Intel Contract Job Trends in England

Intel
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Intel products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Intel over the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Intel Corporation.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 502 526
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 +189
Contract jobs citing Intel 25 16 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.088% 0.051% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.11% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 36
10th Percentile £345 £457 -
25th Percentile £350 £515 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £344
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +60.00% -15.90%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £541
90th Percentile £610 £758 £734
UK median daily rate £488 £550 £344
% change year-on-year -11.36% +60.00% -6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £62.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +35.71% +8.53%
75th Percentile £88.00 £100.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -15.79% +35.71% +8.53%

All Vendors
England

Intel falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,651 14,085 18,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.85% 44.89% 44.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,700 8,429 11,944
10th Percentile £278 £300 £262
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £643
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 665 464 623
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.00 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.92 £19.88
Median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% -20.16% +75.34%
75th Percentile £43.25 £65.00 £62.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.60 £76.47
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year -23.08% -23.98% +71.00%

Intel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Intel relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Intel job vacancy trend in England

Intel
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Intel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Intel

Intel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intel in England over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Intel in England

Intel
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Intel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Intel

Intel
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Intel in England over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Intel in England

Intel
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intel within the England region over the 6 months to 26 October 2025. 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
East of England -7 12 £445 +1.71% 21
London +6 5 £575 -30.30% 19
South East +14 4 £500 -20.00% 22
North of England -33 2 £350 -33.96% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £350 - 1
South West - 1 - -
Intel
UK

Intel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) VLAN
2 2 (8.00%) Wireless
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) Internet
3 1 (4.00%) SSL
3 1 (4.00%) tcpdump
3 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Metasploit
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Electronics
2 6 (24.00%) Games
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Support
4 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Coordinator
5 1 (4.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) EJB
1 1 (4.00%) JCE
1 1 (4.00%) JSON Web Signature
1 1 (4.00%) JWT
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.00%) OpenID
1 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) FPGA
1 10 (40.00%) Verilog
2 7 (28.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (24.00%) PCIe
4 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (16.00%) VHDL
5 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (8.00%) PKI
5 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (4.00%) Insider Threat
6 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
6 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Computer Science
1 7 (28.00%) Cryptography
1 7 (28.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 6 (24.00%) AI
2 6 (24.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (24.00%) Physics
2 6 (24.00%) UVM
3 5 (20.00%) SIEM
4 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (16.00%) FPGA Design
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (12.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (12.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (12.00%) Threat Detection
6 2 (8.00%) Information Management
6 2 (8.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) MATLAB
1 6 (24.00%) SystemVerilog
1 6 (24.00%) Tcl
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) C
3 1 (4.00%) C++
3 1 (4.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) Degree
4 6 (24.00%) HNC
4 6 (24.00%) HND
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (8.00%) CISSP
7 1 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (4.00%) CFCE
7 1 (4.00%) CISM
7 1 (4.00%) GCFA
7 1 (4.00%) GCIA
7 1 (4.00%) GCIH
7 1 (4.00%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) DO-254
2 3 (12.00%) NIST
3 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (4.00%) GRC
4 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Firmware
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Xilinx
2 6 (24.00%) Actel
2 6 (24.00%) Altera
2 6 (24.00%) Microsemi
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (16.00%) Dell
5 3 (12.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (12.00%) VMware
6 2 (8.00%) Cisco
6 2 (8.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
6 2 (8.00%) Splunk
7 1 (4.00%) ArcSight
7 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (4.00%) LogRhythm
7 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (4.00%) Tenable
7 1 (4.00%) Thales