Technical Engineer Contracts in England

Technical Engineer
UK > England

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in England is £238, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 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
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 557 625
Rank change year-on-year +81 +68 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 74 79 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 59 99
10th Percentile £157 £189 £193
25th Percentile £175 £210 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £400 £335
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +19.40% -27.17%
75th Percentile £663 £585 £550
90th Percentile £828 £680 £602
UK median daily rate £250 £350 £363
% change year-on-year -28.57% -3.45% -21.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - £22.25
25th Percentile £27.63 - £30.00
Median hourly rate £32.88 - £45.00
75th Percentile £43.44 - £45.15
90th Percentile £51.88 - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £32.88 - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +181.25%

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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 20 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 June 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 +80 40 £631 +17.44% 24
South West +13 15 £165 -45.90% 23
West Midlands +20 5 £225 -70.00% 29
Midlands +19 5 £225 -70.00% 39
North of England +9 5 £225 +12.50% 57
South East +9 5 £250 -18.03% 52
Yorkshire +14 4 £245 +22.50% 28
North West +7 1 £225 +16.13% 20
Technical Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, 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 23 (31.08%) SQL
2 21 (28.38%) Degree
2 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 19 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (22.97%) Finance
4 17 (22.97%) Active Directory
5 16 (21.62%) C#
5 16 (21.62%) Windows
5 16 (21.62%) Python
6 14 (18.92%) Telecoms
7 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared
7 13 (17.57%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (14.86%) Banking
9 10 (13.51%) Asset Management
9 10 (13.51%) Derivative
9 10 (13.51%) Investment Management
9 10 (13.51%) Front Office
9 10 (13.51%) Back Office
9 10 (13.51%) SLA
9 10 (13.51%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.51%) Hedge funds
9 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
9 10 (13.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (12.16%) Roadmaps
10 9 (12.16%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (12.16%) SCCM
10 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (12.16%) ITIL
11 8 (10.81%) PowerShell

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 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.35%) CICS
2 1 (1.35%) JBoss
2 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.76%) Azure
3 3 (4.05%) Azure AI
3 3 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (1.35%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.35%) GCP
5 1 (1.35%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) LAN
1 7 (9.46%) WAN
2 6 (8.11%) VoIP
3 3 (4.05%) DHCP
3 3 (4.05%) DNS
4 1 (1.35%) ATM
4 1 (1.35%) FTP
4 1 (1.35%) Internet
4 1 (1.35%) SAN
4 1 (1.35%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.35%) DB2
1 1 (1.35%) Power BI
1 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.35%) webpack
General
1 21 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.97%) Finance
3 14 (18.92%) Telecoms
4 11 (14.86%) Banking
5 10 (13.51%) Back Office
5 10 (13.51%) Front Office
5 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
6 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (8.11%) Police
8 4 (5.41%) Electronics
8 4 (5.41%) Legal
8 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.41%) Marketing
9 3 (4.05%) Automotive
9 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.35%) Games
11 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.35%) Military
11 1 (1.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) .NET
2 2 (2.70%) RESTful
3 1 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Camel
3 1 (1.35%) CSS
3 1 (1.35%) CSS3
3 1 (1.35%) HTML
3 1 (1.35%) Hugging Face
3 1 (1.35%) LangChain
3 1 (1.35%) Node.js
3 1 (1.35%) OAuth
3 1 (1.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.35%) React
3 1 (1.35%) REST
3 1 (1.35%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.35%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (1.35%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.51%) Derivative
1 10 (13.51%) Hedge funds
2 9 (12.16%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (9.46%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (6.76%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) FMCG
6 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.35%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.35%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.62%) Windows
2 5 (6.76%) Windows 10
2 5 (6.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.05%) Windows 7
3 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.70%) Linux
5 1 (1.35%) Android
5 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (13.51%) Asset Management
3 10 (13.51%) Investment Management
3 10 (13.51%) Mentoring
4 9 (12.16%) ITIL
4 9 (12.16%) Roadmaps
5 7 (9.46%) Computer Science
5 7 (9.46%) Project Management
6 6 (8.11%) Coaching
6 6 (8.11%) Data Analysis
6 6 (8.11%) Economics
6 6 (8.11%) Line Management
6 6 (8.11%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (6.76%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (6.76%) Programme Management
7 5 (6.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (5.41%) DevOps
8 4 (5.41%) Digital Marketing
8 4 (5.41%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) SQL
2 16 (21.62%) C#
2 16 (21.62%) Python
3 8 (10.81%) PowerShell
4 6 (8.11%) C++
4 6 (8.11%) VB.NET
4 6 (8.11%) VBA
5 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.70%) Java
7 1 (1.35%) COBOL
7 1 (1.35%) JCL
7 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (28.38%) Degree
2 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (13.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.05%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.35%) CISSP
8 1 (1.35%) OCP
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.35%) PgMP
8 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) SLA
2 1 (1.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (22.97%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.05%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.35%) Docker
3 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) SCCM
2 1 (1.35%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) BT
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.41%) SAP
3 2 (2.70%) Cisco
3 2 (2.70%) Google
3 2 (2.70%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.70%) VMware
4 1 (1.35%) Bomgar
4 1 (1.35%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.35%) Dell
4 1 (1.35%) IBM
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.35%) Temenos
4 1 (1.35%) Workday