IT Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

IT Engineer
England > Midlands

The median IT Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £140, 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 71 89 74
Rank change year-on-year +18 -15 +64
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 40 44 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.09% 1.60% 3.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 1.74% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 72
10th Percentile £123 £114 £135
25th Percentile £125 £125 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £140 £150 £315
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -52.38% +65.79%
75th Percentile £160 £211 £350
90th Percentile £200 £288 £488
England median daily rate £190 £220 £200
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 21
10th Percentile £15.51 £11.75 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.41 £18.85 £17.70
Median hourly rate £18.94 £20.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +12.87% +0.68%
75th Percentile £23.21 £21.88 £21.71
90th Percentile £24.61 £23.75 £40.25
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
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the Midlands

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in the Midlands

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in the Midlands

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in the Midlands

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +31 29 £140 -30.00% 33
East Midlands -11 11 £125 -16.67% 36
IT Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Windows
3 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (22.50%) Degree
5 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
6 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
6 7 (17.50%) Driving Licence
7 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
8 5 (12.50%) Citrix
9 4 (10.00%) Dell
9 4 (10.00%) Break/Fix
9 4 (10.00%) DBS Check
9 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
9 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
10 3 (7.50%) Nexthink
10 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (7.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 3 (7.50%) Ticket Management
10 3 (7.50%) BitLocker
10 3 (7.50%) NHS
10 3 (7.50%) ITIL
10 3 (7.50%) HP
10 3 (7.50%) VPN
10 3 (7.50%) Cisco
10 3 (7.50%) SCCM
10 3 (7.50%) Asset Management
10 3 (7.50%) Legal

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.50%) Azure
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
2 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) VPN
2 2 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.50%) ATM
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Legal
2 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Back Office
3 1 (2.50%) Law
3 1 (2.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Apache Axis
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) CCTV
3 1 (2.50%) EPoS
3 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) iPhone
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Rocky
3 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (10.00%) Break/Fix
2 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (7.50%) Asset Management
3 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (7.50%) ITIL
3 3 (7.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (7.50%) Ticket Management
4 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (5.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (5.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (2.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (2.50%) Business Strategy
5 1 (2.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (2.50%) Design Patterns
5 1 (2.50%) Inventory Management
5 1 (2.50%) Microservices
5 1 (2.50%) Preventative Maintenance
5 1 (2.50%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) C#
1 1 (2.50%) Java
1 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.50%) Python
1 1 (2.50%) Ruby
1 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (22.50%) Degree
3 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) DBS Check
5 2 (5.00%) MCSE
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.50%) CISSP
6 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) SCCM
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Citrix
3 4 (10.00%) Dell
4 3 (7.50%) Cisco
4 3 (7.50%) HP
4 3 (7.50%) Nexthink
5 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow