Senior IT Engineer Contracts

Senior IT Engineer
UK

The median Senior IT Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 655 806
Rank change year-on-year +91 +151 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Senior IT Engineer 20 42 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.076% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.080% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 38
10th Percentile £317 £258 £193
25th Percentile £375 £263 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -13.33% -5.06%
75th Percentile £600 £456 £388
90th Percentile £623 £550 £436
UK excluding London median daily rate £293 £281 £375
% change year-on-year +4.00% -25.00% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 0
10th Percentile £15.67 £17.40 -
25th Percentile £16.37 - -
Median hourly rate £17.79 £17.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% - -
75th Percentile £18.82 £17.86 -
90th Percentile £21.50 £18.93 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.63 £17.72 -
% change year-on-year -6.17% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Senior IT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK

Senior IT Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK

Senior IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior IT Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior IT Engineer in the UK

Senior IT Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior IT Engineer in the UK

Senior IT Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England +72 19 £500 +41.84% 29
London +82 11 £600 +9.09% 3
Work from Home +118 10 £450 +38.46% 9
UK excluding London +7 8 £293 +4.00% 28
North West +14 4 £293 - 7
North of England +13 4 £293 +1.74% 7
South West 0 3 - - 9
Scotland +44 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 featuring Senior IT Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (20.00%) Windows
4 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (20.00%) VxRail
5 3 (15.00%) SLA
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (10.00%) SCCM
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (10.00%) SIEM
6 2 (10.00%) Software Deployment
6 2 (10.00%) AWS
6 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.00%) Service Management
6 2 (10.00%) VMware
6 2 (10.00%) Finance
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) C#
6 2 (10.00%) Dell
6 2 (10.00%) Citrix
6 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing

Senior IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Cohesity
3 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) 4G
1 1 (5.00%) 5G
1 1 (5.00%) DHCP
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) SAN
1 1 (5.00%) VoIP
1 1 (5.00%) WebEx
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (5.00%) iPad
1 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (10.00%) Agile
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL
3 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) SDLC
3 2 (10.00%) Service Management
3 2 (10.00%) SIEM
3 2 (10.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (5.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (5.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (5.00%) Offensive Security
4 1 (5.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) C#
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) MCTS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (20.00%) VxRail
3 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Citrix
2 2 (10.00%) Dell
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Apple
3 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.00%) MobileIron
3 1 (5.00%) Polycom
3 1 (5.00%) Sparx