Wintel Engineer Contracts

Wintel Engineer
UK

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in the UK is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 517 597
Rank change year-on-year +23 +80 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 26 65 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 47 90
10th Percentile £375 £445 £363
25th Percentile £430 £515 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £460
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +19.57% +8.24%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £530
90th Percentile £595 £783 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £563 £440
% change year-on-year -6.67% +27.84% +3.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 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 +17 19 £525 -6.46% 5
Work from Home +47 16 £523 -7.02% 3
UK excluding London +39 15 £525 -6.67% 4
South West +44 10 £525 -8.70% 2
London +17 3 £400 -23.81% 1
South East +39 1 £400 -17.10% 1
East of England +26 1 £600 -33.33%
Midlands +20 1 £523 +74.33% 2
North of England +13 1 £350 -37.78%
West Midlands +12 1 £523 +74.33% 2
Scotland +11 1 - -
North East 0 1 £350 -36.36%

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (88.46%) Windows
2 21 (80.77%) Security Cleared
3 19 (73.08%) SC Cleared
4 17 (65.38%) Microsoft
5 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
6 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
6 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
7 12 (46.15%) Windows Server
8 10 (38.46%) Azure
8 10 (38.46%) Migration
9 8 (30.77%) VMware
9 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
9 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
10 7 (26.92%) PKI
10 7 (26.92%) Project Management
10 7 (26.92%) SQL
11 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (23.08%) MSI
11 6 (23.08%) Application Packaging
11 6 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
11 6 (23.08%) Programme Management
11 6 (23.08%) WSUS
11 6 (23.08%) Compatibility Testing
11 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
11 6 (23.08%) Windows 10
11 6 (23.08%) NsoIT
11 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (23.08%) Microservices

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 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
4 6 (23.08%) OneDrive
5 4 (15.38%) AWS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Skype
2 5 (19.23%) DNS
3 3 (11.54%) DHCP
4 2 (7.69%) LAN
4 2 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (7.69%) WAN
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall
5 1 (3.85%) SAN
5 1 (3.85%) SMTP
5 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) MSI
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) PKI
2 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (88.46%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 6 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.85%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.85%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Migration
2 7 (26.92%) Project Management
3 6 (23.08%) Application Packaging
3 6 (23.08%) Compatibility Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Microservices
3 6 (23.08%) NsoIT
3 6 (23.08%) Penetration Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Programme Management
4 5 (19.23%) ITIL
4 5 (19.23%) Service Management
5 4 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (15.38%) System Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (7.69%) Agile
7 2 (7.69%) Break/Fix
7 2 (7.69%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (7.69%) Patch Management
7 2 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (80.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (73.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) Degree
4 4 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) MCSE
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (11.54%) vSphere
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (23.08%) WSUS
2 5 (19.23%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.85%) logstash
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) QRadar
3 1 (3.85%) SCOM
3 1 (3.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
3 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Citrix
3 2 (7.69%) Dell
3 2 (7.69%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Fujitsu
4 1 (3.85%) NetApp
4 1 (3.85%) Remedy
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Tenable