Chartered Engineer Contracts

Chartered Engineer (CEng)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Chartered Engineer qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 655 843
Rank change year-on-year +78 +188 -190
Contract jobs citing Chartered Engineer 14 52 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.086% 0.021%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.10% 0.32% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 4
10th Percentile £255 £459 -
25th Percentile £450 £513 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £655 £317
Median % change year-on-year -19.85% +106.79% -49.18%
75th Percentile £594 £800 £385
90th Percentile £640 - £394
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £610 £400
% change year-on-year -13.93% +52.50% -35.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 30 10
10th Percentile £42.24 - £42.50
25th Percentile £43.72 £42.50 £44.02
Median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -10.45% -19.60%
75th Percentile £56.60 £66.88 £53.63
90th Percentile £62.85 £68.75 £54.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £45.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +2.62% -10.89% -9.16%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Chartered Engineer is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,393 16,479 19,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.68% 27.33% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,265 10,989 12,632
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £740 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,062 872 784
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.25 £13.44
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.20
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £40.93
Median % change year-on-year -26.31% +32.62% +6.31%
75th Percentile £61.30 £68.56 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.22 £79.98 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.13 £50.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -19.75% +61.29% -10.25%

Chartered Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Chartered Engineer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chartered Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Chartered Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Chartered Engineer in the UK

Chartered Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chartered Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +85 14 £525 -19.85% 164
UK excluding London +29 12 £525 -13.93% 149
Midlands +36 4 £575 +21.05% 21
East Midlands +20 4 £575 +9.52% 6
South West +15 3 £525 -4.55% 33
South East -4 3 £388 -51.50% 19
London +100 2 £329 -58.82% 31
North of England +32 2 - - 47
North West +18 2 - - 33
Work from Home +88 1 £59 -92.63% 55

Chartered Engineer
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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) AutoCAD
2 1 (7.14%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) VSAN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) BGP
2 1 (7.14%) HSRP
2 1 (7.14%) IPsec
2 1 (7.14%) L2TP
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) MPLS
2 1 (7.14%) OSPF
2 1 (7.14%) RIP
2 1 (7.14%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 4 (28.57%) Electronics
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Validation Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Verification Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Mechanical Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (42.86%) Validation
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Creative Thinking
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (14.29%) NsoIT
6 2 (14.29%) Power Management
6 2 (14.29%) Project Management
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Service Management
6 2 (14.29%) System Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) Degree
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) CCNA
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (14.29%) HND
5 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
5 2 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (7.14%) CITP
6 1 (7.14%) JNCIS
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Sitecore