Wintel Engineer Contracts in the South West

Wintel Engineer
England > South West

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in the South West is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 119 129
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 5 23 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 0.84% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.91% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 19 10
10th Percentile - - £402
25th Percentile £563 £460 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +30.68% -6.38%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £484
90th Percentile - £665 £495
England median daily rate £525 £550 £470
% change year-on-year -4.55% +17.02% +4.44%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 1,705 2,527 3,176
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.80% 92.43% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 1,607 2,198
10th Percentile £220 £228 £300
25th Percentile £363 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% +1.92%
75th Percentile £624 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 299 280
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.82 £18.26
25th Percentile £18.13 £32.49 £40.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -42.84% +0.32% +68.69%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Wintel Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer in the South West

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Wintel Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Wintel Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dorset - 3 - -
Wiltshire +10 2 £575 -
Wintel Engineer
England

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 28 August 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 South West region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (80.00%) Skype
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 10
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (80.00%) PKI
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 3 (60.00%) MCSE
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) WSUS
3 3 (60.00%) NsoIT
3 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) System Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) Military

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Skype
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) NsoIT
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
1 3 (60.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) MCSE
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Fujitsu
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat