Field Engineer Contracts

Field Engineer
UK

The median Field Engineer daily rate in the UK is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 549 652
Rank change year-on-year +107 +103 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Field Engineer 143 144 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 105 137
10th Percentile £105 £105 £123
25th Percentile £150 £107 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £150 £188
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £250 £220 £219
90th Percentile £400 £275 £325
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £150 £170
% change year-on-year +33.33% -11.76% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 13 15
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.53 -
25th Percentile £12.00 £18.64 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +21.21% +1.54%
75th Percentile £19.50 £21.71 £18.50
90th Percentile £23.05 £30.10 £19.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £16.68
% change year-on-year -25.00% +19.94% +2.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Engineer in the UK

Field Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Field Engineer in the UK

Field Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Field Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Field Engineer in the UK

Field Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Field Engineer in the UK

Field Engineer
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +83 104 £200 +33.33% 835
UK excluding London +66 104 £200 +33.33% 835
London +93 32 £230 +26.90% 100
Scotland +60 25 £200 +81.82% 74
South West +28 22 £165 +3.13% 112
South East +15 17 £185 -7.50% 232
East of England +12 12 £400 +263.64% 125
North of England +10 12 £200 +70.39% 151
Work from Home +127 10 £165 -17.50% 195
Midlands +14 10 £200 +27.80% 154
Wales +22 7 £220 +112.56% 28
Yorkshire +20 7 £200 +78.97% 70
East Midlands +7 7 £142 -10.13% 63
West Midlands +21 3 £200 +61.29% 92
North East +13 3 - - 18
North West +16 2 - - 64
Northern Ireland +6 1 - - 12

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 featuring Field Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (40.56%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (38.46%) Break/Fix
3 50 (34.97%) Customer Service
4 47 (32.87%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (30.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 26 (18.18%) Public Sector
7 25 (17.48%) Microsoft
8 24 (16.78%) Social Skills
9 23 (16.08%) Windows
10 22 (15.38%) Active Directory
11 18 (12.59%) Firewall
12 15 (10.49%) Windows 10
12 15 (10.49%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (9.09%) SLA
13 13 (9.09%) Cisco
13 13 (9.09%) LAN
14 12 (8.39%) Security Cleared
15 11 (7.69%) SC Cleared
15 11 (7.69%) Wireless
15 11 (7.69%) Dell
15 11 (7.69%) ITIL
15 11 (7.69%) DBS Check
15 11 (7.69%) Driving Licence
16 10 (6.99%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (6.99%) CCNA
16 10 (6.99%) Telecoms
16 10 (6.99%) Azure
17 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (6.29%) A+ Certification
17 9 (6.29%) MCSE

Field Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.49%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (6.99%) Azure
3 7 (4.90%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.70%) AWS
4 1 (0.70%) AWS IoT
4 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.59%) Firewall
2 13 (9.09%) LAN
3 11 (7.69%) Wireless
4 9 (6.29%) WAN
5 8 (5.59%) SAN
5 8 (5.59%) SD-WAN
5 8 (5.59%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (4.20%) DHCP
7 5 (3.50%) DNS
8 4 (2.80%) VPN
9 3 (2.10%) PBX
10 2 (1.40%) ATM
10 2 (1.40%) BGP
10 2 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (1.40%) MPLS
10 2 (1.40%) Network Security
10 2 (1.40%) WLAN
11 1 (0.70%) HSRP
11 1 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
11 1 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
1 1 (0.70%) Hudson
1 1 (0.70%) Robot Framework
1 1 (0.70%) Selenium
1 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (32.87%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 24 (16.78%) Social Skills
4 10 (6.99%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.90%) Legal
6 6 (4.20%) Police
7 3 (2.10%) French Language
8 1 (0.70%) Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Finance
8 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.70%) CSS
1 1 (0.70%) HTML
1 1 (0.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 43 (30.07%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 9 (6.29%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.50%) NHS
5 3 (2.10%) Handset
6 2 (1.40%) CMDB
6 2 (1.40%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.40%) EPoS
6 2 (1.40%) iPad
6 2 (1.40%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.70%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.70%) IoT
7 1 (0.70%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.08%) Windows
2 15 (10.49%) Windows 10
3 9 (6.29%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.90%) Android
4 7 (4.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.80%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.10%) Linux
7 3 (2.10%) Windows 7
7 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.40%) Unix
9 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.70%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.70%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.56%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (38.46%) Break/Fix
3 50 (34.97%) Customer Service
4 11 (7.69%) ITIL
5 7 (4.90%) Migration
6 6 (4.20%) Coaching
6 6 (4.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (4.20%) Line Management
7 5 (3.50%) Time Management
8 4 (2.80%) Data Protection
8 4 (2.80%) Decision-Making
9 3 (2.10%) ITSM
9 3 (2.10%) Mobile Device Management
9 3 (2.10%) Service Management
10 2 (1.40%) Incident Response
10 2 (1.40%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 1 (0.70%) CI/CD
11 1 (0.70%) DevOps
11 1 (0.70%) Release Automation
11 1 (0.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (8.39%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 11 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.99%) CCNA
3 10 (6.99%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (6.29%) A+ Certification
4 9 (6.29%) MCSE
4 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.59%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.20%) Degree
7 2 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) CCNP
8 1 (0.70%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.90%) Hyper-V
2 7 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.90%) SCCM
2 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.10%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.70%) Ansible
4 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.70%) Netcool
4 1 (0.70%) Observium
4 1 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.09%) Cisco
3 11 (7.69%) Dell
4 7 (4.90%) VMware
5 6 (4.20%) Apple
5 6 (4.20%) BT
6 4 (2.80%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.10%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.40%) Meraki
8 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.40%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.40%) WatchGuard
9 1 (0.70%) Altiris
9 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.70%) EMC
9 1 (0.70%) Huawei
9 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.70%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.70%) Splunk
9 1 (0.70%) Zscaler