The first table below looks at the demand for the Wintel Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 521 569 574
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Infrastructure Engineer 8 15 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.026% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.028% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 3
Average daily rate £275 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £195 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £295 £315
UK excluding London average daily rate £248 £203 -
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
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 2112 2572 2930
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 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wintel Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +37 6 £323 +29.00%
London +29 3 £323 +28.23%
South East +15 2 - -
Hampshire -8 2 - -
City of London +13 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 - -

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Wintel Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Citrix
3 7 (58.33%) Windows
4 6 (50.00%) HP
4 6 (50.00%) SAN
4 6 (50.00%) Clustering
4 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (50.00%) NAS
4 6 (50.00%) XenApp
5 5 (41.67%) Leostream
5 5 (41.67%) vSphere
5 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (41.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 5 (41.67%) SCOM
5 5 (41.67%) Internet
5 5 (41.67%) McAfee
5 5 (41.67%) Sophos
5 5 (41.67%) NetBackup
5 5 (41.67%) Backup Exec
5 5 (41.67%) VMware ESX
5 5 (41.67%) IBM
5 5 (41.67%) Legato
5 5 (41.67%) PlateSpin
5 5 (41.67%) BMC
5 5 (41.67%) Veritas
5 5 (41.67%) Dell
5 5 (41.67%) Windows XP
5 5 (41.67%) ADSI
5 5 (41.67%) FTP

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Wintel Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (41.67%) ADSI
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
1 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
1 5 (41.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) Apache
1 5 (41.67%) IIS
2 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (8.333%) Lync
4 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) SAN
1 6 (50.00%) NAS
2 5 (41.67%) Internet
2 5 (41.67%) FTP
3 1 (8.333%) VPN
3 1 (8.333%) BIG-IP
3 1 (8.333%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (8.333%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (8.333%) Replication
2 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
2 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (41.67%) Windows XP
3 5 (41.67%) Windows 2000
3 5 (41.67%) Windows NT
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (8.333%) ERP
2 1 (8.333%) ITIL
2 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
2 1 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (8.333%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) VBScript
1 5 (41.67%) VB
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.333%) MCSA
2 1 (8.333%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (8.333%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) XenApp
2 5 (41.67%) vSphere
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (41.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 5 (41.67%) VMware ESX
3 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Server
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (8.333%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCOM
1 5 (41.67%) NetBackup
1 5 (41.67%) Backup Exec
1 5 (41.67%) Legato
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Citrix
3 6 (50.00%) HP
4 5 (41.67%) Leostream
4 5 (41.67%) McAfee
4 5 (41.67%) Sophos
4 5 (41.67%) IBM
4 5 (41.67%) PlateSpin
4 5 (41.67%) BMC
4 5 (41.67%) Veritas
4 5 (41.67%) Dell
5 1 (8.333%) F5
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle
5 1 (8.333%) Red Hat
5 1 (8.333%) NetApp
5 1 (8.333%) Cisco
5 1 (8.333%) Blue Coat