Field Engineer Contracts in the South East

Field Engineer
England > South East

The median Field Engineer daily rate in the South East is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 199 228
Rank change year-on-year +17 +29 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Field Engineer 20 26 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% 0.44% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.46% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 23
10th Percentile £107 - £104
25th Percentile £170 £150 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £225 £160
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +40.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £250 £275 £195
90th Percentile £400 £335 £200
England median daily rate £200 £165 £168
% change year-on-year +21.21% -1.49% +11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £11.90 - -
25th Percentile £12.13 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +53.85% -
75th Percentile £15.13 - -
90th Percentile £15.50 - -
England median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £15.63
% change year-on-year -12.50% +28.00% -2.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,204 5,592 7,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.30% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,123 3,891 5,110
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 238 336
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Field Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Field Engineer in the South East

Field Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Field Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Field Engineer in the South East

Field Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Field Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Field Engineer in the South East

Field Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Field Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Field Engineer in the South East

Field Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Field Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Thames Valley +10 5 £225 - 57
Surrey +6 5 - - 19
Hampshire +6 5 £110 -45.00% 31
East Sussex - 4 £285 - 5
Berkshire -7 3 £225 - 30
Buckinghamshire - 1 £170 - 18
Oxfordshire - 1 £250 - 9
West Sussex - 1 - - 11
Field Engineer
England

Field Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Field 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 South East region featuring Field Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (35.00%) DHCP
4 7 (35.00%) Firewall
4 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
5 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
5 6 (30.00%) DBS Check
5 6 (30.00%) VMware
5 6 (30.00%) Time Management
5 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (30.00%) Wireless
5 6 (30.00%) DNS
5 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (20.00%) Driving Licence
6 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) SLA
7 3 (15.00%) Cisco
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (15.00%) Azure
7 3 (15.00%) Break/Fix
7 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (10.00%) SCCM

Field Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) DHCP
1 7 (35.00%) Firewall
2 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 6 (30.00%) Wireless
3 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (10.00%) LAN
4 2 (10.00%) WAN
5 1 (5.00%) BGP
5 1 (5.00%) EIGRP
5 1 (5.00%) HSRP
5 1 (5.00%) MPLS
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) VLAN
5 1 (5.00%) VPN
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
1 10 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Time Management
2 3 (15.00%) Break/Fix
2 3 (15.00%) Migration
2 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (5.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (5.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 1 (5.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL
4 1 (5.00%) ITSM
4 1 (5.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow