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 12 August 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 480 502
Rank change year-on-year -117 +22 +63
Contract jobs citing Intel 16 28 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.035% 0.10% 0.093%
As % of the Vendors category 0.085% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 7
10th Percentile £486 £350 £178
25th Percentile £509 £463 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% +46.67%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £906
90th Percentile £655 £660 £975
UK median daily rate £560 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% +46.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £71.00 £66.35 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £75.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £84.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £88.00 £97.50
90th Percentile £90.00 - £100.00
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £84.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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 18,885 13,061 14,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.43% 47.18% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,889 8,265 9,244
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £623 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,030 631 758
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.98% -19.21%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.77
% change year-on-year +29.22% -15.52% -27.06%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 7 - - 19
South East -72 5 £470 -24.92% 10
South West -41 1 £650 - 10
North of England - 1 - - 5
North West - 1 - - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Akamai
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Kong
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
1 1 (6.25%) Ethernet
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
3 2 (12.50%) Law
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Advertising
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Games
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Design Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Insight Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Incident Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) JWT
1 1 (6.25%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) FPGA
2 10 (62.50%) Verilog
2 10 (62.50%) VHDL
3 2 (12.50%) Insider Threat
4 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.25%) PCIe
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) FPGA Design
1 7 (43.75%) Signal Processing
2 6 (37.50%) UVM
3 4 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Engagement
4 3 (18.75%) Digital Signal Processing
4 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
4 3 (18.75%) SIEM
4 3 (18.75%) SOAR
4 3 (18.75%) Test Assurance
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) Trade-off Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (12.50%) Purple Team
5 2 (12.50%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) C
2 7 (43.75%) SystemVerilog
3 3 (18.75%) C++
3 3 (18.75%) Embedded C
3 3 (18.75%) Embedded C++
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) Degree
3 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) CEH
5 1 (6.25%) HNC
5 1 (6.25%) HND
5 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (6.25%) SANS
5 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.25%) DO-254
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Istio
1 1 (6.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Xilinx
2 7 (43.75%) Microsemi
3 3 (18.75%) Altera
3 3 (18.75%) SAP
4 2 (12.50%) Splunk
5 1 (6.25%) Actel
5 1 (6.25%) ArcSight
5 1 (6.25%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco
5 1 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (6.25%) F5
5 1 (6.25%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (6.25%) YouTube