Senior Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in Watford

Senior Wintel Engineer
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median Senior Wintel Engineer daily rate in Watford is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Wintel Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 1.39% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £375 - £900
% change year-on-year - - +24.14%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Watford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Watford. 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 Watford with a recognized job title 68 45 127
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 100.00% 96.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 94
10th Percentile £170 £263 £278
25th Percentile £325 £306 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £411
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.34% -31.52%
75th Percentile £551 £559 £538
90th Percentile £633 £583 £705
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £538 £433
% change year-on-year -2.33% +24.28% -13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £33.21 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £35.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.95 £40.47 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.12% +179.10% -44.23%
75th Percentile £19.93 £45.24 £14.75
90th Percentile £21.79 £47.24 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £66.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -24.24% +5.60% -3.85%

Senior Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford

For the 6 months to 8 March 2026, Senior Wintel Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Watford region featuring Senior Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS

Senior Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) VMware