Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Wintel Engineer
England > London

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in London is £534, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 356 371
Rank change year-on-year -81 +15 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 12 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.059% 0.082% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.089% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 10
10th Percentile £389 - £448
25th Percentile £448 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -2.10% +19.17%
75th Percentile £550 - £555
90th Percentile £684 £608 £574
England median daily rate £497 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.37% -4.55% +14.58%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 19,071 12,380 15,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 92.53% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,335 8,269 9,868
10th Percentile £363 £335 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 210 174
10th Percentile £16.82 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £24.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £26.89 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.47% -24.78% -11.73%
75th Percentile £64.25 £49.00 £59.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £79.63
England median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -6.89%

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 15 October 2026.

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 2026, 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 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
3 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (66.67%) vSphere
5 7 (58.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (58.33%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (50.00%) Service Delivery
7 5 (41.67%) Azure
7 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (41.67%) Service Management
8 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
8 4 (33.33%) DHCP
8 4 (33.33%) DNS
8 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (33.33%) ITIL
8 4 (33.33%) Storage Management
9 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
9 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
9 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
9 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
9 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 2 (16.67%) Analytics
10 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
10 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (16.67%) Azure Stack
10 2 (16.67%) Bicep
10 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
10 2 (16.67%) Change Management
10 2 (16.67%) High Availability

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Stack
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DHCP
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) PCoIP
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) OpenGL
2 1 (8.33%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) CUDA
2 1 (8.33%) EMC VNX
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Storage Management
5 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
6 2 (16.67%) Change Management
6 2 (16.67%) High Availability
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Log Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) RBAC
6 2 (16.67%) Server Hardening
6 2 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
7 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
7 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (66.67%) vSphere
3 7 (58.33%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (8.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Packer
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
1 1 (8.33%) SCOM
1 1 (8.33%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Brocade
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA