Engineering Specialist Contracts in the South West

Engineering Specialist
England > South West

The median Engineering Specialist daily rate in the South West is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.057% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
England median daily rate £540 £550 -
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,583 3,033 3,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.84% 92.50% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,910 2,344
10th Percentile £225 £250 £300
25th Percentile £368 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £650
90th Percentile £683 £700 £723
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 459 262
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.86 £17.70
25th Percentile £18.60 £27.75 £44.44
Median hourly rate £33.67 £55.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.33% -11.20% +29.48%
75th Percentile £67.88 £71.25 £74.69
90th Percentile £72.68 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +77.50%

Engineering Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Engineering Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Specialist in the South West

Engineering Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Engineering Specialist in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Engineering Specialist in the South West

Engineering Specialist
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Specialist within the South West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Dorset - 1 £540 -
Engineering Specialist
England

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, Engineering Specialist 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 West region featuring Engineering Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk