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 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 358 374
Rank change year-on-year -22 +16 +134
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 8 5 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.052% 0.037% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.039% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 11
10th Percentile - - £131
25th Percentile - £375 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £425 £484
90th Percentile £556 - £650
England median daily rate £525 £485 £563
% change year-on-year +8.25% -13.78% +32.04%

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 14,124 12,736 17,136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.66% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 8,197 12,382
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 140 331
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.19 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.03
Median hourly rate £34.14 £37.81 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +32.65% -15.73%
75th Percentile £59.93 £55.25 £48.92
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.75
England median hourly rate £31.46 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.11% - -7.03%

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
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 13 February 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 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
3 5 (62.50%) Dell
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (62.50%) SCOM
3 5 (62.50%) vSphere
4 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Terraform
5 1 (12.50%) Citrix
5 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) DNS
5 1 (12.50%) HP
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) SCCM
5 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
5 1 (12.50%) 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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
General
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) PKI
2 2 (25.00%) EPoS
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) vSphere
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCOM
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
3 1 (12.50%) HP