (6.56%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (6.56%) ITIL
5 4 (6.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (4.92%) ITSM
6 3 (4.92%) Matrix Management
6 3 (4.92%) Office Automation
6 3 (4.92%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (4.92%) PRINCE2
6 3 (4.92%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (4.92%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (4.92%) Security Patching
6 3 (4.92%) Statistical Analysis
7 2 (3.28%) Database Mirroring
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) PowerShell
2 11 (18.03%) SQL
3 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (63.93%) Security Cleared
2 30 (49.18%) DV Cleared
3 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (8.20%) Degree
6 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.28%) MCSE
7 1 (1.64%) CCNA
7 1 (1.64%) CCNP
7 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) SLA
2 1 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 47 (77.05%) Active Directory
2 22 (36.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (22.95%) Hyper-V
4 12 (19.67%) vSphere
5 5 (8.20%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 4 (6.56%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (4.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.64%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (14.75%) SCOM
3 7 (11.48%) SCCM
4 5 (8.20%) vCenter Server
5 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (4.92%) OPNET
7 2 (3.28%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (3.28%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (3.28%) WSUS
8 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.64%) WMI
Vendors
1 35 (57.38%) VMware
2 19 (31.15%) Microsoft
3 12 (19.67%) Veeam
4 6 (9.84%) Dell
5 5 (8.20%) SolarWinds
6 4 (6.56%) Citrix
7 3 (4.92%) Remedy
8 2 (3.28%) Cisco
8 2 (3.28%) HP
8 2 (3.28%) McAfee
8 2 (3.28%) Symantec
8 2 (3.28%) Veritas
9 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.64%) Brocade
9 1 (1.64%) Dell Compellent
9 1 (1.64%) Google
9 1 (1.64%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.64%) Meraki
9 1 (1.64%) Red Hat