IT Technician Contract Job Trends in England

IT Technician
UK > England

The median IT Technician daily rate in England is £175, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026.

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

 6 months to
11 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 408 427
Rank change year-on-year -45 +19 +42
Contract jobs requiring an IT Technician 180 104 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.41% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 76 27
10th Percentile £122 £123 £124
25th Percentile £130 £126 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £133 £163
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -18.46% -4.41%
75th Percentile £195 £162 £200
90th Percentile £240 £189 £248
UK median daily rate £175 £133 £150
% change year-on-year +32.08% -11.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 22 13
10th Percentile £12.84 £13.75 £12.98
25th Percentile £14.90 £15.50 £13.95
Median hourly rate £18.53 £16.78 £16.19
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +3.64% -7.49%
75th Percentile £25.18 £18.97 £24.18
90th Percentile £25.77 £25.01 -
UK median hourly rate £18.53 £16.06 £15.65
% change year-on-year +15.38% +2.65% -10.60%

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 42,569 25,573 30,075
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 91.11% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,022 16,463 18,384
10th Percentile £325 £277 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,727 1,438 1,284
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £67.94 £50.94 £67.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +65.84% -39.40% -7.78%

IT Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

IT Technician job vacancy trend in England

IT Technician
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Technician job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Technician job vacancies in England

IT Technician
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Technician in England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Technician in England

IT Technician
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Technician job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Technician job vacancies in England

IT Technician
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Technician in England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Technician in England

IT Technician
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 Technician within the England region over the 6 months to 11 October 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 -66 49 £140 -3.45% 26
South East -51 34 £183 +37.74% 49
Midlands -33 32 £165 +29.41% 31
South West -9 30 £214 +67.65% 19
Yorkshire -10 30 £190 +31.03% 15
East Midlands -7 17 - - 14
East of England -12 17 - - 28
North West -60 17 £133 - 7
London -76 16 £182 +23.56% 23
West Midlands -40 15 £165 -5.71% 17
North East -37 3 £200 - 4
IT Technician
UK

IT Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 October 2026, IT Technician 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 IT Technician in the job title.

1 47 (26.11%) Microsoft
2 40 (22.22%) Windows
3 38 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (19.44%) Security Cleared
5 34 (18.89%) SC Cleared
6 33 (18.33%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 25 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (8.89%) Windows 10
10 15 (8.33%) Active Directory
10 15 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (7.22%) Asset Management
12 12 (6.67%) Service Delivery
13 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (5.00%) SharePoint
14 8 (4.44%) Apple iOS
14 8 (4.44%) LAN
15 7 (3.89%) DBS Check
15 7 (3.89%) WAN
16 6 (3.33%) Incident Management
16 6 (3.33%) ITSM
16 6 (3.33%) Siemens
17 5 (2.78%) Entra ID
17 5 (2.78%) ITIL
17 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
17 5 (2.78%) Migration
17 5 (2.78%) SLA
18 4 (2.22%) Analytics
18 4 (2.22%) Cybersecurity
18 4 (2.22%) Data Analytics

IT Technician 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.56%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 33 (18.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (2.78%) Entra ID
3 4 (2.22%) OneDrive
4 3 (1.67%) Azure
4 3 (1.67%) IaaS
5 2 (1.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (4.44%) LAN
3 7 (3.89%) WAN
4 2 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.11%) SAN
4 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.11%) VLAN
5 1 (0.56%) DHCP
5 1 (0.56%) DNS
5 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.56%) Network Security
5 1 (0.56%) PABX
5 1 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 55 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.56%) Retail
3 9 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.89%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.33%) Law
7 5 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.11%) Automotive
8 2 (1.11%) Legal
8 2 (1.11%) Police
9 1 (0.56%) Back Office
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Finance
9 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.22%) Driving Licence
1 13 (7.22%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.44%) Operational Technology
3 6 (3.33%) EPoS
4 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.67%) Social Media
5 3 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.11%) CMDB
6 2 (1.11%) iPad
6 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.56%) CCTV
7 1 (0.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) NHS
7 1 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.22%) Windows
2 16 (8.89%) Windows 10
3 8 (4.44%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.11%) Android
5 2 (1.11%) Linux
5 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.56%) macOS
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 15 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (7.22%) Asset Management
5 12 (6.67%) Service Delivery
6 6 (3.33%) Incident Management
6 6 (3.33%) ITSM
7 5 (2.78%) ITIL
7 5 (2.78%) Migration
8 4 (2.22%) Analytics
8 4 (2.22%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (2.22%) Data Analytics
8 4 (2.22%) Data Protection
8 4 (2.22%) Inventory Management
8 4 (2.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 4 (2.22%) Ticket Management
8 4 (2.22%) Two-Factor Authentication
9 3 (1.67%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (1.67%) Data Entry
9 3 (1.67%) Inventory Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (0.56%) Bash
2 1 (0.56%) Python
2 1 (0.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.89%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.22%) Degree
5 4 (2.22%) MCITP
6 3 (1.67%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.11%) CCNA
7 2 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.11%) MCSE
7 2 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) SLA
2 4 (2.22%) QA
3 2 (1.11%) GDPR
3 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 15 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
3 1 (0.56%) KVM
Systems Management
1 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.67%) SCCM
3 1 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (26.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.33%) Siemens
3 4 (2.22%) Dell
4 3 (1.67%) VMware
5 2 (1.11%) Sophos
6 1 (0.56%) Apple
6 1 (0.56%) Cisco
6 1 (0.56%) Citrix
6 1 (0.56%) HP
6 1 (0.56%) Remedy
6 1 (0.56%) Samsung
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
179 IT Technician jobs in England