1st Line Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

First Line Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median First Line Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £133, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 391 429
Rank change year-on-year +38 +38 -32
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 48 39 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 61
10th Percentile £107 £106 £113
25th Percentile £125 £128 £128
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £133 £175 £150
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +16.67% +23.71%
75th Percentile £148 £188 £188
90th Percentile £173 £189 £195
UK median daily rate £133 £175 £150
% change year-on-year -24.29% +16.67% +27.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £12.60 £14.70
25th Percentile - £13.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £15.10 £14.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% -14.71% +15.25%
75th Percentile - £15.88 £18.50
90th Percentile - £17.45 -
UK median hourly rate £20.68 £14.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +42.59% -25.64% +44.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured 1st Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for 1st Line Engineer in the UK excluding London

1st Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Midlands +27 23 - - 2
West Midlands +26 20 - - 1
North of England +23 12 £130 -25.71% 11
North West +16 6 £135 -22.86% 2
Yorkshire +18 5 £130 -13.33% 8
South East +13 4 £138 -21.43% 16
East of England +5 4 £104 -7.41% 6
East Midlands +9 3 - - 1
South West -6 2 £138 -21.43% 2
Scotland - 2 £126 -
North East - 1 £180 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
1st Line Engineer
UK

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, 1st Line 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 UK excluding London region featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (35.42%) Firewall
1 17 (35.42%) PKI
1 17 (35.42%) CA
1 17 (35.42%) Self-Motivation
1 17 (35.42%) Impact Assessments
2 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 14 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (27.08%) Active Directory
5 11 (22.92%) Windows
5 11 (22.92%) Time Management
6 10 (20.83%) Customer Service
7 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 8 (16.67%) ITIL
9 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.50%) SLA
11 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
11 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
11 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
11 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
12 4 (8.33%) Windows 10
12 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
12 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
12 4 (8.33%) Cisco
12 4 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (8.33%) Degree
13 3 (6.25%) Mac OS
13 3 (6.25%) Azure
13 3 (6.25%) Juniper

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.08%) Site Server
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 17 (35.42%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.08%) NAS
3 1 (2.08%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Hudson
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Electronics
4 1 (2.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.08%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) .NET
1 1 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) PKI
1 17 (35.42%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.08%) SCADA
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.17%) Mac OS X
5 1 (2.08%) Unix
5 1 (2.08%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Impact Assessments
2 11 (22.92%) Time Management
3 10 (20.83%) Customer Service
4 8 (16.67%) ITIL
5 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
7 3 (6.25%) Service Delivery
8 2 (4.17%) Incident Management
8 2 (4.17%) Service Management
9 1 (2.08%) Analytical Thinking
9 1 (2.08%) Business Intelligence
9 1 (2.08%) Computer Science
9 1 (2.08%) Digital Marketing
9 1 (2.08%) Knowledge Management
9 1 (2.08%) Password Management
9 1 (2.08%) Proactive Maintenance
9 1 (2.08%) Proactive Monitoring
9 1 (2.08%) Programme Management
9 1 (2.08%) Release Management
9 1 (2.08%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.08%) C#
1 1 (2.08%) Java
1 1 (2.08%) SQL
1 1 (2.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (27.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (35.42%) CA
2 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.42%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.33%) Cisco
5 3 (6.25%) Juniper
6 2 (4.17%) Apple
7 1 (2.08%) BMC
7 1 (2.08%) SAP
7 1 (2.08%) VMware