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 26 November 2025, 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
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 487 523
Rank change year-on-year -18 +36 +189
Contract jobs citing Intel 27 24 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.088% 0.077% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.17% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 33
10th Percentile £176 £375 -
25th Percentile £345 £467 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £550 £240
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +129.17% -41.28%
75th Percentile £531 £663 £538
90th Percentile £604 £688 £730
UK median daily rate £460 £550 £240
% change year-on-year -16.36% +129.17% -34.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 9
10th Percentile £56.00 £75.00 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £90.00 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +35.71% +8.53%
75th Percentile £84.00 £96.25 -
90th Percentile £86.40 £100.00 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £95.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -21.05% +35.71% +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 14,619 14,016 17,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.66% 45.17% 44.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,425 8,426 11,432
10th Percentile £286 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 439 617
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -26.67% +70.68%
75th Percentile £45.55 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.90 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.18% -32.58% +73.08%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 -16 12 £254 -41.94% 28
London +6 6 £575 - 9
Yorkshire -31 4 £350 +9.38% 9
North of England -47 4 £350 -17.65% 19
South East -3 3 £506 -19.00% 26
South West -4 1 - - 15
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 (22.22%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.70%) Datadog
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Ethernet
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) VLAN
2 2 (7.41%) Wireless
3 1 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
3 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.70%) git-flow
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) Metasploit
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Electronics
2 6 (22.22%) Games
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Analyst
1 5 (18.52%) Firmware Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) FPGA Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Applications Support
4 2 (7.41%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Centre Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (7.41%) IT Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) OAuth
1 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
1 2 (7.41%) OpenID
1 2 (7.41%) SAML
2 1 (3.70%) EJB
2 1 (3.70%) JCE
2 1 (3.70%) JSON Web Signature
2 1 (3.70%) JWT
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.70%) Spring
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) FPGA
1 10 (37.04%) Verilog
2 7 (25.93%) Algorithms
3 6 (22.22%) PCIe
4 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
4 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
4 4 (14.81%) VHDL
5 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.70%) Insider Threat
6 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
6 1 (3.70%) PKI
6 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Computer Science
1 7 (25.93%) Cryptography
1 7 (25.93%) Machine Learning
1 7 (25.93%) Threat Intelligence
2 6 (22.22%) AI
2 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 6 (22.22%) Physics
2 6 (22.22%) UVM
3 5 (18.52%) SIEM
4 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (14.81%) FPGA Design
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
5 3 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (11.11%) Presales
5 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 3 (11.11%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) MATLAB
1 6 (22.22%) SystemVerilog
1 6 (22.22%) Tcl
2 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Bash
3 1 (3.70%) C
3 1 (3.70%) C++
3 1 (3.70%) Go
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) Degree
4 6 (22.22%) HNC
4 6 (22.22%) HND
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (7.41%) CISSP
7 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (3.70%) CFCE
7 1 (3.70%) CISM
7 1 (3.70%) GCFA
7 1 (3.70%) GCIA
7 1 (3.70%) GCIH
7 1 (3.70%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) DO-254
2 3 (11.11%) NIST
3 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) GRC
4 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Firmware
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Argo
1 1 (3.70%) Grafana
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Nessus
1 1 (3.70%) Opsgenie
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Xilinx
2 6 (22.22%) Actel
2 6 (22.22%) Altera
2 6 (22.22%) Dell
2 6 (22.22%) Microsemi
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (11.11%) Splunk
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco
5 2 (7.41%) Lattice Semiconductor
5 2 (7.41%) VMware
6 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.70%) ArcSight
6 1 (3.70%) Black Duck
6 1 (3.70%) Google
6 1 (3.70%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.70%) PagerDuty
6 1 (3.70%) Qualys
6 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.70%) Veracode