2nd Line Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Second Line Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Second Line Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 52 83
Rank change year-on-year -3 +31 -13
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 11 28 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.44% 2.71% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 2.88% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 18
10th Percentile £163 £231 £128
25th Percentile £184 £250 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £325 £205
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +58.54% +18.84%
75th Percentile £220 £350 £328
90th Percentile £272 - £365
England median daily rate £200 £225 £200
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.00 -
England median hourly rate £17.72 £22.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year -19.45% +24.29% +5.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 719 973 1,389
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 94.10% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 745 1,014
10th Percentile £164 £213 £172
25th Percentile £260 £325 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +5.88% +15.02%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £513
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 64 94
10th Percentile £12.13 £11.80 £9.52
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £17.70 £20.16 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +18.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £25.18 £30.50 £24.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £63.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured 2nd Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the East Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the East Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 2nd Line Engineer in the East Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for 2nd Line Engineer in the East Midlands

2nd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Nottinghamshire +12 5 £200 +6.67%
Northamptonshire -2 3 £272 -22.29% 2
Derbyshire - 2 £200 -
Leicestershire +6 1 £188 -25.00% 2
2nd Line Engineer
England

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 2nd 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 East Midlands region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
1 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
3 3 (27.27%) Ethernet
3 3 (27.27%) Remedy
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Autotask
3 3 (27.27%) Ticket Management
4 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (18.18%) SCCM
4 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Automotive
4 2 (18.18%) iPad
4 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Middleware

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
2 3 (27.27%) Ethernet
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Automotive
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (18.18%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Windows 10
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
3 3 (27.27%) Ticket Management
4 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Autotask
2 2 (18.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Remedy
3 1 (9.09%) NetApp