IT Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median IT Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £125, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 June 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
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 36 29
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +37
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 13 34 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.01% 4.01% 5.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 4.26% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 43
10th Percentile £114 £116 £215
25th Percentile £123 £123 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £125 £150 £325
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -53.85% +109.68%
75th Percentile £155 £224 £350
90th Percentile £165 £305 £488
England median daily rate £189 £210 £200
% change year-on-year -10.12% +5.00% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 10
10th Percentile £18.65 £11.75 -
25th Percentile - £18.85 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £19.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +4.38% +6.27%
75th Percentile £24.66 £22.09 £23.56
90th Percentile £24.95 £24.18 £40.25
England median hourly rate £21.28 £18.30 £17.72
% change year-on-year +16.28% +3.27% +1.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 577 799 943
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.04% 94.33% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 527 738
10th Percentile £213 £170 £213
25th Percentile £340 £269 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £455
Median % change year-on-year - -6.68% +7.16%
75th Percentile £517 £547 £588
90th Percentile £598 £622 £700
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 89 48
10th Percentile £13.29 £11.83 £12.43
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.50 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% -19.85% +9.18%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.15 £40.25
90th Percentile £37.41 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £38.14 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.33% -15.26% +88.21%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in the East Midlands

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Leicestershire +5 4 £125 +4.17% 9
Lincolnshire +4 3 - - 7
Derbyshire -7 3 £165 +10.00% 28
Nottinghamshire 0 2 £100 -3.38% 8
Northamptonshire -4 1 £160 -28.89% 2
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 7 June 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 East Midlands region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) HP
3 3 (23.08%) Dell
3 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
3 3 (23.08%) Driving Licence
3 3 (23.08%) Ticket Management
4 2 (15.38%) Break/Fix
4 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 2 (15.38%) Windows
5 1 (7.69%) ATM
5 1 (7.69%) Broadband
5 1 (7.69%) LAN
5 1 (7.69%) PSTN
5 1 (7.69%) VoIP
5 1 (7.69%) WAN
5 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
5 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.69%) VPN
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.69%) CCNA
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (7.69%) EPoS
5 1 (7.69%) Project Management
5 1 (7.69%) VLAN
5 1 (7.69%) NVQ Level 3

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) ATM
2 1 (7.69%) Broadband
2 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) PSTN
2 1 (7.69%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VLAN
2 1 (7.69%) VoIP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.69%) EPoS
2 1 (7.69%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ticket Management
2 2 (15.38%) Break/Fix
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement Process
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (7.69%) Inventory Management
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL
3 1 (7.69%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.69%) NVQ Level 3
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Dell
1 3 (23.08%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Openreach