Technical Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £175 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 411 416
Rank change year-on-year +45 +5 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 28 40 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.18% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 48
10th Percentile £150 £171 £168
25th Percentile £158 £173 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £260 £300
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -13.33% -34.78%
75th Percentile £238 £374 £478
90th Percentile £266 £460 £558
UK median daily rate £425 £350 £366
% change year-on-year +21.43% -4.44% -20.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile - - £19.75
25th Percentile £27.63 - £20.63
Median hourly rate £28.25 - £35.50
75th Percentile £28.88 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - £45.02
UK median hourly rate £32.88 - £35.50
% change year-on-year - - +121.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Engineer in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
South West +29 15 £165 -45.90% 31
Midlands +28 5 £225 -55.00% 38
West Midlands +20 5 £225 -55.00% 16
South East +16 4 £250 -13.04% 46
North of England +21 3 £265 +41.33% 48
Yorkshire +17 3 £265 +32.50% 13
Scotland +38 1 - - 2
Technical Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
3 11 (39.29%) Windows
3 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
4 10 (35.71%) SLA
4 10 (35.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (28.57%) SCCM
7 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
7 7 (25.00%) Telecoms
7 7 (25.00%) ITIL
8 6 (21.43%) BT
8 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
8 6 (21.43%) Line Management
8 6 (21.43%) Coaching
8 6 (21.43%) Police
9 5 (17.86%) Degree
10 4 (14.29%) Project Management
10 4 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
10 4 (14.29%) Windows 10
11 3 (10.71%) BitLocker
11 3 (10.71%) Driving Licence
11 3 (10.71%) Antivirus Management
11 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
11 3 (10.71%) Case Management
11 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (10.71%) Automotive

Technical 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 1 (3.57%) CICS
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DHCP
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 1 (3.57%) ATM
2 1 (3.57%) LAN
2 1 (3.57%) SAN
2 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) DB2
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 6 (21.43%) Police
5 3 (10.71%) Automotive
5 3 (10.71%) Legal
5 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Driving Licence
1 3 (10.71%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) FMCG
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (3.57%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (10.71%) Windows 7
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (25.00%) ITIL
4 6 (21.43%) Coaching
4 6 (21.43%) Line Management
5 4 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
5 4 (14.29%) Project Management
6 3 (10.71%) Antivirus Management
6 3 (10.71%) Case Management
7 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 1 (3.57%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (3.57%) Customer Requirements
8 1 (3.57%) Customer Service
8 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (3.57%) Identity Access Management
8 1 (3.57%) Kalman Filter
8 1 (3.57%) Product Vision
8 1 (3.57%) Programme Delivery
8 1 (3.57%) Project Delivery
8 1 (3.57%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
1 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) COBOL
2 1 (3.57%) JCL
2 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 5 (17.86%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (3.57%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) BT
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) CyberArk