Wintel Engineer Contracts in England

Wintel Engineer
UK > England

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in England is £560 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 546 669
Rank change year-on-year +72 +123 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 57 94 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 60 78
10th Percentile £496 £355 £356
25th Percentile £518 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £456 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.74% +7.35% +13.33%
75th Percentile £631 £530 £498
90th Percentile £713 £700 £550
UK median daily rate £550 £470 £425
% change year-on-year +17.02% +10.59% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Wintel Engineer in England

Wintel Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +99 20 £535 +12.63% 1
South West -4 14 £575 +30.68% 7
South East +37 13 £550 +10.55% 2
North of England +26 6 £563 +42.41% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £563 -
East of England -8 4 £900 +58.59% 2
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (91.23%) Windows
2 48 (84.21%) Active Directory
3 44 (77.19%) Windows Server
4 40 (70.18%) Security Cleared
5 34 (59.65%) VMware
6 29 (50.88%) DV Cleared
7 25 (43.86%) VMware Infrastructure
8 19 (33.33%) Microsoft
9 17 (29.82%) DNS
9 17 (29.82%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (29.82%) PKI
10 16 (28.07%) PowerShell
10 16 (28.07%) Hyper-V
10 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (26.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 15 (26.32%) SQL
12 14 (24.56%) DHCP
12 14 (24.56%) Migration
13 13 (22.81%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (22.81%) Windows Server 2016
14 12 (21.05%) Public Sector
15 11 (19.30%) vSphere
16 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
16 10 (17.54%) WSUS
16 10 (17.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 9 (15.79%) SCOM
17 9 (15.79%) Veeam
18 8 (14.04%) Windows Server 2012
18 8 (14.04%) Skype
18 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (29.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.53%) IIS
2 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (10.53%) Azure
3 4 (7.02%) AWS
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.75%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.75%) IaaS
5 1 (1.75%) PaaS
5 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (29.82%) DNS
2 14 (24.56%) DHCP
3 8 (14.04%) Skype
4 5 (8.77%) Firewall
4 5 (8.77%) SAN
5 4 (7.02%) LAN
5 4 (7.02%) NAS
5 4 (7.02%) WAN
6 3 (5.26%) SMTP
6 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.51%) Network Security
7 2 (3.51%) VLAN
8 1 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.75%) VPN
8 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.02%) Big Data
3 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
General
1 12 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
2 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Military
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) .NET
1 2 (3.51%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.82%) PKI
2 7 (12.28%) Replication
3 6 (10.53%) Clustering
3 6 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.51%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (91.23%) Windows
2 44 (77.19%) Windows Server
3 15 (26.32%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (22.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (14.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (12.28%) Windows 10
7 6 (10.53%) Linux
7 6 (10.53%) VMS
8 2 (3.51%) CentOS
8 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.75%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (24.56%) Migration
3 7 (12.28%) Change Management
3 7 (12.28%) Service Management
4 6 (10.53%) ITIL
5 5 (8.77%) Agile
5 5 (8.77%) Security Patching
6 4 (7.02%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (7.02%) Project Management
7 3 (5.26%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (5.26%) ITSM
7 3 (5.26%) Matrix Management
7 3 (5.26%) Office Automation
7 3 (5.26%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (5.26%) PRINCE2
7 3 (5.26%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (5.26%) Statistical Analysis
7 3 (5.26%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) PowerShell
2 15 (26.32%) SQL
3 1 (1.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (70.18%) Security Cleared
2 29 (50.88%) DV Cleared
3 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
4 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (10.53%) Degree
6 3 (5.26%) MCSE
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) CCNA
7 1 (1.75%) CCNP
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (84.21%) Active Directory
2 25 (43.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (28.07%) Hyper-V
4 11 (19.30%) vSphere
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (7.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (7.02%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (5.26%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (3.51%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 10 (17.54%) WSUS
2 9 (15.79%) SCOM
3 7 (12.28%) SCCM
4 3 (5.26%) OPNET
5 2 (3.51%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (3.51%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.75%) WMI
Vendors
1 34 (59.65%) VMware
2 19 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (15.79%) Veeam
4 6 (10.53%) Dell
5 5 (8.77%) SolarWinds
6 3 (5.26%) Remedy
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco
7 2 (3.51%) Citrix
7 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.75%) Brocade
8 1 (1.75%) Dell Compellent
8 1 (1.75%) Google
8 1 (1.75%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.75%) Meraki