IT Engineer Contracts in London

IT Engineer
England > London

The median IT Engineer daily rate in London is £255, 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 249 355 411
Rank change year-on-year +106 +56 +48
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 154 127 196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.87% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.53% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 81 150
10th Percentile £142 £121 £160
25th Percentile £185 £160 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £195 £250
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -22.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £421 £325 £417
90th Percentile £660 £550 £538
England median daily rate £210 £200 £214
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.43% +22.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 5
10th Percentile £14.15 £13.36 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.18 £13.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.93 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +14.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £22.23 £25.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.15 £67.00 £32.40
England median hourly rate £18.27 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +3.10% +1.26% +10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +31 27 £255 +32.47% 6
West London +29 14 £230 +12.20% 10
South London +15 8 £190 -19.58% 7
East London -4 3 £120 -20.00% 2
IT Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 82 (53.25%) Windows
2 49 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 47 (30.52%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (27.92%) Social Skills
5 42 (27.27%) Active Directory
6 37 (24.03%) Azure
7 30 (19.48%) Customer Service
8 27 (17.53%) Security Cleared
8 27 (17.53%) Finance
9 26 (16.88%) Microsoft Office
10 25 (16.23%) Windows 10
11 24 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (14.29%) Degree
13 20 (12.99%) SC Cleared
13 20 (12.99%) Windows Server
14 19 (12.34%) ITIL
15 17 (11.04%) Asset Management
15 17 (11.04%) Video Conferencing
15 17 (11.04%) Microsoft Intune
16 14 (9.09%) PowerShell
16 14 (9.09%) SQL
16 14 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
17 13 (8.44%) LAN
17 13 (8.44%) WAN
17 13 (8.44%) VPN
17 13 (8.44%) Banking
17 13 (8.44%) Firewall
18 12 (7.79%) SQL Server
19 11 (7.14%) DNS
19 11 (7.14%) Computer Science

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.95%) Apache
3 3 (1.95%) JBoss
3 3 (1.95%) nginx
3 3 (1.95%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (16.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.30%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.65%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 47 (30.52%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (24.03%) Azure
3 11 (7.14%) AWS
4 9 (5.84%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (4.55%) SaaS
7 5 (3.25%) IaaS
7 5 (3.25%) PaaS
8 4 (2.60%) Azure Storage
8 4 (2.60%) Slack
9 3 (1.95%) Asana
9 3 (1.95%) Serverless
10 2 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.30%) Cohesity
10 2 (1.30%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.30%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.30%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.65%) GCP
11 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.65%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.44%) Firewall
1 13 (8.44%) LAN
1 13 (8.44%) VPN
1 13 (8.44%) WAN
2 11 (7.14%) DNS
3 8 (5.19%) Wireless
4 6 (3.90%) DHCP
4 6 (3.90%) Structured Cabling
5 4 (2.60%) Internet
5 4 (2.60%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.60%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.30%) Intranet
7 2 (1.30%) Network Security
7 2 (1.30%) SSL
7 2 (1.30%) VoIP
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.65%) HSRP
8 1 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.95%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.90%) JIRA
2 2 (1.30%) GitLab
General
1 43 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.53%) Finance
3 14 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.44%) Banking
5 7 (4.55%) Aviation
6 5 (3.25%) Law
6 5 (3.25%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.60%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.30%) Front Office
9 2 (1.30%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) French Language
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.95%) .NET
1 3 (1.95%) .NET Framework
1 3 (1.95%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (1.30%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.30%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (1.30%) React
3 1 (0.65%) Middleware
3 1 (0.65%) Node.js
3 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.04%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (6.49%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (5.19%) Client/Server
3 8 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.90%) CCTV
4 6 (3.90%) iPad
4 6 (3.90%) iPhone
5 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.60%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.95%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.30%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.30%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.30%) NHS
9 1 (0.65%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.65%) HP Storage
9 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.65%) PKI
9 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 82 (53.25%) Windows
2 25 (16.23%) Windows 10
3 20 (12.99%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.14%) Windows 7
5 9 (5.84%) Android
6 7 (4.55%) Mac OS
6 7 (4.55%) Unix
7 6 (3.90%) Linux
8 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.30%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.65%) VMS
11 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.65%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (19.48%) Customer Service
2 24 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (12.34%) ITIL
4 17 (11.04%) Asset Management
5 11 (7.14%) Computer Science
6 9 (5.84%) Incident Management
6 9 (5.84%) Server Patching
7 8 (5.19%) Break/Fix
7 8 (5.19%) Migration
7 8 (5.19%) Server Management
8 7 (4.55%) DevOps
8 7 (4.55%) Service Delivery
8 7 (4.55%) SIEM
9 5 (3.25%) Full Stack Development
9 5 (3.25%) ITSM
9 5 (3.25%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (3.25%) Runbook
10 4 (2.60%) Logistics
10 4 (2.60%) Service Management
10 4 (2.60%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 14 (9.09%) SQL
2 5 (3.25%) Python
3 4 (2.60%) C#
3 4 (2.60%) Java
4 3 (1.95%) Bash
4 3 (1.95%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.65%) Google Apps Script
5 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.29%) Degree
3 20 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.84%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.25%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.30%) MCSA
9 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) CCNA
10 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.19%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.65%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.65%) Docker
5 1 (0.65%) Firmware
5 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (11.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.49%) SCCM
3 4 (2.60%) VxRail
4 3 (1.95%) SCOM
4 3 (1.95%) SCVMM
5 2 (1.30%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.30%) WSUS
6 1 (0.65%) Ansible
6 1 (0.65%) Nessus
6 1 (0.65%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.65%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.49%) Apple
2 10 (6.49%) Citrix
2 10 (6.49%) ServiceNow
2 10 (6.49%) VMware
3 8 (5.19%) CA
4 7 (4.55%) ArcSight
4 7 (4.55%) Oracle
5 5 (3.25%) Cisco
5 5 (3.25%) Zscaler
6 4 (2.60%) Google
6 4 (2.60%) HP
6 4 (2.60%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.95%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.95%) Dell
7 3 (1.95%) IBM
7 3 (1.95%) Okta
7 3 (1.95%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.95%) Temenos
8 2 (1.30%) Remedy