Wintel Engineer Contracts in England

Wintel Engineer
UK > England

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in England is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 565 658
Rank change year-on-year +77 +93 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 57 94 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 67 82
10th Percentile £409 £361 £364
25th Percentile £515 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +27.84% +3.53% +9.68%
75th Percentile £650 £530 £498
90th Percentile £888 £700 £549
UK median daily rate £550 £460 £425
% change year-on-year +19.57% +8.24% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wintel Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wintel Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Wintel Engineer 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 26 April 2024. 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 +112 22 £515 +8.42% 1
South West +15 13 £575 +23.66% 1
South East +20 7 £483 -7.21% 2
North of England +19 7 £563 +32.35%
Yorkshire - 6 £563 -
East of England +1 5 £900 +28.57%
Midlands +30 3 £300 -20.00%
West Midlands - 3 £300 -
North East +21 1 £550 +7.84%
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 51 (89.47%) Windows
2 47 (82.46%) Windows Server
3 42 (73.68%) Active Directory
4 36 (63.16%) Security Cleared
5 30 (52.63%) VMware
6 27 (47.37%) DV Cleared
7 20 (35.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
9 18 (31.58%) Migration
9 18 (31.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 17 (29.82%) DNS
11 15 (26.32%) Microsoft
11 15 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 15 (26.32%) PKI
12 14 (24.56%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (24.56%) DHCP
12 14 (24.56%) Public Sector
13 13 (22.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 12 (21.05%) Veeam
14 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
15 11 (19.30%) Hyper-V
15 11 (19.30%) SQL
16 10 (17.54%) SQL Server
16 10 (17.54%) Replication
17 9 (15.79%) SCOM
17 9 (15.79%) vSphere
18 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
18 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
19 7 (12.28%) SCCM

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 15 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.53%) IIS
2 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.56%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (7.02%) Azure
3 3 (5.26%) AWS
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.75%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.75%) IaaS
5 1 (1.75%) PaaS
5 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (29.82%) DNS
2 14 (24.56%) DHCP
3 6 (10.53%) Skype
4 5 (8.77%) Firewall
4 5 (8.77%) SAN
5 4 (7.02%) LAN
5 4 (7.02%) NAS
5 4 (7.02%) WAN
6 3 (5.26%) SMTP
6 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.51%) Network Security
7 2 (3.51%) VLAN
8 1 (1.75%) SNMP
8 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.75%) VPN
8 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.02%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
General
1 14 (24.56%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Finance
4 3 (5.26%) Military
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.32%) PKI
2 10 (17.54%) Replication
3 6 (10.53%) Clustering
4 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.77%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.51%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.51%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 51 (89.47%) Windows
2 47 (82.46%) Windows Server
3 19 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 18 (31.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (12.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (10.53%) VMS
7 5 (8.77%) Linux
7 5 (8.77%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.75%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (31.58%) Migration
3 6 (10.53%) Service Management
4 5 (8.77%) Agile
4 5 (8.77%) Change Management
5 4 (7.02%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (7.02%) ITIL
5 4 (7.02%) Project Management
6 3 (5.26%) ITSM
6 3 (5.26%) Matrix Management
6 3 (5.26%) Office Automation
6 3 (5.26%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (5.26%) PRINCE2
6 3 (5.26%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (5.26%) Security Patching
6 3 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (5.26%) Statistical Analysis
7 2 (3.51%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 11 (19.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 27 (47.37%) DV Cleared
3 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (7.02%) Degree
6 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.75%) CCNA
6 1 (1.75%) CCNP
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.75%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (73.68%) Active Directory
2 19 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (19.30%) Hyper-V
4 9 (15.79%) vSphere
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (7.02%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.75%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (15.79%) SCOM
3 7 (12.28%) SCCM
4 3 (5.26%) OPNET
5 2 (3.51%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.51%) WSUS
6 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 30 (52.63%) VMware
2 15 (26.32%) Microsoft
3 12 (21.05%) Veeam
4 6 (10.53%) Dell
5 5 (8.77%) SolarWinds
6 4 (7.02%) Remedy
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco
7 2 (3.51%) Citrix
8 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.75%) Brocade
8 1 (1.75%) Dell Compellent
8 1 (1.75%) Google
8 1 (1.75%) HP
8 1 (1.75%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.75%) Meraki
8 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow