Wintel Support Contracts

Wintel Support
UK

The median Wintel Support daily rate in the UK is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 June 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
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 583 679
Rank change year-on-year +63 +96 +156
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Support 3 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.009% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.010% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £395
25th Percentile £325 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £543
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.75%
75th Percentile £375 - £559
90th Percentile - - £569
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - £459
% change year-on-year - - +11.27%

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 26,673 39,795 53,311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.85% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,203 25,730 37,248
10th Percentile £287 £280 £313
25th Percentile £404 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 2,844 1,473
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.83 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +83.97%
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%

Wintel Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Support in the UK

Wintel Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Wintel Support in the UK

Wintel Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Wintel Support in the UK

Wintel Support
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 Wintel Support within the UK over the 6 months to 4 June 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 +64 3 £350 - 6
UK excluding London +53 3 £350 - 6
South East +44 2 - - 3
North East - 1 £350 -
North of England - 1 £350 -

Wintel Support Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 June 2025, Wintel Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (33.33%) WSUS
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (33.33%) Server Migrations
3 1 (33.33%) Server Management
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow

Wintel Support 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Server Migrations
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
3 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) VMware