Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Wintel Engineer
UK > England

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in England is £482, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 495 437
Rank change year-on-year -105 -58 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 29 23 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.063% 0.083% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.091% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 67
10th Percentile £354 £500 £459
25th Percentile £424 £512 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% -4.55% +17.02%
75th Percentile £495 £556 £581
90th Percentile £631 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £480 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -8.22% -4.91% +16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00

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 42,222 25,226 30,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,437 16,285 19,969
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,228 1,378 1,700
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.68 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 - 11 £480 -
North of England - 11 £480 -
South West -43 6 £563 -2.17% 4
London -77 6 £425 -19.05%
East of England -23 2 £375 -37.50%
South East -77 2 £475 -7.32% 1
Midlands -53 1 £300 -41.06% 1
West Midlands -59 1 £300 -41.06%
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 25 (86.21%) Windows
2 22 (75.86%) Windows Server
3 19 (65.52%) VMware
4 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
4 18 (62.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (58.62%) PowerShell
6 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
6 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
7 14 (48.28%) vSphere
8 13 (44.83%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
10 11 (37.93%) Ansible
10 11 (37.93%) High Availability
10 11 (37.93%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (34.48%) Cisco
12 9 (31.03%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (31.03%) Network Virtualisation
12 9 (31.03%) Project Delivery
12 9 (31.03%) vCenter Server
12 9 (31.03%) Virtual Machines
12 9 (31.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (27.59%) MCSA
13 8 (27.59%) MCSE
13 8 (27.59%) VCAP
14 7 (24.14%) Azure
15 6 (20.69%) DNS
16 5 (17.24%) DHCP
16 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
16 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Stack
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) DNS
2 5 (17.24%) DHCP
3 2 (6.90%) PCoIP
3 2 (6.90%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.45%) Firewall
4 1 (3.45%) SAN
4 1 (3.45%) Skype
4 1 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) eggPlant
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 3 (10.34%) Finance
1 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.90%) Banking
2 2 (6.90%) Legal
2 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
1 2 (6.90%) OpenGL
1 2 (6.90%) Qt
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) Next.js
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Clustering
1 9 (31.03%) Replication
2 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) CUDA
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.45%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.45%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 25 (86.21%) Windows
2 22 (75.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.90%) Linux
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.45%) Android
4 1 (3.45%) Unix
4 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (37.93%) High Availability
3 9 (31.03%) Capacity Planning
3 9 (31.03%) Network Virtualisation
3 9 (31.03%) Project Delivery
4 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) ITIL
5 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (10.34%) Validation
6 3 (10.34%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (10.34%) Zero Trust
7 2 (6.90%) Log Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) RBAC
7 2 (6.90%) Runbook
7 2 (6.90%) Task Automation
7 2 (6.90%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) Bicep
2 2 (6.90%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
2 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
3 9 (31.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (31.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (27.59%) MCSA
4 8 (27.59%) MCSE
4 8 (27.59%) VCAP
5 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 18 (62.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (48.28%) vSphere
3 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
4 11 (37.93%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (31.03%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
6 4 (13.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (6.90%) Docker
7 2 (6.90%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Ansible
2 9 (31.03%) vCenter Server
3 5 (17.24%) SCCM
4 3 (10.34%) WSUS
5 2 (6.90%) Packer
6 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.45%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.45%) OPNET
Vendors
1 19 (65.52%) VMware
2 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (34.48%) Cisco
4 3 (10.34%) Citrix
4 3 (10.34%) HP
5 2 (6.90%) McAfee
5 2 (6.90%) NVIDIA
6 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.45%) Leostream
6 1 (3.45%) Ping Identity
6 1 (3.45%) SOTI