IT Engineer Contracts in the North of England

IT Engineer
England > North of England

The median IT Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £190, 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 110 126 145
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +1
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 56 60 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.70% 1.26% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 1.35% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 30 45
10th Percentile £152 £148 £112
25th Percentile £160 £163 £134
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £200 £175
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £294 £336 £245
90th Percentile £538 £357 £376
England median daily rate £190 £220 £200
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 14
10th Percentile £18.50 £13.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.25 £14.44
Median hourly rate £18.69 £17.72 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% - +7.07%
75th Percentile £19.40 £19.56 £38.75
90th Percentile £20.36 £43.75 £51.31
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in the North of England

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +15 26 £186 +3.91% 44
Yorkshire +7 23 £255 -10.53% 46
North East -1 7 £200 +14.29% 12
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (50.00%) Windows
2 26 (46.43%) Microsoft
3 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
4 17 (30.36%) Active Directory
5 15 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (23.21%) Cisco
6 13 (23.21%) Customer Service
7 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (21.43%) Azure
8 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
8 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (17.86%) VMware
9 10 (17.86%) Firewall
9 10 (17.86%) DNS
9 10 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (17.86%) Linux
10 9 (16.07%) ATM
10 9 (16.07%) EPoS
10 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
11 8 (14.29%) Security Management
12 7 (12.50%) DHCP
12 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (12.50%) Asset Management
12 7 (12.50%) SCCM
12 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
12 7 (12.50%) Windows Server
12 7 (12.50%) DBS Check
13 6 (10.71%) Entra ID
13 6 (10.71%) Windows 10
13 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (21.43%) Azure
3 6 (10.71%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.93%) GCP
5 3 (5.36%) IaaS
5 3 (5.36%) PaaS
6 1 (1.79%) AWS
6 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.79%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.86%) DNS
1 10 (17.86%) Firewall
2 9 (16.07%) ATM
3 7 (12.50%) DHCP
4 6 (10.71%) TCP/IP
4 6 (10.71%) VPN
5 3 (5.36%) Network Security
5 3 (5.36%) WAN
6 2 (3.57%) LAN
6 2 (3.57%) VSAN
6 2 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.79%) SSL
7 1 (1.79%) VoIP
7 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.79%) Power BI
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) French Language
3 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Local Government
4 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.57%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Military
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) EPoS
2 6 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.93%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (7.14%) Driving Licence
4 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.14%) Smartphone
5 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.57%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.57%) iPhone
6 2 (3.57%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.79%) CMDB
7 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.79%) iPad
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (17.86%) Linux
3 7 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.71%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.57%) Android
6 2 (3.57%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.21%) Customer Service
2 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (14.29%) Security Management
5 7 (12.50%) Asset Management
6 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (10.71%) ITSM
7 5 (8.93%) Agile
7 5 (8.93%) Computer Science
8 4 (7.14%) Data Protection
8 4 (7.14%) Information Security
8 4 (7.14%) Mentoring
8 4 (7.14%) Microservices
8 4 (7.14%) Project Management
8 4 (7.14%) Roadmaps
8 4 (7.14%) Server Management
8 4 (7.14%) Service Delivery
8 4 (7.14%) Service Management
8 4 (7.14%) SOA
9 3 (5.36%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 6 (10.71%) Bash
2 6 (10.71%) SQL
3 4 (7.14%) Perl
3 4 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.50%) DBS Check
5 6 (10.71%) A+ Certification
6 5 (8.93%) CCNA
6 5 (8.93%) Degree
6 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.36%) vSphere
4 1 (1.79%) Firmware
4 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) SCCM
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.57%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (23.21%) Cisco
3 10 (17.86%) VMware
4 6 (10.71%) HP
4 6 (10.71%) Veeam
5 5 (8.93%) Oracle
6 4 (7.14%) Dell
6 4 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 4 (7.14%) Google
6 4 (7.14%) Meraki
7 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.79%) Apple
8 1 (1.79%) Citrix
8 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow