IT Engineer Contracts in the North West

IT Engineer
England > North West

The median IT Engineer daily rate in the North West is £179 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 124 143
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 -34
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 27 34 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.00% 1.09% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.15% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 28
10th Percentile £143 £128 £113
25th Percentile £147 £161 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £179 £245 £150
Median % change year-on-year -26.84% +63.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £241 £375 £226
90th Percentile £303 £606 £406
England median daily rate £218 £200 £200
% change year-on-year +8.75% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 2
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.60 £15.89
25th Percentile £16.73 £17.72 £16.16
Median hourly rate £17.72 £37.50 £17.66
Median % change year-on-year -52.75% +112.40% -40.15%
75th Percentile £24.27 £49.40 £19.30
90th Percentile £43.75 £52.13 £19.66
England median hourly rate £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +0.79% +1.26% +10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,541 2,960 3,871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 94.84% 96.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,648 2,119 2,831
10th Percentile £275 £300 £213
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +12.05%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £568
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 124 166
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.58 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year -17.88% +61.84% +13.49%
75th Percentile £46.91 £50.72 £42.50
90th Percentile £69.14 £66.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Engineer in the North West

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Cheshire +14 13 - - 12
Merseyside +18 6 £159 -33.96% 7
Manchester +11 5 £325 +5.69% 13
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 North West region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (44.44%) Windows
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 10 (37.04%) SCCM
3 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (29.63%) Windows 10
4 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (25.93%) Customer Service
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (18.52%) Asset Management
6 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
6 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
6 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (18.52%) Service Management
7 4 (14.81%) Apple
7 4 (14.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 4 (14.81%) Manufacturing
7 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
7 4 (14.81%) Change Control
7 4 (14.81%) WAAS
7 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
7 4 (14.81%) Mac OS
7 4 (14.81%) Software Deployment
8 3 (11.11%) Power BI
8 3 (11.11%) FMEA
8 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 3 (11.11%) Smart Manufacturing
8 3 (11.11%) Break/Fix
8 3 (11.11%) Analytics

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (11.11%) OneDrive
2 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Azure
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) WAAS
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) ATM
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) SAN
3 1 (3.70%) VLAN
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Life Science
1 3 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
2 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.70%) iPhone
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Windows 10
3 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
3 4 (14.81%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Customer Service
2 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Asset Management
3 5 (18.52%) Service Management
4 4 (14.81%) Change Control
4 4 (14.81%) Software Deployment
5 3 (11.11%) Analytics
5 3 (11.11%) Break/Fix
5 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 3 (11.11%) Data Extraction
5 3 (11.11%) FMEA
5 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 3 (11.11%) Project Management
5 3 (11.11%) Smart Manufacturing
5 3 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 3 (11.11%) Validation
6 2 (7.41%) Incident Management
6 2 (7.41%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.70%) MCTS
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GAMP
1 3 (11.11%) GxP
2 2 (7.41%) SLA
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (3.70%) NCSC
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) SCCM
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (14.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Apple
3 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Citrix
4 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.70%) VMware