Engineering Specialist Contract Job Trends in Hemel Hempstead

Engineering Specialist
Hertfordshire > Hemel Hempstead

The median Engineering Specialist daily rate in Hemel Hempstead is £526, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hemel Hempstead 2.94% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £526 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hemel Hempstead

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hemel Hempstead. 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 Hemel Hempstead with a recognized job title 29 29 96
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.29% 93.55% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 83
10th Percentile £361 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +1.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £706
90th Percentile £633 £730 £795
Hertfordshire median daily rate £527 £454 £500
% change year-on-year +16.02% -9.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +222.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hemel Hempstead

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, Engineering Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hemel Hempstead region featuring Engineering Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hemel Hempstead by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
6 Engineering Specialist jobs Nationwide