Support Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Support Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £122 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 45 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 10 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.00% 3.40% 4.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 3.77% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 18
10th Percentile £112 £188 £163
25th Percentile £116 £215 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £122 £300 £184
Median % change year-on-year -59.33% +63.27% -46.43%
75th Percentile - £366 £294
90th Percentile - £413 £396
North West median daily rate £160 £280 £180
% change year-on-year -42.86% +55.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £17.72 - -
25th Percentile £29.49 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £20.28
% change year-on-year +13.33% +84.93% +12.65%

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 469 477 502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.61% 90.00% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 329 286
10th Percentile £276 £263 £183
25th Percentile £383 £400 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £435
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +9.20% -0.51%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £631 £651 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £19.71 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £29.26 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% +19.43% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £42.58 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.05% +11.72%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Cheshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Cheshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Cheshire

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in Cheshire

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 Support Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Chester +9 5 - - 3
Macclesfield - 4 £122 - 1
Northwich - 1 £110 - 1
Support Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Analytics
2 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 5 (50.00%) Power BI
2 5 (50.00%) FMEA
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Smart Manufacturing
2 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (50.00%) GAMP
2 5 (50.00%) GxP
2 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (50.00%) Project Management
2 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (50.00%) Validation
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (50.00%) Life Science
2 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 5 (50.00%) Data Extraction
3 4 (40.00%) SCCM
3 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) SLA

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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Life Science
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (40.00%) Mac OS
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 5 (50.00%) FMEA
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) Project Management
1 5 (50.00%) Smart Manufacturing
1 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 5 (50.00%) Validation
2 4 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (40.00%) Inventory Management
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
2 4 (40.00%) Software Deployment
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) GAMP
1 5 (50.00%) GxP
2 4 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (40.00%) Apple
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft