Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IT Engineer	43	-2	£130	-34.80%	9 1.97%	11
QA Engineer	51	-	£500	-	1 0.22%	3
Microsoft 365 Engineer	35	-	£496	-	17 3.72%	4
SOC Engineer	50	-	£550	-	2 0.44%
Data Engineer	36	-	£494	-	16 3.50%	13
Test Engineer	51	-	£201	-	1 0.22%	7
Cloud Engineer	45	+1	£522	-	7 1.53%	1
Azure Engineer	47	-2	£550	+30.79%	5 1.09%	4
Linux Engineer	50	-	£555	-	2 0.44%
Cisco Engineer	49	-	£560	-	3 0.66%
DevOps Engineer	50	-7	£575	-4.16%	2 0.44%	9
Support Engineer	48	-15	£238	+58.33%	4 0.88%	19
Wintel Engineer	51	-	£560	-	1 0.22%
NetApp Engineer	51	-	-	-	1 0.22%
Network Engineer	47	-10	£560	+14.87%	5 1.09%	5
2nd Line Engineer	51	-	£225	-	1 0.22%	1
3rd Line Engineer	51	-	£450	-	1 0.22%	7
Windows Engineer	51	-	£465	-	1 0.22%	1
Storage Engineer	51	-	-	-	1 0.22%
Security Engineer	46	-1	£580	+16.00%	6 1.31%	10
Platform Engineer	49	-	£450	-	3 0.66%	7
Full-Stack Engineer	51	-	£365	-	1 0.22%	7
Microsoft Engineer	50	-	£517	-	2 0.44%	2
IT Support Engineer	50	-6	£220	-	2 0.44%	8
Azure Data Engineer	51	-	£413	-	1 0.22%	1
Deployment Engineer	47	-2	£190	-2.56%	5 1.09%	3
Senior Data Engineer	45	-	£560	-	7 1.53%	4
Azure DevOps Engineer	51	-	£550	-	1 0.22%	1
Senior Cloud Engineer	51	-	£550	-	1 0.22%
Data Engineering	47	-3	£513	+2.50%	5 1.09%	15
Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)	15	-5	£475	+26.66%	40 8.75%	31
Infrastructure Engineer	51	-8	-	-	1 0.22%	9
2nd Line Support Engineer	51	-	£225	-	1 0.22%	1
Test Automation Engineer	51	-	£201	-	1 0.22%
3rd Line Support Engineer	51	-	£450	-	1 0.22%	4
Cisco Network Engineer	49	-	£560	-	3 0.66%
Cybersecurity Engineer	48	-2	£600	+14.28%	4 0.88%
SC Cleared Network Engineer	51	-	£525	-	1 0.22%
DV Cleared Network Engineer	48	-	£560	-	4 0.88%
Data Analytics Engineer	50	-	£475	-	2 0.44%	1
Active Directory Engineer	51	-	£560	-	1 0.22%