IT Engineer Contracts in Manchester

IT Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median IT Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £325 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 96 104 112
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -43
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 5 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.33% 0.63% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.66% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 26
10th Percentile £263 £119 £113
25th Percentile £281 £128 £124
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £241 £150
Median % change year-on-year +34.72% +60.83% +30.43%
75th Percentile £381 £533 £191
90th Percentile £408 £611 £409
North West median daily rate £179 £240 £150
% change year-on-year -25.31% +60.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £13.48 - £15.89
25th Percentile £13.81 - £16.16
Median hourly rate £15.25 £14.00 £17.66
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% -20.70% +10.24%
75th Percentile £16.31 - £19.30
90th Percentile £16.43 - £19.66
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £37.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -52.75% +114.29% -40.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,468 1,829 2,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.76% 96.62% 97.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 1,360 1,993
10th Percentile £313 £313 £214
25th Percentile £394 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 55 62
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.82
Median hourly rate £25.10 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +100.00% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.13 £23.69
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.40 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in Manchester

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Oldham -2 1 £400 +233.33%
IT Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Manchester region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SSCP
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Biomedicine
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (20.00%) iPhone
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
2 1 (20.00%) Biomedicine
2 1 (20.00%) Biotechnology
2 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) OWASP
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) MCTS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike