The first table below looks at the demand for the Wintel Server 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 Server 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 Server Engineer
Rank 525 572 573
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Server Engineer 4 12 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.009% 0.021% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.022% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 6
Average daily rate £200 £295 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.20% +18.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £238 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £367 £285
UK excluding London average daily rate £200 £353 £250
% change year-on-year
-43.26% +41.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £20.45 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -41.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
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 Server Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wintel Server Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Wintel Server Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wintel Server Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Wintel Server Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wintel Server Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Wintel Server Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wintel Server 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 +42 3 £200 -29.82%
North West - 2 £230 -
Cheshire - 2 £230 -
Chester - 2 £230 -
Scotland -9 1 - -
Glasgow -14 1 - -
South East - 1 £170 -
Berkshire - 1 £170 -
Reading - 1 £170 -

Wintel Server Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
4 8 (66.67%) VMware
5 5 (41.67%) SCCM
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (33.33%) Citrix
6 4 (33.33%) HP
6 4 (33.33%) DHCP
6 4 (33.33%) DNS
6 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (25.00%) Cisco
7 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
7 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (25.00%) SAN
8 2 (16.67%) ISA Server
8 2 (16.67%) Windows 2000
8 2 (16.67%) ITIL
8 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
8 2 (16.67%) McAfee
8 2 (16.67%) Firewall
8 2 (16.67%) Clustering
8 2 (16.67%) SCOM
8 2 (16.67%) WSUS
8 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
8 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
8 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
8 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis

Wintel Server Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DHCP
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (8.333%) IPsec
4 1 (8.333%) LAN
4 1 (8.333%) VoIP
4 1 (8.333%) WLAN
4 1 (8.333%) WAN
4 1 (8.333%) VPN
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (8.333%) FMCG
2 1 (8.333%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (16.67%) Windows 2000
4 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (8.333%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (8.333%) Release Management
2 1 (8.333%) Incident Management
2 1 (8.333%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.333%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.333%) MCITP
2 1 (8.333%) MCSE
2 1 (8.333%) MCSA
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) ISA Server
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.333%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (8.333%) VMware Server
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
4 1 (8.333%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) SCOM
2 2 (16.67%) WSUS
3 1 (8.333%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (8.333%) SCVMM
3 1 (8.333%) Backup Exec
3 1 (8.333%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (8.333%) MOM
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix
2 4 (33.33%) HP
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) McAfee
5 1 (8.333%) IBM
5 1 (8.333%) Symantec
5 1 (8.333%) Remedy
5 1 (8.333%) NetApp
5 1 (8.333%) Juniper
5 1 (8.333%) Dell
5 1 (8.333%) Intel
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Key Skills Required:- -Extensive experience with support and maintaining a large scale Microsoft Infrastructure (must be able to provide examples) -Windows Server 2003-2008r2 -Active Directory -Exchange 2003-...
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Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013