IT Engineer Contracts in London

IT Engineer
England > London

The median IT Engineer daily rate in London is £238, 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 267 238 354
Rank change year-on-year -29 +116 +65
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 86 156 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.87% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.94% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 101 89
10th Percentile £142 £150 £121
25th Percentile £170 £200 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £275 £213
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% -11.46%
75th Percentile £413 £450 £330
90th Percentile £460 £675 £508
England median daily rate £190 £220 £200
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 40 16
10th Percentile £24.37 £13.80 £13.15
25th Percentile - £16.25 £14.18
Median hourly rate £24.66 £19.25 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +28.10% +1.69% +8.17%
75th Percentile - £22.24 £22.19
90th Percentile £26.91 £25.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £18.94 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +4.44% +2.31% +1.26%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -5 14 £198 -19.39% 6
South London +4 10 £170 -10.53% 6
West London +2 5 £188 -18.48% 2
East London +14 2 £200 +66.67% 2
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (44.19%) Windows
2 38 (44.19%) Microsoft
3 31 (36.05%) Active Directory
3 31 (36.05%) Azure
4 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
5 21 (24.42%) Finance
6 19 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (20.93%) Entra ID
8 16 (18.60%) VPN
9 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (16.28%) Apple iOS
10 14 (16.28%) Onboarding
11 13 (15.12%) Slack
11 13 (15.12%) Windows 10
12 12 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
12 12 (13.95%) Asset Management
13 11 (12.79%) Asana
13 11 (12.79%) Android
13 11 (12.79%) Customer Service
14 10 (11.63%) Palo Alto
14 10 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (11.63%) Service Management
15 9 (10.47%) ITSM
15 9 (10.47%) SharePoint
15 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
15 9 (10.47%) Mac OS
16 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
16 8 (9.30%) SLA

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (13.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (10.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (36.05%) Azure
3 18 (20.93%) Entra ID
4 13 (15.12%) Slack
5 11 (12.79%) Asana
6 7 (8.14%) SaaS
7 6 (6.98%) OneDrive
8 5 (5.81%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (5.81%) Google Workspace
9 4 (4.65%) AWS
10 2 (2.33%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.16%) IaaS
11 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.16%) PaaS
11 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.60%) VPN
2 8 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (4.65%) DHCP
3 4 (4.65%) DNS
3 4 (4.65%) Firewall
3 4 (4.65%) LAN
3 4 (4.65%) Network Security
3 4 (4.65%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.49%) VoIP
4 3 (3.49%) WAN
5 2 (2.33%) Wireless
6 1 (1.16%) ATM
6 1 (1.16%) DKIM
6 1 (1.16%) DMARC
6 1 (1.16%) Extranet
6 1 (1.16%) NAS
6 1 (1.16%) SAN
6 1 (1.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.16%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Git
General
1 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.42%) Finance
3 12 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.65%) Banking
5 4 (4.65%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.49%) Local Government
6 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.49%) Retail
7 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.16%) Games
8 1 (1.16%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.16%) ODBC
1 1 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.28%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.14%) EPoS
3 6 (6.98%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (5.81%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.81%) Smartphone
5 4 (4.65%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.16%) iPhone
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.16%) PKI
7 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.16%) Replication
7 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 38 (44.19%) Windows
2 14 (16.28%) Apple iOS
3 13 (15.12%) Windows 10
4 11 (12.79%) Android
5 9 (10.47%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.65%) Linux
6 4 (4.65%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.16%) VMS
7 1 (1.16%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (13.95%) Asset Management
3 11 (12.79%) Customer Service
4 10 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (11.63%) Service Management
5 9 (10.47%) ITSM
6 7 (8.14%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (6.98%) Cloud Security
7 6 (6.98%) Information Security
7 6 (6.98%) Mobile Device Management
7 6 (6.98%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (5.81%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (5.81%) Identity Management
8 5 (5.81%) Investment Management
8 5 (5.81%) IT Asset Management
8 5 (5.81%) Logistics
8 5 (5.81%) Risk Management
8 5 (5.81%) SIEM
9 4 (4.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 4 (4.65%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.33%) Python
2 2 (2.33%) SQL
3 1 (1.16%) Java
3 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (4.65%) CCSP
3 4 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.65%) CISSP
3 4 (4.65%) Degree
3 4 (4.65%) GCIH
4 3 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.16%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) SLA
2 6 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.98%) NIST
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 31 (36.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.33%) Firmware
3 2 (2.33%) vSphere
4 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.98%) SCCM
3 2 (2.33%) CASB
4 1 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.16%) Plesk
4 1 (1.16%) Terraform
4 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (44.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Palo Alto
3 7 (8.14%) Cisco
3 7 (8.14%) Google
3 7 (8.14%) Zscaler
4 6 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.65%) Apple
5 4 (4.65%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.49%) Dell
6 3 (3.49%) HP
6 3 (3.49%) VMware
7 1 (1.16%) Avaya
7 1 (1.16%) Citrix
7 1 (1.16%) EMC
7 1 (1.16%) IBM
7 1 (1.16%) Meraki
7 1 (1.16%) Mitel
7 1 (1.16%) Remedy
7 1 (1.16%) SonicWALL
7 1 (1.16%) Splunk