Intel Contracts

Intel
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 539 671
Rank change year-on-year +56 +132 +126
Contract jobs citing Intel 37 43 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.099% 0.079%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.23% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 24
10th Percentile £351 £178 £319
25th Percentile £556 £276 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -8.26% +30.15%
75th Percentile £675 £906 £604
90th Percentile £686 £975 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £640 £201 £590
% change year-on-year +218.59% -65.95% +107.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 12
10th Percentile £68.75 £60.25 -
25th Percentile £75.00 - £20.22
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £20.98
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +233.61% -59.06%
75th Percentile £85.75 £85.00 £21.67
90th Percentile £91.50 - £26.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £21.26
% change year-on-year +14.29% +229.26% -59.50%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Intel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Intel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Intel in the UK

Intel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Intel.

Daily rate trend for Intel in the UK

Intel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intel over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Intel in the UK

Intel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Intel.

Hourly rate trend for Intel in the UK

Intel
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Intel over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Intel in the UK

Intel
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +55 36 £640 +28.00% 52
UK excluding London +66 31 £640 +218.59% 28
East of England +29 16 - - 8
South East - 11 £640 - 7
London +29 6 £700 +5.66% 36
Work from Home +25 4 £626 +211.62% 51
North of England +18 2 £320 -44.39% 5
Yorkshire +9 2 £320 +59.30% 1
South West +44 1 £675 - 1
Scotland +10 1 £425 - 7

Intel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (18.92%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (45.95%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) AWS
1 3 (8.11%) Azure
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) RS-232
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 6 (16.22%) Bitbucket
2 6 (16.22%) Eclipse
2 6 (16.22%) GitLab
2 6 (16.22%) GoogleTest
2 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.22%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (10.81%) Electronics
1 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Games
2 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Military
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) FPGA Engineer
2 13 (35.14%) Design Engineer
2 13 (35.14%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Embedded Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior
6 4 (10.81%) Network Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior FPGA Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Developer
7 3 (8.11%) FPGA Developer
7 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Firmware Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Data Centre Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) IT Technician
9 1 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Senior Information Analyst
9 1 (2.70%) Senior Information Security Analyst
9 1 (2.70%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 25 (67.57%) FPGA
2 24 (64.86%) Verilog
3 22 (59.46%) VHDL
4 7 (18.92%) Algorithms
4 7 (18.92%) PCIe
5 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) FPGA Design
2 16 (43.24%) UVM
3 15 (40.54%) Signal Processing
4 9 (24.32%) Migration
4 9 (24.32%) Software Engineering
5 8 (21.62%) Agile
6 7 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (18.92%) Machine Learning
7 6 (16.22%) Scrum
8 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
9 4 (10.81%) Prototyping
9 4 (10.81%) Risk Analysis
10 3 (8.11%) Cryptography
10 3 (8.11%) Customer Requirements
10 3 (8.11%) Digital Signal Processing
10 3 (8.11%) Physics
10 3 (8.11%) Risk Management
11 2 (5.41%) Application Security
12 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security
12 1 (2.70%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (56.76%) SystemVerilog
2 14 (37.84%) C
3 10 (27.03%) C++
4 8 (21.62%) Python
5 7 (18.92%) Tcl
6 5 (13.51%) MATLAB
7 3 (8.11%) Java
8 2 (5.41%) SQL
9 1 (2.70%) C#
9 1 (2.70%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.70%) Fortran
9 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (54.05%) Degree
2 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
3 11 (29.73%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) HNC
4 3 (8.11%) HND
5 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) CCNP
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) DO-254
2 1 (2.70%) GRC
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Firmware
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Xilinx
2 17 (45.95%) Microsemi
3 6 (16.22%) Atlassian
3 6 (16.22%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) Actel
4 3 (8.11%) Algorithmics
4 3 (8.11%) Altera
5 2 (5.41%) Dell
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.70%) Oracle
6 1 (2.70%) Siemens
6 1 (2.70%) VMware