Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Wintel Engineer
UK > England

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in England is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 449 482
Rank change year-on-year -114 +33 +70
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 32 20 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.079% 0.082% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.089% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 47
10th Percentile £407 £383 £476
25th Percentile £448 £460 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £524 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% -6.43% +22.74%
75th Percentile £543 £578 £650
90th Percentile £802 £596 £783
UK median daily rate £483 £509 £550
% change year-on-year -5.11% -7.45% +17.02%

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 37,472 22,498 34,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.54% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,288 14,975 22,610
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.07% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 913 2,443
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.32 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.01% -19.15% -16.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.85% -23.73% -16.67%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 of England -51 17 £460 +31.43% 7
North West - 17 £460 - 7
South West -38 4 £490 -6.67%
South East -53 4 £680 +70.00%
London -54 3 £750 +87.50%
Midlands -55 2 £425 -16.50%
East of England -28 1 £375 -37.50%
West Midlands -65 1 £300 -41.06%
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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 31 (96.88%) Windows
2 28 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 25 (78.13%) Security Cleared
3 25 (78.13%) VMware
4 22 (68.75%) PowerShell
4 22 (68.75%) SC Cleared
4 22 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (65.63%) Microsoft
6 20 (62.50%) Ansible
7 18 (56.25%) High Availability
7 18 (56.25%) vSphere
8 17 (53.13%) Cisco
8 17 (53.13%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (53.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (53.13%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
9 16 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
9 16 (50.00%) vCenter Server
9 16 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
10 15 (46.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (43.75%) MCSA
11 14 (43.75%) MCSE
11 14 (43.75%) VCAP
12 13 (40.63%) Active Directory
12 13 (40.63%) Project Delivery
13 5 (15.63%) AWS
13 5 (15.63%) Azure
13 5 (15.63%) DHCP
13 5 (15.63%) DNS
13 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared

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 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.25%) Skype for Business
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.13%) GitHub
2 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.13%) IaaS
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
2 1 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) DHCP
1 5 (15.63%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) PCoIP
2 2 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (6.25%) Skype
2 2 (6.25%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) Internet
3 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.13%) SAN
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Robot Framework
1 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.13%) eggPlant
General
1 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.13%) Banking
2 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Finance
2 1 (3.13%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) OpenGL
1 2 (6.25%) Qt
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) Next.js
2 1 (3.13%) Spring
2 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) Clustering
2 16 (50.00%) Replication
3 4 (12.50%) PKI
4 2 (6.25%) CUDA
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Fat Client
5 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 31 (96.88%) Windows
2 28 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.13%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) High Availability
2 17 (53.13%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 16 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (40.63%) Project Delivery
5 3 (9.38%) Agile
5 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.38%) Configuration Management
5 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (6.25%) ITIL
6 2 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (6.25%) Network Design
6 2 (6.25%) Prototyping
6 2 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (6.25%) Security Architecture
6 2 (6.25%) Server Building
6 2 (6.25%) Task Automation
7 1 (3.13%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (78.13%) Security Cleared
2 22 (68.75%) SC Cleared
3 17 (53.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (46.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (43.75%) MCSA
5 14 (43.75%) MCSE
5 14 (43.75%) VCAP
6 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 22 (68.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (56.25%) vSphere
3 17 (53.13%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (40.63%) Active Directory
6 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
7 2 (6.25%) Docker
7 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (3.13%) Terminal Services
8 1 (3.13%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (3.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 20 (62.50%) Ansible
2 16 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 4 (12.50%) SCCM
4 3 (9.38%) Terraform
5 2 (6.25%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (6.25%) Packer
6 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.13%) SCOM
6 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) VMware
2 21 (65.63%) Microsoft
3 17 (53.13%) Cisco
4 4 (12.50%) HP
5 3 (9.38%) McAfee
6 2 (6.25%) Citrix
6 2 (6.25%) NVIDIA
7 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
7 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.13%) Intel
7 1 (3.13%) Leostream
7 1 (3.13%) Ping Identity