Senior Wintel Engineer Contracts

Senior Wintel Engineer
UK

The median Senior Wintel Engineer daily rate in the UK is £515 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 716 814
Rank change year-on-year +140 +98 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Wintel Engineer 10 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.010% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.011% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 14
10th Percentile - £510 £400
25th Percentile - £521 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £640 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +28.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £925 £738 £550
90th Percentile - £744 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £900 £725 £413
% change year-on-year +24.14% +75.76% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Wintel Engineer in the UK

Senior Wintel Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Wintel Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Senior Wintel Engineer in the UK

Senior Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Wintel Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Wintel Engineer in the UK

Senior Wintel Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Wintel Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Wintel Engineer in the UK

Senior Wintel Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Wintel Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +123 9 £515 -19.53%
UK excluding London +71 5 £900 +24.14%
London - 5 £515 -
East of England +12 4 £900 +24.14%
Scotland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) vSphere
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
1 6 (60.00%) DHCP
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
1 6 (60.00%) PKI
2 5 (50.00%) SCOM
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (50.00%) Dell
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V

Senior Wintel Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DHCP
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) PKI
2 4 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (10.00%) Project Management
1 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (60.00%) vSphere
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) McAfee
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) Veritas