Technical Engineer Contracts

Technical Engineer
UK

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in the UK is £425 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 503 624 684
Rank change year-on-year +121 +60 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 87 79 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 52 100
10th Percentile £158 £173 £193
25th Percentile £185 £205 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £366
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -4.44% -21.66%
75th Percentile £694 £550 £550
90th Percentile £850 £675 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £175 £275 £300
% change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% -34.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile £27.63 £16.63 £21.68
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.75 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% -50.00% +109.63%
75th Percentile £38.75 £18.88 £45.00
90th Percentile £50.00 - £48.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £17.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year +59.15% -50.00% +98.66%

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%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Engineer in the UK

Technical Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 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 +139 80 £345 -1.43% 196
London +112 47 £625 +11.11% 19
Work from Home +138 40 £625 +90.84% 55
UK excluding London +41 29 £175 -36.36% 190
South West +31 15 £165 -58.75% 31
Midlands +31 5 £225 -55.00% 34
West Midlands +27 5 £225 -55.00% 13
South East +11 5 £250 -44.44% 45
Yorkshire +19 3 £265 +32.50% 16
North of England +16 3 £265 +41.33% 48
Scotland +36 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 featuring Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (33.33%) SQL
2 26 (29.89%) Degree
3 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
4 23 (26.44%) Finance
5 22 (25.29%) Python
6 21 (24.14%) C#
6 21 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (22.99%) Active Directory
8 19 (21.84%) Windows
9 16 (18.39%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (17.24%) Telecoms
11 14 (16.09%) Asset Management
11 14 (16.09%) Investment Management
11 14 (16.09%) Banking
11 14 (16.09%) Derivative
11 14 (16.09%) Front Office
11 14 (16.09%) Back Office
11 14 (16.09%) Hedge funds
11 14 (16.09%) Security Cleared
11 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
12 12 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
13 11 (12.64%) SCCM
13 11 (12.64%) ITIL
14 10 (11.49%) SLA
14 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
14 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
14 10 (11.49%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (11.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (11.49%) Roadmaps

Technical 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 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.15%) CICS
3 1 (1.15%) GroupWise
3 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.39%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (9.20%) Azure
3 5 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.30%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 2 (2.30%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.15%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) LAN
1 7 (8.05%) WAN
2 6 (6.90%) VoIP
3 3 (3.45%) DHCP
3 3 (3.45%) DNS
3 3 (3.45%) FTP
3 3 (3.45%) Internet
4 2 (2.30%) SAN
4 2 (2.30%) VPN
5 1 (1.15%) ATM
5 1 (1.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.15%) NAS
5 1 (1.15%) VSAN
5 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) Power BI
1 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.15%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.44%) Finance
3 15 (17.24%) Telecoms
4 14 (16.09%) Back Office
4 14 (16.09%) Banking
4 14 (16.09%) Front Office
5 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
6 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (8.05%) Marketing
8 6 (6.90%) Electronics
8 6 (6.90%) Manufacturing
8 6 (6.90%) Police
9 5 (5.75%) Legal
10 3 (3.45%) Automotive
10 3 (3.45%) Multimedia
10 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.15%) Games
12 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) .NET
2 5 (5.75%) RESTful
3 2 (2.30%) Hugging Face
3 2 (2.30%) LangChain
3 2 (2.30%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.15%) CSS
4 1 (1.15%) HTML
4 1 (1.15%) NestJS
4 1 (1.15%) Node.js
4 1 (1.15%) OAuth
4 1 (1.15%) React
4 1 (1.15%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.15%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (1.15%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) Derivative
1 14 (16.09%) Hedge funds
2 10 (11.49%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (8.05%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (5.75%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.45%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) FMCG
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.84%) Windows
2 8 (9.20%) Windows Server
3 7 (8.05%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.45%) Linux
4 3 (3.45%) Windows 7
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.15%) Android
5 1 (1.15%) NetWare
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (16.09%) Asset Management
2 14 (16.09%) Investment Management
2 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
3 12 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (12.64%) ITIL
5 10 (11.49%) Roadmaps
6 9 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (10.34%) Computer Science
7 7 (8.05%) Customer Service
7 7 (8.05%) Data Analysis
7 7 (8.05%) Economics
7 7 (8.05%) Programme Management
7 7 (8.05%) Project Management
7 7 (8.05%) Thought Leadership
8 6 (6.90%) Coaching
8 6 (6.90%) Digital Marketing
8 6 (6.90%) Line Management
9 5 (5.75%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (5.75%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.33%) SQL
2 22 (25.29%) Python
3 21 (24.14%) C#
4 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.05%) C++
5 7 (8.05%) VB.NET
5 7 (8.05%) VBA
6 5 (5.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.15%) COBOL
8 1 (1.15%) Java
8 1 (1.15%) JCL
8 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (29.89%) Degree
2 14 (16.09%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (9.20%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.60%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.30%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.15%) CISSP
9 1 (1.15%) PgMP
9 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.15%) PMP
9 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (22.99%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.45%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.15%) Docker
3 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) SCCM
2 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.15%) SmoothWall
2 1 (1.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.90%) BT
2 6 (6.90%) SAP
3 3 (3.45%) VMware
4 2 (2.30%) Cisco
4 2 (2.30%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.15%) Bomgar
5 1 (1.15%) Dell
5 1 (1.15%) Novell
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.15%) Workday