Technical Engineer Contracts in England

Technical Engineer
UK > England

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in England is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 594 639
Rank change year-on-year +140 +45 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 82 66 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.14% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 46 85
10th Percentile £153 £173 £193
25th Percentile £175 £206 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -18.48%
75th Percentile £675 £550 £550
90th Percentile £850 £675 £612
UK median daily rate £388 £325 £373
% change year-on-year +19.23% -12.75% -19.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £27.63 £16.63 £24.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.18% -60.56% +190.32%
75th Percentile £38.75 £18.88 £45.10
90th Percentile £50.00 - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £17.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year +97.18% -50.00% +109.63%

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 34,509 48,061 68,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.57% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,973 34,073 48,458
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £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 2,410 1,449 1,922
10th Percentile £12.91 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 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 +121 46 £625 +13.64% 24
South West +31 15 £165 -45.90% 17
Midlands +40 6 £225 -45.45% 29
West Midlands +33 5 £225 -45.45% 12
South East +8 5 £250 -44.44% 39
North of England +28 4 £308 +64.00% 38
Yorkshire +24 3 £265 +32.50% 14
North West +9 1 £350 +100.00% 23
East Midlands - 1 £117 - 17
Technical Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 27 (32.93%) SQL
2 25 (30.49%) Degree
2 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
3 21 (25.61%) Finance
4 20 (24.39%) C#
4 20 (24.39%) Python
4 20 (24.39%) Active Directory
5 19 (23.17%) Windows
5 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (18.29%) Telecoms
7 14 (17.07%) Front Office
7 14 (17.07%) Back Office
7 14 (17.07%) Derivative
7 14 (17.07%) Banking
7 14 (17.07%) Asset Management
7 14 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (17.07%) Hedge funds
7 14 (17.07%) Investment Management
7 14 (17.07%) Security Cleared
7 14 (17.07%) Mentoring
8 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (13.41%) SCCM
9 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
9 11 (13.41%) ITIL
10 10 (12.20%) SLA
10 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (12.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (10.98%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
12 8 (9.76%) Windows Server

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 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) Apache
2 1 (1.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.22%) CICS
2 1 (1.22%) GroupWise
2 1 (1.22%) IIS
2 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.22%) SAS
2 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.54%) Azure
3 3 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.22%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) LAN
1 7 (8.54%) WAN
2 6 (7.32%) VoIP
3 4 (4.88%) DNS
4 3 (3.66%) DHCP
4 3 (3.66%) FTP
4 3 (3.66%) Internet
5 2 (2.44%) SAN
5 2 (2.44%) VPN
6 1 (1.22%) ATM
6 1 (1.22%) H.323
6 1 (1.22%) HTTP
6 1 (1.22%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.22%) NAS
6 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.22%) VSAN
6 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) Power BI
2 1 (1.22%) DB2
2 1 (1.22%) Power Query
2 1 (1.22%) Sisense
2 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.61%) Finance
3 15 (18.29%) Telecoms
4 14 (17.07%) Back Office
4 14 (17.07%) Banking
4 14 (17.07%) Front Office
5 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
6 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (7.32%) Legal
7 6 (7.32%) Marketing
7 6 (7.32%) Police
8 5 (6.10%) Electronics
8 5 (6.10%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.66%) Automotive
9 3 (3.66%) Multimedia
9 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.22%) Games
11 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.22%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) .NET
2 3 (3.66%) RESTful
3 1 (1.22%) CSS
3 1 (1.22%) HTML
3 1 (1.22%) Hugging Face
3 1 (1.22%) LangChain
3 1 (1.22%) NestJS
3 1 (1.22%) Node.js
3 1 (1.22%) OAuth
3 1 (1.22%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.22%) React
3 1 (1.22%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (1.22%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.07%) Derivative
1 14 (17.07%) Hedge funds
2 9 (10.98%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (8.54%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (6.10%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.66%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.22%) CMDB
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) FMCG
6 1 (1.22%) IVR
6 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.22%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.17%) Windows
2 8 (9.76%) Windows 10
2 8 (9.76%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.88%) Linux
4 3 (3.66%) Windows 7
4 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.22%) Android
6 1 (1.22%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (17.07%) Asset Management
2 14 (17.07%) Investment Management
2 14 (17.07%) Mentoring
3 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (13.41%) ITIL
5 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
6 8 (9.76%) Computer Science
7 7 (8.54%) Project Management
8 6 (7.32%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (7.32%) Coaching
8 6 (7.32%) Customer Service
8 6 (7.32%) Data Analysis
8 6 (7.32%) Economics
8 6 (7.32%) Line Management
8 6 (7.32%) Programme Management
8 6 (7.32%) Thought Leadership
9 5 (6.10%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (4.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.93%) SQL
2 20 (24.39%) C#
2 20 (24.39%) Python
3 8 (9.76%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.32%) C++
4 6 (7.32%) VB.NET
4 6 (7.32%) VBA
5 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.66%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.22%) COBOL
6 1 (1.22%) Java
6 1 (1.22%) JCL
6 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (30.49%) Degree
2 14 (17.07%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (9.76%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.10%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.44%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.22%) CISSP
8 1 (1.22%) PgMP
8 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.22%) PMP
8 1 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (24.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.66%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.22%) Docker
3 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) SCCM
2 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.22%) SmoothWall
2 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.32%) BT
3 5 (6.10%) SAP
4 3 (3.66%) VMware
5 2 (2.44%) Cisco
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.22%) Apple
6 1 (1.22%) Avaya
6 1 (1.22%) Bomgar
6 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.22%) Dell
6 1 (1.22%) Novell
6 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) Verint
6 1 (1.22%) Workday