Senior Technical Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Senior Technical Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Technical Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 August 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
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Engineer 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £430 - -
England median daily rate £400 £205 £360
% change year-on-year +95.12% -43.06% -34.55%

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 3,687 3,827 4,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 92.55% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,370 2,338 3,319
10th Percentile £250 £280 £263
25th Percentile £369 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £583 £600
90th Percentile £640 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 279 195
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.40 £15.48
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.54 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +33.16% +12.65%
75th Percentile £47.53 £50.50 £45.88
90th Percentile £76.02 £70.00 £57.06
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +8.43% +61.60%

Senior Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Engineer in the North of England

Senior Technical Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Engineer in the North of England

Senior Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Technical Engineer in the North of England

Senior Technical Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Technical Engineer in the North of England

Senior Technical 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 Senior Technical Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 August 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 - 10 £400 -
Senior Technical Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 2025, Senior Technical 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 Senior Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 10 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
1 10 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (100.00%) Puppet
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 10 (100.00%) Postman
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) Data Management
4 7 (70.00%) Finance
4 7 (70.00%) Git
4 7 (70.00%) Agile
5 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (60.00%) Windows
5 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Clustering
6 5 (50.00%) Linux
6 5 (50.00%) SCCM
7 4 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
8 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
9 2 (20.00%) B2B
9 2 (20.00%) AIX
9 2 (20.00%) Solaris
9 2 (20.00%) Unix

Senior Technical 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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) Postman
2 7 (70.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (20.00%) AIX
4 2 (20.00%) Solaris
4 2 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (20.00%) Unix
5 1 (10.00%) CentOS
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (10.00%) SUSE
5 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) Data Management
4 7 (70.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (20.00%) B2B
8 1 (10.00%) API Development
8 1 (10.00%) API Integration
8 1 (10.00%) API Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
8 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
8 1 (10.00%) Scrum
8 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
8 1 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ansible
1 10 (100.00%) Puppet
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle