Project Engineer Contracts in England

Project Engineer
UK > England

The median Project Engineer daily rate in England is £280 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 627 708
Rank change year-on-year +120 +81 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Project Engineer 38 32 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.063% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.067% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 30
10th Percentile £213 £233 £230
25th Percentile £215 £295 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £415 £375
Median % change year-on-year -32.53% +10.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £433 £664 £388
90th Percentile £623 £750 £469
UK median daily rate £280 £413 £375
% change year-on-year -32.12% +10.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £26.78 -
25th Percentile £30.70 £33.62 £25.50
Median hourly rate £31.80 £45.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% +73.08% -24.63%
75th Percentile £51.45 £51.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £62.58 £55.21 -
UK median hourly rate £31.80 £45.00 £21.41
% change year-on-year -29.33% +110.16% -37.93%

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 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Project Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Engineer in England

Project Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Project Engineer in England

Project Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Engineer in England

Project Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Engineer in England

Project Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Engineer in England

Project 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 Project Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +119 20 £280 -55.20% 28
South East +24 6 £230 -22.95% 59
Midlands +26 4 £200 -33.33% 53
North of England +29 3 £305 -39.10% 53
West Midlands +28 3 £200 -33.33% 31
East of England +15 3 - - 26
South West +21 2 £543 +4.89% 19
North West - 2 £305 - 20
Yorkshire +20 1 £413 -17.50% 22
East Midlands - 1 - - 22
Project Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Project 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 Project Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (28.95%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (23.68%) CCTV
3 8 (21.05%) Aviation
4 6 (15.79%) Azure
5 5 (13.16%) Project Management
6 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Security
7 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 3 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (7.89%) Degree
7 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
7 3 (7.89%) OpenUP
7 3 (7.89%) Change Management
7 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
7 3 (7.89%) Automotive
7 3 (7.89%) Windows
7 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
8 2 (5.26%) WAN
8 2 (5.26%) MPLS
8 2 (5.26%) DNS
8 2 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (5.26%) Firewall
8 2 (5.26%) MegaStream
8 2 (5.26%) Panasonic
8 2 (5.26%) Integration Testing
8 2 (5.26%) System Testing
8 2 (5.26%) WFM

Project 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 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.63%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.63%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.95%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) MegaStream
2 2 (5.26%) MPLS
2 2 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (2.63%) BGP
3 1 (2.63%) IPsec
3 1 (2.63%) Junos
3 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Power BI
General
1 8 (21.05%) Aviation
2 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Automotive
3 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) CCTV
2 2 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.63%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.16%) Project Management
2 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (7.89%) Change Management
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Security
3 3 (7.89%) OpenUP
3 3 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.26%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (5.26%) Integration Testing
4 2 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (5.26%) Project Planning
4 2 (5.26%) Risk Management
4 2 (5.26%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (5.26%) System Testing
4 2 (5.26%) WFM
5 1 (2.63%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.63%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
1 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.63%) PMP
3 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) Panasonic
2 1 (2.63%) Juniper
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) VMware