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 £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 141 164
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 -37
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 59 76 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.25% 1.31% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.37% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 44 57
10th Percentile £148 £107 £113
25th Percentile £163 £133 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £173 £175
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -1.43% +40.00%
75th Percentile £336 £245 £250
90th Percentile £357 £381 £431
England median daily rate £218 £200 £200
% change year-on-year +8.75% - +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 9
10th Percentile £13.10 £13.16 £10.76
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.31 £11.85
Median hourly rate £17.72 £17.72 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year - +12.58% -10.20%
75th Percentile £19.56 £38.75 £17.61
90th Percentile £43.75 £50.77 £19.91
England median hourly rate £18.00 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +1.58% +1.26% +10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,385 5,534 6,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.30% 96.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,750 3,909 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £385 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £552
90th Percentile £675 £684 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 160 281
10th Percentile £11.02 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.76 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +70.96% +3.73%
75th Percentile £45.97 £50.72 £28.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.07 £51.45
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

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 6 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 6 May 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
North West +17 27 £179 -25.31% 36
Yorkshire +15 24 £285 +67.65% 27
North East +15 8 £175 +27.27% 9
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 31 (52.54%) Microsoft
2 28 (47.46%) Windows
3 21 (35.59%) Active Directory
4 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (30.51%) Windows 10
6 17 (28.81%) Customer Service
7 13 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (22.03%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (20.34%) SCCM
9 11 (18.64%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (16.95%) Break/Fix
10 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
11 9 (15.25%) VMware
11 9 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
12 8 (13.56%) DNS
13 7 (11.86%) LAN
13 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Office
13 7 (11.86%) Finance
13 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (10.17%) Banking
14 6 (10.17%) Firewall
14 6 (10.17%) Manufacturing
14 6 (10.17%) Migration
14 6 (10.17%) DHCP
15 5 (8.47%) Apple
15 5 (8.47%) SAN
15 5 (8.47%) Service Management
15 5 (8.47%) Cisco
15 5 (8.47%) Asset Management
15 5 (8.47%) PowerShell

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 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.03%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (5.08%) OneDrive
2 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.39%) Azure
4 1 (1.69%) AWS
4 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.64%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (13.56%) DNS
3 7 (11.86%) LAN
4 6 (10.17%) DHCP
4 6 (10.17%) Firewall
5 5 (8.47%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (8.47%) SAN
6 4 (6.78%) Internet
6 4 (6.78%) WAAS
7 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.39%) WAN
8 1 (1.69%) ATM
8 1 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.69%) VLAN
8 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Power BI
General
1 13 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.08%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.39%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.78%) NHS
2 4 (6.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (5.08%) Life Science
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.69%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.69%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.69%) iPhone
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (47.46%) Windows
2 18 (30.51%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.78%) Apple iOS
3 4 (6.78%) Mac OS
3 4 (6.78%) Windows 7
3 4 (6.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.39%) VMS
5 1 (1.69%) Linux
5 1 (1.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (28.81%) Customer Service
3 10 (16.95%) Break/Fix
4 6 (10.17%) Migration
5 5 (8.47%) Asset Management
5 5 (8.47%) Service Management
6 4 (6.78%) Change Control
6 4 (6.78%) Computer Science
6 4 (6.78%) Email Filtering
6 4 (6.78%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (6.78%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (6.78%) Runbook
6 4 (6.78%) Software Deployment
7 3 (5.08%) Analytics
7 3 (5.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (5.08%) Data Analytics
7 3 (5.08%) FMEA
7 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.08%) Process Improvement
7 3 (5.08%) Smart Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.47%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) A+ Certification
2 4 (6.78%) CCNA
2 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Network+ Certification
2 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (3.39%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.69%) MCTS
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) GAMP
2 3 (5.08%) GxP
2 3 (5.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.69%) NCSC
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
3 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.78%) KVM
4 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.78%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.78%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) SCCM
2 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (6.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (52.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.25%) VMware
3 5 (8.47%) Apple
3 5 (8.47%) Cisco
4 3 (5.08%) Citrix
4 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.39%) 3Com
5 2 (3.39%) Aruba
5 2 (3.39%) Brocade
5 2 (3.39%) Juniper
5 2 (3.39%) Meraki
5 2 (3.39%) Veeam
6 1 (1.69%) CrowdStrike