Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Wintel Engineer
UK > England

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in England is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 494 445
Rank change year-on-year -92 -49 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 27 22 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.059% 0.080% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.087% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 67
10th Percentile £357 £499 £459
25th Percentile £424 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -4.55% +18.60%
75th Percentile £490 £588 £581
90th Percentile £666 £620 £613
UK median daily rate £480 £512 £550
% change year-on-year -6.16% -7.00% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 42,146 25,333 30,967
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.63% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,503 16,397 20,301
10th Percentile £325 £283 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,173 1,332 1,801
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.51 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +7.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.31 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.21% -41.51% +2.38%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Wintel Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Wintel Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in England

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in England

Wintel Engineer
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 Wintel Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West - 11 £480 -
North of England - 11 £480 -
South West -38 6 £490 -14.78% 6
London -79 5 £588 -26.56% 1
South East -68 2 £475 -7.32% 3
East of England -20 1 £375 -37.50%
West Midlands -44 1 £300 -41.06%
Midlands -54 1 £300 -41.06%
Wintel Engineer
UK

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 August 2026, Wintel Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (88.89%) Windows
2 20 (74.07%) VMware
2 20 (74.07%) Windows Server
3 19 (70.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
4 18 (66.67%) PowerShell
4 18 (66.67%) Security Cleared
5 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
6 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
6 13 (48.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (48.15%) vSphere
7 12 (44.44%) High Availability
8 11 (40.74%) Ansible
9 10 (37.04%) Cisco
9 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (37.04%) Project Delivery
10 9 (33.33%) Azure
10 9 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
10 9 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
10 9 (33.33%) vCenter Server
10 9 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (29.63%) MCSA
11 8 (29.63%) MCSE
11 8 (29.63%) VCAP
12 6 (22.22%) DNS
12 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
13 5 (18.52%) AWS
13 5 (18.52%) DHCP

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) Skype for Business
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Stack
3 2 (7.41%) IaaS
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.41%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) DNS
2 5 (18.52%) DHCP
3 3 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (7.41%) Firewall
4 2 (7.41%) PCoIP
4 2 (7.41%) Skype
4 2 (7.41%) WAN
5 1 (3.70%) Internet
5 1 (3.70%) SAN
5 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) eggPlant
General
1 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Military
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) ARM Templates
1 2 (7.41%) OpenGL
1 2 (7.41%) Qt
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) Next.js
2 1 (3.70%) Spring
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Clustering
1 9 (33.33%) Replication
2 5 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) CUDA
3 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.70%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) PKI
4 1 (3.70%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (88.89%) Windows
2 20 (74.07%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.41%) Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.70%) Unix
5 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (44.44%) High Availability
3 10 (37.04%) Project Delivery
4 9 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (11.11%) ITIL
6 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (11.11%) Zero Trust
7 2 (7.41%) Change Management
7 2 (7.41%) Network Design
7 2 (7.41%) SIEM
7 2 (7.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Bicep
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (29.63%) MCSA
5 8 (29.63%) MCSE
5 8 (29.63%) VCAP
6 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 19 (70.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (48.15%) Active Directory
2 13 (48.15%) vSphere
3 9 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 5 (18.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (7.41%) Docker
6 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
6 2 (7.41%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Ansible
2 9 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 5 (18.52%) SCCM
4 2 (7.41%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (7.41%) Packer
4 2 (7.41%) WSUS
5 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.70%) SCOM
5 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (74.07%) VMware
2 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (37.04%) Cisco
4 4 (14.81%) Citrix
5 3 (11.11%) HP
5 3 (11.11%) McAfee
6 2 (7.41%) NVIDIA
7 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.70%) Leostream
7 1 (3.70%) Ping Identity