IT Engineer Contracts

IT Engineer
UK

The median IT Engineer daily rate in the UK is £203 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 283 376
Rank change year-on-year +44 +93 +21
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 411 533 608
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.93% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.99% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 325 386
10th Percentile £123 £121 £128
25th Percentile £150 £150 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £203 £190 £203
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -6.46% +16.07%
75th Percentile £300 £323 £385
90th Percentile £583 £500 £475
UK excluding London median daily rate £188 £180 £190
% change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 86 55
10th Percentile £12.00 £13.16 £12.93
25th Percentile £15.10 £14.18 £14.82
Median hourly rate £17.72 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +1.26% +10.34%
75th Percentile £21.75 £24.74 £19.89
90th Percentile £23.99 £46.58 £21.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year -1.24% +1.26% +10.34%

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 39,476 54,050 83,442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,679 37,739 58,629
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% +10.35%
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 2,653 1,507 2,053
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.88
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £76.10 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in the UK

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Engineer over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Engineer in the UK

IT 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 IT Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +26 340 £225 +12.50% 368
UK excluding London -12 260 £188 +4.17% 302
London +104 145 £275 +37.50% 79
Work from Home +99 56 £325 +30.00% 91
North of England +3 56 £200 +15.94% 78
South East +4 44 £176 -11.88% 75
Scotland +49 39 £200 +29.03% 14
Midlands -20 38 £150 -52.38% 57
South West +8 31 £200 +20.30% 55
East Midlands -12 30 £150 -52.38% 32
East of England +1 27 £250 +29.87% 22
North West +12 26 £179 -26.84% 38
Wales +28 23 £145 -12.12% 6
Yorkshire +11 23 £250 +47.06% 31
West Midlands -2 8 £200 +26.98% 25
North East +9 7 £175 +27.27% 12
Northern Ireland -1 4 £210 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 193 (46.96%) Windows
2 134 (32.60%) Microsoft
3 125 (30.41%) Active Directory
4 123 (29.93%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (27.49%) Customer Service
6 110 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
7 97 (23.60%) Social Skills
8 66 (16.06%) Azure
9 65 (15.82%) Break/Fix
10 64 (15.57%) Windows 10
11 63 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
12 56 (13.63%) Security Cleared
13 52 (12.65%) Microsoft Office
14 48 (11.68%) SCCM
15 47 (11.44%) Windows Server
16 45 (10.95%) SC Cleared
16 45 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
16 45 (10.95%) Finance
17 43 (10.46%) Public Sector
18 41 (9.98%) Analytical Mindset
19 38 (9.25%) Microsoft Exchange
20 34 (8.27%) ITIL
21 32 (7.79%) LAN
21 32 (7.79%) Degree
22 29 (7.06%) VMware
22 29 (7.06%) Firewall
23 28 (6.81%) Apple
24 27 (6.57%) Asset Management
24 27 (6.57%) ServiceNow
25 26 (6.33%) Windows 7

IT 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 38 (9.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.22%) Confluence
3 5 (1.22%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.73%) Apache
4 3 (0.73%) JBoss
4 3 (0.73%) nginx
4 3 (0.73%) Tomcat
Applications
1 52 (12.65%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 123 (29.93%) Microsoft 365
2 66 (16.06%) Azure
3 20 (4.87%) Entra ID
4 15 (3.65%) AWS
5 7 (1.70%) OneDrive
6 6 (1.46%) SaaS
7 5 (1.22%) Google Workspace
7 5 (1.22%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (0.97%) IaaS
8 4 (0.97%) PaaS
8 4 (0.97%) Slack
9 3 (0.73%) Asana
9 3 (0.73%) Azure Storage
9 3 (0.73%) Serverless
9 3 (0.73%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.49%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.24%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.79%) LAN
2 29 (7.06%) Firewall
3 25 (6.08%) VPN
4 22 (5.35%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (5.11%) DHCP
5 21 (5.11%) DNS
6 20 (4.87%) WAN
7 15 (3.65%) SAN
8 12 (2.92%) Remote Desktop
8 12 (2.92%) Wireless
9 11 (2.68%) Internet
10 8 (1.95%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.70%) Structured Cabling
11 7 (1.70%) VLAN
12 5 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (1.22%) Network Security
12 5 (1.22%) Skype
12 5 (1.22%) VoIP
13 4 (0.97%) WAAS
13 4 (0.97%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.97%) Power BI
3 3 (0.73%) RDBMS
3 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (2.19%) JIRA
2 2 (0.49%) GitLab
General
1 97 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 63 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (10.95%) Finance
4 43 (10.46%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.38%) Manufacturing
6 16 (3.89%) Banking
7 11 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.95%) Aviation
9 7 (1.70%) Law
10 6 (1.46%) Electronics
10 6 (1.46%) Legal
10 6 (1.46%) Marketing
10 6 (1.46%) Retail
11 5 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.73%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.73%) French Language
13 3 (0.73%) Military
13 3 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.49%) Portuguese Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.73%) .NET
1 3 (0.73%) .NET Framework
1 3 (0.73%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (0.49%) React
3 1 (0.24%) Middleware
3 1 (0.24%) Node.js
3 1 (0.24%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 22 (5.35%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (4.38%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.89%) Driving Licence
4 16 (3.89%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.68%) iPhone
6 9 (2.19%) NHS
7 8 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.70%) CCTV
8 7 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.22%) BYOD
9 5 (1.22%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.97%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.97%) iPad
10 4 (0.97%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.73%) Blackberry
11 3 (0.73%) Life Science
11 3 (0.73%) PKI
11 3 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 193 (46.96%) Windows
2 64 (15.57%) Windows 10
3 47 (11.44%) Windows Server
4 26 (6.33%) Windows 7
5 23 (5.60%) Linux
6 20 (4.87%) Android
7 17 (4.14%) Apple iOS
8 12 (2.92%) Mac OS
9 9 (2.19%) Unix
10 7 (1.70%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (1.70%) Windows Vista
11 6 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (1.22%) Mac OS X
12 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.97%) VMS
14 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.24%) Solaris
15 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.24%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (27.49%) Customer Service
2 110 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (15.82%) Break/Fix
4 34 (8.27%) ITIL
5 27 (6.57%) Asset Management
6 20 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (4.62%) Service Management
8 17 (4.14%) Migration
9 15 (3.65%) ITSM
9 15 (3.65%) Service Delivery
10 13 (3.16%) Server Management
11 12 (2.92%) Mobile Device Management
12 11 (2.68%) Incident Management
12 11 (2.68%) Inventory Management
12 11 (2.68%) SIEM
12 11 (2.68%) Software Deployment
13 10 (2.43%) Customer Experience
14 9 (2.19%) Agile
14 9 (2.19%) Computer Science
14 9 (2.19%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 22 (5.35%) PowerShell
2 13 (3.16%) SQL
3 6 (1.46%) C#
3 6 (1.46%) Python
4 4 (0.97%) Java
5 3 (0.73%) Bash
5 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.24%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.24%) VBA
6 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 45 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.79%) Degree
4 17 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.89%) A+ Certification
6 13 (3.16%) DBS Check
6 13 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.68%) CCNA
7 11 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.43%) Network+ Certification
9 9 (2.19%) MCSE
10 8 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.73%) MCP
13 2 (0.49%) HND
13 2 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.49%) MCDST
13 2 (0.49%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.33%) SLA
2 3 (0.73%) GAMP
2 3 (0.73%) GxP
2 3 (0.73%) QA
3 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.49%) NCSC
3 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.24%) COBIT
4 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 125 (30.41%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.89%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.73%) KVM
5 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.49%) vSphere
7 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.24%) Docker
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (11.68%) SCCM
2 45 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (0.97%) VxRail
3 4 (0.97%) WSUS
4 3 (0.73%) SCOM
4 3 (0.73%) SCVMM
4 3 (0.73%) Terraform
4 3 (0.73%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.49%) Nessus
6 1 (0.24%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.24%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.24%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.24%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 134 (32.60%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.06%) VMware
3 28 (6.81%) Apple
4 27 (6.57%) ServiceNow
5 24 (5.84%) Cisco
6 20 (4.87%) Citrix
7 11 (2.68%) Dell
8 9 (2.19%) Oracle
9 7 (1.70%) ArcSight
9 7 (1.70%) Google
9 7 (1.70%) SAP
9 7 (1.70%) Veeam
10 6 (1.46%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.22%) Bloomberg
11 5 (1.22%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.97%) HP
12 4 (0.97%) Juniper
12 4 (0.97%) Mitel
12 4 (0.97%) MobileIron
12 4 (0.97%) Progress