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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 524 610
Rank change year-on-year +87 +86 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Field Engineer 100 123 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.27% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 93 115
10th Percentile £121 £105 £125
25th Percentile £157 £121 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £150 £175
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% +23.56%
75th Percentile £258 £220 £215
90th Percentile £400 £250 £305
UK median daily rate £200 £150 £188
% change year-on-year +33.33% -20.00% +33.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 17
10th Percentile £11.75 £18.38 -
25th Percentile £12.00 £19.62 £13.00
Median hourly rate £17.42 £20.65 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +25.17% +1.54%
75th Percentile £21.00 £29.84 £18.75
90th Percentile £25.25 £31.13 £19.93
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £20.71 £16.68
% change year-on-year -20.31% +24.17% +1.06%

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 33,809 45,522 67,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,413 32,346 47,872
10th Percentile £283 £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 £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,342 1,849
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +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 17 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 17 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 +89 31 £230 +22.67% 90
South West +14 22 £165 +3.13% 100
South East +6 16 £185 -7.50% 209
East of England +17 11 £400 +263.64% 121
North of England +12 11 £200 +64.95% 160
Midlands +16 10 £200 +26.58% 162
Yorkshire +7 7 £200 +76.21% 80
East Midlands +5 7 £142 -10.69% 66
West Midlands +21 3 £200 +61.29% 96
North East +12 2 - - 24
North West +11 2 - - 57
Field Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 37 (37.00%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (34.00%) Break/Fix
3 29 (29.00%) Customer Service
4 28 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (26.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
7 19 (19.00%) Windows
7 19 (19.00%) Active Directory
8 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
9 15 (15.00%) Public Sector
10 14 (14.00%) Windows 10
11 13 (13.00%) Firewall
12 12 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (11.00%) Security Cleared
13 11 (11.00%) ITIL
13 11 (11.00%) SLA
14 10 (10.00%) Wireless
14 10 (10.00%) Telecoms
14 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
15 9 (9.00%) LAN
16 8 (8.00%) Azure
17 7 (7.00%) Android
17 7 (7.00%) Cisco
17 7 (7.00%) Migration
17 7 (7.00%) Entra ID
18 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
18 6 (6.00%) Police
18 6 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
18 6 (6.00%) SD-WAN
18 6 (6.00%) BT

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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (8.00%) Azure
3 7 (7.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.00%) AWS
4 1 (1.00%) AWS IoT
4 1 (1.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.00%) Firewall
2 10 (10.00%) Wireless
3 9 (9.00%) LAN
4 6 (6.00%) SD-WAN
4 6 (6.00%) WAN
5 5 (5.00%) DHCP
6 4 (4.00%) DNS
6 4 (4.00%) VPN
6 4 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (3.00%) PBX
8 2 (2.00%) ATM
8 2 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (2.00%) Network Security
9 1 (1.00%) ADSL
9 1 (1.00%) HSRP
9 1 (1.00%) LoRaWAN
9 1 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.00%) VLAN
9 1 (1.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (1.00%) Selenium
1 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.00%) Legal
5 6 (6.00%) Police
6 3 (3.00%) French Language
7 1 (1.00%) Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Finance
7 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.00%) CSS
1 1 (1.00%) HTML
1 1 (1.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (5.00%) NHS
3 4 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.00%) EPoS
4 2 (2.00%) iPad
5 1 (1.00%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.00%) CMDB
5 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.00%) IoT
5 1 (1.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.00%) Windows
2 14 (14.00%) Windows 10
3 7 (7.00%) Android
4 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.00%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.00%) Linux
7 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.00%) Unix
8 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.00%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.00%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (34.00%) Break/Fix
3 29 (29.00%) Customer Service
4 11 (11.00%) ITIL
5 7 (7.00%) Migration
6 6 (6.00%) Coaching
6 6 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (6.00%) Line Management
7 4 (4.00%) Data Protection
7 4 (4.00%) Time Management
8 3 (3.00%) Service Management
9 2 (2.00%) Decision-Making
9 2 (2.00%) Incident Response
9 2 (2.00%) ITSM
10 1 (1.00%) CI/CD
10 1 (1.00%) DevOps
10 1 (1.00%) Microservices
10 1 (1.00%) Release Automation
10 1 (1.00%) SDLC
10 1 (1.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (11.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 5 (5.00%) Degree
5 2 (2.00%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.00%) CCNA
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) MCSE
5 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.00%) MCP
6 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (19.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) SCCM
2 3 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.00%) Netcool
3 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (21.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.00%) Cisco
3 6 (6.00%) Apple
3 6 (6.00%) BT
4 4 (4.00%) Fortinet
4 4 (4.00%) VMware
5 2 (2.00%) Dell
5 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.00%) Adobe
6 1 (1.00%) Altiris
6 1 (1.00%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.00%) EMC
6 1 (1.00%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.00%) Huawei
6 1 (1.00%) Meraki
6 1 (1.00%) Nokia
6 1 (1.00%) Splunk
6 1 (1.00%) Unisys