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 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 461 469
Rank change year-on-year -65 +8 +163
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 32 28 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.097% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 49
10th Percentile £456 £400 £310
25th Percentile £483 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -6.00% +17.37%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £750
90th Percentile £725 £643 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +9.03% -3.70% +16.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.90% -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -35.90% -

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 30,253 24,723 35,060
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 93.04% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,276 15,264 23,666
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,876 738 1,991
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.98 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.36 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.90 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -11.09% -10.96% +4.29%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -17 9 £458 -
North of England -57 9 £458 -
South West -17 8 £550 +13.40% 1
London -24 8 £525 +16.28% 1
South East -23 6 £538 +14.36% 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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
1 31 (96.88%) Windows Server
2 24 (75.00%) VMware
3 23 (71.88%) Microsoft
4 22 (68.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
5 20 (62.50%) SC Cleared
6 19 (59.38%) Active Directory
6 19 (59.38%) PowerShell
7 17 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
8 16 (50.00%) MCSE
9 15 (46.88%) vSphere
10 14 (43.75%) Cisco
10 14 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (34.38%) Ansible
11 11 (34.38%) High Availability
12 10 (31.25%) Virtual Machines
12 10 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
13 9 (28.13%) Capacity Planning
13 9 (28.13%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (28.13%) ITIL
13 9 (28.13%) Network Virtualisation
13 9 (28.13%) vCenter Server
14 8 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
14 8 (25.00%) Degree
14 8 (25.00%) DHCP
14 8 (25.00%) DNS
14 8 (25.00%) MCSA
14 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
14 8 (25.00%) Service Management

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 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 5 (15.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) DHCP
1 8 (25.00%) DNS
1 8 (25.00%) Skype
2 5 (15.63%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.13%) SAN
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Robot Framework
1 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) PKI
2 10 (31.25%) Clustering
3 9 (28.13%) Replication
4 2 (6.25%) EPoS
5 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (96.88%) Windows
1 31 (96.88%) Windows Server
2 4 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 3 (9.38%) CentOS
3 3 (9.38%) Linux
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) High Availability
2 9 (28.13%) Capacity Planning
2 9 (28.13%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (28.13%) ITIL
2 9 (28.13%) Network Virtualisation
3 8 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 8 (25.00%) Service Management
3 8 (25.00%) System Testing
4 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
6 3 (9.38%) Change Management
6 3 (9.38%) Defect Management
6 3 (9.38%) NsoIT
6 3 (9.38%) Problem Management
7 2 (6.25%) Agile
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.25%) Prototyping
7 2 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft Certification
1 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 20 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (50.00%) MCSE
4 8 (25.00%) Degree
4 8 (25.00%) MCSA
4 8 (25.00%) VCAP
4 8 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (15.63%) CCNA
5 5 (15.63%) CCNP
5 5 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (15.63%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (15.63%) Master's Degree
6 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) Active Directory
2 17 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (46.88%) vSphere
4 10 (31.25%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (15.63%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.13%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Ansible
2 9 (28.13%) vCenter Server
3 8 (25.00%) WSUS
4 6 (18.75%) SCCM
5 5 (15.63%) SCOM
6 4 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (75.00%) VMware
2 23 (71.88%) Microsoft
3 14 (43.75%) Cisco
4 5 (15.63%) Dell
4 5 (15.63%) SolarWinds
4 5 (15.63%) Splunk
4 5 (15.63%) Veeam
5 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.13%) HP
6 1 (3.13%) Intel