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 29 July 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
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 482 502
Rank change year-on-year -121 +20 +84
Contract jobs citing Intel 17 24 33
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.038% 0.087% 0.097%
As % of the Vendors category 0.092% 0.19% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £481 £350 £178
25th Percentile £498 £508 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £601 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +9.18% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £652 £906
90th Percentile £655 £667 £975
UK median daily rate £550 £601 £550
% change year-on-year -8.41% +9.18% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £72.00 £66.35 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 £75.00
Median hourly rate £84.00 £84.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £88.50 £88.00 £88.13
90th Percentile £90.00 - £99.75
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £84.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - +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 18,422 12,956 14,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.09% 47.11% 43.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,642 8,207 9,455
10th Percentile £313 £278 £292
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 982 622 806
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.71 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.99% -10.18% -29.20%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -19 7 - - 5
South East -69 7 £510 -18.53% 3
South West -38 1 £650 - 6
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 (35.29%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) WhatsApp
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Aerospace
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Law
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Electronics
4 1 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) FPGA Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Design Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior FPGA Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Security Incident Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Incident Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Security Incident Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (76.47%) FPGA
2 12 (70.59%) Verilog
2 12 (70.59%) VHDL
3 2 (11.76%) Insider Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (5.88%) PCIe
4 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) FPGA Design
2 8 (47.06%) UVM
3 7 (41.18%) Signal Processing
4 4 (23.53%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (23.53%) SIEM
4 4 (23.53%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (17.65%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (17.65%) Digital Signal Processing
5 3 (17.65%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
5 3 (17.65%) SOAR
5 3 (17.65%) Test Assurance
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Trade-off Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
6 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.76%) Requirements Management
6 2 (11.76%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SystemVerilog
2 8 (47.06%) C
3 3 (17.65%) C++
3 3 (17.65%) Embedded C
3 3 (17.65%) Embedded C++
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) HNC
4 1 (5.88%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) DO-254
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Firmware
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Xilinx
2 9 (52.94%) Microsemi
3 5 (29.41%) Altera
4 3 (17.65%) Actel
4 3 (17.65%) Mentor Graphics
4 3 (17.65%) SAP
4 3 (17.65%) Splunk
5 2 (11.76%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (5.88%) ArcSight