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 £240, 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 313 367 419
Rank change year-on-year +54 +52 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 23 32 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 29
10th Percentile £153 £150 £173
25th Percentile £190 £158 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £175 £275
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -36.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £544 £238 £375
90th Percentile £614 £311 £510
UK median daily rate £425 £388 £325
% change year-on-year +9.68% +19.23% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £27.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £28.25 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +59.15% -50.00%
75th Percentile - £31.94 £18.88
90th Percentile - £33.78 -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £35.00 £17.75
% change year-on-year -31.43% +97.18% -50.00%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North of England +23 8 £220 -28.46% 151
South East +48 7 £370 +48.00% 170
North West +23 7 £218 -37.86% 67
Scotland +15 4 £223 - 25
South West +34 3 £550 +233.33% 77
Midlands +18 2 £390 +73.33% 146
West Midlands +11 2 £390 +73.33% 72
Yorkshire +6 1 £700 +164.15% 67
Technical Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) Windows
3 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
4 6 (26.09%) Azure
4 6 (26.09%) Linux
5 5 (21.74%) SLA
5 5 (21.74%) HP
6 4 (17.39%) Dell
6 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
6 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
6 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
6 4 (17.39%) ITIL
6 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (17.39%) Firewall
6 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
6 4 (17.39%) Customer Service
7 3 (13.04%) Terraform
7 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
7 3 (13.04%) Information Security
7 3 (13.04%) Degree
7 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (13.04%) SQL
7 3 (13.04%) AWS

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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.70%) IaaS
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) Internet
2 2 (8.70%) iSCSI
2 2 (8.70%) LAN
2 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (8.70%) VPN
2 2 (8.70%) WAN
2 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (8.70%) Wireless
3 1 (4.35%) DHCP
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (4.35%) Network Security
3 1 (4.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) GIS
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Legal
3 2 (8.70%) Military
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) YAML
2 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (8.70%) IVR
1 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) CMDB
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 3 (13.04%) Android
3 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.35%) CentOS
5 1 (4.35%) Unix
5 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Customer Service
1 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (17.39%) ITIL
2 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (13.04%) Information Security
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
2 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (8.70%) BCP
3 2 (8.70%) Break/Fix
3 2 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
3 2 (8.70%) Service Management
3 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (8.70%) Ticket Management
4 1 (4.35%) Due Diligence
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) A+ Certification
5 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) SLA
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) NCSC
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) Nagios
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) HP
2 4 (17.39%) Dell
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Apple
3 2 (8.70%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix
4 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.35%) VMware