IT Technician Contracts in the North of England

IT Technician
England > North of England

The median IT Technician daily rate in the North of England is £180, 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 149 135 204
Rank change year-on-year -14 +69 +2
Contract jobs requiring an IT Technician 17 50 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 1.05% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.13% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 14
10th Percentile £125 - £120
25th Percentile £149 £126 £137
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £150 £173
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £193 £193 £190
90th Percentile £194 £330 £201
England median daily rate £135 £175 £175
% change year-on-year -22.86% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 1
10th Percentile - £10.95 -
25th Percentile £18.13 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £11.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.04% -34.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £19.38 £14.25 £17.75
90th Percentile - £17.85 -
England median hourly rate £18.18 £14.14 £16.90
% change year-on-year +28.57% -16.34% +2.44%

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 Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Technician in the North of England

IT Technician
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Technician in the North of England

IT Technician
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Technician in the North of England

IT Technician
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 Technician 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
Yorkshire -3 8 £185 - 22
North West +2 7 £144 +13.41% 25
North East -7 2 - - 10
IT Technician
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT Technician 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 Technician in the job title.

1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
4 3 (17.65%) DBS Check
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Dell
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
5 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.88%) HP
6 1 (5.88%) Confluence
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (5.88%) Line Management
6 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (5.88%) Ticket Management
6 1 (5.88%) Intel
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.88%) Apple
6 1 (5.88%) Adobe
6 1 (5.88%) CCNP
6 1 (5.88%) VoIP
6 1 (5.88%) Agile
6 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.88%) Computacenter

IT Technician 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
2 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.88%) Agile
3 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (5.88%) Line Management
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.88%) Ticket Management
3 1 (5.88%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.88%) CCNP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe
3 1 (5.88%) Apple
3 1 (5.88%) Computacenter
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Intel