Technical Engineer Contracts in the North West

Technical Engineer
England > North West

The median Technical Engineer daily rate in the North West is £323, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 133 147
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Engineer 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £206 - £143
25th Percentile £215 £213 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 £225 £194
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% +16.13% -38.49%
75th Percentile £480 £238 £336
90th Percentile £557 - £375
England median daily rate £350 £225 £400
% change year-on-year +55.56% -43.75% +19.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 1,863 2,620 2,877
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.41% 95.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 1,623 2,020
10th Percentile £277 £264 £293
25th Percentile £375 £381 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £586
90th Percentile £661 £665 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 300 137
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.13 £14.43
25th Percentile £14.16 £15.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.75 £32.31 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year -11.01% +12.57% +14.80%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.54 £56.84
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £43.86
% change year-on-year -27.94% -9.83% +75.44%

Technical Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Engineer in the North West

Technical Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Engineer in the North West

Technical Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Engineer in the North West

Technical Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Engineer in the North West

Technical Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
Cumbria - 4 £220 - 6
Manchester +10 1 £425 +88.89% 15
Technical Engineer
England

Technical Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 27 June 2025, Technical 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 North West region featuring Technical Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) IIS
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
4 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Ansible

Technical Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
1 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (20.00%) VMware
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