Project Engineer Contracts in London

Project Engineer
England > London

The median Project Engineer daily rate in London is £280 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 487 594
Rank change year-on-year +114 +107 -138
Contract jobs requiring a Project Engineer 20 12 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.044% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.046% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 8
10th Percentile - £298 £234
25th Percentile £215 £440 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £625 £416
Median % change year-on-year -55.20% +50.15% -10.00%
75th Percentile £438 £750 £495
90th Percentile £630 £755 £598
England median daily rate £280 £415 £375
% change year-on-year -32.53% +10.67% +20.00%

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 16,650 25,900 36,972
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 95.31% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,044 18,722 26,970
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 298 455
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.63 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Project Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Engineer in London

Project Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Engineer in London

Project Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Project Engineer in London

Project Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Engineer in London

Project 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 Project Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
West London - 10 £230 - 2
South London - 2 £425 - 3
Central London +46 1 - - 4
Project Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Project 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 Project Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (50.00%) Structured Cabling
2 8 (40.00%) CCTV
3 7 (35.00%) Aviation
4 5 (25.00%) Azure
5 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
6 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (15.00%) Degree
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Change Management
6 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (10.00%) Windows
7 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
7 2 (10.00%) Panasonic
7 2 (10.00%) Integration Testing
7 2 (10.00%) System Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (10.00%) Project Planning
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (5.00%) Power Platform

Project 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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) MPLS
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
General
1 7 (35.00%) Aviation
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) CCTV
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.00%) Change Management
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (15.00%) Project Management
1 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (10.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (10.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (10.00%) System Testing
3 1 (5.00%) B2B
3 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (5.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL
3 1 (5.00%) Migration
3 1 (5.00%) Order Management
3 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Panasonic
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft