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 11 January 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
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 463 497
Rank change year-on-year -39 +34 +180
Contract jobs citing Intel 33 29 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.23% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 31
10th Percentile £204 £375 -
25th Percentile £345 £516 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £650 £240
Median % change year-on-year -31.54% +170.83% -53.17%
75th Percentile £624 £681 £528
90th Percentile £650 £688 £580
UK median daily rate £460 £638 £240
% change year-on-year -27.84% +165.63% -34.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 12
10th Percentile £36.88 - -
25th Percentile £45.31 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £82.50 £95.00 -
90th Percentile £87.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +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 14,514 12,385 15,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.63% 45.97% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,489 7,481 10,351
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 681 352 638
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £18.13 £18.26
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -31.63% +46.27%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.81 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £43.84
% change year-on-year -12.89% -37.61% +60.13%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -18 16 £254 -41.94% 25
North of England -36 5 £350 +9.38% 12
Yorkshire -43 5 £350 +9.38% 5
London -8 4 £615 - 7
South East -7 3 £600 -7.69% 25
South West -14 3 £650 -3.70% 13
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 12
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 (30.30%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) AWS
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
2 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
3 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.03%) Datadog
3 1 (3.03%) GitHub
3 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (3.03%) Pulumi
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) Ethernet
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) VLAN
2 2 (6.06%) Wireless
3 1 (3.03%) Internet
3 1 (3.03%) SSL
3 1 (3.03%) tcpdump
3 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Power BI
2 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.03%) git-flow
1 1 (3.03%) GitLab
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.03%) Metasploit
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Electronics
2 5 (15.15%) Games
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.06%) Back Office
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Police
5 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Firmware Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Consultant
4 4 (12.12%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Design Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) FPGA Design Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.06%) Applications Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Data Centre Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Data Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) OAuth
1 2 (6.06%) OAuth2
1 2 (6.06%) OpenID
1 2 (6.06%) SAML
2 1 (3.03%) EJB
2 1 (3.03%) JCE
2 1 (3.03%) JSON Web Signature
2 1 (3.03%) JWT
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.03%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) FPGA
2 12 (36.36%) Verilog
3 9 (27.27%) VHDL
4 6 (18.18%) Algorithms
5 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
5 5 (15.15%) PCIe
6 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
7 2 (6.06%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (6.06%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (6.06%) Operational Technology
7 2 (6.06%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
8 1 (3.03%) Insider Threat
8 1 (3.03%) PKI
8 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
8 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) UVM
2 9 (27.27%) FPGA Design
3 6 (18.18%) Cryptography
3 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 5 (15.15%) AI
4 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
4 5 (15.15%) Physics
5 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
5 4 (12.12%) Presales
5 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.12%) Security Operations
5 4 (12.12%) SIEM
5 4 (12.12%) Signal Processing
5 4 (12.12%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (9.09%) Analytics
6 3 (9.09%) DevOps
6 3 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 3 (9.09%) SOAR
7 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) SystemVerilog
2 6 (18.18%) C
2 6 (18.18%) MATLAB
3 5 (15.15%) Tcl
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.06%) Python
5 1 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) C++
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) Java
5 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Degree
2 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 5 (15.15%) HNC
4 5 (15.15%) HND
5 3 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (3.03%) CISM
6 1 (3.03%) CISSP
6 1 (3.03%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) DO-254
2 1 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Firmware
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Argo
1 1 (3.03%) CSIRT
1 1 (3.03%) Grafana
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.03%) Nessus
1 1 (3.03%) Opsgenie
1 1 (3.03%) Puppet
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Xilinx
2 10 (30.30%) Microsemi
3 7 (21.21%) Dell
4 5 (15.15%) Actel
4 5 (15.15%) Altera
4 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
5 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.06%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (6.06%) Blue Prism
6 2 (6.06%) Cisco
6 2 (6.06%) Lattice Semiconductor
6 2 (6.06%) Splunk
6 2 (6.06%) UiPath
6 2 (6.06%) VMware
7 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
7 1 (3.03%) Google
7 1 (3.03%) PagerDuty
7 1 (3.03%) Qualys
7 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.03%) Tenable