Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Wintel Engineer
England > London

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 369 408
Rank change year-on-year +4 +39 +166
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 11 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.082% 0.070% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.074% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 9
10th Percentile - £445 £218
25th Percentile - £518 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +26.47% -
75th Percentile - £556 £480
90th Percentile £608 £582 £530
England median daily rate £525 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -4.55% +12.24% +8.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,403 14,859 19,490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.06% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 9,622 14,179
10th Percentile £333 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 164 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.20
25th Percentile £22.13 £24.17 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.68 £38.75 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% -4.32% +24.62%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.06 £61.53
90th Percentile £66.15 £80.15 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.37% +58.64%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Wintel Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Wintel Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in London

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in London

Wintel Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Wintel Engineer job vacancies in London

Wintel Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
South London - 2 - -
West London - 2 - -
Wintel Engineer
England

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, 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 London region featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Windows
1 9 (81.82%) Windows Server
2 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
3 7 (63.64%) VMware
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
5 5 (45.45%) Dell
5 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (45.45%) SCOM
5 5 (45.45%) vSphere
6 2 (18.18%) AWS
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) B2B
6 2 (18.18%) Bash
6 2 (18.18%) CentOS
6 2 (18.18%) DHCP
6 2 (18.18%) DNS
6 2 (18.18%) Firewall
6 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Linux
6 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
6 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (18.18%) Service Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Terraform
6 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
6 2 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DHCP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
General
1 2 (18.18%) Retail
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OpenID
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) EPoS
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
1 9 (81.82%) Windows Server
2 2 (18.18%) CentOS
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) B2B
1 2 (18.18%) High Availability
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (18.18%) Service Migration
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
2 1 (9.09%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) RBAC
2 1 (9.09%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Bash
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (45.45%) vSphere
3 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) SCOM
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (45.45%) Dell
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat