IT Engineer Contracts in London

IT Engineer
England > London

The median IT Engineer daily rate in London is £275 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 346 430
Rank change year-on-year +96 +84 +8
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 145 144 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.82% 0.55% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.57% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 91 144
10th Percentile £143 £121 £160
25th Percentile £195 £158 £187
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £200 £250
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £450 £340 £420
90th Percentile £675 £550 £538
England median daily rate £215 £200 £213
% change year-on-year +7.50% -5.88% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 8
10th Percentile £14.02 £13.36 £13.31
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.18 £13.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.93 £15.88
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +19.24% -3.79%
75th Percentile £22.48 £25.75 £21.00
90th Percentile £24.72 £67.00 £27.15
England median hourly rate £18.00 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +1.58% +1.26% +9.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,469 25,124 36,818
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.22% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,901 18,241 26,939
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 285 443
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.30
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +1.43% +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +28 24 £243 +24.36% 11
West London +29 15 £230 +12.20% 4
South London +16 11 £190 -19.58% 2
East London -1 3 £120 -20.00%
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 74 (51.03%) Windows
2 48 (33.10%) Microsoft
3 45 (31.03%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (29.66%) Active Directory
5 38 (26.21%) Social Skills
5 38 (26.21%) Customer Service
6 32 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (22.07%) Azure
7 28 (19.31%) Finance
8 26 (17.93%) Microsoft Office
9 24 (16.55%) Security Cleared
10 19 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (13.10%) Windows 10
11 18 (12.41%) Windows Server
11 18 (12.41%) SC Cleared
12 17 (11.72%) Asset Management
13 16 (11.03%) ITIL
13 16 (11.03%) Video Conferencing
14 15 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (9.66%) PowerShell
15 14 (9.66%) VPN
16 13 (8.97%) Degree
16 13 (8.97%) Break/Fix
17 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
17 12 (8.28%) Banking
18 11 (7.59%) Firewall
18 11 (7.59%) DNS
18 11 (7.59%) LAN
18 11 (7.59%) WAN
18 11 (7.59%) Apple

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 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.07%) Apache
3 3 (2.07%) JBoss
3 3 (2.07%) nginx
3 3 (2.07%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.38%) Confluence
4 2 (1.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (17.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.69%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.03%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (22.07%) Azure
3 9 (6.21%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.52%) AWS
5 6 (4.14%) SaaS
6 4 (2.76%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.76%) IaaS
6 4 (2.76%) PaaS
6 4 (2.76%) Slack
7 3 (2.07%) Asana
7 3 (2.07%) Azure Storage
7 3 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.07%) Serverless
8 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.38%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.38%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.69%) GCP
9 1 (0.69%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.66%) VPN
2 11 (7.59%) DNS
2 11 (7.59%) Firewall
2 11 (7.59%) LAN
2 11 (7.59%) WAN
3 7 (4.83%) DHCP
4 6 (4.14%) Structured Cabling
4 6 (4.14%) Wireless
5 4 (2.76%) Internet
6 3 (2.07%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.38%) Intranet
7 2 (1.38%) Network Security
7 2 (1.38%) Skype
7 2 (1.38%) SSL
7 2 (1.38%) VLAN
7 2 (1.38%) VoIP
8 1 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.69%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.07%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.14%) JIRA
2 2 (1.38%) GitLab
General
1 38 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.31%) Finance
3 19 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.28%) Banking
5 7 (4.83%) Aviation
6 5 (3.45%) Law
7 4 (2.76%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.76%) Retail
8 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.38%) Front Office
9 2 (1.38%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.38%) Marketing
9 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.07%) .NET
1 3 (2.07%) .NET Framework
1 3 (2.07%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (1.38%) React
3 1 (0.69%) Middleware
3 1 (0.69%) Node.js
3 1 (0.69%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.03%) Video Conferencing
2 15 (10.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.14%) CCTV
4 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.45%) iPhone
4 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.76%) iPad
5 4 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.07%) Blackberry
6 3 (2.07%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.07%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.38%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.69%) BYOD
8 1 (0.69%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.69%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.69%) EPoS
8 1 (0.69%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (51.03%) Windows
2 19 (13.10%) Windows 10
3 18 (12.41%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.59%) Windows 7
5 10 (6.90%) Android
6 7 (4.83%) Unix
7 6 (4.14%) Linux
8 5 (3.45%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.38%) Mac OS X
10 2 (1.38%) VMS
11 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.69%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.21%) Customer Service
2 32 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (11.72%) Asset Management
4 16 (11.03%) ITIL
5 13 (8.97%) Break/Fix
6 9 (6.21%) Server Patching
7 8 (5.52%) Migration
7 8 (5.52%) Server Management
8 7 (4.83%) DevOps
8 7 (4.83%) Incident Management
8 7 (4.83%) Service Delivery
8 7 (4.83%) SIEM
9 6 (4.14%) ITSM
9 6 (4.14%) Service Management
10 5 (3.45%) Full Stack Development
10 5 (3.45%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (3.45%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (3.45%) Runbook
11 4 (2.76%) CI/CD
11 4 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.66%) PowerShell
2 8 (5.52%) SQL
3 6 (4.14%) Python
4 4 (2.76%) C#
4 4 (2.76%) Java
5 3 (2.07%) Bash
5 3 (2.07%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.69%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.97%) Degree
4 8 (5.52%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.45%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.38%) MCITP
9 1 (0.69%) CCNA
9 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.52%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (29.66%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.14%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.69%) Docker
5 1 (0.69%) Firmware
5 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (7.59%) SCCM
3 4 (2.76%) VxRail
4 3 (2.07%) SCOM
4 3 (2.07%) SCVMM
5 2 (1.38%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.38%) WSUS
6 1 (0.69%) Ansible
6 1 (0.69%) Nessus
6 1 (0.69%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.69%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (33.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.59%) Apple
3 10 (6.90%) Citrix
3 10 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.83%) ArcSight
5 6 (4.14%) Cisco
5 6 (4.14%) Google
5 6 (4.14%) Oracle
5 6 (4.14%) VMware
6 4 (2.76%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.07%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.07%) CA
7 3 (2.07%) IBM
7 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.07%) Temenos
7 3 (2.07%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.38%) Adobe
8 2 (1.38%) HP
8 2 (1.38%) Polycom
8 2 (1.38%) TOWER Software