Engineering Specialist Contracts in Leeds

Engineering Specialist
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Engineering Specialist daily rate in Leeds is £550, 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 51 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Specialist 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.94% - 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% - 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Engineering Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured Engineering Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Specialist in Leeds

Engineering Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engineering Specialist in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Engineering Specialist in Leeds

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Engineering Specialist 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 Leeds region featuring Engineering Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (100.00%) Bash
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) Server Management
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle Database
2 8 (88.89%) Microservices
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server
2 8 (88.89%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Security Management
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 8 (88.89%) Perl
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) PL/SQL
3 7 (77.78%) DNS
3 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
3 7 (77.78%) SOA
3 7 (77.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
5 4 (44.44%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 2 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
7 1 (11.11%) Public Sector

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (77.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Microservices
2 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (88.89%) Security Management
2 8 (88.89%) Server Management
3 7 (77.78%) SOA
4 4 (44.44%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
6 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (11.11%) High Availability
6 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Bash
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (88.89%) Perl
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat