2nd Line Support Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Second Line Support Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Second Line Support Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £122 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 61 51
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Support Engineer 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.96% 0.19% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.21% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £155
25th Percentile - £263 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £122 £275 £175
Median % change year-on-year -55.64% +57.14% -
75th Percentile £167 £288 £188
90th Percentile £194 - -
North West median daily rate £200 £201 £175
% change year-on-year -0.25% +14.57% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £17.72 - -
North West median hourly rate £17.72 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 487 477 488
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.83% 88.66% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 328 274
10th Percentile £276 £262 £183
25th Percentile £390 £388 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £438
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% +11.11% +0.34%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £627 £652 £631
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.82 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £27.98 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.20% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.83%

2nd Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured 2nd Line Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Cheshire

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Cheshire

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for 2nd Line Support Engineer in Cheshire

2nd Line Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Support Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Macclesfield - 4 £122 -
Warrington +7 1 £200 -27.27%
2nd Line Support Engineer
North West

2nd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 2nd Line Support 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 Cheshire region featuring 2nd Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Apple
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (80.00%) Inventory Management
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (80.00%) SLA
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Asset Management
2 4 (80.00%) SCCM
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (80.00%) Mac OS
2 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (80.00%) Software Deployment
2 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation

2nd Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (80.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
2 4 (80.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Asset Management
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Experience
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (80.00%) Inventory Management
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
1 4 (80.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Apple
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) VMware