IT Engineer Contracts in Gloucestershire

IT Engineer
South West > Gloucestershire

The median IT Engineer daily rate in Gloucestershire is £135, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 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
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 58 -
Rank change year-on-year +43 - -
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 18 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 7.23% 0.22% -
As % of the Job Titles category 8.14% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £123 - -
25th Percentile £124 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £135 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
South West median daily rate £160 £190 £170
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.95 - -
25th Percentile £32.63 - -
Median hourly rate £34.50 - -
75th Percentile £35.63 - -
90th Percentile £35.85 - -
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £13.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +39.78% -23.81% -5.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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 Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 221 424 467
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.76% 93.60% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 221 290
10th Percentile £178 £345 £375
25th Percentile £350 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 54 48
10th Percentile - £16.28 £32.10
25th Percentile £13.50 £33.00 £39.55
Median hourly rate £36.00 £67.50 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% -8.78% +270.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.44 £83.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.38 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +3.17% +26.00%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Gloucestershire

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in Gloucestershire

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in Gloucestershire

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in Gloucestershire

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Gloucester - 9 £135 - 3
Filton - 3 £350 -
Cheltenham +30 2 £295 - 5
IT Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 2025, 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 Gloucestershire region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Stack
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
1 4 (22.22%) Network+ Certification
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (11.11%) Security Patching
3 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) Software Licensing
3 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Data Management
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) SLA
3 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) VoIP
4 1 (5.56%) WAN

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Stack
1 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) VoIP
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Android
2 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (11.11%) Data Management
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL
2 2 (11.11%) Project Management
2 2 (11.11%) Security Patching
2 2 (11.11%) Software Licensing
3 1 (5.56%) Agile
3 1 (5.56%) Break/Fix
3 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (5.56%) ITSM
3 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.56%) Service Management
3 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.56%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Azure Certification
1 4 (22.22%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google
1 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) VMware