Technical Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Engineer
England > London

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 366 366
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 +172
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 33 15 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.23% 0.098% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 23
10th Percentile £246 £204 £198
25th Percentile £319 £220 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £517 £525 £663
90th Percentile £600 £576 £825
England median daily rate £208 £225 £310
% change year-on-year -7.78% -27.42% -4.62%

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 13,157 14,282 17,864
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 9,248 12,923
10th Percentile £340 £338 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 154 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.65 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £56.63 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Technical Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Engineer in London

Technical Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 +4 4 £425 +112.50% 2
West London -11 3 £600 +50.00%
Technical Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Technical 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 Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (27.27%) Azure
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Agile
2 8 (24.24%) Internet
2 8 (24.24%) Server Management
2 8 (24.24%) TCP/IP
3 7 (21.21%) Degree
4 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 6 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) Python
5 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.15%) Terraform
5 5 (15.15%) Windows
6 4 (12.12%) Data Privacy
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.12%) Linux
6 4 (12.12%) SQL
7 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
7 3 (9.09%) AI
7 3 (9.09%) AWS
7 3 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (9.09%) C#
7 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 3 (9.09%) GDPR
7 3 (9.09%) GitLab
7 3 (9.09%) Incident Management

Technical 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 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (6.06%) Collibra
4 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) Internet
1 8 (24.24%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) DHCP
2 2 (6.06%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) LAN
2 2 (6.06%) VLAN
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.03%) HTTP
3 1 (3.03%) SSH
3 1 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.06%) Mixpanel
2 2 (6.06%) OLAP
2 2 (6.06%) OLTP
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) GitLab
1 3 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (6.06%) Gradle
2 2 (6.06%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) Fiddler
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 19 (57.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
3 2 (6.06%) French Language
3 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Marketing
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) ARM Templates
1 2 (6.06%) Great Expectations
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth
2 1 (3.03%) PySpark
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) RSS
2 1 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.03%) CCTV
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Windows
2 4 (12.12%) Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Solaris
4 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.06%) Unix
4 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.06%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) Agile
1 8 (24.24%) Server Management
2 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 6 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 6 (18.18%) DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (12.12%) Data Privacy
4 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (9.09%) AI
5 3 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 3 (9.09%) Incident Management
5 3 (9.09%) Machine Learning
5 3 (9.09%) Migration
5 3 (9.09%) Observability
5 3 (9.09%) Process Management
5 3 (9.09%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.06%) MapReduce
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 3 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) CISM
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) City & Guilds
4 1 (3.03%) MCITP
4 1 (3.03%) MCSE
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.03%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.06%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 3 (9.09%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) Apple
3 2 (6.06%) Citrix
3 2 (6.06%) Databricks
3 2 (6.06%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Okta
3 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.06%) TOWER Software
3 2 (6.06%) Zscaler
4 1 (3.03%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (3.03%) New Relic
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce