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 £133, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 142 190
Rank change year-on-year -13 +48 +44
Contract jobs requiring an IT Technician 16 48 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.99% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.06% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 14
10th Percentile £125 - £120
25th Percentile £129 £126 £137
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £133 £145 £175
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% -17.14% -7.89%
75th Percentile £153 £193 £190
90th Percentile £183 £230 £201
England median daily rate £133 £150 £175
% change year-on-year -11.67% -14.29% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 1
10th Percentile - £10.95 -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - £11.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -34.29% +1.45%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £18.75
90th Percentile - £17.85 -
England median hourly rate £19.41 £13.50 £16.31
% change year-on-year +43.78% -17.20% -5.48%

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 3,274 4,511 5,211
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 92.78% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,165 2,741 3,620
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 443 169
10th Percentile £12.58 £11.11 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.23 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £23.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -9.62% +30.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £43.48
90th Percentile £76.11 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%

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 25 June 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 -9 10 £133 +4.54% 21
Yorkshire -6 5 £145 -21.62% 13
North East -7 1 - - 13
IT Technician
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 8 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (31.25%) Service Management
2 5 (31.25%) Mobile Device Management
2 5 (31.25%) LAN
2 5 (31.25%) WAN
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (25.00%) HTC Vive
3 4 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
4 3 (18.75%) Windows
5 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (6.25%) Line Management
6 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (6.25%) Ticket Management
6 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
6 1 (6.25%) PaperCut
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (6.25%) VoIP
6 1 (6.25%) Adobe
6 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
6 1 (6.25%) HP
6 1 (6.25%) Dell
6 1 (6.25%) Apple
6 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
6 1 (6.25%) Computacenter
6 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing

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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) LAN
1 5 (31.25%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) VoIP
General
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) HTC Vive
1 4 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 5 (31.25%) Mobile Device Management
2 5 (31.25%) Service Management
3 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (6.25%) Line Management
4 1 (6.25%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Apple
2 1 (6.25%) Computacenter
2 1 (6.25%) Dell
2 1 (6.25%) HP