Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Wintel Engineer
UK > England

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 450 497
Rank change year-on-year -38 +47 +219
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 24 78 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 64 52
10th Percentile £500 £458 £358
25th Percentile - £473 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £470
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +17.02% +4.44%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £518
90th Percentile £583 £613 £649
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.90% +108.00%
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -35.90% +108.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,377 30,623 39,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.98% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,381 19,128 27,584
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,485 1,349
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Wintel Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
London +19 9 £525 -1.87%
South East +2 8 £513 -6.82% 2
South West +11 6 £550 -4.35% 1
West Midlands -13 1 £495 -13.91%
Midlands -19 1 £495 -13.91%
Wintel Engineer
UK

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Wintel Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 14 (58.33%) VMware
4 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
5 12 (50.00%) Windows Server
6 11 (45.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
7 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
8 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
8 9 (37.50%) SCCM
9 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
9 8 (33.33%) SolarWinds
10 7 (29.17%) PKI
10 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (25.00%) DHCP
11 6 (25.00%) DNS
11 6 (25.00%) SQL
11 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (25.00%) SCOM
11 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared
12 5 (20.83%) SharePoint
12 5 (20.83%) Cisco
12 5 (20.83%) Skype for Business
12 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (20.83%) Skype
12 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
13 4 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
13 4 (16.67%) Master's Degree

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (20.83%) SharePoint
2 5 (20.83%) Skype for Business
3 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) DHCP
1 6 (25.00%) DNS
2 5 (20.83%) Skype
3 4 (16.67%) Unified Communications
4 3 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
1 1 (4.17%) OpenID
1 1 (4.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) EPoS
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 12 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) CentOS
4 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Solaris
5 1 (4.17%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
2 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 4 (16.67%) ITIL
2 4 (16.67%) ITSM
2 4 (16.67%) Service Management
2 4 (16.67%) System Testing
2 4 (16.67%) Time Management
3 2 (8.33%) B2B
3 2 (8.33%) High Availability
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (8.33%) Service Migration
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (4.17%) RBAC
4 1 (4.17%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (16.67%) CCNA
4 4 (16.67%) CCNP
4 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 4 (16.67%) MCSE
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) SCCM
2 6 (25.00%) SCOM
3 4 (16.67%) WSUS
4 2 (8.33%) Terraform
5 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (4.17%) logstash
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.17%) QRadar
5 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.17%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) VMware
2 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 5 (20.83%) Cisco
5 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 4 (16.67%) Splunk
5 4 (16.67%) Veeam
6 2 (8.33%) Dell
7 1 (4.17%) Fujitsu
7 1 (4.17%) Oracle