1st Line Engineer Contracts in the East of England

First Line Engineer
England > East of England

The median First Line Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £120 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 118 131
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 -28
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Engineer 5 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.26% 0.31% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.33% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 14
10th Percentile - £122 £120
25th Percentile £104 £145 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £120 £194 £150
Median % change year-on-year -38.28% +29.17% -
75th Percentile £156 £245 £184
90th Percentile £161 £271 £200
England median daily rate £135 £175 £150
% change year-on-year -22.86% +16.67% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £19.00 £18.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £17.75 £17.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.41% -12.82% +32.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,674 1,802 2,368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.71% 91.94% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 1,086 1,391
10th Percentile £206 £195 £163
25th Percentile £313 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 591 277 356
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £41.80 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.87% +165.40% -7.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.55%

1st Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured 1st Line Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Engineer in the East of England

1st Line Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for 1st Line Engineer in the East of England

1st Line Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for 1st Line Engineer in the East of England

1st Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Hertfordshire - 4 £104 - 1
Cambridgeshire -1 1 £135 -
1st Line Engineer
England

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, 1st Line 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 East of England region featuring 1st Line Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Time Management
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared

1st Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Time Management
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Veeam