Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in Aberdeen

Wintel Engineer
Scotland > Aberdeen

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in Aberdeen is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Aberdeen 3.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 - £500

All Contract IT Job Roles
Aberdeen

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Aberdeen. 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 Aberdeen with a recognized job title 52 34 38
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.25% 97.14% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 20
10th Percentile £268 £204 £303
25th Percentile £413 £284 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £445 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -19.09% +136.56%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £600
90th Percentile £559 - £638
Scotland median daily rate £465 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £29.93 - £28.23
25th Percentile £36.25 - £31.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -31.56% +113.54%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £42.69
90th Percentile - - £45.88
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £18.13
% change year-on-year -3.35% +10.31% +2.31%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Wintel Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen.

Wintel Engineer job vacancy trend in Aberdeen

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Aberdeen

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in Aberdeen.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in Aberdeen

Wintel Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Aberdeen

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in Aberdeen.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in Aberdeen

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Aberdeen

For the 6 months to 1 October 2026, Wintel Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Aberdeen region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (100.00%) MCSA
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Perfmon
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Aberdeen by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCSA
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Perfmon
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Commvault
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) VMware