IT Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

IT Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median IT Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £173, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 84 88
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +10
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 12 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.78% 1.40% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.56% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 21
10th Percentile £158 £156 £107
25th Percentile £160 £160 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £173 £200 £190
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £246 £250 £256
90th Percentile £308 £458 £280
England median daily rate £185 £200 £200
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £18.50 £14.53 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.51 £18.27 £12.72
Median hourly rate £18.69 £21.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £20.44 £22.00 £18.75
90th Percentile £23.27 £26.10 £20.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £19.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +28.97% +10.05% +0.91%

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 1,434 1,349 2,001
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 89.87% 96.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 822 1,310
10th Percentile £235 £276 £250
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £610
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 58 37
10th Percentile £17.27 £14.97 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.72 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £22.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

IT Engineer
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 IT Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
South Yorkshire -14 6 £173 -31.00% 6
West Yorkshire -10 4 £290 -0.43% 8
North Yorkshire +1 2 £160 -11.11% 8
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, 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 Yorkshire region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) ATM
2 3 (25.00%) EPoS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (8.33%) Break/Fix
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Coaching
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
4 1 (8.33%) Security Patching

IT Engineer 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) ATM
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) EPoS
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) Break/Fix
3 1 (8.33%) Change Management
3 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (8.33%) Coaching
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) ITSM
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Security Management
3 1 (8.33%) Security Patching
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Workflow
3 1 (8.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix
2 1 (8.33%) Dell
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Sophos
2 1 (8.33%) WatchGuard