The first table below looks at the demand for the Wintel Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wintel Support Engineer
Rank 531 582 573
Rank change year-on-year
+51 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Support Engineer 3 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.007% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.007% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
Average daily rate £288 £241 £243
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.17% -0.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £241 £238
% change year-on-year
- +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £17.47 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -50.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- -58.57%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2155 2623 2895
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 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Wintel Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wintel Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Wintel Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wintel Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Wintel Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wintel Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Wintel Support Engineer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wintel Support Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +55 3 £288 +19.17%
London +33 3 £288 -
Romford - 1 £288 -

Wintel Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Wintel Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
4 4 (57.14%) Citrix
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
5 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
5 3 (42.86%) XenApp
6 2 (28.57%) NAS
6 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (28.57%) SCCM
6 2 (28.57%) SCOM
6 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 2 (28.57%) HP
6 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
6 2 (28.57%) WSUS
6 2 (28.57%) Firewall
6 2 (28.57%) Migration
6 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (14.29%) MCITP
7 1 (14.29%) PlateSpin
7 1 (14.29%) Replication
7 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat
7 1 (14.29%) ProxySG
7 1 (14.29%) BIG-IP

Wintel Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Wintel Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) ADSI
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (14.29%) Lync
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Infor M3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) NAS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) BIG-IP
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) FTP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
4 1 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000
4 1 (14.29%) Windows NT
4 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MCITP
2 1 (14.29%) MCTS
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) MCSA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 3 (42.86%) XenApp
3 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
4 1 (14.29%) ProxySG
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (14.29%) NFS
4 1 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (14.29%) XenServer
4 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
1 2 (28.57%) WSUS
2 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 1 (14.29%) Backup Exec
2 1 (14.29%) Legato
2 1 (14.29%) MOM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
3 2 (28.57%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) PlateSpin
4 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat
4 1 (14.29%) LANDesk
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) BMC
4 1 (14.29%) Veritas
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) Dell
4 1 (14.29%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) Sophos
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (14.29%) Infor
4 1 (14.29%) Leostream
4 1 (14.29%) F5