Wintel Engineer Contracts 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 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 485 545
Rank change year-on-year +13 +60 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 26 71 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.100% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 59 52
10th Percentile £399 £460 £358
25th Percentile £513 £516 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +25.00% -2.22%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £526
90th Percentile £598 £618 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% +8.82%

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 24,051 34,738 44,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.94% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,688 22,731 31,726
10th Percentile £292 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,129 2,569 1,360
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.88 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £16.86 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

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 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 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
South West +21 9 £575 -
London +38 6 £400 -22.33% 9
South East +22 6 £525 -4.55% 4
Midlands +12 2 £509 -11.48%
West Midlands +6 2 £509 -11.48%
North of England +2 1 £350 -37.78% 1
East of England - 1 £600 -
North East - 1 £350 -
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 21 (80.77%) Windows
2 20 (76.92%) Security Cleared
3 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 14 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 14 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
4 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
6 10 (38.46%) VMware
7 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (30.77%) PKI
8 8 (30.77%) SCCM
8 8 (30.77%) SQL
9 7 (26.92%) DV Cleared
9 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
10 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (23.08%) Skype
10 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (23.08%) DNS
10 6 (23.08%) WSUS
10 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (23.08%) NsoIT
11 5 (19.23%) SCOM
11 5 (19.23%) Degree
11 5 (19.23%) Service Management
11 5 (19.23%) ITSM
11 5 (19.23%) ITIL
11 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (19.23%) SolarWinds

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 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.85%) Skype for Business
3 1 (3.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) DNS
1 6 (23.08%) Skype
2 4 (15.38%) DHCP
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (7.69%) LAN
3 2 (7.69%) WAN
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (3.85%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) SMTP
4 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Military
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
1 1 (3.85%) OAuth
1 1 (3.85%) OpenID
1 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
2 14 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 7 (26.92%) Windows 10
4 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (11.54%) Linux
6 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (7.69%) CentOS
7 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
7 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (3.85%) Solaris
8 1 (3.85%) Unix
8 1 (3.85%) Windows 7
8 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (3.85%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (23.08%) NsoIT
1 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (19.23%) ITIL
2 5 (19.23%) ITSM
2 5 (19.23%) Service Management
3 4 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (15.38%) System Testing
4 3 (11.54%) Migration
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (7.69%) Agile
5 2 (7.69%) B2B
5 2 (7.69%) Commercial Awareness
5 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.69%) High Availability
5 2 (7.69%) RBAC
5 2 (7.69%) Service Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Time Management
6 1 (3.85%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 8 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 14 (53.85%) SC Cleared
3 7 (26.92%) DV Cleared
4 5 (19.23%) Degree
5 4 (15.38%) MCSE
5 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) SCCM
2 6 (23.08%) WSUS
3 5 (19.23%) SCOM
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.85%) logstash
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) QRadar
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) VMware
3 5 (19.23%) SolarWinds
4 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco
5 1 (3.85%) Dell
5 1 (3.85%) Fujitsu
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) NetApp
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (3.85%) Remedy
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk
5 1 (3.85%) Tenable