Customer Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Customer Engineer
England > London

The median Customer Engineer daily rate in London is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 379 433
Rank change year-on-year +24 +54 +158
Contract jobs requiring a Customer Engineer 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.038% 0.019% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.020% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £544 £584 £553
25th Percentile £572 £589 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £606 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% -10.19% +237.50%
75th Percentile £697 £627 £744
90th Percentile £721 £633 £778
England median daily rate £638 £606 £675
% change year-on-year +5.15% -10.19% +181.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.50 - £18.86
% change year-on-year - - -48.59%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,291 15,013 19,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.05% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,178 9,748 14,335
10th Percentile £335 £349 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.43% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 169 214
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.38
25th Percentile £22.38 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £26.54 £37.50 £40.17
Median % change year-on-year -29.24% -6.64% +23.58%
75th Percentile £48.38 £58.75 £61.15
90th Percentile £67.31 £79.15 £75.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +62.04%

Customer Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Customer Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Customer Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Customer Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Customer Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Customer Engineer job vacancies in London

Customer Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Customer Engineer in London over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Customer Engineer in London

Customer Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Customer Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Customer Engineer job vacancies in London

Customer Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 19 October 2025, Customer Engineer 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 London region featuring Customer Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) GIS
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) Magik

Customer Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) GIS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
1 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (20.00%) ETL
1 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Single Customer View
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Magik
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) HP