Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 325 333
Rank change year-on-year -63 +8 +116
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 17 32 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.21% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.23% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 41
10th Percentile £461 £454 £420
25th Percentile £489 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% -14.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £775
90th Percentile £725 £730 £888
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +16.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.90% +108.00%
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -35.90% +108.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,258 13,848 18,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 92.36% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,006 8,265 12,022
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £591 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,634 795 1,208
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.41 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Wintel Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Wintel Engineer
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 Wintel Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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 -10 8 £550 +17.02%
South East -21 5 £500 -3.38% 3
North West -19 4 £465 - 1
North of England -51 4 £465 - 1
Wintel Engineer
UK

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) SC Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) Windows
3 14 (82.35%) Windows Server
4 12 (70.59%) MCSE
4 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
4 12 (70.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (70.59%) PowerShell
4 12 (70.59%) VMware
4 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
5 9 (52.94%) Cisco
6 8 (47.06%) Critical Thinking
6 8 (47.06%) Degree
6 8 (47.06%) ITIL
6 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (47.06%) Service Management
6 8 (47.06%) Skype
6 8 (47.06%) SQL
6 8 (47.06%) System Testing
6 8 (47.06%) WSUS
7 6 (35.29%) DHCP
7 6 (35.29%) DNS
7 6 (35.29%) SCCM
7 6 (35.29%) SolarWinds
8 5 (29.41%) CCNA
8 5 (29.41%) CCNP
8 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (29.41%) Computer Science

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
2 5 (29.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) Skype
2 6 (35.29%) DHCP
2 6 (35.29%) DNS
3 5 (29.41%) Unified Communications
4 1 (5.88%) SAN
4 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) PKI
2 4 (23.53%) Clustering
2 4 (23.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
2 14 (82.35%) Windows Server
3 4 (23.53%) Windows 10
4 3 (17.65%) CentOS
4 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Critical Thinking
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL
1 8 (47.06%) Service Management
1 8 (47.06%) System Testing
2 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
2 5 (29.41%) High Availability
3 4 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (23.53%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
4 3 (17.65%) NsoIT
4 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Commercial Awareness
5 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Time Management
6 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.88%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) PowerShell
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) SC Cleared
3 12 (70.59%) MCSE
3 12 (70.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (47.06%) Degree
5 5 (29.41%) CCNA
5 5 (29.41%) CCNP
5 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (29.41%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
6 4 (23.53%) MCSA
6 4 (23.53%) VCAP
6 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (29.41%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (29.41%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (29.41%) vSphere
4 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) WSUS
2 6 (35.29%) SCCM
3 4 (23.53%) Ansible
3 4 (23.53%) vCenter Server
4 1 (5.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco
3 6 (35.29%) SolarWinds
4 5 (29.41%) Splunk
4 5 (29.41%) Veeam
5 3 (17.65%) Red Hat