ICT Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

ICT Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median ICT Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £365, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an ICT Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.100% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - -
75th Percentile £373 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £365 - £190
% change year-on-year - - +13.43%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 908 323 386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 90.48% 91.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 217 236
10th Percentile £340 £213 £223
25th Percentile £408 £388 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £474
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +0.32% -13.91%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £579
90th Percentile £669 £638 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +3.78% - -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 18
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £18.10 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £18.35 £13.60
Median % change year-on-year - +34.99% -23.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £23.31
90th Percentile - £18.51 £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.84
% change year-on-year +100.09% +43.17% -31.79%

ICT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'ICT Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

ICT Engineer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

ICT Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 12 April 2026, ICT Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring ICT Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Redfish
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

ICT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC