IT Technician Contracts in the Midlands

IT Technician
England > Midlands

The median IT Technician daily rate in the Midlands is £150, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 144 192
Rank change year-on-year +18 +48 -31
Contract jobs requiring an IT Technician 16 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.55% 0.43% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.46% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 8
10th Percentile £109 £128 £112
25th Percentile - £138 £124
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £170 £215
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -20.93% +48.28%
75th Percentile - £178 £269
90th Percentile £189 £273 £289
England median daily rate £150 £188 £160
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.19% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile £14.12 £10.94 £17.85
25th Percentile £15.10 £11.85 £20.25
Median hourly rate £16.69 £13.70 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -36.28% +26.47%
75th Percentile £17.72 £18.98 £22.75
90th Percentile - £24.10 -
England median hourly rate £14.14 £15.90 £17.00
% change year-on-year -11.07% -6.47% +3.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,704 3,048 4,802
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 94.48% 95.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,810 2,151 3,502
10th Percentile £213 £228 £208
25th Percentile £338 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £570
90th Percentile £675 £694 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 111 146
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £14.09 £15.12 £14.67
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.97 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +14.90% +21.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £44.53 £24.00
% change year-on-year -13.54% +85.54% +14.01%

IT Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Technician in the Midlands

IT Technician
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Technician in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IT Technician in the Midlands

IT Technician
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Technician in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for IT Technician in the Midlands

IT Technician
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Technician within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
East Midlands +13 11 £150 +9.09% 24
West Midlands +10 5 £180 +2.86% 21
IT Technician
England

IT Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, IT Technician 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 Midlands region featuring IT Technician in the job title.

1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Vista
3 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
8 1 (6.25%) MCP
8 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (6.25%) HP
8 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (6.25%) Acrobat
8 1 (6.25%) Intranet
8 1 (6.25%) Internet
8 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
8 1 (6.25%) Change Management
8 1 (6.25%) Firewall
8 1 (6.25%) Wireless
8 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
8 1 (6.25%) Google
8 1 (6.25%) MCDST
8 1 (6.25%) Project Planning
8 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
8 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
8 1 (6.25%) Malware Detection/Protection

IT Technician Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Google Workspace
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) Intranet
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
1 1 (6.25%) Change Management
1 1 (6.25%) Hardware Maintenance
1 1 (6.25%) Inventory Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (6.25%) Malware Detection/Protection
1 1 (6.25%) Mathematics
1 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
1 1 (6.25%) Project Planning
1 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
1 1 (6.25%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) MCDST
2 1 (6.25%) MCP
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) HP
2 1 (6.25%) Veeam