Wintel Engineer Contracts

Wintel Engineer
UK

The median Wintel Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 561 723
Rank change year-on-year +51 +162 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Wintel Engineer 69 123 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.23% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 83 90
10th Percentile £482 £363 £330
25th Percentile £515 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £591 £530 £489
90th Percentile £700 £592 £544
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £440 £425
% change year-on-year +27.84% +3.53% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Wintel Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Wintel Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Wintel Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Wintel Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Wintel Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Wintel Engineer in the UK

Wintel Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
England +64 64 £550 +25.00% 12
UK excluding London +25 49 £563 +27.84% 11
South East +19 19 £550 +29.41% 3
London +97 18 £515 +8.42% 2
Work from Home +61 17 £563 +19.68% 2
South West -5 15 £575 +30.68% 3
North of England +23 6 £563 +42.41% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £563 -
Midlands +26 3 £575 +53.33%
East of England -4 3 £900 +106.90% 2
West Midlands - 3 £575 -
Scotland +40 2 £525 -2.53% 1
Wales +18 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 featuring Wintel Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (88.41%) Windows
2 53 (76.81%) Active Directory
3 51 (73.91%) Windows Server
4 48 (69.57%) Security Cleared
5 47 (68.12%) VMware
6 35 (50.72%) DV Cleared
7 33 (47.83%) VMware Infrastructure
8 22 (31.88%) Microsoft
9 21 (30.43%) Hyper-V
10 17 (24.64%) PowerShell
10 17 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
10 17 (24.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (24.64%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (23.19%) DNS
11 16 (23.19%) PKI
12 15 (21.74%) SC Cleared
13 14 (20.29%) SQL
14 13 (18.84%) DHCP
14 13 (18.84%) Migration
14 13 (18.84%) vSphere
14 13 (18.84%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (18.84%) Windows Server 2016
15 12 (17.39%) WSUS
16 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
17 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
18 8 (11.59%) Finance
18 8 (11.59%) Windows Server 2012
18 8 (11.59%) SCOM
18 8 (11.59%) Social Skills
18 8 (11.59%) Active Directory Federation Services

Wintel Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.70%) IIS
3 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.84%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (10.14%) Azure
3 5 (7.25%) AWS
4 2 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.45%) IaaS
5 1 (1.45%) PaaS
5 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.19%) DNS
2 13 (18.84%) DHCP
3 7 (10.14%) Skype
4 6 (8.70%) SAN
5 5 (7.25%) Firewall
5 5 (7.25%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (5.80%) LAN
6 4 (5.80%) NAS
6 4 (5.80%) WAN
7 3 (4.35%) SMTP
7 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.90%) Network Security
8 2 (2.90%) VLAN
9 1 (1.45%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.45%) VPN
9 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) Big Data
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.59%) Finance
2 8 (11.59%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.35%) Banking
3 3 (4.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) .NET
1 2 (2.90%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) PKI
2 7 (10.14%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.70%) Clustering
3 6 (8.70%) Replication
4 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.90%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (88.41%) Windows
2 51 (73.91%) Windows Server
3 17 (24.64%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (18.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (11.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (10.14%) Linux
7 6 (8.70%) VMS
7 6 (8.70%) Windows 10
8 4 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (2.90%) CentOS
10 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (18.84%) Migration
3 7 (10.14%) Change Management
4 6 (8.70%) ITIL
4 6 (8.70%) Service Management
5 5 (7.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (7.25%) Security Patching
6 4 (5.80%) Agile
6 4 (5.80%) Project Management
7 3 (4.35%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (4.35%) ITSM
7 3 (4.35%) Matrix Management
7 3 (4.35%) Office Automation
7 3 (4.35%) Open Source
7 3 (4.35%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (4.35%) PRINCE2
7 3 (4.35%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (4.35%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (24.64%) PowerShell
2 14 (20.29%) SQL
3 2 (2.90%) Python
4 1 (1.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (69.57%) Security Cleared
2 35 (50.72%) DV Cleared
3 15 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 9 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (8.70%) Degree
6 4 (5.80%) MCSE
7 2 (2.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.45%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.35%) SLA
2 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (76.81%) Active Directory
2 33 (47.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (30.43%) Hyper-V
4 13 (18.84%) vSphere
5 6 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (7.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (4.35%) VMFS
7 3 (4.35%) VMware NSX
8 2 (2.90%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) WSUS
2 8 (11.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 8 (11.59%) SCOM
3 6 (8.70%) SCCM
4 4 (5.80%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.35%) OPNET
6 2 (2.90%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (2.90%) VxRail
7 1 (1.45%) Backup Exec
7 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.45%) WMI
Vendors
1 47 (68.12%) VMware
2 22 (31.88%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.70%) Dell
3 6 (8.70%) Veeam
4 4 (5.80%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.35%) Citrix
5 3 (4.35%) Remedy
6 2 (2.90%) Cisco
6 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.45%) Brocade
7 1 (1.45%) Dell Compellent
7 1 (1.45%) EMC
7 1 (1.45%) Google
7 1 (1.45%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.45%) McAfee
7 1 (1.45%) Meraki
7 1 (1.45%) Veritas