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 23 December 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 479 467
Rank change year-on-year -45 -12 +223
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 29 39 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.092% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 51
10th Percentile £467 £403 £313
25th Percentile £504 £460 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -10.48% +8.25%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £763
90th Percentile £725 £714 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £497 £513
% change year-on-year +5.74% -3.12% +19.74%
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 28,861 26,625 34,305
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.94% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,410 16,562 23,537
10th Percentile £293 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
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 1,775 835 1,341
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.74 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -22.58% +39.11%
75th Percentile £60.68 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.33 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.23% -26.67% +48.76%

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 23 December 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 23 December 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 +2 11 £525 +6.17% 1
South West -8 8 £550 +17.02%
South East -13 6 £508 +6.28% 2
North West -27 4 £465 - 1
North of England -45 4 £465 - 1
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 December 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 26 (89.66%) Windows
1 26 (89.66%) Windows Server
2 21 (72.41%) VMware
3 19 (65.52%) Active Directory
4 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
5 17 (58.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
6 16 (55.17%) PowerShell
6 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
7 15 (51.72%) VMware Infrastructure
8 14 (48.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (41.38%) MCSE
10 10 (34.48%) DHCP
10 10 (34.48%) DNS
10 10 (34.48%) vSphere
11 9 (31.03%) Cisco
11 9 (31.03%) ITIL
12 8 (27.59%) Critical Thinking
12 8 (27.59%) Degree
12 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Office
12 8 (27.59%) Service Management
12 8 (27.59%) Skype
12 8 (27.59%) SQL
12 8 (27.59%) System Testing
12 8 (27.59%) WSUS
13 7 (24.14%) High Availability
14 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (20.69%) SCCM
14 6 (20.69%) SharePoint
15 5 (17.24%) Ansible

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 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) DHCP
1 10 (34.48%) DNS
2 8 (27.59%) Skype
3 5 (17.24%) Unified Communications
4 2 (6.90%) Firewall
5 1 (3.45%) NetScaler
5 1 (3.45%) SAN
5 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Robot Framework
1 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) 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
Miscellaneous
1 16 (55.17%) PKI
2 5 (17.24%) Clustering
3 4 (13.79%) Replication
4 2 (6.90%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 26 (89.66%) Windows
1 26 (89.66%) Windows Server
2 5 (17.24%) CentOS
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
4 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 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 7 (24.14%) High Availability
4 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (10.34%) Change Management
6 3 (10.34%) Defect Management
6 3 (10.34%) NsoIT
6 3 (10.34%) Problem Management
6 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.34%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 2 (6.90%) B2B
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (6.90%) Service Migration
7 2 (6.90%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) PowerShell
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
4 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) Microsoft Certification
1 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
3 12 (41.38%) MCSE
4 8 (27.59%) Degree
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%) MCSA
6 4 (13.79%) VCAP
6 4 (13.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 19 (65.52%) Active Directory
2 15 (51.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (34.48%) vSphere
4 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (17.24%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (17.24%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.45%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) WSUS
2 6 (20.69%) SCCM
3 5 (17.24%) Ansible
3 5 (17.24%) SCOM
4 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
5 3 (10.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (72.41%) VMware
2 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
3 9 (31.03%) Cisco
4 5 (17.24%) Dell
4 5 (17.24%) Red Hat
4 5 (17.24%) SolarWinds
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