IT Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £333 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 291 382 472
Rank change year-on-year +91 +90 -24
Contract jobs requiring an IT Engineer 54 75 149
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 48 104
10th Percentile £180 £150 £163
25th Percentile £261 £161 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £263 £375
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -30.00% +23.97%
75th Percentile £606 £455 £425
90th Percentile £769 £602 £500
UK median daily rate £203 £195 £210
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £16.79 £14.22 £12.37
25th Percentile £16.93 £15.69 £13.42
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +30.77% +39.01%
75th Percentile £19.00 £48.71 £18.44
90th Percentile - £63.51 £19.31
UK median hourly rate £17.71 £17.72 £17.50
% change year-on-year -0.06% +1.26% +10.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,749 23,373 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.31% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,288 16,533 30,788
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 539 596
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.46 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.48
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.77 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.35 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

IT Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured IT Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Engineer.

IT Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Engineer over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

IT Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Engineer.

IT Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring IT Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (61.11%) Windows
2 27 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 21 (38.89%) Active Directory
4 15 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (22.22%) Azure
6 12 (22.22%) Finance
7 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
8 10 (18.52%) SCCM
8 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
8 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
8 10 (18.52%) PowerShell
8 10 (18.52%) Windows Server
9 9 (16.67%) Firewall
10 8 (14.81%) VPN
10 8 (14.81%) LAN
10 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
10 8 (14.81%) VMware
10 8 (14.81%) Windows 10
11 7 (12.96%) Customer Service
11 7 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
11 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (12.96%) Linux
12 6 (11.11%) ITIL
12 6 (11.11%) SAN
12 6 (11.11%) Internet
12 6 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (11.11%) Degree
12 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (11.11%) Public Sector

IT Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (22.22%) Azure
3 4 (7.41%) AWS
4 3 (5.56%) Asana
4 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.56%) Slack
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.85%) GCP
6 1 (1.85%) IaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.85%) PaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) Firewall
2 8 (14.81%) LAN
2 8 (14.81%) VPN
3 6 (11.11%) Internet
3 6 (11.11%) SAN
4 5 (9.26%) DHCP
4 5 (9.26%) DNS
4 5 (9.26%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (7.41%) WAAS
6 3 (5.56%) 4G
6 3 (5.56%) 5G
6 3 (5.56%) WAN
6 3 (5.56%) WebEx
7 2 (3.70%) Network Security
7 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.70%) VoIP
7 2 (3.70%) Wireless
8 1 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.85%) Power BI
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
General
1 12 (22.22%) Finance
2 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.26%) Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.85%) Law
8 1 (1.85%) Military
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) .NET
1 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (1.85%) React
1 1 (1.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 6 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.70%) NHS
2 2 (3.70%) PKI
3 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.85%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.85%) EPoS
3 1 (1.85%) iPhone
3 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (61.11%) Windows
2 10 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 8 (14.81%) Windows 10
4 7 (12.96%) Linux
5 2 (3.70%) Windows 7
5 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.85%) Android
6 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.85%) Solaris
6 1 (1.85%) Unix
6 1 (1.85%) VMS
6 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.85%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (12.96%) Customer Service
3 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (11.11%) ITIL
4 4 (7.41%) Change Control
4 4 (7.41%) Email Filtering
4 4 (7.41%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (7.41%) Migration
4 4 (7.41%) SIEM
5 3 (5.56%) Information Security
5 3 (5.56%) Investment Management
5 3 (5.56%) Security Hardening
5 3 (5.56%) Server Management
5 3 (5.56%) Service Management
5 3 (5.56%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (5.56%) Workflow
6 2 (3.70%) Cloud Security
6 2 (3.70%) Customer Experience
6 2 (3.70%) Project Delivery
6 2 (3.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (1.85%) C#
3 1 (1.85%) Python
3 1 (1.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.85%) MCTS
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) SCCM
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.70%) VxRail
4 1 (1.85%) AirWatch
4 1 (1.85%) Check_MK
4 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.85%) Nessus
4 1 (1.85%) Terraform
4 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.81%) VMware
3 5 (9.26%) Citrix
4 4 (7.41%) ArcSight
5 3 (5.56%) Cisco
5 3 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.56%) Zscaler
6 2 (3.70%) Apple
6 2 (3.70%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.70%) HP
6 2 (3.70%) Oracle
6 2 (3.70%) Reuters
6 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.70%) Sparx
7 1 (1.85%) F5
7 1 (1.85%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.85%) Polycom
7 1 (1.85%) Splunk