ICT Engineer Contracts in England

ICT Engineer
UK > England

The median ICT Engineer daily rate in England is £213 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 644 775
Rank change year-on-year +108 +131 -152
Contract jobs requiring an ICT Engineer 12 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.024% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.025% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 15
10th Percentile £167 £123 £158
25th Percentile £185 £164 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £193 £173
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% +11.59% +2.22%
75th Percentile £327 £300 £188
90th Percentile £412 £350 £217
UK median daily rate £213 £193 £173
% change year-on-year +10.39% +11.59% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £14.00 -

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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

ICT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for ICT Engineer in England

ICT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for ICT Engineer in England

ICT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ICT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ICT Engineer in England

ICT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for ICT Engineer in England

ICT 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 ICT Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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 - 8 £213 -
East of England +10 2 £283 +46.75%
South West +20 1 £394 +215.20%
South East - 1 £193 -
ICT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, ICT 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 ICT Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Service Delivery
3 6 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
5 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (33.33%) Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (25.00%) SCCM
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (16.67%) VoIP
7 2 (16.67%) Citrix
7 2 (16.67%) VPN
7 2 (16.67%) Apple
7 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
7 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
7 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (16.67%) Google
7 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (16.67%) CMS
7 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
7 2 (16.67%) Legal
7 2 (16.67%) ITSM
7 2 (16.67%) DBS Check
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
7 2 (16.67%) SystmOne

ICT 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) CMS
2 2 (16.67%) Skype for Business
3 1 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) Google Workspace
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Skype
1 2 (16.67%) VoIP
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) Softphone
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Android
3 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Service Delivery
2 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Coaching
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (16.67%) ITSM
4 2 (16.67%) Network Management
4 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
5 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
5 1 (8.33%) CRM
5 1 (8.33%) Data Management
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) Operations Management
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Management
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Apple
2 2 (16.67%) Becrypt
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) CA
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat