Wintel Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Wintel Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 688 831
Rank change year-on-year +119 +143 -140
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Infrastructure Engineer 16 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.009% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.009% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile £464 £372 £330
25th Percentile £521 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -2.78% +19.60%
75th Percentile £588 £479 -
90th Percentile - £501 £534
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £365 £450
% change year-on-year +57.53% -18.89% +36.36%

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Wintel Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Wintel Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wintel Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +113 15 £575 +31.43%
London +95 9 £450 -
UK excluding London +75 7 £575 +57.53%
South West - 4 £575 -
South East +21 2 - -
Wales - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Wintel Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (87.50%) Windows Server
2 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
3 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
4 12 (75.00%) DV Cleared
5 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (56.25%) Migration
7 8 (50.00%) Replication
7 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
7 8 (50.00%) Veeam
7 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
7 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (31.25%) VMware
9 4 (25.00%) DNS
9 4 (25.00%) PKI
9 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
11 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
11 2 (12.50%) Security Patching
11 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
11 2 (12.50%) Network Security
11 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (12.50%) Azure
11 2 (12.50%) AWS
11 2 (12.50%) Open Source
11 2 (12.50%) Change Management
11 2 (12.50%) Linux
11 2 (12.50%) DHCP

Wintel Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) DHCP
2 2 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Replication
2 4 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (12.50%) Linux
5 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (12.50%) Open Source
3 2 (12.50%) Security Patching
4 1 (6.25%) OpenUP
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Veeam
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Citrix
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft