IT Engineer Contracts in England

IT Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Engineer daily rate in England is £190, 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 210 234 279
Rank change year-on-year +24 +45 +60
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 312 375 469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.28% 1.01% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.09% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 231 293
10th Percentile £123 £123 £122
25th Percentile £142 £156 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £220 £200
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £255 £300 £338
90th Percentile £425 £575 £500
UK median daily rate £188 £200 £200
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 97 79
10th Percentile £18.29 £12.60 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.75 £14.81
Median hourly rate £18.94 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +2.31% +1.26%
75th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.41
90th Percentile £27.15 £25.10 £44.88
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £17.72
% change year-on-year +10.05% - +1.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in England

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Engineer in England

IT 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 IT Engineer within the England 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
London -29 86 £238 -13.64% 77
South East +64 63 £190 +11.76% 100
North of England +16 56 £190 -5.00% 100
South West +57 54 £135 -32.50% 55
Midlands +18 40 £140 -6.67% 72
West Midlands +31 29 £140 -30.00% 33
North West +15 26 £186 +3.91% 44
Yorkshire +7 23 £255 -10.53% 46
East of England +14 14 £180 -28.00% 46
East Midlands -11 11 £125 -16.67% 36
North East -1 7 £200 +14.29% 12
IT Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 118 (37.82%) Windows
2 110 (35.26%) Microsoft
3 91 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (27.24%) Social Skills
5 76 (24.36%) Active Directory
6 55 (17.63%) Azure
6 55 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (17.31%) Security Cleared
8 48 (15.38%) SC Cleared
9 44 (14.10%) Windows 10
10 35 (11.22%) Customer Service
11 33 (10.58%) Finance
12 31 (9.94%) VPN
13 30 (9.62%) Cisco
14 29 (9.29%) Asset Management
15 28 (8.97%) EPoS
15 28 (8.97%) Entra ID
16 27 (8.65%) Driving Licence
17 26 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
17 26 (8.33%) Break/Fix
18 25 (8.01%) HP
19 24 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
19 24 (7.69%) Firewall
20 23 (7.37%) Public Sector
21 22 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 22 (7.05%) Microsoft Exchange
22 21 (6.73%) Dell
22 21 (6.73%) Service Management
22 21 (6.73%) Degree
22 21 (6.73%) Apple iOS

IT 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 22 (7.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.64%) Apache
4 2 (0.64%) Confluence
4 2 (0.64%) IIS
4 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 24 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (17.63%) Azure
3 28 (8.97%) Entra ID
4 13 (4.17%) Slack
5 11 (3.53%) Asana
6 10 (3.21%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.56%) AWS
7 8 (2.56%) Google Workspace
7 8 (2.56%) SaaS
8 6 (1.92%) IaaS
8 6 (1.92%) PaaS
9 5 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.60%) GCP
10 2 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.64%) Cloudflare
10 2 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.64%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.64%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.64%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (9.94%) VPN
2 24 (7.69%) Firewall
3 20 (6.41%) ATM
4 17 (5.45%) DNS
5 15 (4.81%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (4.49%) DHCP
7 13 (4.17%) TCP/IP
8 9 (2.88%) Network Security
9 8 (2.56%) WAN
10 7 (2.24%) VLAN
10 7 (2.24%) Wireless
11 6 (1.92%) LAN
11 6 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (1.60%) VoIP
13 2 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (0.64%) IP Telephony
13 2 (0.64%) MPLS
13 2 (0.64%) NAS
13 2 (0.64%) SAN
13 2 (0.64%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.60%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.64%) MySQL
2 2 (0.64%) Power BI
2 2 (0.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.32%) Metadata
3 1 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.88%) JIRA
2 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.32%) Git
General
1 85 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 33 (10.58%) Finance
3 23 (7.37%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.13%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.21%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.56%) Electronics
8 8 (2.56%) Marketing
9 6 (1.92%) Banking
9 6 (1.92%) Local Government
10 5 (1.60%) Legal
10 5 (1.60%) Retail
11 4 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.28%) French Language
11 4 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Military
12 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.64%) Korean Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.64%) .NET
1 2 (0.64%) LAMP
2 1 (0.32%) Apache Axis
2 1 (0.32%) ODBC
2 1 (0.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.97%) EPoS
2 27 (8.65%) Driving Licence
3 16 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.85%) Smartphone
6 11 (3.53%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.56%) NHS
8 7 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.92%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.60%) iPhone
10 5 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.28%) LIMS
12 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.64%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 118 (37.82%) Windows
2 44 (14.10%) Windows 10
3 21 (6.73%) Apple iOS
4 19 (6.09%) Android
4 19 (6.09%) Linux
5 17 (5.45%) Windows Server
6 15 (4.81%) Mac OS
7 9 (2.88%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.64%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.32%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.32%) Rocky
9 1 (0.32%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (11.22%) Customer Service
3 29 (9.29%) Asset Management
4 26 (8.33%) Break/Fix
5 21 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (6.73%) Service Management
6 19 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (5.77%) ITIL
7 18 (5.77%) ITSM
8 16 (5.13%) Mobile Device Management
8 16 (5.13%) Ticket Management
9 12 (3.85%) Computer Science
9 12 (3.85%) Service Delivery
10 11 (3.53%) Information Security
10 11 (3.53%) Migration
11 10 (3.21%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (2.88%) Data Protection
12 9 (2.88%) Security Management
13 8 (2.56%) Digital Marketing
13 8 (2.56%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 12 (3.85%) SQL
3 7 (2.24%) Bash
3 7 (2.24%) Python
4 4 (1.28%) Perl
4 4 (1.28%) PL/SQL
5 2 (0.64%) Java
5 2 (0.64%) PHP
6 1 (0.32%) C#
6 1 (0.32%) Ruby
6 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 54 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 48 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.73%) Degree
4 20 (6.41%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (4.17%) DBS Check
6 12 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.88%) CCNA
9 7 (2.24%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.60%) CISSP
11 4 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.28%) CCSP
11 4 (1.28%) GCIH
12 3 (0.96%) Dell Certification
13 2 (0.64%) CCIE
13 2 (0.64%) HP APS
13 2 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.64%) MCSE
13 2 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.17%) SLA
2 11 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.92%) NIST
4 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.64%) GDPR
5 2 (0.64%) QA
6 1 (0.32%) GMP
6 1 (0.32%) GxP
6 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (24.36%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.60%) vSphere
4 4 (1.28%) Firmware
4 4 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.96%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.64%) Docker
6 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 26 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (6.09%) SCCM
3 3 (0.96%) Ansible
3 3 (0.96%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.64%) CASB
4 2 (0.64%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.64%) Terraform
5 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.32%) Plesk
5 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.32%) Puppet
5 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 110 (35.26%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.62%) Cisco
3 25 (8.01%) HP
4 21 (6.73%) Dell
5 16 (5.13%) Google
6 15 (4.81%) Palo Alto
6 15 (4.81%) VMware
7 12 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.88%) Citrix
8 9 (2.88%) Zscaler
9 8 (2.56%) Apple
9 8 (2.56%) SAP
10 6 (1.92%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.92%) Veeam
11 5 (1.60%) Meraki
11 5 (1.60%) Oracle
12 4 (1.28%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.28%) Nexthink
12 4 (1.28%) Proofpoint
13 2 (0.64%) SolarWinds