Field Engineer Contracts in London

Field Engineer
England > London

The median Field Engineer daily rate in London is £245 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 473 568
Rank change year-on-year +109 +95 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Field Engineer 35 29 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.11% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 20
10th Percentile £136 £105 £149
25th Percentile £155 £121 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £188 £185
Median % change year-on-year +30.67% +1.35% -9.76%
75th Percentile £300 £220 £204
90th Percentile £349 £430 £251
England median daily rate £200 £160 £176
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.22% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.22 -
Median hourly rate £19.25 £20.71 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% +38.03% -
75th Percentile £25.25 £21.19 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £15.63
% change year-on-year -12.50% +28.00% -2.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,628 25,954 37,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.32% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,036 18,763 27,151
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 294 454
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.45 £77.48 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Engineer in London

Field Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Field Engineer in London

Field Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Field Engineer in London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Field Engineer in London

Field Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Field Engineer in London

Field Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South London +20 9 - - 14
West London - 8 £130 - 13
Central London +33 2 £183 -17.05% 9
Field Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 London region featuring Field Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (48.57%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
1 17 (48.57%) Break/Fix
2 16 (45.71%) Customer Service
3 15 (42.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (28.57%) Windows
5 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
6 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
7 6 (17.14%) Windows 10
8 5 (14.29%) Apple
8 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (11.43%) Android
9 4 (11.43%) NHS
10 3 (8.57%) Azure
10 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
10 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
11 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
11 2 (5.71%) DBS Check
11 2 (5.71%) Windows 7
11 2 (5.71%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
11 2 (5.71%) French Language
11 2 (5.71%) Firewall
11 2 (5.71%) Wireless
11 2 (5.71%) Linux
11 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
11 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
11 2 (5.71%) Unix

Field Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.57%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.86%) AWS
3 1 (2.86%) AWS IoT
3 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) Wireless
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
1 1 (2.86%) Selenium
1 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (48.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) French Language
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) CSS
1 1 (2.86%) HTML
1 1 (2.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (11.43%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Windows 10
3 4 (11.43%) Android
4 2 (5.71%) Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.71%) Unix
4 2 (5.71%) Windows 7
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.86%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.86%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Break/Fix
1 17 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (45.71%) Customer Service
3 1 (2.86%) Agile
3 1 (2.86%) CI/CD
3 1 (2.86%) Configuration Management
3 1 (2.86%) DevOps
3 1 (2.86%) Kanban
3 1 (2.86%) Microservices
3 1 (2.86%) Release Automation
3 1 (2.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (2.86%) Scrum
3 1 (2.86%) SDLC
3 1 (2.86%) Service Delivery
3 1 (2.86%) TDD
3 1 (2.86%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.86%) CCNA
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Netcool
2 1 (2.86%) Puppet
2 1 (2.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Apple
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Adobe
4 1 (2.86%) Altiris
4 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.86%) Dell
4 1 (2.86%) EMC
4 1 (2.86%) Juniper
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk
4 1 (2.86%) Unisys
4 1 (2.86%) VMware
654 Field Engineer jobs in England