IT Engineer Contracts in Cumbria

IT Engineer
North West > Cumbria

The median IT Engineer daily rate in Cumbria is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 2.05% - 7.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% - 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £152 - -
25th Percentile £170 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £350
75th Percentile £244 - -
90th Percentile £270 - -
North West median daily rate £186 £179 £240
% change year-on-year +3.91% -25.31% +60.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cumbria

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cumbria. 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 Cumbria with a recognized job title 181 246 53
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.98% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 144 30
10th Percentile £362 £438 £350
25th Percentile £414 £492 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £522 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +12.86% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £525
90th Percentile £638 £725 £705
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 61 7
10th Percentile £25.26 - £38.79
25th Percentile £30.13 £10.95 £52.05
Median hourly rate £54.88 £13.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +322.15% -76.58% +10.97%
75th Percentile £74.00 £44.74 £71.91
90th Percentile £82.00 £51.91 £83.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Cumbria

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in Cumbria

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in Cumbria

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Carlisle - 2 £213 - 6
IT Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Cumbria region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
1 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) Information Security
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco