Technical Engineer Contracts in England

Technical Engineer
UK > England

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in England is £425, 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 450 460 586
Rank change year-on-year +10 +126 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 35 82 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.24% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 55 48
10th Percentile £172 £153 £173
25th Percentile £208 £175 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £338
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £550
90th Percentile £572 £850 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £388 £325
% change year-on-year +9.68% +19.23% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £27.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year - +97.18% -60.56%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £18.88
90th Percentile - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £17.75
% change year-on-year -31.43% +97.18% -50.00%

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%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in England

Technical Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Engineer in England

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Engineer in England

Technical Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Engineer in England

Technical 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 Technical 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 +7 15 £440 -29.60% 64
North of England +23 8 £220 -28.46% 55
South East +48 7 £370 +48.00% 67
North West +23 7 £218 -37.86% 25
South West +34 3 £550 +233.33% 23
Midlands +18 2 £390 +73.33% 55
West Midlands +11 2 £390 +73.33% 24
Yorkshire +6 1 £700 +164.15% 25
Technical Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (37.14%) Windows
2 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
3 11 (31.43%) Azure
4 10 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (25.71%) SQL
6 8 (22.86%) Linux
6 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
6 8 (22.86%) Firewall
7 7 (20.00%) Python
7 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
7 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
8 6 (17.14%) DevOps
8 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
8 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
9 5 (14.29%) ITIL
9 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
9 5 (14.29%) Finance
9 5 (14.29%) AWS
10 4 (11.43%) Power BI
10 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
10 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
10 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
10 4 (11.43%) Terraform
10 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
10 4 (11.43%) HP
10 4 (11.43%) Dell
10 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery

Technical 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 2 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.29%) AWS
4 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub
6 2 (5.71%) IaaS
6 2 (5.71%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.86%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (2.86%) GCP
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.86%) SaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) VPN
3 2 (5.71%) Internet
3 2 (5.71%) iSCSI
3 2 (5.71%) LAN
3 2 (5.71%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (5.71%) WAN
3 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (5.71%) Wireless
4 1 (2.86%) BGP
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.86%) DHCP
4 1 (2.86%) DNS
4 1 (2.86%) Network Security
4 1 (2.86%) OSPF
4 1 (2.86%) SMTP
4 1 (2.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) Power BI
3 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Big Data
4 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.71%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (5.71%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.86%) GIS
5 1 (2.86%) IDOL
5 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Gradle
2 1 (2.86%) HP UFT
2 1 (2.86%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.86%) Maven
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) French Language
4 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Legal
4 2 (5.71%) Military
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) YAML
2 2 (5.71%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.71%) IVR
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Clustering
3 1 (2.86%) CMDB
3 1 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.86%) RISC-V
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.86%) SIMD
3 1 (2.86%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Linux
3 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
5 3 (8.57%) Android
5 3 (8.57%) Windows 7
5 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.86%) CentOS
6 1 (2.86%) Solaris
6 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) DevOps
2 5 (14.29%) ITIL
3 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.57%) Coaching
4 3 (8.57%) Customer Service
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (8.57%) Incident Management
4 3 (8.57%) Information Security
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
4 3 (8.57%) Service Management
4 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
4 3 (8.57%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (5.71%) Data Analysis
5 2 (5.71%) Data Integration
5 2 (5.71%) Fund Management
5 2 (5.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) Assembly Language
3 1 (2.86%) Bash
3 1 (2.86%) C
3 1 (2.86%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) R
3 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) SLA
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.86%) QEMU
3 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.57%) SCCM
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.86%) Nagios
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Dell
2 4 (11.43%) HP
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Apple
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco
4 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.86%) Planview
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.86%) Remedy
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.86%) Sonatype
5 1 (2.86%) VMware