IT Engineer Contracts in Surrey

IT Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median IT Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £256, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 49 55
Rank change year-on-year +27 +6 +19
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 17 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 5.70% 1.19% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.96% 1.28% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 9
10th Percentile £175 £181 £169
25th Percentile £222 £185 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £256 £200 £225
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -11.11% -40.00%
75th Percentile £299 - £300
90th Percentile £351 £209 £318
South East median daily rate £190 £170 £225
% change year-on-year +11.76% -24.44% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - - £22.45
25th Percentile £25.15 £16.25 £29.54
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.50 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -57.69% -
75th Percentile £33.75 £18.75 £53.18
90th Percentile £123.73 - £60.27
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +43.71% -1.24% +1.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 285 545 646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.64% 92.84% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 404 473
10th Percentile £188 £200 £199
25th Percentile £269 £367 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £543 £614 £600
90th Percentile £660 £692 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 56 38
10th Percentile £20.00 £12.38 £19.53
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.37 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -36.97% +109.64%
75th Percentile £36.16 £57.63 £61.49
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £64.13
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Surrey

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in Surrey

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in Surrey

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in Surrey

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Engineer in Surrey

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Guildford +4 5 £250 +28.21% 1
Redhill +13 2 - - 6
Staines - 1 - -
Weybridge - 1 £350 - 1
Woking - 1 - - 3
Addlestone - 1 £290 -
Camberley - 1 - -
IT Engineer
South East

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 Surrey region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (17.65%) HP
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
4 2 (11.76%) IT Audit
4 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
4 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 2 (11.76%) Infoblox
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (11.76%) Docker
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
1 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.88%) Google Workspace
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) IP Telephony
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) VLAN
3 2 (11.76%) VPN
3 2 (11.76%) Wireless
4 1 (5.88%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Electronics
3 2 (11.76%) Korean Language
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) NHS
3 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (5.88%) LIMS
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
2 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (11.76%) IT Audit
2 2 (11.76%) Migration
2 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
2 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
2 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
2 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.88%) Change Management
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (5.88%) Information Security
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL
3 1 (5.88%) Line Management
3 1 (5.88%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PHP
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CCNA
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) HP APS
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) HP
2 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) Infoblox
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow