Chartered Engineer Contracts

Chartered Engineer (CEng)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Chartered Engineer qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 552 648 838
Rank change year-on-year +96 +190 -157
Contract jobs citing Chartered Engineer 18 42 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.074% 0.029%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.14% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 5
10th Percentile £350 £456 £376
25th Percentile £379 £488 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £550 £738 £570
90th Percentile £599 £751 £573
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 27 14
10th Percentile £42.24 - -
25th Percentile £43.72 £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% - -28.00%
75th Percentile £56.60 £67.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £62.85 £68.75 £53.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +2.62% - -19.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Chartered Engineer is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,709 15,409 18,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.88% 27.24% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,910 10,280 12,541
10th Percentile £307 £335 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £526 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 759 770
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.17 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.24 £19.77
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +23.47%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.02 £79.30 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.75 £35.20
% change year-on-year -19.33% +44.18% +6.67%

Chartered Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Chartered Engineer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chartered Engineer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Chartered Engineer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chartered Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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 +78 18 £525 -4.55% 153
UK excluding London +39 13 £525 -4.55% 121
London +96 5 £400 -50.00% 29
South West +10 5 £525 -9.48% 19
North of England +28 3 £62 - 42
North West +23 3 £62 - 32
South East +3 3 £388 -10.99% 17
Midlands +33 2 - - 26
East Midlands +15 2 - - 10

Chartered Engineer
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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) AutoCAD
2 1 (5.56%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) VSAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 4 (22.22%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 2 (11.11%) Electronics
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Design Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Validation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Verification Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Security Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Design Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Computer Science
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Waterfall
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) Validation
5 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
5 5 (27.78%) TOGAF
6 4 (22.22%) Architectural Design
6 4 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
6 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (22.22%) High Availability
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (22.22%) NsoIT
6 4 (22.22%) Power Management
6 4 (22.22%) Service Management
6 4 (22.22%) System Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 11 (61.11%) Degree
2 11 (61.11%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) Master's Degree
4 5 (27.78%) CITP
5 4 (22.22%) CCNA
5 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (11.11%) HND
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Def Stans
1 1 (5.56%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco
1 6 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.11%) EMC
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Sparx
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Sitecore