Engineering Specialist Contracts in Yorkshire

Engineering Specialist
England > Yorkshire

The median Engineering Specialist daily rate in Yorkshire is £550, 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 82 - 126
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Engineering Specialist 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.98% - 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% - 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £538 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Engineering Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Engineering Specialist in Yorkshire

Engineering Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Engineering Specialist in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Engineering Specialist in Yorkshire

Engineering Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Engineering Specialist in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Engineering Specialist in Yorkshire

Engineering Specialist
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Engineering Specialist within the Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire - 9 £550 -
Engineering Specialist
England

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Engineering Specialist 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 Yorkshire region featuring Engineering Specialist in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Bash
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Microservices
2 9 (90.00%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Cisco
3 8 (80.00%) Oracle
3 8 (80.00%) Perl
3 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 8 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (80.00%) Security Management
3 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (80.00%) Oracle Database
3 8 (80.00%) Server Management
4 7 (70.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (70.00%) PL/SQL
4 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
4 7 (70.00%) DNS
4 7 (70.00%) SOA
5 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (40.00%) Migration
7 3 (30.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
8 1 (10.00%) Code Quality

Engineering Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
3 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (10.00%) CentOS
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Microservices
3 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (80.00%) Security Management
3 8 (80.00%) Server Management
4 7 (70.00%) SOA
5 4 (40.00%) Migration
6 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (30.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
7 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) High Availability
7 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Bash
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (80.00%) Perl
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 7 (70.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 8 (80.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat