IT Engineer Contracts in the City of London

IT Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median IT Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £255, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 142 149
Rank change year-on-year +41 +7 -1
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 26 24 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.19% 0.70% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 0.74% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 39
10th Percentile £123 £109 £163
25th Percentile £195 £150 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £200 £250
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -20.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £400 £450 £270
90th Percentile £600 £597 £336
Central London median daily rate £255 £193 £250
% change year-on-year +32.47% -23.00% -19.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.06
25th Percentile - - £14.34
Median hourly rate - £14.18 £15.38
Median % change year-on-year - -7.77% +5.13%
75th Percentile - - £16.59
90th Percentile - - £16.99
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £14.18 £16.50
% change year-on-year +62.20% -14.06% +12.82%

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 2,076 3,249 3,945
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.14% 94.83% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 2,191 2,948
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +3.20%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £815 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £555
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 50
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.37 £15.56
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £34.69 £72.50 £54.88
90th Percentile £46.15 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.86% -13.58% +113.30%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer 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 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in the City of London

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 across the City of London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (61.54%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
4 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (26.92%) Azure
5 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
5 7 (26.92%) Finance
6 6 (23.08%) LAN
6 6 (23.08%) WAN
6 6 (23.08%) AWS
6 6 (23.08%) Asset Management
6 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
7 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
7 5 (19.23%) Degree
7 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
7 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (19.23%) Firewall
8 4 (15.38%) SQL
8 4 (15.38%) Oracle
8 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
8 4 (15.38%) Linux
8 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (15.38%) iPhone
8 4 (15.38%) Logistics
8 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
9 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
9 3 (11.54%) Windows 7

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 2 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) JBoss
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.69%) nginx
1 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.85%) IaaS
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) LAN
1 6 (23.08%) WAN
2 5 (19.23%) Firewall
3 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
4 2 (7.69%) DNS
4 2 (7.69%) SSL
4 2 (7.69%) VPN
5 1 (3.85%) Network Security
5 1 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
4 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.85%) French Language
6 1 (3.85%) Front Office
6 1 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) iPhone
2 3 (11.54%) Blackberry
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) BYOD
4 1 (3.85%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.85%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 4 (15.38%) Linux
4 3 (11.54%) Windows 7
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.69%) Unix
5 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.85%) Android
6 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Asset Management
2 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
3 4 (15.38%) Logistics
3 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
4 3 (11.54%) Workflow
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (7.69%) Application Virtualisation
5 2 (7.69%) Customer Experience
5 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis
5 2 (7.69%) Document Management
5 2 (7.69%) Problem Management
5 2 (7.69%) Runbook
5 2 (7.69%) Server Management
6 1 (3.85%) Performance Attribution
6 1 (3.85%) Personalization
6 1 (3.85%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (11.54%) Apple
3 3 (11.54%) Citrix
3 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.69%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.69%) Temenos
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe
5 1 (3.85%) CA
5 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.85%) Dell
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) iManage
5 1 (3.85%) Intapp
5 1 (3.85%) Sun
5 1 (3.85%) Veeam