The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Wintel Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wintel Engineer
Rank 472 505 506
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 68 76 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.144% 0.130% 0.123%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.156% 0.140% 0.133%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 53 32
Average daily rate £344 £275 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -1.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £196 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £447 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £250
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
Average hourly rate - £21.97 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -47.27%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
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 2174 2589 2882
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
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 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Wintel Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Wintel Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Wintel Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Wintel Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Wintel Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wintel Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Wintel Engineer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wintel Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +42 63 £348 +25.22%
London +19 33 £380 +27.73%
South East +31 14 £313 +11.60%
Hampshire -4 8 £300 -16.66%
North West +17 7 £230 -17.11%
Cheshire +9 7 £230 -
Chester - 7 £230 -
City of London +11 6 £375 +48.22%
Surrey +20 5 £313 -11.34%
Scotland -16 4 £283 +18.94%
Southampton - 4 £338 -
West Midlands +15 3 £285 -
East of England +5 3 £253 -20.47%
East Midlands +1 2 - -
Glasgow -19 2 £195 -17.89%
Shropshire - 2 £300 -
Leatherhead - 2 £313 -
Cambridge +10 1 £213 -27.96%
Berkshire +10 1 £170 -24.44%
Cambridgeshire +9 1 £213 -27.96%
Reading +8 1 £170 -24.44%
Lincolnshire +2 1 - -
Bedfordshire 0 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £370 -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Essex - 1 £293 -
York - 1 - -
Telford - 1 - -
Romford - 1 £288 -

Wintel Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 115 (85.19%) Windows
2 89 (65.93%) Windows Server 2008
3 88 (65.19%) VMware
4 76 (56.30%) Windows Server 2003
5 65 (48.15%) Citrix
6 63 (46.67%) Microsoft
7 60 (44.44%) Active Directory
8 46 (34.07%) VMware Infrastructure
9 39 (28.89%) SCCM
10 38 (28.15%) SAN
11 37 (27.41%) XenApp
12 36 (26.67%) HP
12 36 (26.67%) Clustering
13 34 (25.19%) SCOM
14 33 (24.44%) MS Exchange
15 31 (22.96%) vSphere
16 26 (19.26%) Windows 2000
17 25 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
17 25 (18.52%) VMware ESX
18 23 (17.04%) Windows NT
19 22 (16.30%) NAS
20 21 (15.56%) Windows 7
20 21 (15.56%) PowerShell
20 21 (15.56%) Windows XP
20 21 (15.56%) IIS
20 21 (15.56%) DNS
21 20 (14.81%) DHCP
21 20 (14.81%) NetBackup
21 20 (14.81%) Citrix Presentation Server
21 20 (14.81%) Exchange Server 2010

Wintel Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 Development
1 16 (11.85%) .NET
2 15 (11.11%) Web Services
2 15 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 15 (11.11%) ADSI
3 1 (0.741%) COM
3 1 (0.741%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 33 (24.44%) MS Exchange
2 21 (15.56%) IIS
3 20 (14.81%) Exchange Server 2010
4 15 (11.11%) Apache
5 12 (8.889%) Exchange Server 2007
6 9 (6.667%) SharePoint
7 7 (5.185%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (5.185%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (2.963%) SharePoint 2013
9 3 (2.222%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (1.481%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (1.481%) Lync
10 2 (1.481%) GroupWise
11 1 (0.741%) Office Communications Server
11 1 (0.741%) Exchange Server 5.5
11 1 (0.741%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (8.889%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.963%) MS Office
3 3 (2.222%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 1 (0.741%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.741%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 38 (28.15%) SAN
2 22 (16.30%) NAS
3 21 (15.56%) DNS
4 20 (14.81%) DHCP
5 15 (11.11%) FTP
5 15 (11.11%) Internet
6 11 (8.148%) Firewall
7 7 (5.185%) VPN
7 7 (5.185%) BIG-IP
8 5 (3.704%) WAN
8 5 (3.704%) LAN
9 4 (2.963%) iSCSI
9 4 (2.963%) VoIP
10 3 (2.222%) TCP/IP
11 2 (1.481%) Broadband
12 1 (0.741%) DMZ
12 1 (0.741%) IPsec
12 1 (0.741%) SNMP
12 1 (0.741%) HTTP
12 1 (0.741%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.630%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.926%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.741%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.741%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.741%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.741%) StarTeam
General
1 15 (11.11%) Finance
2 6 (4.444%) Telecoms
3 5 (3.704%) French Language
3 5 (3.704%) Banking
4 4 (2.963%) Publishing
5 3 (2.222%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.222%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.222%) Retail
6 2 (1.481%) Legal
7 1 (0.741%) Military
7 1 (0.741%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 36 (26.67%) Clustering
2 6 (4.444%) Blackberry
2 6 (4.444%) Replication
3 5 (3.704%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.963%) Computer Science
5 3 (2.222%) Firmware
5 3 (2.222%) EqualLogic
6 2 (1.481%) CMDB
6 2 (1.481%) FMCG
7 1 (0.741%) EPoS
7 1 (0.741%) VLE
7 1 (0.741%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 115 (85.19%) Windows
2 89 (65.93%) Windows Server 2008
3 76 (56.30%) Windows Server 2003
4 26 (19.26%) Windows 2000
5 23 (17.04%) Windows NT
6 21 (15.56%) Windows 7
6 21 (15.56%) Windows XP
7 12 (8.889%) Linux
8 9 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.481%) Windows Vista
9 2 (1.481%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (0.741%) SUSE
10 1 (0.741%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (13.33%) ITIL
2 15 (11.11%) Migration
3 5 (3.704%) CRM
4 3 (2.222%) Service Management
4 3 (2.222%) Service Delivery
4 3 (2.222%) Network Architecture
4 3 (2.222%) Data Migration
5 2 (1.481%) Incident Management
5 2 (1.481%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (1.481%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (1.481%) High Availability
5 2 (1.481%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (1.481%) ERP
5 2 (1.481%) PRINCE2
5 2 (1.481%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (1.481%) Project Management
6 1 (0.741%) Six Sigma
6 1 (0.741%) Benchmarking
6 1 (0.741%) Validation
6 1 (0.741%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.56%) PowerShell
2 17 (12.59%) SQL
3 15 (11.11%) VBScript
4 13 (9.630%) VB
5 1 (0.741%) C#
5 1 (0.741%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.889%) MCSE
4 7 (5.185%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.185%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.185%) Degree
5 6 (4.444%) CCA
5 6 (4.444%) Citrix Certification
6 4 (2.963%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.222%) CCEA
7 3 (2.222%) MCSA
7 3 (2.222%) CCEE
7 3 (2.222%) MCITP
8 1 (0.741%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.741%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.741%) CCNA
8 1 (0.741%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.741%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 46 (34.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (27.41%) XenApp
4 31 (22.96%) vSphere
5 25 (18.52%) VMware ESX
6 20 (14.81%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 12 (8.889%) Hyper-V
8 7 (5.185%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (5.185%) ProxySG
9 5 (3.704%) VMware Server
10 4 (2.963%) NFS
11 3 (2.222%) ISA Server
11 3 (2.222%) Terminal Server
11 3 (2.222%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (1.481%) Novell eDirectory
12 2 (1.481%) DFS Replication
12 2 (1.481%) XenServer
12 2 (1.481%) XenDesktop
12 2 (1.481%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (1.481%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 39 (28.89%) SCCM
2 34 (25.19%) SCOM
3 20 (14.81%) NetBackup
4 17 (12.59%) Backup Exec
5 15 (11.11%) Legato
6 12 (8.889%) WSUS
7 4 (2.963%) MOM
8 3 (2.222%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (2.222%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (2.222%) Cacti
8 3 (2.222%) OpenNMS
9 2 (1.481%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.481%) HP SIM
9 2 (1.481%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (1.481%) OpenView Configuration Management
10 1 (0.741%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.741%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (0.741%) ARCserve
10 1 (0.741%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 1 (0.741%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 88 (65.19%) VMware
2 65 (48.15%) Citrix
3 63 (46.67%) Microsoft
4 36 (26.67%) HP
5 19 (14.07%) Veritas
5 19 (14.07%) McAfee
5 19 (14.07%) IBM
6 18 (13.33%) Dell
7 17 (12.59%) BMC
8 16 (11.85%) Sophos
8 16 (11.85%) Cisco
9 15 (11.11%) Leostream
9 15 (11.11%) PlateSpin
10 10 (7.407%) NetApp
11 9 (6.667%) Red Hat
12 7 (5.185%) Oracle
12 7 (5.185%) F5
12 7 (5.185%) Blue Coat
13 6 (4.444%) Symantec
14 5 (3.704%) AppSense
Reading, Berkshire
Austin Fraser are looking for a Wintel Engineer to join our Reading based client on an initial 6 month contract. The Wintel Engineer will be responsible for providing...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £330 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
The ideal candidate will have experience in Active Directory, Exchange and Blackberry servers in addition to Windows 2003, XP and 7, as well as virtualisation experience through VMware.
Net Talent
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Windows Engineer - Hedge Fund, Windows, Virtualisation, Active Directory... Hands on maintenance and deployment of Active Directory & Exchange. Skills: Windows Server 2003 & 08r2. Vsphere 5/5.1. Active Directory.....
Cititec
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
You will be responsible for support, troubleshooting, maintenance and administration of Citrix XenApp, AppSense, Windows 2008/AD and Exchange environments... You will be an experienced Citrix/Windows Technical...
Fulcrum Telecom
Rate: £350 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013