Wintel Engineer Contracts in England

Wintel Engineer
UK > England

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 542 687
Rank change year-on-year +63 +145 -108
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 64 96 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.21% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 60 76
10th Percentile £478 £334 £356
25th Percentile £518 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +3.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £526 £490
90th Percentile £708 £700 £544
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% +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 - - £65.50

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 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

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 31 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 31 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
South East +20 19 £550 +29.41% 3
London +84 18 £515 +8.42% 2
South West -5 15 £575 +30.68% 6
North of England +20 6 £563 +42.41% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £563 -
Midlands +23 3 £575 +53.33%
East of England -4 3 £900 +106.90% 2
West Midlands - 3 £575 -
Wintel Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 57 (89.06%) Windows
2 49 (76.56%) Active Directory
3 47 (73.44%) Windows Server
4 45 (70.31%) Security Cleared
5 43 (67.19%) VMware
6 34 (53.13%) DV Cleared
7 30 (46.88%) VMware Infrastructure
8 20 (31.25%) Hyper-V
8 20 (31.25%) Microsoft
9 16 (25.00%) DNS
9 16 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 16 (25.00%) PowerShell
9 16 (25.00%) PKI
9 16 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
11 14 (21.88%) SQL
12 13 (20.31%) DHCP
12 13 (20.31%) Migration
12 13 (20.31%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (18.75%) vSphere
13 12 (18.75%) WSUS
13 12 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
14 9 (14.06%) Public Sector
15 8 (12.50%) SCOM
15 8 (12.50%) Finance
15 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (10.94%) Data Centre
16 7 (10.94%) Linux

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 16 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (9.38%) IIS
3 5 (7.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (10.94%) Azure
3 5 (7.81%) AWS
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.56%) IaaS
5 1 (1.56%) PaaS
5 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) DNS
2 13 (20.31%) DHCP
3 7 (10.94%) Skype
4 6 (9.38%) SAN
5 5 (7.81%) Firewall
5 5 (7.81%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (6.25%) LAN
6 4 (6.25%) NAS
6 4 (6.25%) WAN
7 3 (4.69%) SMTP
7 3 (4.69%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.13%) Network Security
8 2 (3.13%) VLAN
9 1 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.56%) VPN
9 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) Big Data
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (14.06%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.50%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Banking
4 3 (4.69%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) .NET
1 2 (3.13%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.00%) PKI
2 7 (10.94%) Data Centre
3 6 (9.38%) Clustering
3 6 (9.38%) Replication
4 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.13%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 57 (89.06%) Windows
2 47 (73.44%) Windows Server
3 16 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (10.94%) Linux
5 7 (10.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (9.38%) VMS
6 6 (9.38%) Windows 10
7 4 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (3.13%) CentOS
9 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (20.31%) Migration
3 7 (10.94%) Change Management
4 6 (9.38%) ITIL
4 6 (9.38%) Service Management
5 5 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (7.81%) Security Patching
6 4 (6.25%) Agile
6 4 (6.25%) Project Management
7 3 (4.69%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (4.69%) ITSM
7 3 (4.69%) Matrix Management
7 3 (4.69%) Office Automation
7 3 (4.69%) Open Source
7 3 (4.69%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (4.69%) PRINCE2
7 3 (4.69%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (4.69%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (4.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (4.69%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (21.88%) SQL
3 2 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (70.31%) Security Cleared
2 34 (53.13%) DV Cleared
3 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
4 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (9.38%) Degree
6 3 (4.69%) MCSE
7 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.56%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (76.56%) Active Directory
2 30 (46.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (31.25%) Hyper-V
4 12 (18.75%) vSphere
5 5 (7.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (7.81%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (4.69%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (4.69%) VMFS
6 3 (4.69%) VMware NSX
7 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.13%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) WSUS
2 8 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 8 (12.50%) SCOM
3 6 (9.38%) SCCM
4 3 (4.69%) OPNET
4 3 (4.69%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (3.13%) VxRail
6 1 (1.56%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.56%) WMI
Vendors
1 43 (67.19%) VMware
2 20 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.38%) Dell
3 6 (9.38%) Veeam
4 4 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.69%) Citrix
5 3 (4.69%) Remedy
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco
6 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.56%) Brocade
7 1 (1.56%) Dell Compellent
7 1 (1.56%) EMC
7 1 (1.56%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.56%) McAfee
7 1 (1.56%) Meraki
7 1 (1.56%) Veritas