Senior IT Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior IT Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 390 471
Rank change year-on-year +39 +81 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 18 23 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 25
10th Percentile £297 £220 £275
25th Percentile £375 £245 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile £581 £353 £394
90th Percentile £633 £378 £416
UK median daily rate £450 £388 £375
% change year-on-year +16.13% +3.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 7
10th Percentile - £16.54 -
25th Percentile £20.30 - -
Median hourly rate £21.59 £17.72 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +21.84% - +31.26%
75th Percentile £22.89 - -
90th Percentile - - £20.63
UK median hourly rate £21.59 £17.72 £17.72
% change year-on-year +21.84% - +31.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior IT Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
North West - 6 £400 - 10
North of England - 6 £400 - 13
Scotland +26 5 - -
Midlands +2 4 £700 - 6
South West +27 3 £575 - 4
West Midlands +3 3 £700 - 2
South East +38 1 - - 6
East Midlands +2 1 - - 4
Wales - 1 £700 - 1
Senior IT Engineer
UK

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
4 6 (33.33%) AWS
4 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 5 (27.78%) Windows
6 4 (22.22%) ITIL
6 4 (22.22%) Service Management
6 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (22.22%) TeamCity
6 4 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (22.22%) SCCM
6 4 (22.22%) Bash
6 4 (22.22%) Software Architecture
6 4 (22.22%) Agile
6 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Degree
6 4 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (22.22%) ARM Templates
6 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 4 (22.22%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
6 4 (22.22%) Travis CI
6 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
6 4 (22.22%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (22.22%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (22.22%) CircleCI
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Fargate
3 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) GitHub
3 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
6 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) LAN
1 2 (11.11%) VLAN
1 2 (11.11%) VPN
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (11.11%) WLAN
2 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 4 (22.22%) CircleCI
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 4 (22.22%) Mercurial
1 4 (22.22%) TeamCity
1 4 (22.22%) Travis CI
2 2 (11.11%) MSI
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Electronics
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 2 (11.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.56%) Digital Signage
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Agile
1 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
1 4 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
1 4 (22.22%) Data Engineering
1 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
1 4 (22.22%) DevOps
1 4 (22.22%) High Availability
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (22.22%) ITIL
1 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
1 4 (22.22%) Service Management
1 4 (22.22%) Software Architecture
1 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
1 4 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
2 3 (16.67%) Break/Fix
2 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Numerate Degree
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (11.11%) MCTS
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Ansible
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 4 (22.22%) Progress Chef
1 4 (22.22%) SCCM
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
2 2 (11.11%) Citrix
2 2 (11.11%) HP
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow