1st Line Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

First Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median First Line Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £130, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 400 441
Rank change year-on-year +47 +41 -28
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 45 39 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 59
10th Percentile £106 £106 £117
25th Percentile £125 £129 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £130 £175 £150
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £159 £188 £188
90th Percentile £180 - £196
UK median daily rate £130 £175 £150
% change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £12.60 £14.70
25th Percentile - £13.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £15.10 £14.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -17.65% +15.25%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £18.50
90th Percentile - £14.70 -
UK median hourly rate £20.68 £14.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +47.68% -28.21% +44.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,528 21,567 29,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.42% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,672 14,888 20,612
10th Percentile £213 £231 £210
25th Percentile £365 £399 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,125 1,402
10th Percentile £12.65 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £74.86 £75.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.81 £25.50
% change year-on-year -14.39% +71.78% +18.60%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 1st Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Midlands +19 22 - - 4
West Midlands +19 19 - -
North of England +30 9 £130 -25.71% 9
North West +9 4 £110 -37.14% 2
South East +4 4 £159 -9.29% 13
East of England +4 4 £104 -7.41% 5
Yorkshire - 4 £130 - 6
East Midlands +11 3 - - 4
Scotland - 3 £126 -
South West -3 2 £138 -21.43% 4
North East - 1 £180 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
1st Line Engineer
UK

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 June 2024, 1st Line 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 UK excluding London region featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (37.78%) Self-Motivation
1 17 (37.78%) Impact Assessments
1 17 (37.78%) CA
1 17 (37.78%) Firewall
1 17 (37.78%) PKI
2 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
3 11 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 10 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 10 (22.22%) Windows
5 9 (20.00%) Time Management
6 8 (17.78%) ITIL
6 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
7 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 5 (11.11%) SLA
9 4 (8.89%) Cisco
9 4 (8.89%) SharePoint
9 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
9 4 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (8.89%) Degree
9 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
9 4 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow
9 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
10 3 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (6.67%) Mac OS
10 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
10 3 (6.67%) Data Centre

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (8.89%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) Site Server
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 17 (37.78%) Firewall
2 3 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.22%) NAS
3 1 (2.22%) SAN
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Electronics
4 1 (2.22%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) .NET
1 1 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) PKI
1 17 (37.78%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.22%) SCADA
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.44%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Impact Assessments
2 10 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 9 (20.00%) Time Management
4 8 (17.78%) ITIL
5 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 2 (4.44%) Incident Management
7 2 (4.44%) Service Delivery
7 2 (4.44%) Service Management
8 1 (2.22%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (2.22%) Computer Science
8 1 (2.22%) Customer Experience
8 1 (2.22%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (2.22%) Kalman Filter
8 1 (2.22%) Knowledge Management
8 1 (2.22%) Line Management
8 1 (2.22%) Password Management
8 1 (2.22%) Programme Management
8 1 (2.22%) Release Management
8 1 (2.22%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.22%) C#
1 1 (2.22%) Java
1 1 (2.22%) SQL
1 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (8.89%) Degree
2 3 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (2.22%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.22%) MCP
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) CA
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) Cisco
3 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.67%) Juniper
5 2 (4.44%) Apple
6 1 (2.22%) BMC
6 1 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) VMware