Field Engineer Contracts

Field Engineer
UK

The median Field Engineer daily rate in the UK is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 573 624
Rank change year-on-year +138 +51 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Field Engineer 153 149 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.26% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 111 147
10th Percentile £105 £105 £125
25th Percentile £150 £114 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £158 £180
Median % change year-on-year +26.58% -12.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £250 £238 £219
90th Percentile £400 £338 £325
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £153 £170
% change year-on-year +31.15% -10.29% +20.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 11 18
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £13.25 £18.64 £13.44
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +19.94% +1.06%
75th Percentile £20.25 £21.22 £18.16
90th Percentile £24.05 £21.71 £19.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.50 £20.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -17.50% +21.21% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Field Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Field Engineer in the UK

Field Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Field Engineer in the UK

Field Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Field Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Field Engineer in the UK

Field Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Field Engineer in the UK

Field Engineer
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Field Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +106 113 £200 +26.58% 730
UK excluding London +69 113 £200 +31.15% 731
London +114 35 £245 +30.67% 82
Scotland +40 27 £200 +81.82% 55
South West +40 26 £165 +3.13% 93
South East +6 18 £200 -11.11% 208
North of England +17 12 £200 +53.85% 151
East of England +17 12 £425 +286.36% 99
Midlands +8 11 £177 +12.03% 128
Work from Home +129 10 £165 -17.50% 171
Wales +22 8 £220 +112.56% 22
Yorkshire +22 7 £200 +76.21% 47
East Midlands +5 7 £142 -10.13% 49
West Midlands +25 4 £200 +61.29% 80
North East +17 3 - - 18
North West +7 2 - - 88
Northern Ireland +7 1 - - 14

Field Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Field 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 Field Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (41.18%) Break/Fix
1 63 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (35.29%) Customer Service
3 51 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (30.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 29 (18.95%) Public Sector
6 25 (16.34%) Social Skills
6 25 (16.34%) Microsoft
7 23 (15.03%) Windows
8 21 (13.73%) Active Directory
9 20 (13.07%) Firewall
10 15 (9.80%) Cisco
10 15 (9.80%) Windows 10
11 14 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (9.15%) LAN
12 13 (8.50%) SLA
12 13 (8.50%) Driving Licence
13 12 (7.84%) Security Cleared
14 11 (7.19%) SC Cleared
14 11 (7.19%) Wireless
14 11 (7.19%) Telecoms
14 11 (7.19%) Dell
14 11 (7.19%) ITIL
14 11 (7.19%) DBS Check
15 10 (6.54%) Azure
15 10 (6.54%) WAN
15 10 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (6.54%) CCNA
16 9 (5.88%) SD-WAN
17 8 (5.23%) Windows Server

Field 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (6.54%) Azure
3 7 (4.58%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.65%) AWS
4 1 (0.65%) AWS IoT
4 1 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.07%) Firewall
2 14 (9.15%) LAN
3 11 (7.19%) Wireless
4 10 (6.54%) WAN
5 9 (5.88%) SD-WAN
6 7 (4.58%) SAN
7 6 (3.92%) DHCP
7 6 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (3.27%) DNS
9 4 (2.61%) VPN
10 3 (1.96%) BGP
10 3 (1.96%) PBX
11 2 (1.31%) ATM
11 2 (1.31%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (1.31%) MPLS
11 2 (1.31%) Network Security
11 2 (1.31%) OSPF
11 2 (1.31%) WLAN
12 1 (0.65%) HSRP
12 1 (0.65%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
1 1 (0.65%) Hudson
1 1 (0.65%) Robot Framework
1 1 (0.65%) Selenium
1 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (18.95%) Public Sector
3 25 (16.34%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.19%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.58%) Legal
5 7 (4.58%) Police
6 3 (1.96%) French Language
7 1 (0.65%) Banking
7 1 (0.65%) Finance
7 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.65%) CSS
1 1 (0.65%) HTML
1 1 (0.65%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 47 (30.72%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (8.50%) Driving Licence
3 8 (5.23%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.27%) NHS
5 3 (1.96%) CMDB
5 3 (1.96%) Handset
6 2 (1.31%) EPoS
6 2 (1.31%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.65%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.65%) IoT
7 1 (0.65%) iPad
7 1 (0.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.03%) Windows
2 15 (9.80%) Windows 10
3 8 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.92%) Android
6 5 (3.27%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.61%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.96%) Linux
8 3 (1.96%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.31%) Unix
9 2 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.65%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.18%) Break/Fix
1 63 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (35.29%) Customer Service
3 11 (7.19%) ITIL
4 7 (4.58%) Migration
5 6 (3.92%) Coaching
5 6 (3.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (3.92%) Line Management
6 5 (3.27%) Time Management
7 4 (2.61%) Data Protection
7 4 (2.61%) Decision-Making
7 4 (2.61%) ITSM
8 3 (1.96%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (1.96%) Service Management
9 2 (1.31%) Change Control
9 2 (1.31%) Incident Response
9 2 (1.31%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 1 (0.65%) Customer Experience
10 1 (0.65%) Customer-Centric Approach
10 1 (0.65%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
1 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (7.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.19%) DBS Check
2 11 (7.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.54%) CCNA
3 10 (6.54%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.23%) A+ Certification
4 8 (5.23%) MCSE
4 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.58%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.92%) Degree
7 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) CCNP
8 1 (0.65%) Dell Certification
8 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.65%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.50%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (13.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.58%) Hyper-V
2 7 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.58%) SCCM
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.31%) Observium
5 1 (0.65%) Ansible
5 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.65%) Netcool
5 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.80%) Cisco
3 11 (7.19%) Dell
4 8 (5.23%) BT
5 7 (4.58%) VMware
6 6 (3.92%) Apple
7 4 (2.61%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.96%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.31%) Meraki
9 2 (1.31%) Openreach
9 2 (1.31%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.31%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.31%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.31%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.31%) WatchGuard
9 2 (1.31%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.65%) Altiris
10 1 (0.65%) EMC
10 1 (0.65%) Huawei
10 1 (0.65%) Splunk