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 24 February 2026, 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
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 446 517
Rank change year-on-year -70 +71 +128
Contract jobs citing Intel 36 32 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.27% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 8
10th Percentile - £386 £398
25th Percentile £345 £564 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £650 £510
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% +27.45% -8.52%
75th Percentile £624 £678 £545
90th Percentile £656 £688 £577
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £510
% change year-on-year -19.23% +27.45% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 16
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £59.38 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +223.03%
75th Percentile £88.00 £95.00 -
90th Percentile £88.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% +223.03%

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 15,713 11,828 16,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.92% 46.60% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,278 7,309 10,456
10th Percentile £304 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £520
% change year-on-year -4.31% +0.48% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 808 350 880
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £21.25 £15.33
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.17 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +19.76% -21.12%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £82.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% -23.62%

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 24 February 2026.

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 24 February 2026.

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 24 February 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
East of England -21 16 £445 +1.71% 13
South East -29 6 £550 -15.38% 10
Yorkshire -52 5 £350 +9.38% 2
North of England -64 5 £350 +9.38% 5
London -49 3 £631 - 9
South West -19 2 £650 -3.70% 8
Midlands - 2 £550 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 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 10 (27.78%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
2 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.56%) WhatsApp
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.78%) Datadog
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (2.78%) Pulumi
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) Ethernet
2 3 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (5.56%) VLAN
3 2 (5.56%) Wireless
4 1 (2.78%) Internet
4 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.78%) Network Security
4 1 (2.78%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.78%) git-flow
1 1 (2.78%) GitLab
1 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.78%) Metasploit
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Electronics
2 5 (13.89%) Games
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.56%) Back Office
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Law
4 2 (5.56%) Marketing
4 2 (5.56%) Police
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Firmware Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Consultant
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Design Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) FPGA Design Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Administrator
6 2 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Applications Support
6 2 (5.56%) Applications Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Data Centre Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Data Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) IT Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Senior FPGA Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Kafka
1 1 (2.78%) OAuth
1 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.78%) OpenID
1 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.78%) SAML
1 1 (2.78%) Spring
1 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (47.22%) FPGA
2 15 (41.67%) Verilog
3 12 (33.33%) VHDL
4 5 (13.89%) Algorithms
4 5 (13.89%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (13.89%) Data Centre
4 5 (13.89%) PCIe
5 3 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.78%) Cyberattack
7 1 (2.78%) Insider Threat
7 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.78%) PKI
7 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) FPGA Design
1 12 (33.33%) UVM
2 6 (16.67%) AI
2 6 (16.67%) Cryptography
2 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
3 5 (13.89%) Incident Response
3 5 (13.89%) Physics
3 5 (13.89%) Security Operations
3 5 (13.89%) Signal Processing
3 5 (13.89%) Threat Intelligence
4 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 4 (11.11%) Presales
4 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (11.11%) SIEM
4 4 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (8.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.33%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
2 6 (16.67%) C
2 6 (16.67%) MATLAB
3 5 (13.89%) Tcl
4 1 (2.78%) C++
4 1 (2.78%) Go
4 1 (2.78%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (33.33%) Degree
3 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.89%) HNC
4 5 (13.89%) HND
5 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.56%) CISM
6 2 (5.56%) CISSP
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.78%) CLAS
7 1 (2.78%) CREST Certified
7 1 (2.78%) GCIA
7 1 (2.78%) GCIH
7 1 (2.78%) GIAC
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.78%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) DO-254
2 2 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Firmware
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Ansible
1 1 (2.78%) Argo
1 1 (2.78%) CSIRT
1 1 (2.78%) Grafana
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.78%) Nessus
1 1 (2.78%) Opsgenie
1 1 (2.78%) Puppet
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Xilinx
2 12 (33.33%) Microsemi
3 8 (22.22%) Altera
4 7 (19.44%) Actel
4 7 (19.44%) Dell
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
6 3 (8.33%) Splunk
7 2 (5.56%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (5.56%) Blue Prism
7 2 (5.56%) Cisco
7 2 (5.56%) Lattice Semiconductor
7 2 (5.56%) Mentor Graphics
7 2 (5.56%) UiPath
7 2 (5.56%) VMware
8 1 (2.78%) Cribl.io
8 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.78%) Google
8 1 (2.78%) QinetiQ
8 1 (2.78%) Qualys