IT Engineer Contracts in London

IT Engineer
England > London

The median IT Engineer daily rate in London is £275 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 354 421
Rank change year-on-year +107 +67 +22
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 147 135 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.52% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.55% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 85 141
10th Percentile £150 £122 £160
25th Percentile £195 £160 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £200 £250
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £450 £350 £419
90th Percentile £675 £550 £538
England median daily rate £225 £200 £213
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 7
10th Percentile £14.80 £13.36 £13.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £14.18 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.93 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% +14.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £22.83 £25.75 £19.88
90th Percentile £24.93 £67.00 £29.20
England median hourly rate £18.07 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year +1.95% +1.26% +10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,297 24,521 37,086
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 95.19% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,779 17,832 27,179
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +0.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 279 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - +14.01%
75th Percentile £44.25 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.61 £82.30 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
% change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%

IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Engineer in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Engineer in London

IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Central London +29 25 £255 +45.71% 7
West London +26 14 £230 +12.20% 6
South London +15 11 £190 -19.58% 3
East London -3 3 £120 -20.00%
IT Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 London region featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (53.74%) Windows
2 51 (34.69%) Microsoft
3 45 (30.61%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (29.25%) Active Directory
5 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
6 38 (25.85%) Azure
7 36 (24.49%) Customer Service
8 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (19.05%) Finance
10 26 (17.69%) Microsoft Office
11 24 (16.33%) Security Cleared
12 21 (14.29%) Windows 10
13 19 (12.93%) Windows Server
13 19 (12.93%) SC Cleared
14 18 (12.24%) Degree
14 18 (12.24%) Asset Management
14 18 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
15 17 (11.56%) ITIL
16 16 (10.88%) Microsoft Intune
17 15 (10.20%) Video Conferencing
18 14 (9.52%) PowerShell
18 14 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
19 13 (8.84%) SQL
19 13 (8.84%) VPN
20 12 (8.16%) DNS
20 12 (8.16%) LAN
20 12 (8.16%) WAN
20 12 (8.16%) Apple
20 12 (8.16%) Firewall
20 12 (8.16%) Banking

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (6.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.04%) Apache
3 3 (2.04%) JBoss
3 3 (2.04%) nginx
3 3 (2.04%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.36%) Confluence
4 2 (1.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (17.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.68%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 45 (30.61%) Microsoft 365
2 38 (25.85%) Azure
3 10 (6.80%) AWS
3 10 (6.80%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.08%) SaaS
6 4 (2.72%) Google Workspace
6 4 (2.72%) IaaS
6 4 (2.72%) PaaS
6 4 (2.72%) Slack
7 3 (2.04%) Asana
7 3 (2.04%) Azure Storage
7 3 (2.04%) Serverless
8 2 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.36%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.68%) GCP
9 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.68%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.84%) VPN
2 12 (8.16%) DNS
2 12 (8.16%) Firewall
2 12 (8.16%) LAN
2 12 (8.16%) WAN
3 7 (4.76%) DHCP
4 6 (4.08%) Structured Cabling
4 6 (4.08%) Wireless
5 4 (2.72%) Internet
5 4 (2.72%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.36%) Intranet
7 2 (1.36%) Network Security
7 2 (1.36%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.36%) Skype
7 2 (1.36%) SSL
7 2 (1.36%) VLAN
7 2 (1.36%) VoIP
8 1 (0.68%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.48%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.04%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.08%) JIRA
2 2 (1.36%) GitLab
General
1 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.05%) Finance
3 18 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.16%) Banking
5 7 (4.76%) Aviation
6 5 (3.40%) Law
6 5 (3.40%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.04%) Retail
8 2 (1.36%) Front Office
8 2 (1.36%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.36%) Marketing
8 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.68%) French Language
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.04%) .NET
1 3 (2.04%) .NET Framework
1 3 (2.04%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.36%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (1.36%) React
3 1 (0.68%) Middleware
3 1 (0.68%) Node.js
3 1 (0.68%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.20%) Video Conferencing
2 14 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.08%) CCTV
4 6 (4.08%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.08%) iPhone
5 5 (3.40%) iPad
5 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.04%) Blackberry
7 3 (2.04%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.36%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.68%) BYOD
9 1 (0.68%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.68%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.68%) EPoS
9 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (53.74%) Windows
2 21 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 19 (12.93%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.48%) Windows 7
5 10 (6.80%) Android
6 7 (4.76%) Linux
6 7 (4.76%) Unix
7 6 (4.08%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.36%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.36%) Mac OS X
9 2 (1.36%) VMS
10 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.68%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (24.49%) Customer Service
2 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (12.24%) Asset Management
4 17 (11.56%) ITIL
5 12 (8.16%) Break/Fix
6 9 (6.12%) Computer Science
7 8 (5.44%) Incident Management
7 8 (5.44%) Migration
7 8 (5.44%) Server Management
7 8 (5.44%) Server Patching
8 7 (4.76%) DevOps
8 7 (4.76%) Service Delivery
8 7 (4.76%) SIEM
9 6 (4.08%) ITSM
9 6 (4.08%) Service Management
10 5 (3.40%) Full Stack Development
10 5 (3.40%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (3.40%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (3.40%) Runbook
11 4 (2.72%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.84%) SQL
3 6 (4.08%) Python
4 4 (2.72%) C#
4 4 (2.72%) Java
5 3 (2.04%) Bash
5 3 (2.04%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.24%) Degree
4 7 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.40%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.36%) MCITP
9 1 (0.68%) CCNA
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.68%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (29.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.36%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.68%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.68%) Docker
5 1 (0.68%) Firmware
5 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (10.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.80%) SCCM
3 4 (2.72%) VxRail
4 3 (2.04%) SCOM
4 3 (2.04%) SCVMM
5 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.36%) WSUS
6 1 (0.68%) Ansible
6 1 (0.68%) Nessus
6 1 (0.68%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.68%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (34.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.16%) Apple
3 11 (7.48%) Citrix
4 10 (6.80%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.76%) ArcSight
5 7 (4.76%) CA
5 7 (4.76%) Oracle
5 7 (4.76%) VMware
6 6 (4.08%) Cisco
6 6 (4.08%) Google
7 4 (2.72%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.72%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.04%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.04%) IBM
8 3 (2.04%) Okta
8 3 (2.04%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.04%) Temenos
9 2 (1.36%) Adobe
9 2 (1.36%) HP
9 2 (1.36%) TOWER Software