Field Engineer Contracts in England

Field Engineer
UK > England

The median Field Engineer daily rate in England is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 522 607
Rank change year-on-year +77 +85 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Field Engineer 104 124 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.27% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 91 121
10th Percentile £121 £105 £125
25th Percentile £157 £120 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £150 £170
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -11.76% +20.03%
75th Percentile £258 £219 £215
90th Percentile £400 £250 £308
UK median daily rate £200 £150 £180
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 12 14
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.26 -
25th Percentile £12.94 £18.64 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £16.13
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +24.03% +0.78%
75th Percentile £21.00 £22.78 £18.63
90th Percentile £25.10 £30.61 £19.85
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% +21.21% +1.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Engineer in England

Field Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Field Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Field Engineer in England

Field Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Field Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Field Engineer in England

Field Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Field Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Field Engineer in England

Field Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Field Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +100 32 £230 +26.90% 95
South West +30 22 £165 +3.13% 105
South East +17 17 £185 -7.50% 229
East of England +23 12 £400 +263.64% 124
North of England +18 12 £200 +64.95% 162
Midlands +7 10 £200 +27.80% 155
Yorkshire +12 7 £200 +76.21% 68
East Midlands +9 7 £142 -10.13% 64
North East +14 3 - - 18
West Midlands +14 3 £200 +61.29% 92
North West +16 2 - - 77
Field Engineer
UK

Field Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Field 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 England region featuring Field Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (35.58%) Break/Fix
3 32 (30.77%) Customer Service
4 31 (29.81%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (27.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (21.15%) Microsoft
7 20 (19.23%) Active Directory
7 20 (19.23%) Windows
8 18 (17.31%) Social Skills
9 15 (14.42%) Windows 10
9 15 (14.42%) Public Sector
10 14 (13.46%) Firewall
11 13 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (10.58%) Wireless
12 11 (10.58%) ITIL
12 11 (10.58%) SLA
12 11 (10.58%) Security Cleared
13 10 (9.62%) SC Cleared
13 10 (9.62%) Telecoms
14 9 (8.65%) LAN
15 8 (7.69%) Azure
16 7 (6.73%) Android
16 7 (6.73%) Migration
16 7 (6.73%) Cisco
16 7 (6.73%) Entra ID
16 7 (6.73%) Windows Server
17 6 (5.77%) DBS Check
17 6 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (5.77%) Police
17 6 (5.77%) SD-WAN

Field Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.96%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.69%) Azure
3 7 (6.73%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.96%) AWS
4 1 (0.96%) AWS IoT
4 1 (0.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.46%) Firewall
2 11 (10.58%) Wireless
3 9 (8.65%) LAN
4 6 (5.77%) DHCP
4 6 (5.77%) SD-WAN
4 6 (5.77%) WAN
5 5 (4.81%) DNS
6 4 (3.85%) VPN
6 4 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.88%) PBX
8 2 (1.92%) ATM
8 2 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.92%) Network Security
9 1 (0.96%) ADSL
9 1 (0.96%) HSRP
9 1 (0.96%) LoRaWAN
9 1 (0.96%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.96%) VLAN
9 1 (0.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
1 1 (0.96%) Robot Framework
1 1 (0.96%) Selenium
1 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (29.81%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.42%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.62%) Telecoms
5 6 (5.77%) Legal
5 6 (5.77%) Police
6 3 (2.88%) French Language
7 1 (0.96%) Banking
7 1 (0.96%) Finance
7 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.96%) CSS
1 1 (0.96%) HTML
1 1 (0.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (27.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.81%) NHS
3 4 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.92%) EPoS
4 2 (1.92%) iPad
5 1 (0.96%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.96%) CMDB
5 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.96%) IoT
5 1 (0.96%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.23%) Windows
2 15 (14.42%) Windows 10
3 7 (6.73%) Android
3 7 (6.73%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.88%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.92%) Linux
6 2 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.92%) Unix
7 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.96%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.96%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (35.58%) Break/Fix
3 32 (30.77%) Customer Service
4 11 (10.58%) ITIL
5 7 (6.73%) Migration
6 6 (5.77%) Coaching
6 6 (5.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (5.77%) Line Management
7 5 (4.81%) Time Management
8 4 (3.85%) Data Protection
9 3 (2.88%) Service Management
10 2 (1.92%) Decision-Making
10 2 (1.92%) Incident Response
10 2 (1.92%) ITSM
11 1 (0.96%) CI/CD
11 1 (0.96%) DevOps
11 1 (0.96%) Microservices
11 1 (0.96%) Release Automation
11 1 (0.96%) SDLC
11 1 (0.96%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.77%) DBS Check
4 5 (4.81%) Degree
5 2 (1.92%) A+ Certification
5 2 (1.92%) CCNA
5 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.92%) MCSE
5 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.96%) MCP
6 1 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.58%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.81%) Hyper-V
2 5 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.85%) SCCM
2 3 (2.88%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.96%) Ansible
3 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.96%) Netcool
3 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.73%) Cisco
3 6 (5.77%) Apple
3 6 (5.77%) BT
4 5 (4.81%) VMware
5 4 (3.85%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.92%) Dell
6 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.96%) Adobe
7 1 (0.96%) Altiris
7 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.96%) EMC
7 1 (0.96%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.96%) Huawei
7 1 (0.96%) Meraki
7 1 (0.96%) Nokia
7 1 (0.96%) Splunk
7 1 (0.96%) Unisys