IT Engineer Contracts in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer daily rate in England is £210, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 282 333
Rank change year-on-year +32 +51 +64
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 351 429 576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 0.91% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.97% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 269 380
10th Percentile £124 £120 £130
25th Percentile £160 £150 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £200 £214
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.43% +22.14%
75th Percentile £338 £325 £388
90th Percentile £600 £488 £475
UK median daily rate £200 £190 £213
% change year-on-year +5.26% -10.59% +19.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 75 52
10th Percentile £12.00 £13.16 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.10 £14.09 £14.34
Median hourly rate £18.27 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% +1.26% +10.34%
75th Percentile £22.00 £25.08 £19.78
90th Percentile £24.18 £52.13 £21.35
UK median hourly rate £17.72 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +1.26% +10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +106 154 £255 +30.77% 52
North of England -7 51 £185 +8.82% 87
South East -1 47 £190 -5.00% 83
Midlands -17 47 £150 -52.38% 51
East Midlands -8 36 £150 -53.85% 27
East of England -6 28 £213 +39.34% 32
Yorkshire +7 25 £200 +17.65% 29
South West -13 23 £136 -19.85% 47
North West +1 21 £171 -28.65% 51
West Midlands 0 11 £200 +12.68% 24
North East +6 5 £175 +27.27% 9
IT Engineer
UK

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, IT 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 across the England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 180 (51.28%) Windows
2 119 (33.90%) Microsoft
3 113 (32.19%) Active Directory
4 108 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
5 82 (23.36%) Social Skills
6 80 (22.79%) Customer Service
7 66 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (17.95%) Windows 10
9 55 (15.67%) Security Cleared
10 50 (14.25%) Azure
11 49 (13.96%) Microsoft Office
12 44 (12.54%) Windows Server
13 43 (12.25%) SC Cleared
14 41 (11.68%) Finance
15 40 (11.40%) Microsoft Intune
15 40 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
16 37 (10.54%) SCCM
17 35 (9.97%) Degree
18 32 (9.12%) Microsoft Exchange
18 32 (9.12%) ITIL
19 30 (8.55%) Break/Fix
19 30 (8.55%) Public Sector
20 28 (7.98%) LAN
20 28 (7.98%) VMware
21 26 (7.41%) Windows 7
22 23 (6.55%) Firewall
22 23 (6.55%) VPN
22 23 (6.55%) PowerShell
23 22 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
23 22 (6.27%) Video Conferencing

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 32 (9.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.71%) Confluence
4 3 (0.85%) Apache
4 3 (0.85%) JBoss
4 3 (0.85%) nginx
4 3 (0.85%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (13.96%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.57%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.28%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 108 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (14.25%) Azure
3 15 (4.27%) AWS
4 14 (3.99%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (1.99%) SaaS
7 5 (1.42%) IaaS
7 5 (1.42%) PaaS
7 5 (1.42%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.42%) Slack
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Storage
8 4 (1.14%) WhatsApp
9 3 (0.85%) Asana
9 3 (0.85%) Serverless
10 2 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.57%) Cohesity
10 2 (0.57%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.57%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.57%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (7.98%) LAN
2 23 (6.55%) Firewall
2 23 (6.55%) VPN
3 22 (6.27%) DNS
4 20 (5.70%) WAN
4 20 (5.70%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (4.84%) DHCP
6 14 (3.99%) Wireless
7 10 (2.85%) Internet
8 8 (2.28%) SAN
8 8 (2.28%) TCP/IP
9 7 (1.99%) Structured Cabling
10 6 (1.71%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.42%) VLAN
12 4 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (1.14%) Network Security
12 4 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (1.14%) VoIP
12 4 (1.14%) WebEx
13 3 (0.85%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.14%) Power BI
3 3 (0.85%) RDBMS
3 3 (0.85%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (2.85%) JIRA
2 2 (0.57%) GitLab
General
1 82 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.68%) Finance
3 40 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.70%) Manufacturing
6 18 (5.13%) Banking
7 10 (2.85%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.28%) Aviation
8 8 (2.28%) Law
9 6 (1.71%) Electronics
10 5 (1.42%) French Language
11 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.14%) Legal
11 4 (1.14%) Marketing
11 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Automotive
12 3 (0.85%) Local Government
13 2 (0.57%) Front Office
13 2 (0.57%) Military
13 2 (0.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.85%) .NET
1 3 (0.85%) .NET Framework
1 3 (0.85%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (0.57%) React
3 1 (0.28%) Middleware
3 1 (0.28%) Node.js
3 1 (0.28%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.27%) Analytical Mindset
1 22 (6.27%) Video Conferencing
2 12 (3.42%) Driving Licence
2 12 (3.42%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.85%) NHS
5 9 (2.56%) Client/Server
5 9 (2.56%) iPhone
6 7 (1.99%) CCTV
7 6 (1.71%) BYOD
7 6 (1.71%) iPad
7 6 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.14%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.85%) Blackberry
10 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.85%) Life Science
10 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.85%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 180 (51.28%) Windows
2 63 (17.95%) Windows 10
3 44 (12.54%) Windows Server
4 26 (7.41%) Windows 7
5 18 (5.13%) Linux
6 15 (4.27%) Apple iOS
7 14 (3.99%) Android
8 12 (3.42%) Mac OS
9 10 (2.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (2.28%) Windows Vista
11 7 (1.99%) Unix
12 6 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.85%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.85%) VMS
15 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.28%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (22.79%) Customer Service
2 66 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (9.12%) ITIL
4 30 (8.55%) Break/Fix
5 22 (6.27%) Asset Management
5 22 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (4.84%) Migration
7 13 (3.70%) Computer Science
8 12 (3.42%) Service Delivery
9 11 (3.13%) Incident Management
9 11 (3.13%) ITSM
9 11 (3.13%) Server Management
9 11 (3.13%) SIEM
10 10 (2.85%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (2.85%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (2.85%) Service Management
11 9 (2.56%) DevOps
11 9 (2.56%) Logistics
11 9 (2.56%) Server Patching
12 8 (2.28%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (6.55%) PowerShell
2 18 (5.13%) SQL
3 6 (1.71%) C#
4 5 (1.42%) Python
5 4 (1.14%) Java
6 3 (0.85%) Bash
6 3 (0.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.28%) VBA
7 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 55 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.97%) Degree
4 12 (3.42%) DBS Check
4 12 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.71%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.14%) CCNA
8 4 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.85%) MCSA
9 3 (0.85%) MCSE
9 3 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.57%) HND
10 2 (0.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.41%) SLA
2 3 (0.85%) GAMP
2 3 (0.85%) GxP
3 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.57%) QA
4 1 (0.28%) COBIT
4 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.28%) NCSC
4 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 113 (32.19%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.57%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.57%) KVM
6 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.57%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.57%) vSphere
7 1 (0.28%) Docker
7 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (11.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (10.54%) SCCM
3 6 (1.71%) SCOM
4 4 (1.14%) VxRail
4 4 (1.14%) WSUS
5 3 (0.85%) SCVMM
5 3 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (0.85%) Terraform
6 2 (0.57%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.57%) Nessus
6 2 (0.57%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.28%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.28%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.28%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 119 (33.90%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.98%) VMware
3 21 (5.98%) Apple
4 19 (5.41%) Citrix
4 19 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.56%) Cisco
6 8 (2.28%) CA
7 7 (1.99%) ArcSight
7 7 (1.99%) Oracle
8 6 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (1.71%) SAP
9 5 (1.42%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.42%) Dell
9 5 (1.42%) HP
9 5 (1.42%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.14%) Google
10 4 (1.14%) MobileIron
10 4 (1.14%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.14%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.14%) Veeam