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 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 453 480
Rank change year-on-year -57 +27 +197
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 29 60 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.095% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 40 48
10th Percentile £503 £459 £309
25th Percentile - £460 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £700
90th Percentile £725 £615 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.42% +7.60% +16.82%
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 27,794 28,871 36,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.97% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,815 17,661 25,211
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,691 1,070 1,414
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.37
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +49.84%
75th Percentile £56.47 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.63 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.40% -20.83% +55.17%

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 20 November 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 20 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
London -7 12 £525 +6.17% 2
South East -8 9 £500 -9.09% 2
South West -13 8 £550 +13.40% 1
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 November 2025, 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 23 (79.31%) Windows
2 19 (65.52%) Windows Server
3 18 (62.07%) VMware
4 17 (58.62%) Active Directory
5 16 (55.17%) Security Cleared
6 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
7 14 (48.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (44.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (44.83%) VMware Infrastructure
9 12 (41.38%) SC Cleared
10 11 (37.93%) PowerShell
11 10 (34.48%) SCCM
12 9 (31.03%) ITIL
12 9 (31.03%) SCOM
12 9 (31.03%) SolarWinds
13 8 (27.59%) Critical Thinking
13 8 (27.59%) Degree
13 8 (27.59%) DHCP
13 8 (27.59%) DNS
13 8 (27.59%) MCSE
13 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Office
13 8 (27.59%) Service Management
13 8 (27.59%) Skype
13 8 (27.59%) SQL
13 8 (27.59%) System Testing
13 8 (27.59%) WSUS
14 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (20.69%) SharePoint
14 6 (20.69%) vSphere

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 14 (48.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (20.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (17.24%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DHCP
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
1 8 (27.59%) Skype
2 5 (17.24%) Unified Communications
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall
4 1 (3.45%) NetScaler
General
1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) OAuth
1 1 (3.45%) OpenID
1 1 (3.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) PKI
2 2 (6.90%) EPoS
3 1 (3.45%) Clustering
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (79.31%) Windows
2 19 (65.52%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.24%) CentOS
3 5 (17.24%) Linux
4 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) ITIL
2 8 (27.59%) Critical Thinking
2 8 (27.59%) Service Management
2 8 (27.59%) System Testing
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
4 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.79%) Commercial Awareness
5 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.79%) ITSM
5 4 (13.79%) Time Management
6 3 (10.34%) Change Management
6 3 (10.34%) Defect Management
6 3 (10.34%) High Availability
6 3 (10.34%) NsoIT
6 3 (10.34%) Problem Management
6 3 (10.34%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 2 (6.90%) B2B
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) PowerShell
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (44.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (41.38%) SC Cleared
4 8 (27.59%) Degree
4 8 (27.59%) MCSE
5 5 (17.24%) CCNA
5 5 (17.24%) CCNP
5 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (17.24%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (17.24%) Master's Degree
6 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
System Software
1 17 (58.62%) Active Directory
2 13 (44.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (20.69%) vSphere
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (17.24%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) SCCM
2 9 (31.03%) SCOM
3 8 (27.59%) WSUS
4 2 (6.90%) Terraform
5 1 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) VMware
2 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
3 9 (31.03%) SolarWinds
4 5 (17.24%) Cisco
4 5 (17.24%) Dell
4 5 (17.24%) Red Hat
4 5 (17.24%) Splunk
4 5 (17.24%) Veeam
5 1 (3.45%) Citrix
5 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.45%) HP