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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 433 495
Rank change year-on-year -118 +62 +141
Contract jobs citing Intel 29 38 45
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.077% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.33% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 10
10th Percentile - £620 £187
25th Percentile £345 £623 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £493
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +31.98% -9.63%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £531
90th Percentile £660 £688 £576
UK median daily rate £550 £645 £493
% change year-on-year -14.73% +30.96% -12.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 17
10th Percentile £46.88 £73.13 -
25th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +14.29% +230.38%
75th Percentile £88.00 £93.25 £85.00
90th Percentile £89.00 £95.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +226.11%

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 16,440 11,505 16,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.91% 47.31% 42.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,727 7,433 10,241
10th Percentile £310 £291 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -4.74%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 403 950
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.23 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.00 £14.37
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +24.25% -31.56%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £52.78
90th Percentile £75.36 £82.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.38 £29.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -12.48% +22.83% -38.68%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -36 9 £63 - 3
South East -53 7 £625 -2.34% 4
Yorkshire -57 5 £350 +9.38%
North of England -66 5 £350 +9.38% 2
South West -28 2 £650 -3.70% 3
London -61 2 £648 -7.50% 6
Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
West Midlands - 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 9 (31.03%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
2 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.90%) WhatsApp
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.45%) Datadog
3 1 (3.45%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (3.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.45%) git-flow
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (13.79%) Electronics
1 4 (13.79%) Games
1 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Back Office
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Marketing
2 2 (6.90%) Police
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Law
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) FPGA Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Firmware Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Design Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Data Centre Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) IT Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Senior FPGA Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Data Centre Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Data Centre Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Trainer
6 1 (3.45%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Kafka
1 1 (3.45%) OAuth
1 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.45%) OpenID
1 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (3.45%) SAML
1 1 (3.45%) Spring
1 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (51.72%) FPGA
2 13 (44.83%) Verilog
3 11 (37.93%) VHDL
4 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
5 4 (13.79%) Algorithms
5 4 (13.79%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (13.79%) PCIe
6 3 (10.34%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
7 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 1 (3.45%) PKI
7 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) UVM
2 8 (27.59%) FPGA Design
2 8 (27.59%) Signal Processing
3 6 (20.69%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (17.24%) AI
4 5 (17.24%) Cryptography
4 5 (17.24%) Machine Learning
5 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
5 4 (13.79%) Physics
5 4 (13.79%) Presales
6 3 (10.34%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (10.34%) Digital Signal Processing
6 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
6 3 (10.34%) Information Security
6 3 (10.34%) Regression Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Security Operations
6 3 (10.34%) Test Assurance
6 3 (10.34%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (10.34%) Trade-off Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) SystemVerilog
2 8 (27.59%) C
3 5 (17.24%) MATLAB
4 4 (13.79%) Tcl
5 3 (10.34%) C++
5 3 (10.34%) Embedded C
5 3 (10.34%) Embedded C++
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) HNC
3 4 (13.79%) HND
4 2 (6.90%) CISM
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.45%) CLAS
5 1 (3.45%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.45%) GCIA
5 1 (3.45%) GCIH
5 1 (3.45%) GIAC
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Tigerscheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) DO-254
2 2 (6.90%) NCSC
3 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Firmware
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Argo
1 1 (3.45%) CSIRT
1 1 (3.45%) Grafana
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Opsgenie
1 1 (3.45%) Puppet
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Xilinx
2 11 (37.93%) Microsemi
3 7 (24.14%) Altera
4 6 (20.69%) Actel
5 5 (17.24%) Dell
6 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
6 3 (10.34%) SAP
6 3 (10.34%) Splunk
7 2 (6.90%) Automation Anywhere
7 2 (6.90%) Blue Prism
7 2 (6.90%) Mentor Graphics
7 2 (6.90%) UiPath
8 1 (3.45%) AppDynamics
8 1 (3.45%) Black Duck
8 1 (3.45%) Cribl.io
8 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (3.45%) Google
8 1 (3.45%) PagerDuty
8 1 (3.45%) QinetiQ
8 1 (3.45%) Veracode