IT Engineer Contracts in London

IT Engineer
England > London

The median IT Engineer daily rate in London is £265 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 355 423
Rank change year-on-year +120 +68 +8
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 160 133 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.91% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.55% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 84 149
10th Percentile £142 £121 £162
25th Percentile £195 £159 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £198 £250
Median % change year-on-year +34.18% -21.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £405 £335 £410
90th Percentile £655 £550 £538
England median daily rate £215 £200 £214
% change year-on-year +7.50% -6.43% +22.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 5
10th Percentile £14.80 £13.36 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.18 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.93 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% +14.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £22.83 £25.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £24.93 £67.00 £32.40
England median hourly rate £18.30 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +3.27% +1.26% +10.34%

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 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in London

IT 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 IT Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London +26 26 £255 +32.47% 9
West London +30 15 £230 +12.20% 3
South London +16 11 £190 -19.58% 2
East London -5 3 £120 -20.00%
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, IT 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 IT Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (51.88%) Windows
2 51 (31.88%) Microsoft
3 47 (29.38%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (28.13%) Active Directory
5 41 (25.63%) Social Skills
6 38 (23.75%) Azure
7 37 (23.13%) Customer Service
8 30 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (18.13%) Finance
10 27 (16.88%) Security Cleared
11 26 (16.25%) Microsoft Office
12 24 (15.00%) Windows 10
13 21 (13.13%) Windows Server
14 20 (12.50%) Asset Management
14 20 (12.50%) SC Cleared
15 19 (11.88%) Degree
15 19 (11.88%) ITIL
16 18 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
17 16 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
17 16 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
18 14 (8.75%) PowerShell
18 14 (8.75%) Analytical Mindset
19 13 (8.13%) Firewall
19 13 (8.13%) SQL
19 13 (8.13%) LAN
19 13 (8.13%) WAN
19 13 (8.13%) VPN
19 13 (8.13%) DNS
20 12 (7.50%) Apple
20 12 (7.50%) Banking

IT 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 10 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.88%) Apache
3 3 (1.88%) JBoss
3 3 (1.88%) nginx
3 3 (1.88%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (16.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.25%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.63%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.38%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (23.75%) Azure
3 11 (6.88%) AWS
4 10 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.38%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.75%) SaaS
7 4 (2.50%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.50%) IaaS
7 4 (2.50%) PaaS
7 4 (2.50%) Slack
8 3 (1.88%) Asana
8 3 (1.88%) Azure Storage
8 3 (1.88%) Serverless
9 2 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.25%) Cohesity
9 2 (1.25%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.25%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) GCP
10 1 (0.63%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.13%) DNS
1 13 (8.13%) Firewall
1 13 (8.13%) LAN
1 13 (8.13%) VPN
1 13 (8.13%) WAN
2 7 (4.38%) DHCP
2 7 (4.38%) Wireless
3 6 (3.75%) Structured Cabling
4 5 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.50%) Internet
6 3 (1.88%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.25%) Intranet
7 2 (1.25%) Network Security
7 2 (1.25%) SSL
7 2 (1.25%) VLAN
7 2 (1.25%) VoIP
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.63%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.88%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.88%) RDBMS
2 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.75%) JIRA
2 2 (1.25%) GitLab
General
1 41 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 29 (18.13%) Finance
3 18 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.50%) Banking
5 7 (4.38%) Aviation
6 6 (3.75%) Law
7 5 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.50%) Retail
9 3 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.25%) Front Office
10 2 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.25%) Marketing
10 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.63%) French Language
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.88%) .NET
1 3 (1.88%) .NET Framework
1 3 (1.88%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (1.25%) React
3 1 (0.63%) Middleware
3 1 (0.63%) Node.js
3 1 (0.63%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
2 14 (8.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.38%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.38%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.75%) CCTV
4 6 (3.75%) iPad
4 6 (3.75%) iPhone
5 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.88%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.88%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.25%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.25%) NHS
9 1 (0.63%) BYOD
9 1 (0.63%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.63%) EPoS
9 1 (0.63%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 83 (51.88%) Windows
2 24 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 21 (13.13%) Windows Server
4 11 (6.88%) Windows 7
5 9 (5.63%) Android
6 7 (4.38%) Linux
6 7 (4.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (4.38%) Unix
7 3 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.63%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.63%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.13%) Customer Service
2 30 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 19 (11.88%) ITIL
5 12 (7.50%) Break/Fix
6 10 (6.25%) Computer Science
7 9 (5.63%) Incident Management
7 9 (5.63%) Server Patching
8 8 (5.00%) Migration
8 8 (5.00%) Server Management
9 7 (4.38%) DevOps
9 7 (4.38%) ITSM
9 7 (4.38%) Service Delivery
9 7 (4.38%) SIEM
10 6 (3.75%) Service Management
11 5 (3.13%) Full Stack Development
11 5 (3.13%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (3.13%) Runbook
12 4 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (2.50%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.75%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.13%) SQL
3 6 (3.75%) Python
4 4 (2.50%) C#
4 4 (2.50%) Java
5 3 (1.88%) Bash
5 3 (1.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.88%) Degree
4 9 (5.63%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.13%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.25%) MCITP
9 2 (1.25%) MCSA
10 1 (0.63%) CCNA
10 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.38%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.63%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.63%) Docker
5 1 (0.63%) Firmware
5 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.63%) SCCM
3 4 (2.50%) VxRail
4 3 (1.88%) SCOM
4 3 (1.88%) SCVMM
5 2 (1.25%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.25%) WSUS
6 1 (0.63%) Ansible
6 1 (0.63%) Nessus
6 1 (0.63%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.63%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (31.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.50%) Apple
3 11 (6.88%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.25%) Citrix
4 10 (6.25%) VMware
5 7 (4.38%) ArcSight
5 7 (4.38%) CA
5 7 (4.38%) Oracle
6 6 (3.75%) Google
7 5 (3.13%) Cisco
7 5 (3.13%) Zscaler
8 4 (2.50%) HP
8 4 (2.50%) Okta
8 4 (2.50%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.88%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.88%) Dell
9 3 (1.88%) IBM
9 3 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.88%) Temenos
10 2 (1.25%) Remedy