Technical Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Technical Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £208, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +22 +3 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 17 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 5.03% 1.22% 2.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.25% 1.32% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 21
10th Percentile - £148 £208
25th Percentile £163 £183 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £250
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -18.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £211 £208 £315
90th Percentile - - £365
South East median daily rate £208 £205 £250
% change year-on-year +1.22% -18.00% -

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Surrey with a recognized job title 324 531 708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.86% 92.51% 96.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 375 567
10th Percentile £204 £203 £198
25th Percentile £263 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £638
90th Percentile £626 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 41 20
10th Percentile £21.41 £15.96 £16.29
25th Percentile £25.86 £26.73 £32.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £45.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £61.63
90th Percentile - £76.86 £68.50
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in Surrey

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

Technical Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

Technical Engineer
DemandTrendContract 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 Technical Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines +6 8 £175 -14.63% 3
Technical Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, 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 Surrey region featuring Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) Social Skills
2 15 (88.24%) Browser DevTools
2 15 (88.24%) Relational Database
2 15 (88.24%) JavaScript
2 15 (88.24%) MySQL
2 15 (88.24%) Oracle
2 15 (88.24%) CSS
2 15 (88.24%) OO
3 11 (64.71%) Unix
4 10 (58.82%) Windows
4 10 (58.82%) Linux
4 10 (58.82%) Java
4 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
5 9 (52.94%) Ajax
5 9 (52.94%) Perl
5 9 (52.94%) Python
5 9 (52.94%) User Experience
5 9 (52.94%) React
5 9 (52.94%) SaaS
5 9 (52.94%) AngularJS
5 9 (52.94%) Mobile App
5 9 (52.94%) Mobile Application Development
5 9 (52.94%) ServiceNow
5 9 (52.94%) GraphQL
6 8 (47.06%) Sauce Labs
6 8 (47.06%) Splunk
6 8 (47.06%) Android Studio
6 8 (47.06%) Eclipse
6 8 (47.06%) Android
6 8 (47.06%) Wireless

Technical 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) SaaS
2 8 (47.06%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) Wireless
2 1 (5.88%) FTP
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (88.24%) MySQL
1 15 (88.24%) Relational Database
2 6 (35.29%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) Browser DevTools
2 8 (47.06%) Android Studio
2 8 (47.06%) Eclipse
2 8 (47.06%) Xcode
3 6 (35.29%) Firebug
General
1 16 (94.12%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (88.24%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) Ajax
2 9 (52.94%) AngularJS
2 9 (52.94%) GraphQL
2 9 (52.94%) React
3 6 (35.29%) HTML
3 6 (35.29%) XML
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Unix
2 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 10 (58.82%) Windows
3 8 (47.06%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) OO
2 9 (52.94%) Mobile Application Development
2 9 (52.94%) User Experience
3 7 (41.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Case Management
5 1 (5.88%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Escalation Management
5 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL
5 1 (5.88%) ITSM
5 1 (5.88%) OOP
5 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) JavaScript
2 10 (58.82%) Java
3 9 (52.94%) Perl
3 9 (52.94%) Python
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Oracle
2 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
3 9 (52.94%) ServiceNow
4 8 (47.06%) Splunk
5 1 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (5.88%) Okta