Technical Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £175 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 399 404
Rank change year-on-year +37 +5 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 30 38 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.17% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.18% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 65
10th Percentile £150 £168 £158
25th Percentile £158 £186 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £275 £293
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -5.98% -36.41%
75th Percentile £238 £375 £475
90th Percentile £264 £500 £570
UK median daily rate £425 £350 £325
% change year-on-year +21.43% +7.69% -29.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile - - £19.75
25th Percentile £27.63 - £20.63
Median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.50
75th Percentile £28.88 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - £45.02
UK median hourly rate £32.88 - £35.50
% change year-on-year - - +121.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,293 21,279 29,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.28% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,580 14,791 20,569
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,073 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.00 £14.86
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.21
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South West +19 15 £165 -45.90% 33
South East +22 5 £250 -16.67% 53
Midlands +21 5 £225 -70.00% 40
West Midlands +17 5 £225 -70.00% 24
Yorkshire +18 4 £245 +22.50% 26
North of England +9 4 £245 +22.50% 58
Scotland +43 1 - - 6
Technical Engineer
UK

Technical Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 June 2024, Technical 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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (40.00%) Windows
4 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
5 10 (33.33%) SLA
5 10 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (26.67%) Telecoms
7 8 (26.67%) SCCM
8 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
8 7 (23.33%) ITIL
9 6 (20.00%) BT
9 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (20.00%) Line Management
9 6 (20.00%) Coaching
9 6 (20.00%) Police
10 5 (16.67%) Degree
11 4 (13.33%) Project Management
11 4 (13.33%) Windows 10
11 4 (13.33%) Mobile Device Management
12 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (10.00%) BitLocker
12 3 (10.00%) Driving Licence
12 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
12 3 (10.00%) Case Management
12 3 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
12 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills

Technical Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (3.33%) CICS
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) DHCP
1 3 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) ATM
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) DB2
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (26.67%) Telecoms
4 6 (20.00%) Police
5 3 (10.00%) Automotive
5 3 (10.00%) Legal
5 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Driving Licence
1 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) FMCG
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (23.33%) ITIL
4 6 (20.00%) Coaching
4 6 (20.00%) Line Management
5 4 (13.33%) Mobile Device Management
5 4 (13.33%) Project Management
6 3 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
6 3 (10.00%) Case Management
7 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (3.33%) Agile
8 1 (3.33%) ITSM
8 1 (3.33%) Operations Management
8 1 (3.33%) Service Management
8 1 (3.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (3.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (3.33%) Validation
8 1 (3.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) COBOL
2 1 (3.33%) JCL
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) Degree
5 2 (6.67%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) SCCM
2 1 (3.33%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) BT
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.33%) Google