IT Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median IT Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £325 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 57 85 107
Rank change year-on-year +28 +22 -28
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 16 19 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.60% 1.17% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 1.20% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 11
10th Percentile £157 £107 £155
25th Percentile £199 £146 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £170 £190
Median % change year-on-year +91.18% -10.53% -41.54%
75th Percentile £338 £238 £266
90th Percentile £357 £306 £338
Yorkshire median daily rate £285 £170 £190
% change year-on-year +67.65% -10.53% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile - £12.46 -
25th Percentile £11.75 £13.16 £13.87
Median hourly rate £15.89 £14.00 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -11.05% +44.67%
75th Percentile £18.27 £17.25 £17.61
90th Percentile - £17.53 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £15.25 £14.02
% change year-on-year +19.80% +8.81% -21.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 925 1,582 1,881
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 97.47% 97.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 1,101 1,354
10th Percentile £275 £325 £250
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £494
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.33% +9.72%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £556
90th Percentile £668 £700 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 54
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.70 £10.33
25th Percentile £12.25 £15.75 £12.00
Median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £17.18
Median % change year-on-year -53.32% +89.23% -21.00%
75th Percentile £22.75 £63.75 £21.38
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £26.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% -9.09%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in West Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in West Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in West Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in West Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Engineer within the West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds +12 9 £325 +91.18% 5
Wakefield - 7 £320 -
IT Engineer
Yorkshire

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, IT 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 West Yorkshire region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (56.25%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (43.75%) VMware
4 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (37.50%) LAN
5 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
6 5 (31.25%) DNS
6 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
6 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
6 5 (31.25%) Break/Fix
7 4 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (25.00%) Email Filtering
7 4 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
7 4 (25.00%) Banking
7 4 (25.00%) Cisco
7 4 (25.00%) Internet
7 4 (25.00%) SAN
7 4 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (25.00%) Firewall
8 3 (18.75%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (18.75%) Migration
8 3 (18.75%) CCNA
8 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (18.75%) A+ Certification
8 3 (18.75%) DHCP
8 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (37.50%) LAN
3 5 (31.25%) DNS
4 4 (25.00%) Firewall
4 4 (25.00%) Internet
4 4 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (25.00%) SAN
5 3 (18.75%) DHCP
6 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
3 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
5 2 (12.50%) VMS
6 1 (6.25%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
3 5 (31.25%) Break/Fix
4 4 (25.00%) Email Filtering
4 4 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (18.75%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) A+ Certification
1 3 (18.75%) CCNA
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Network+ Certification
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (18.75%) KVM
3 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (12.50%) 3Com
4 2 (12.50%) Aruba
4 2 (12.50%) Brocade
4 2 (12.50%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) Juniper
4 2 (12.50%) Meraki
4 2 (12.50%) Veeam
5 1 (6.25%) Apple