Senior IT Engineer Contracts in England

Senior IT Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior IT Engineer daily rate in England is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 July 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
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 520 579
Rank change year-on-year +15 +59 +171
Contract jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 15 13 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.038% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.040% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 13
10th Percentile - £219 £258
25th Percentile £388 £278 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £400 £380
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +5.26% +1.33%
75th Percentile £700 £513 £550
90th Percentile - £565 £630
UK median daily rate £415 £400 £353
% change year-on-year +3.75% +13.48% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 18
10th Percentile - £16.46 £17.24
25th Percentile - £16.79 -
Median hourly rate £160.00 £18.30 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +774.32% +3.27% -29.12%
75th Percentile - £22.89 £18.70
90th Percentile - £23.66 £18.93
UK median hourly rate £160.00 £17.79 £17.72
% change year-on-year +799.26% +0.41% -29.12%

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 25,314 32,143 43,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 92.99% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,454 21,223 30,900
10th Percentile £288 £300 £308
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,274 2,038 1,375
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.69 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.79 £18.81 £19.16
Median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% -1.96% +70.79%
75th Percentile £55.87 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.81 £43.32
% change year-on-year -39.85% -3.47% +68.67%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in England

Senior IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior IT Engineer in England

Senior IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior IT Engineer in England

Senior IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior IT Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +16 9 £400 -33.33% 17
South West +34 4 £700 - 8
West Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
Midlands - 4 £700 - 3
South East - 1 - - 15
East of England - 1 - - 7
Senior IT Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2025, Senior 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 Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
3 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (46.67%) Slack
3 7 (46.67%) Asana
3 7 (46.67%) Onboarding
4 6 (40.00%) OneDrive
4 6 (40.00%) SaaS
4 6 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
6 4 (26.67%) Azure Stack
6 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
6 4 (26.67%) IT Asset Management
6 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
6 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
6 4 (26.67%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
6 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Android
6 4 (26.67%) VPN

Senior 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 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
1 10 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 7 (46.67%) Asana
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (46.67%) Slack
3 6 (40.00%) OneDrive
3 6 (40.00%) SaaS
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Stack
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) NAS
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Fat Client
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Android
2 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.67%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
2 4 (26.67%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) User Experience
5 1 (6.67%) BCP
5 1 (6.67%) Business Continuity Planning
5 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.67%) ITSM
5 1 (6.67%) Network Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Service Management
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (26.67%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (6.67%) Plesk
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (20.00%) Zscaler
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Aruba
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) Meraki
5 1 (6.67%) Rackspace
5 1 (6.67%) Veeam