ICT Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

ICT Engineer
UK > England

The median ICT Engineer daily rate in England is £365, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 470 520
Rank change year-on-year -123 +50 +131
Contract jobs requiring an ICT Engineer 1 5 15
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% 0.021% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.022% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 15
10th Percentile - £165 £173
25th Percentile £358 £188 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £275 £213
Median % change year-on-year +32.73% +29.41% +10.39%
75th Percentile £373 £350 £282
90th Percentile - - £400
UK median daily rate £264 £275 £203
% change year-on-year -4.09% +35.59% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.40 -
UK median hourly rate - £30.40 -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 36,210 22,591 34,649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.71% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,766 15,118 23,103
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,405 849 2,354
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.63 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.12 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.70%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £41.16 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.61% -9.97% -22.22%

ICT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'ICT Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

ICT Engineer job vacancy trend in England

ICT Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for ICT Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for ICT Engineer job vacancies in England

ICT Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for ICT Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for ICT Engineer job vacancies in England

ICT 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 ICT Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 April 2026. 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
North of England -75 1 £365 +4.29% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £365 -
ICT Engineer
UK

ICT Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 April 2026, ICT Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring ICT Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Redfish
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

ICT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC