Audio Visual Engineer Contracts

Audio Visual Engineer (AV Engineer)
UK

The median Audio Visual Engineer (AV Engineer) daily rate in the UK is £313, 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 502 521 671
Rank change year-on-year +19 +150 +146
Contract jobs requiring an Audio Visual Engineer 18 61 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.14% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.15% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 33 43
10th Percentile £211 £150 £163
25th Percentile £238 £200 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £250 £225
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £423 £338 £290
90th Percentile £530 £600 £309
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £150 £225
% change year-on-year +116.67% -33.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - - £16.13
25th Percentile - - £17.81
Median hourly rate £24.66 £24.18 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +16.53% -
75th Percentile - £25.00 £23.81
90th Percentile - £31.43 £25.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 - £15.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Audio Visual Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Audio Visual Engineer in the UK

Audio Visual Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Audio Visual Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Audio Visual Engineer in the UK

Audio Visual Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Audio Visual Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Audio Visual Engineer in the UK

Audio Visual Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Audio Visual Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Audio Visual Engineer in the UK

Audio Visual Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Audio Visual Engineer within the UK 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
England +15 18 £313 +25.00% 113
London +6 11 £300 +20.00% 63
UK excluding London +52 7 £325 +116.67% 64
South East +41 3 £275 +103.70% 32
Midlands +23 2 £325 - 3
North of England +15 2 £400 - 10
West Midlands - 2 £325 - 3
Work from Home +34 1 - - 5
North West +12 1 £400 - 7
North East - 1 - - 1

Audio Visual Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Audio Visual 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 featuring Audio Visual Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
6 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
6 4 (22.22%) Windows
7 3 (16.67%) SLA
7 3 (16.67%) Project Management
7 3 (16.67%) Unified Communications
7 3 (16.67%) WebEx
7 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 2 (11.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (11.11%) Preventative Maintenance
8 2 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
8 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
8 2 (11.11%) Security Patching
8 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
8 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (11.11%) Conflict Management
8 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (11.11%) Digital Signage
8 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
8 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
8 2 (11.11%) Google

Audio Visual Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) AutoCAD
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Premiere
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Unified Communications
1 3 (16.67%) WebEx
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) PBX
2 1 (5.56%) PSTN
2 1 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (5.56%) VLAN
2 1 (5.56%) VoIP
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (11.11%) Digital Signage
3 1 (5.56%) Video Editing
3 1 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 3 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (11.11%) Conflict Management
3 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 2 (11.11%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (11.11%) Proactive Maintenance
3 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 2 (11.11%) Security Patching
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (5.56%) Agile
4 1 (5.56%) Change Management
4 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Migration
4 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) CCNA
2 1 (5.56%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.56%) logstash
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) QRadar
2 1 (5.56%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Cisco
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe
4 1 (5.56%) Apple
4 1 (5.56%) Logitech
4 1 (5.56%) Yealink