Technical Engineer Contracts in London

Technical Engineer
England > London

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in London is £625 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 347 470 549
Rank change year-on-year +123 +79 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 46 29 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 40
10th Percentile £210 £200 £200
25th Percentile £519 £318 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £831 £675 £550
90th Percentile £850 £825 £613
England median daily rate £350 £325 £373
% change year-on-year +7.69% -12.75% -19.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £37.88 - £25.52
25th Percentile £40.31 - £31.70
Median hourly rate £46.25 - £46.00
75th Percentile £52.81 - £50.00
90th Percentile £55.63 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £17.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +97.18% -60.56% +190.32%

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%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in London

Technical Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Engineer in London

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Engineer in London

Technical Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Engineer in London

Technical Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Engineer 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 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
Central London +49 6 £325 -50.00% 2
West London +21 2 - - 1
Technical Engineer
England

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

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

1 22 (47.83%) SQL
2 20 (43.48%) C#
3 18 (39.13%) Degree
4 16 (34.78%) Finance
5 14 (30.43%) Front Office
5 14 (30.43%) Back Office
5 14 (30.43%) Python
5 14 (30.43%) Derivative
5 14 (30.43%) Banking
5 14 (30.43%) Asset Management
5 14 (30.43%) Investment Management
5 14 (30.43%) Hedge funds
5 14 (30.43%) Mentoring
6 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
7 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
7 9 (19.57%) Active Directory
8 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
9 7 (15.22%) Windows
9 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
10 6 (13.04%) Thought Leadership
10 6 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (13.04%) C++
10 6 (13.04%) VB.NET
10 6 (13.04%) VBA
10 6 (13.04%) .NET
10 6 (13.04%) LAN
10 6 (13.04%) VoIP
10 6 (13.04%) WAN
10 6 (13.04%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared

Technical 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 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (2.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) LAN
1 6 (13.04%) VoIP
1 6 (13.04%) WAN
2 3 (6.52%) FTP
2 3 (6.52%) Internet
3 2 (4.35%) VPN
4 1 (2.17%) NAS
4 1 (2.17%) SAN
4 1 (2.17%) VSAN
4 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (34.78%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Back Office
2 14 (30.43%) Banking
2 14 (30.43%) Front Office
3 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.52%) Multimedia
5 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 2 (4.35%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Electronics
7 1 (2.17%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Military
7 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) .NET
2 1 (2.17%) CSS
2 1 (2.17%) HTML
2 1 (2.17%) NestJS
2 1 (2.17%) Node.js
2 1 (2.17%) OAuth
2 1 (2.17%) React
2 1 (2.17%) RESTful
2 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (2.17%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Derivative
1 14 (30.43%) Hedge funds
2 6 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (13.04%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.52%) Smartphone
4 2 (4.35%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.52%) Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.17%) Android
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Asset Management
1 14 (30.43%) Investment Management
1 14 (30.43%) Mentoring
2 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
3 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
4 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
4 6 (13.04%) Economics
4 6 (13.04%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (10.87%) Customer Service
5 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.70%) ITIL
6 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.52%) Migration
7 3 (6.52%) Project Management
7 3 (6.52%) Software Distribution
8 2 (4.35%) Data Migration
8 2 (4.35%) Programme Management
8 2 (4.35%) Task Automation
9 1 (2.17%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) SQL
2 20 (43.48%) C#
3 14 (30.43%) Python
4 6 (13.04%) C++
4 6 (13.04%) VB.NET
4 6 (13.04%) VBA
5 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (39.13%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.17%) CISSP
4 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.17%) PgMP
4 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.17%) PMP
4 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) SCCM
2 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.17%) Bomgar
2 1 (2.17%) Cisco
2 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
2 1 (2.17%) Dell
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.17%) SAP
2 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.17%) VMware
2 1 (2.17%) Workday