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 £245, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 368 393
Rank change year-on-year +68 +25 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 35 29 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 30
10th Percentile £159 £150 £167
25th Percentile £190 £158 £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £175 £275
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -36.36% -5.98%
75th Percentile £325 £238 £375
90th Percentile £488 £266 £506
UK median daily rate £263 £431 £358
% change year-on-year -39.13% +20.63% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £28.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £32.88 -

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 11,802 19,038 21,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.39% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,509 11,591 14,985
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,364 1,082
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +87.50%

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 29 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 29 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 +20 14 £400 +50.94% 34
Yorkshire +14 7 £400 +50.94% 13
North West - 7 £218 - 14
South East +44 6 £210 -16.00% 54
South West +34 6 £250 +51.52% 23
Scotland +13 4 £275 - 5
West Midlands +13 3 £275 +22.22% 14
Midlands +10 3 £275 +22.22% 37
Wales - 3 £200 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
Technical Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 15 (42.86%) Windows
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
3 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
3 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
3 12 (34.29%) Firewall
4 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 9 (25.71%) SLA
6 8 (22.86%) Linux
7 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
7 7 (20.00%) Azure
7 7 (20.00%) Ansible
7 7 (20.00%) Entra ID
8 6 (17.14%) ServiceNow
8 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (17.14%) Python
8 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
8 6 (17.14%) Finance
8 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (17.14%) VMware
9 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
9 5 (14.29%) HP
9 5 (14.29%) LAN
9 5 (14.29%) WAN
9 5 (14.29%) Puppet
9 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
9 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (14.29%) Data Management
9 5 (14.29%) DevOps

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 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.71%) AWS
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.86%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) Firewall
2 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
3 5 (14.29%) LAN
3 5 (14.29%) WAN
4 4 (11.43%) VoIP
5 3 (8.57%) Internet
6 2 (5.71%) DNS
6 2 (5.71%) HTTP
6 2 (5.71%) iSCSI
6 2 (5.71%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (5.71%) Wireless
7 1 (2.86%) DHCP
7 1 (2.86%) Network Security
7 1 (2.86%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) DB2
2 1 (2.86%) GIS
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (2.86%) MySQL
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Power Query
2 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) Sisense
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 5 (14.29%) Postman
2 4 (11.43%) Git
General
1 6 (17.14%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Legal
3 2 (5.71%) Military
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) French Language
4 1 (2.86%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) .NET
1 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.86%) MDX
1 1 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) IVR
4 1 (2.86%) Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) CMDB
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 15 (42.86%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Linux
3 5 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 4 (11.43%) Unix
4 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (8.57%) Android
5 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.71%) AIX
6 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.71%) Solaris
6 2 (5.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (14.29%) Data Management
2 5 (14.29%) DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) Agile
3 4 (11.43%) Customer Service
3 4 (11.43%) ITIL
4 3 (8.57%) Information Security
4 3 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.57%) Service Delivery
4 3 (8.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (5.71%) BCP
5 2 (5.71%) Break/Fix
5 2 (5.71%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (5.71%) Computer Science
5 2 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.71%) Patch Management
5 2 (5.71%) Ticket Management
5 2 (5.71%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) Perl
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) HNC
4 1 (2.86%) HND
4 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (5.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Ansible
2 5 (14.29%) Puppet
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.71%) SCCM
5 1 (2.86%) Nagios
5 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.86%) Terraform
5 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) ServiceNow
2 6 (17.14%) VMware
3 5 (14.29%) HP
3 5 (14.29%) MuleSoft
4 4 (11.43%) Cisco
4 4 (11.43%) Dell
4 4 (11.43%) Remedy
5 3 (8.57%) Sophos
6 2 (5.71%) Apple
6 2 (5.71%) IBM
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle
6 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.86%) Meraki
7 1 (2.86%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds