Engineering Specialist Contracts in the West Midlands

Engineering Specialist
England > West Midlands

The median Engineering Specialist daily rate in the West Midlands is £355, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 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
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Specialist 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £322 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 - -
75th Percentile £374 - -
90th Percentile £384 - -
England median daily rate £370 - £613
% change year-on-year - - +53.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,754 1,854 3,328
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.21% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 1,275 2,335
10th Percentile £213 £220 £213
25th Percentile £387 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £575
90th Percentile £701 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 66 57
10th Percentile £12.56 £15.38 £12.41
25th Percentile £14.36 £17.31 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.71 £22.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +25.25% +12.83%
75th Percentile £32.26 £34.50 £22.76
90th Percentile £41.13 £67.50 £41.66
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% +50.00% +50.00%

Engineering Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Engineering Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Specialist in the West Midlands

Engineering Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Engineering Specialist in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Engineering Specialist in the West Midlands

Engineering Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Specialist within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Birmingham - 7 £355 -
Engineering Specialist
England

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 November 2024, Engineering Specialist 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 West Midlands region featuring Engineering Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) VoIP
1 7 (100.00%) JMeter
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 7 (100.00%) QA
1 7 (100.00%) Selenium
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
1 7 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 7 (100.00%) TestCafe
1 7 (100.00%) Locust
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Metaswitch
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) Taurus
2 4 (57.14%) Dialogic
2 4 (57.14%) Build Automation
2 4 (57.14%) RTP
2 4 (57.14%) INAP
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) DHCP
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) LDAP

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) VoIP
2 4 (57.14%) DHCP
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) INAP
2 4 (57.14%) RTP
3 3 (42.86%) HTTP
4 1 (14.29%) Intelligent Network
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) JMeter
1 7 (100.00%) Locust
1 7 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 7 (100.00%) Selenium
1 7 (100.00%) TestCafe
General
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) LDAP
1 4 (57.14%) Taurus
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) CentOS
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Build Automation
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Robotic Process Automation
4 1 (14.29%) API Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Application Security
4 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
4 1 (14.29%) Server Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Dialogic
1 4 (57.14%) Metaswitch