IT Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

IT Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median IT Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £290, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 107 130
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 +38
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 11 17 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.61% 0.81% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.86% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 21
10th Percentile £166 £221 £110
25th Percentile £194 £400 £111
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £450 £190
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% +136.84% -24.00%
75th Percentile £327 £530 £550
90th Percentile £423 £588 £650
Central London median daily rate £290 £450 £175
% change year-on-year -35.56% +157.14% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.75 - -
Median hourly rate £24.50 - £14.18
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 - £14.18
% change year-on-year - - -27.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,680 1,970 2,936
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 94.35% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 1,255 2,034
10th Percentile £325 £365 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £782 £809
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 11
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £14.18
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -25.00% -13.77%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £47.41
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% -1.41% -14.46%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the City of London

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in the City of London

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 13 September 2025. 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
London Bridge - 2 - -
IT Engineer
Central London

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, 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 across the City of London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) Windows
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) VoIP
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
4 2 (18.18%) Google
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
4 2 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (18.18%) Inventory Management
4 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) CASB
5 1 (9.09%) Okta
5 1 (9.09%) Yealink
5 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
5 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) VoIP
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
1 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (18.18%) Inventory Management
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL
1 2 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
1 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
2 1 (9.09%) E-business
2 1 (9.09%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (9.09%) ITSM
2 1 (9.09%) Migration
2 1 (9.09%) Project Management
2 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (18.18%) CASB
3 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe
3 1 (9.09%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Okta
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) Remedy
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Tenable
3 1 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Yealink