Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Wintel Engineer
North West > Cumbria

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in Cumbria is £458, 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 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 5.52% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 - -
75th Percentile £462 - -
90th Percentile £477 - -
North West median daily rate £458 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cumbria

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cumbria. 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 Cumbria with a recognized job title 155 182 227
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.09% 92.86% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 81 130
10th Percentile £408 £363 £450
25th Percentile £460 £415 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +25.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £669
90th Percentile £690 £638 £725
North West median daily rate £464 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.24% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 60
10th Percentile £13.95 £22.41 -
25th Percentile £15.49 £25.26 £10.95
Median hourly rate £32.90 £43.09 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.65% +231.46% -76.52%
75th Percentile £49.20 £59.90 £44.74
90th Percentile £67.30 £81.72 £51.91
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £30.40 £26.39
% change year-on-year +49.54% +15.20% -19.73%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Wintel Engineer job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

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

Wintel Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wintel Engineer within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness - 8 £460 - 2
Wintel Engineer
North West

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

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 Cumbria region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (100.00%) High Availability
1 9 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
1 9 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (100.00%) vSphere
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 8 (88.89%) Ansible
2 8 (88.89%) MCSA
2 8 (88.89%) MCSE
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
2 8 (88.89%) VCAP
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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 9 (100.00%) Clustering
1 9 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (100.00%) High Availability
1 9 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) MCSA
2 8 (88.89%) MCSE
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) VCAP
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 9 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (88.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft