Wintel Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Wintel Engineer
England > London

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 364 374
Rank change year-on-year -71 +10 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 7 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.053% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.057% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 14
10th Percentile £367 - £470
25th Percentile £389 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £622 £663 £553
90th Percentile £740 £745 £562
England median daily rate £483 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.55% +18.28%

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 18,700 12,336 15,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 92.91% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,091 8,299 10,482
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 207 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £62.13 £51.00 £55.75
90th Percentile £80.50 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +2.86%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) vSphere
5 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
5 3 (42.86%) DHCP
5 3 (42.86%) DNS
5 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
5 3 (42.86%) ITIL
5 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
5 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (28.57%) Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Stack
6 2 (28.57%) Bicep
6 2 (28.57%) High Availability
6 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
6 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 2 (28.57%) RBAC
6 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (28.57%) Server Hardening
6 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery

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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Stack
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) PCoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) OpenGL
2 1 (14.29%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) CUDA
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Server Hardening
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
3 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 1 (14.29%) Application Security
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Server Building
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) vSphere
3 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (14.29%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) NVIDIA