Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Wintel Engineer
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in Barrow-in-Furness is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
15 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 6.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £451 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £458 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Barrow-in-Furness

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Barrow-in-Furness. 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 Barrow-in-Furness with a recognized job title 123 138 141
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 92.00% 99.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 60 93
10th Percentile £410 £383 £483
25th Percentile £460 £434 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £582
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -11.94% +36.62%
75th Percentile £591 £591 £672
90th Percentile £691 £638 £725
Cumbria median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +25.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 25
10th Percentile £27.97 £25.26 £17.13
25th Percentile £38.59 £28.39 £33.48
Median hourly rate £41.68 £54.88 £46.91
Median % change year-on-year -24.05% +16.99% -15.48%
75th Percentile £62.07 £72.16 £51.91
90th Percentile £67.84 £82.56 £58.32
Cumbria median hourly rate £32.90 £43.09 £13.00
% change year-on-year -23.65% +231.46% -76.52%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

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 Barrow-in-Furness.

Wintel Engineer job vacancy trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in Barrow-in-Furness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in Barrow-in-Furness

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness

For the 6 months to 15 April 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 Barrow-in-Furness region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (100.00%) High Availability
1 8 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 8 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
1 8 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (100.00%) vSphere
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 7 (87.50%) MCSA
2 7 (87.50%) MCSE
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (87.50%) VCAP
2 7 (87.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness 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:

Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Clustering
1 8 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (100.00%) High Availability
1 8 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) MCSA
2 7 (87.50%) MCSE
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (87.50%) VCAP
2 7 (87.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 7 (87.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
Wintel Engineer jobs