IT Engineer Contracts in Central London

IT Engineer
London > Central London

The median IT Engineer daily rate in Central London is £255 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 137 146
Rank change year-on-year +26 +9 +13
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 26 37 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.09% 1.00% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.05% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 43
10th Percentile £123 £115 £165
25th Percentile £195 £152 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £193 £250
Median % change year-on-year +32.47% -23.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £400 £338 £270
90th Percentile £600 £553 £375
London median daily rate £265 £198 £250
% change year-on-year +34.18% -21.00% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile - - £14.81
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.18 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.20% -14.06% +12.82%
75th Percentile - - £29.38
90th Percentile - - £36.65
London median hourly rate £22.00 £18.93 £16.50
% change year-on-year +16.22% +14.73% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,286 3,527 4,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 95.09% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 2,407 3,210
10th Percentile £340 £325 £354
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £724 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 49
10th Percentile £20.07 £15.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £28.98 £61.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.88 £87.64 £64.35
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in Central London

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in Central London

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in Central London

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in Central London

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
City of London +44 24 £250 +25.00% 8
West End of London +1 1 £275 +26.44% 1
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
IT Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 Central London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
4 8 (30.77%) Finance
4 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
5 6 (23.08%) Azure
5 6 (23.08%) Asset Management
5 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
6 5 (19.23%) LAN
6 5 (19.23%) WAN
6 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (19.23%) AWS
6 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
7 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (15.38%) Logistics
7 4 (15.38%) iPhone
7 4 (15.38%) Oracle
7 4 (15.38%) Linux
7 4 (15.38%) Firewall
8 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
8 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
8 3 (11.54%) Workflow
8 3 (11.54%) Blackberry
8 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
8 3 (11.54%) SQL
8 3 (11.54%) Citrix
8 3 (11.54%) Apple

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) JBoss
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (7.69%) nginx
1 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
1 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) LAN
1 5 (19.23%) WAN
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
3 2 (7.69%) DNS
3 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 2 (7.69%) SSL
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) Network Security
4 1 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.85%) French Language
6 1 (3.85%) Front Office
6 1 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) iPhone
2 3 (11.54%) Blackberry
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) BYOD
4 1 (3.85%) EPoS
4 1 (3.85%) HP Storage
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
3 3 (11.54%) Windows 7
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Unix
5 1 (3.85%) Android
5 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Asset Management
2 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
2 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (15.38%) Logistics
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
4 3 (11.54%) Workflow
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Modelling
5 2 (7.69%) Application Virtualisation
5 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 2 (7.69%) Customer Experience
5 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis
5 2 (7.69%) Document Management
5 2 (7.69%) Problem Management
5 2 (7.69%) Runbook
5 2 (7.69%) Server Management
6 1 (3.85%) Electronic Trading
6 1 (3.85%) Mathematics
6 1 (3.85%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (11.54%) Apple
3 3 (11.54%) Citrix
3 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.69%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.69%) Temenos
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) Adobe
5 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.85%) Dell
5 1 (3.85%) HP
5 1 (3.85%) iManage
5 1 (3.85%) Intapp
5 1 (3.85%) Sun
5 1 (3.85%) Veeam