Intel Contracts in the UK excluding London

Intel
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Intel products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Intel over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Intel Corporation.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 359 407
Rank change year-on-year +13 +48 +81
Contract jobs citing Intel 18 28 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.32% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 12
10th Percentile £350 £169 £316
25th Percentile £428 £183 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £365 £583
Median % change year-on-year +71.30% -37.26% +94.17%
75th Percentile £643 £653 £602
90th Percentile £660 £846 £604
UK median daily rate £601 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +11.20% -10.00% +63.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 7
10th Percentile £66.35 £60.25 -
25th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £84.00 £80.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +276.29% -
75th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 £21.67
90th Percentile - £98.50 £23.77
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £80.00 £20.98
% change year-on-year +5.00% +281.27% -58.04%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Intel falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,231 8,670 10,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.67% 42.50% 45.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,395 5,260 6,963
10th Percentile £220 £213 £206
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 916 470
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.56 £14.35
25th Percentile £16.86 £15.00 £17.55
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.42% +39.32%
75th Percentile £45.89 £61.30 £57.46
90th Percentile £68.38 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £25.60 £39.60
% change year-on-year -1.76% -35.35% +80.00%

Intel
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Intel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Intel in the UK excluding London

Intel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Intel in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Intel in the UK excluding London

Intel
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intel in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Intel in the UK excluding London

Intel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Intel in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Intel in the UK excluding London

Intel
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Intel in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Intel in the UK excluding London

Intel
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intel within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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 East - 10 £626 - 12
East of England +7 8 - - 18
Intel
UK

Intel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (11.11%) DHCP
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 6 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 6 (33.33%) GitLab
1 6 (33.33%) GoogleTest
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
1 6 (33.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (33.33%) Electronics
1 6 (33.33%) Games
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Embedded Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Software Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Coordinator
4 2 (11.11%) Design Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Coordinator
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Project Coordinator
5 1 (5.56%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) FPGA
2 8 (44.44%) Verilog
3 6 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 6 (33.33%) PCIe
4 3 (16.67%) VHDL
5 2 (11.11%) PKI
6 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) UVM
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 6 (33.33%) Migration
3 6 (33.33%) Physics
3 6 (33.33%) Scrum
4 5 (27.78%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (11.11%) Application Security
5 2 (11.11%) Budget Management
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) FPGA Design
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Server Virtualisation
5 2 (11.11%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SystemVerilog
2 6 (33.33%) C++
2 6 (33.33%) MATLAB
2 6 (33.33%) Tcl
3 3 (16.67%) C
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Embedded C
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (72.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (50.00%) Degree
4 6 (33.33%) HNC
4 6 (33.33%) HND
5 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.56%) CFCE
6 1 (5.56%) CISSP
6 1 (5.56%) GCFA
6 1 (5.56%) GCIA
6 1 (5.56%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) DO-254
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Firmware
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsemi
1 8 (44.44%) Xilinx
2 6 (33.33%) Actel
2 6 (33.33%) Altera
2 6 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 6 (33.33%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) ArcSight
5 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (5.56%) LogRhythm
5 1 (5.56%) Siemens
5 1 (5.56%) Splunk