Field Engineer Contracts in England

Field Engineer
UK > England

The median Field Engineer daily rate in England is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 527 603
Rank change year-on-year +103 +76 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Field Engineer 114 128 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.27% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 94 130
10th Percentile £107 £105 £125
25th Percentile £154 £121 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £158 £173
Median % change year-on-year +26.58% -8.41% +15.00%
75th Percentile £250 £226 £215
90th Percentile £384 £275 £301
UK median daily rate £200 £158 £180
% change year-on-year +26.58% -12.22% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 15
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.26 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £18.64 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +26.98% -1.56%
75th Percentile £21.00 £22.78 £18.50
90th Percentile £25.25 £30.61 £19.80
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% +21.21% +1.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,279 47,758 67,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,753 33,910 48,235
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,409 1,903
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Engineer in England

Field Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Field Engineer in England

Field Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Field Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Field Engineer in England

Field Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Field Engineer in England

Field 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 Field Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +113 35 £245 +30.67% 85
South West +33 26 £165 +3.13% 90
South East +15 18 £200 -5.88% 198
East of England +16 13 £400 +263.64% 98
North of England +16 12 £200 +53.85% 129
Midlands +9 11 £177 +12.03% 121
Yorkshire +18 7 £200 +76.21% 48
East Midlands +6 7 £142 -10.13% 47
West Midlands +28 4 £200 +61.29% 74
North East +19 3 - - 15
North West +14 2 - - 68
Field Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Field 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 Field Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (36.84%) Break/Fix
3 35 (30.70%) Customer Service
4 34 (29.82%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (28.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (19.30%) Microsoft
7 21 (18.42%) Windows
8 20 (17.54%) Active Directory
8 20 (17.54%) Social Skills
9 17 (14.91%) Public Sector
10 16 (14.04%) Windows 10
11 15 (13.16%) Firewall
12 13 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (10.53%) ITIL
14 11 (9.65%) SLA
14 11 (9.65%) Security Cleared
14 11 (9.65%) Wireless
14 11 (9.65%) Telecoms
15 10 (8.77%) SC Cleared
16 9 (7.89%) LAN
17 8 (7.02%) Cisco
17 8 (7.02%) Azure
17 8 (7.02%) BT
18 7 (6.14%) Migration
18 7 (6.14%) Android
18 7 (6.14%) Entra ID
18 7 (6.14%) Windows Server
18 7 (6.14%) Police
19 6 (5.26%) Driving Licence
19 6 (5.26%) SD-WAN

Field 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 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.02%) Azure
3 7 (6.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.88%) AWS
4 1 (0.88%) AWS IoT
4 1 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.16%) Firewall
2 11 (9.65%) Wireless
3 9 (7.89%) LAN
4 6 (5.26%) DHCP
4 6 (5.26%) SD-WAN
4 6 (5.26%) WAN
5 5 (4.39%) DNS
6 4 (3.51%) VPN
6 4 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.63%) PBX
8 2 (1.75%) ATM
8 2 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.75%) Network Security
9 1 (0.88%) HSRP
9 1 (0.88%) LoRaWAN
9 1 (0.88%) PSTN
9 1 (0.88%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.88%) VLAN
9 1 (0.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
1 1 (0.88%) Robot Framework
1 1 (0.88%) Selenium
1 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (29.82%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.91%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.65%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.14%) Police
6 6 (5.26%) Legal
7 3 (2.63%) French Language
8 1 (0.88%) Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Finance
8 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.88%) CSS
1 1 (0.88%) HTML
1 1 (0.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.07%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.39%) NHS
4 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.75%) EPoS
4 2 (1.75%) iPad
5 1 (0.88%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.88%) CMDB
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.88%) IoT
5 1 (0.88%) iPhone
5 1 (0.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.42%) Windows
2 16 (14.04%) Windows 10
3 7 (6.14%) Android
3 7 (6.14%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.39%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (4.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.63%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.75%) Linux
6 2 (1.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.75%) Unix
7 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.88%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.88%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (36.84%) Break/Fix
3 35 (30.70%) Customer Service
4 12 (10.53%) ITIL
5 7 (6.14%) Migration
6 6 (5.26%) Coaching
6 6 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (5.26%) Line Management
7 5 (4.39%) Time Management
8 4 (3.51%) Data Protection
9 3 (2.63%) Service Management
10 2 (1.75%) Decision-Making
10 2 (1.75%) Incident Response
10 2 (1.75%) ITSM
11 1 (0.88%) CI/CD
11 1 (0.88%) Customer Experience
11 1 (0.88%) Customer-Centric Approach
11 1 (0.88%) Customer-Centricity
11 1 (0.88%) Microservices
11 1 (0.88%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (9.65%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.26%) DBS Check
4 5 (4.39%) Degree
5 3 (2.63%) CCNA
5 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.75%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) MCSE
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Dell Certification
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) MCP
7 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (17.54%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.39%) Hyper-V
2 5 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) SCCM
2 3 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.88%) Ansible
3 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Netcool
3 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) BT
2 8 (7.02%) Cisco
3 6 (5.26%) Apple
4 5 (4.39%) VMware
5 4 (3.51%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.63%) Dell
6 3 (2.63%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.75%) Openreach
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe
8 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.88%) EMC
8 1 (0.88%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.88%) HP
8 1 (0.88%) Juniper
8 1 (0.88%) Meraki
8 1 (0.88%) Nokia
8 1 (0.88%) Toshiba
8 1 (0.88%) Unisys
8 1 (0.88%) Xerox