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 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 462 480
Rank change year-on-year -72 +18 +127
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 31 27 70
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.086% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.12% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 39
10th Percentile £441 £385 £310
25th Percentile £460 £460 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -12.83% +36.99%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £775
90th Percentile £740 £640 £895
UK median daily rate £525 £512 £575
% change year-on-year +2.64% -11.04% +30.68%

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 33,152 23,173 35,320
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 93.04% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,955 15,154 23,611
10th Percentile £307 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,163 767 2,289
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.34 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% -22.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.92
90th Percentile £75.63 £77.31 £71.77
UK median hourly rate £34.95 £33.75 £32.69
% change year-on-year +3.54% +3.24% -20.33%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -22 9 £458 -
South West -29 9 £550 +4.76% 1
North of England -54 9 £458 +30.86%
London -34 6 £525 +31.25% 1
South East -42 5 £560 +19.15%
Midlands -59 1 £550 +5.16%
East of England - 1 £375 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 March 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 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (96.77%) Windows Server
3 23 (74.19%) VMware
4 22 (70.97%) Microsoft
5 21 (67.74%) Security Cleared
6 20 (64.52%) PowerShell
7 19 (61.29%) Active Directory
7 19 (61.29%) SC Cleared
8 18 (58.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (54.84%) VMware Infrastructure
10 15 (48.39%) vSphere
11 13 (41.94%) MCSE
12 12 (38.71%) Ansible
12 12 (38.71%) Cisco
12 12 (38.71%) High Availability
13 11 (35.48%) Microsoft Exchange
14 10 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (32.26%) Virtual Machines
14 10 (32.26%) VMware ESXi
15 9 (29.03%) Capacity Planning
15 9 (29.03%) Network Virtualisation
15 9 (29.03%) vCenter Server
16 8 (25.81%) MCSA
16 8 (25.81%) VCAP
16 8 (25.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (22.58%) ITIL
17 7 (22.58%) Project Delivery
17 7 (22.58%) Skype
18 6 (19.35%) DHCP
18 6 (19.35%) DNS

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 11 (35.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (12.90%) Skype for Business
3 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) IaaS
3 1 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) Skype
2 6 (19.35%) DHCP
2 6 (19.35%) DNS
3 2 (6.45%) Firewall
3 2 (6.45%) Unified Communications
3 2 (6.45%) WAN
4 1 (3.23%) Internet
4 1 (3.23%) NetScaler
4 1 (3.23%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.23%) SAN
4 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Robot Framework
1 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (3.23%) eggPlant
General
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) PKI
2 10 (32.26%) Clustering
3 9 (29.03%) Replication
4 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) EPoS
5 1 (3.23%) Fat Client
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 31 (100.00%) Windows
2 30 (96.77%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.90%) Windows 10
4 3 (9.68%) CentOS
4 3 (9.68%) Linux
4 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) High Availability
2 10 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (29.03%) Capacity Planning
3 9 (29.03%) Network Virtualisation
4 7 (22.58%) ITIL
4 7 (22.58%) Project Delivery
5 5 (16.13%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (16.13%) Service Management
5 5 (16.13%) System Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Change Management
7 3 (9.68%) Defect Management
7 3 (9.68%) NsoIT
7 3 (9.68%) Problem Management
7 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
8 2 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (6.45%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.45%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (6.45%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) PowerShell
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (67.74%) Security Cleared
2 19 (61.29%) SC Cleared
3 18 (58.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (41.94%) MCSE
5 8 (25.81%) MCSA
5 8 (25.81%) VCAP
5 8 (25.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (16.13%) Degree
6 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (9.68%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (6.45%) CCNA
8 2 (6.45%) CCNP
8 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 19 (61.29%) Active Directory
2 17 (54.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (48.39%) vSphere
4 10 (32.26%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (32.26%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (12.90%) Hyper-V
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (6.45%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (6.45%) VMware NSX
7 1 (3.23%) Terminal Services
7 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (3.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Ansible
2 9 (29.03%) vCenter Server
3 6 (19.35%) WSUS
4 4 (12.90%) SCCM
4 4 (12.90%) SCOM
5 3 (9.68%) Terraform
6 2 (6.45%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 23 (74.19%) VMware
2 22 (70.97%) Microsoft
3 12 (38.71%) Cisco
4 3 (9.68%) Dell
4 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.45%) Citrix
5 2 (6.45%) HP
5 2 (6.45%) McAfee
5 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk
5 2 (6.45%) Veeam
6 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.23%) Intel