IT Technician Contracts in England

IT Technician
UK > England

The median IT Technician daily rate in England is £158, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 445 582
Rank change year-on-year +29 +137 +62
Contract jobs requiring an IT Technician 100 124 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.33% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.35% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 84 131
10th Percentile £125 £121 £131
25th Percentile £133 £133 £149
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £158 £173 £175
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -1.43% +23.61%
75th Percentile £189 £205 £200
90th Percentile £203 £249 £206
UK median daily rate £153 £175 £175
% change year-on-year -12.86% - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 21
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.15 £11.50
25th Percentile £13.95 £15.90 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.10 £17.50 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% +14.75% -6.87%
75th Percentile £24.18 £23.75 £17.89
90th Percentile - £26.48 £22.00
UK median hourly rate £16.19 £17.50 £15.25
% change year-on-year -7.49% +14.75% -3.66%

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 28,403 35,409 61,587
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.42% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,525 24,348 43,459
10th Percentile £300 £290 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% +5.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £652
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 993 1,381 1,609
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.33 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.05 £20.00 £17.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +36.36% +65.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £74.69 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £30.87
% change year-on-year -21.35% +44.15% +53.51%

IT Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Technician in England

IT Technician
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Technician in England

IT Technician
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Technician in England over the 6 months to 4 December 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Technician in England

IT Technician
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend 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 4 December 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
North of England +17 30 £183 +4.29% 34
Midlands +9 21 £165 -17.50% 15
London +32 20 £150 -3.23% 11
West Midlands +11 16 £135 -42.86% 6
Yorkshire +15 14 £185 -7.50% 15
East of England +24 11 - - 19
North West +12 11 £173 -1.43% 16
South East +13 10 £150 -16.81% 23
South West +20 8 £135 -18.18% 27
East Midlands +5 5 £175 +22.81% 9
North East -10 5 - - 3
IT Technician
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 2024, IT Technician 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 Technician in the job title.

1 44 (44.00%) Windows
2 26 (26.00%) Active Directory
2 26 (26.00%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 20 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 15 (15.00%) Azure
5 15 (15.00%) Degree
6 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (11.00%) DBS Check
7 9 (9.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (8.00%) Apple iOS
8 8 (8.00%) VPN
8 8 (8.00%) Windows Server
9 7 (7.00%) Firewall
10 6 (6.00%) Finance
10 6 (6.00%) SLA
10 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
11 5 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (5.00%) Dell
11 5 (5.00%) SAP
11 5 (5.00%) Electronics
11 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
11 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
11 5 (5.00%) ITSM
11 5 (5.00%) iPad
11 5 (5.00%) Entra ID

IT Technician 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 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.00%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (15.00%) Azure
3 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) VPN
2 7 (7.00%) Firewall
3 4 (4.00%) LAN
3 4 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (3.00%) DNS
4 3 (3.00%) Internet
4 3 (3.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.00%) Wireless
5 2 (2.00%) DHCP
5 2 (2.00%) VLAN
6 1 (1.00%) ADSL
6 1 (1.00%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.00%) HTTP
6 1 (1.00%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.00%) PSTN
6 1 (1.00%) SNMP
6 1 (1.00%) SSH
6 1 (1.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 26 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.00%) Finance
2 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.00%) Electronics
3 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.00%) Marketing
3 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Legal
5 2 (2.00%) Multimedia
5 2 (2.00%) Retail
6 1 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Banking
6 1 (1.00%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.00%) .NET
1 1 (1.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.00%) iPad
2 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.00%) CCTV
3 3 (3.00%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.00%) Educational Technology
3 3 (3.00%) iPhone
4 2 (2.00%) Handset
4 2 (2.00%) IoT
4 2 (2.00%) NHS
5 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 44 (44.00%) Windows
2 20 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 8 (8.00%) Apple iOS
3 8 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.00%) Android
5 2 (2.00%) Linux
5 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (15.00%) Customer Service
3 5 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (5.00%) Digital Marketing
3 5 (5.00%) ITSM
3 5 (5.00%) Programme Management
4 4 (4.00%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (3.00%) Break/Fix
5 3 (3.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (3.00%) Data Security
5 3 (3.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (3.00%) Information Security
5 3 (3.00%) Mathematics
5 3 (3.00%) Proactive Maintenance
5 3 (3.00%) Project Management
5 3 (3.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (3.00%) Server Management
6 2 (2.00%) Business Impact Analysis
6 2 (2.00%) Hardware Maintenance
6 2 (2.00%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.00%) Bash
1 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (15.00%) Degree
2 11 (11.00%) DBS Check
3 5 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.00%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.00%) CCNP
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (26.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.00%) NFS
4 1 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (9.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.00%) SCCM
4 1 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.00%) Dell
2 5 (5.00%) SAP
3 4 (4.00%) Google
3 4 (4.00%) HP
3 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.00%) VMware
4 3 (3.00%) Apple
4 3 (3.00%) Citrix
4 3 (3.00%) MobileIron
4 3 (3.00%) Nexthink
5 2 (2.00%) Cisco
5 2 (2.00%) Sun
6 1 (1.00%) Intel
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.00%) Veeam