Implementation Engineer Contracts

Implementation Engineer
UK

The median Implementation Engineer daily rate in the UK is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 670 825
Rank change year-on-year +95 +155 -150
Contract jobs requiring an Implementation Engineer 15 33 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.056% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.059% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 20
10th Percentile £260 £354 £244
25th Percentile £280 £439 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -0.93%
75th Percentile £533 £528 £523
90th Percentile £670 £617 £579
UK excluding London median daily rate £298 £519 £325
% change year-on-year -42.53% +59.54% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50

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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Implementation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Implementation Engineer in the UK

Implementation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Implementation Engineer in the UK

Implementation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Implementation Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Implementation Engineer in the UK

Implementation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Implementation Engineer in the UK

Implementation Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Implementation Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +122 13 £450 -12.20% 26
Work from Home +113 7 £450 -12.20% 17
London +94 7 £505 +3.32% 5
UK excluding London +52 7 £298 -42.53% 23
Midlands +30 5 £350 -32.50% 3
East Midlands +21 3 £750 +44.65% 2
West Midlands +26 2 £298 - 1
Scotland - 2 £259 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Implementation 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 Implementation Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Dell
3 4 (26.67%) VMware
4 3 (20.00%) Firewall
4 3 (20.00%) Wireless
4 3 (20.00%) IPsec
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) CCNP
4 3 (20.00%) OSPF
4 3 (20.00%) BGP
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 3 (20.00%) SSL
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) Network Security
4 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (13.33%) OpenStack
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) High Availability
5 2 (13.33%) NAS

Implementation 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 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (13.33%) OpenStack
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) BGP
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) IPsec
1 3 (20.00%) Network Security
1 3 (20.00%) OSPF
1 3 (20.00%) SSL
1 3 (20.00%) VPN
1 3 (20.00%) Wireless
2 2 (13.33%) NAS
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) HTML5
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (13.33%) High Availability
2 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (13.33%) Time Management
3 1 (6.67%) Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (6.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) CCNP
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Firmware
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Avamar
1 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
1 2 (13.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Dell
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Thales