IT Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

IT Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median IT Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £285 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 75 95 109
Rank change year-on-year +20 +14 -25
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 24 31 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.43% 1.36% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.42% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 23
10th Percentile £163 £121 £136
25th Percentile £198 £141 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £170 £190
Median % change year-on-year +67.65% -10.53% +26.67%
75th Percentile £338 £231 £294
90th Percentile £358 £257 £490
England median daily rate £220 £200 £200
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 5
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.58 £10.22
25th Percentile £13.38 £13.16 £11.85
Median hourly rate £18.27 £15.25 £14.02
Median % change year-on-year +19.80% +8.81% -21.13%
75th Percentile £21.07 £17.60 £17.36
90th Percentile £22.00 £17.72 £17.51
England median hourly rate £18.27 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +3.10% +1.26% +10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,537 2,182 2,647
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 95.49% 97.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 1,489 1,936
10th Percentile £213 £250 £206
25th Percentile £375 £415 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 31 101
10th Percentile £11.23 £12.00 £10.70
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.50 £12.08
Median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +25.71% -9.09%
75th Percentile £23.75 £50.77 £22.40
90th Percentile £51.75 £70.00 £26.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in Yorkshire

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer 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 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
West Yorkshire +28 16 £325 +91.18% 10
South Yorkshire -1 5 £250 +78.57% 6
North Yorkshire +1 3 £200 +8.11% 6
IT Engineer
England

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 Yorkshire region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (62.50%) Windows
2 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (37.50%) Windows 10
6 8 (33.33%) Customer Service
6 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (33.33%) VMware
7 7 (29.17%) LAN
8 6 (25.00%) DNS
9 5 (20.83%) Cisco
9 5 (20.83%) Finance
9 5 (20.83%) Migration
9 5 (20.83%) Firewall
9 5 (20.83%) Banking
9 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
9 5 (20.83%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (20.83%) Break/Fix
10 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (16.67%) Runbook
10 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
10 4 (16.67%) Email Filtering
10 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
10 4 (16.67%) KVM
10 4 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
10 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills

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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (29.17%) LAN
3 6 (25.00%) DNS
4 5 (20.83%) Firewall
4 5 (20.83%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (16.67%) DHCP
5 4 (16.67%) Internet
5 4 (16.67%) SAN
6 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.33%) WAN
7 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
General
1 5 (20.83%) Banking
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Law
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 4 (16.67%) Windows 7
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.33%) VMS
5 1 (4.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 5 (20.83%) Break/Fix
3 5 (20.83%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.67%) Email Filtering
4 4 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (16.67%) Runbook
5 1 (4.17%) Configuration Management
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (4.17%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) A+ Certification
1 4 (16.67%) CCNA
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
1 4 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 4 (16.67%) KVM
2 4 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) 3Com
4 2 (8.33%) Aruba
4 2 (8.33%) Brocade
4 2 (8.33%) Citrix
4 2 (8.33%) Juniper
4 2 (8.33%) Meraki
4 2 (8.33%) Veeam
5 1 (4.17%) Apple