IT Support Engineer Contracts in England

IT Support Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in England is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 447 503
Rank change year-on-year +87 +56 -17
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 184 218 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.43% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.45% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 145 182
10th Percentile £124 £140 £128
25th Percentile £149 £160 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £193
Median % change year-on-year - +3.90% +28.33%
75th Percentile £250 £294 £250
90th Percentile £300 £350 £349
UK median daily rate £200 £200 £193
% change year-on-year - +3.90% +18.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 31
10th Percentile £13.41 £12.13 £12.89
25th Percentile £16.81 £13.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -5.71% +14.75%
75th Percentile £23.19 £21.71 £20.00
90th Percentile £34.13 £30.00 £21.00
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +21.21% -5.71% +28.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in England

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Support Engineer in England

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in England

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Engineer in England

IT Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in England

IT Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London +94 72 £238 +7.95% 33
South East +19 30 £195 -27.44% 47
North of England +34 29 £190 -13.14% 36
South West +27 24 £200 +11.11% 24
Midlands +17 16 £150 -25.00% 32
Yorkshire +25 14 £208 +22.06% 12
East of England +12 14 £200 - 25
East Midlands +7 12 £150 -52.38% 18
North West +15 10 £166 -33.50% 20
North East +23 5 £175 +18.64% 5
West Midlands +16 4 £150 - 14
IT Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, IT 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 England region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 123 (66.85%) Windows
2 96 (52.17%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (44.02%) Active Directory
4 69 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 61 (33.15%) Social Skills
6 58 (31.52%) Customer Service
7 44 (23.91%) Windows 10
8 33 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (17.39%) SCCM
9 32 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
9 32 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 25 (13.59%) ITIL
10 25 (13.59%) Finance
11 24 (13.04%) Azure
12 23 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 21 (11.41%) ServiceNow
13 21 (11.41%) Asset Management
14 19 (10.33%) SharePoint
15 18 (9.78%) LAN
15 18 (9.78%) Windows Server
16 17 (9.24%) Security Cleared
16 17 (9.24%) Video Conferencing
16 17 (9.24%) VPN
17 15 (8.15%) Citrix
17 15 (8.15%) Apple
17 15 (8.15%) Android
17 15 (8.15%) Onboarding
18 14 (7.61%) Cisco
18 14 (7.61%) Manufacturing
19 13 (7.07%) Wi-Fi

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 32 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (10.33%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.80%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.63%) Confluence
5 2 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.54%) Apache
6 1 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.54%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) ION MarketView
1 1 (0.54%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 96 (52.17%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (13.04%) Azure
3 11 (5.98%) Entra ID
4 8 (4.35%) AWS
5 6 (3.26%) OneDrive
6 5 (2.72%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.63%) Asana
7 3 (1.63%) Slack
8 2 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.09%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.09%) SaaS
9 1 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.78%) LAN
2 17 (9.24%) VPN
3 13 (7.07%) DHCP
3 13 (7.07%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (6.52%) DNS
4 12 (6.52%) Firewall
5 11 (5.98%) WAN
6 9 (4.89%) TCP/IP
7 8 (4.35%) Internet
7 8 (4.35%) Wireless
8 7 (3.80%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (3.80%) Skype
9 4 (2.17%) SAN
9 4 (2.17%) VLAN
10 2 (1.09%) Intranet
10 2 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.09%) Telepresence
10 2 (1.09%) VoIP
11 1 (0.54%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (0.54%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.80%) JIRA
General
1 61 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.59%) Finance
3 14 (7.61%) Manufacturing
4 11 (5.98%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.80%) Law
8 5 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Electronics
9 4 (2.17%) Marketing
10 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.63%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.63%) Legal
11 2 (1.09%) Automotive
11 2 (1.09%) Back Office
11 2 (1.09%) Banking
11 2 (1.09%) French Language
11 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (1.09%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.54%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (0.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.24%) Video Conferencing
2 15 (8.15%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.43%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.26%) iPhone
4 6 (3.26%) NHS
4 6 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.72%) Blackberry
6 4 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.63%) BYOD
7 3 (1.63%) CMDB
7 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.63%) iPad
7 3 (1.63%) Life Science
7 3 (1.63%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.54%) Digital Signage
9 1 (0.54%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.54%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 123 (66.85%) Windows
2 44 (23.91%) Windows 10
3 18 (9.78%) Windows Server
4 15 (8.15%) Android
5 13 (7.07%) Apple iOS
6 12 (6.52%) Windows 7
7 9 (4.89%) Linux
8 6 (3.26%) Unix
9 4 (2.17%) Mac OS X
10 3 (1.63%) VMS
11 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.52%) Customer Service
2 33 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (13.59%) ITIL
4 21 (11.41%) Asset Management
5 12 (6.52%) Mobile Device Management
6 11 (5.98%) Service Delivery
7 10 (5.43%) ITSM
8 8 (4.35%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (4.35%) Server Patching
9 7 (3.80%) Incident Management
9 7 (3.80%) Service Management
10 6 (3.26%) Inventory Management
10 6 (3.26%) Migration
11 5 (2.72%) Break/Fix
11 5 (2.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (2.72%) Customer Experience
11 5 (2.72%) Kalman Filter
11 5 (2.72%) Logistics
11 5 (2.72%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 5 (2.72%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.26%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.63%) Python
2 3 (1.63%) SQL
3 1 (0.54%) Java
3 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (9.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.43%) Degree
4 7 (3.80%) A+ Certification
4 7 (3.80%) DBS Check
4 7 (3.80%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.17%) MCP
7 3 (1.63%) MCDST
8 2 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.54%) CCNA
9 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.52%) SLA
2 3 (1.63%) GAMP
2 3 (1.63%) GxP
3 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 81 (44.02%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.54%) Firmware
5 1 (0.54%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 32 (17.39%) SCCM
2 23 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.63%) SCOM
3 3 (1.63%) SCVMM
3 3 (1.63%) WSUS
4 2 (1.09%) AirWatch
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (0.54%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.54%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 69 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.41%) ServiceNow
3 15 (8.15%) Apple
3 15 (8.15%) Citrix
4 14 (7.61%) Cisco
5 12 (6.52%) VMware
6 5 (2.72%) Bloomberg
6 5 (2.72%) Veeam
7 4 (2.17%) Google
7 4 (2.17%) HP
7 4 (2.17%) Remedy
7 4 (2.17%) SAP
8 3 (1.63%) Mitel
8 3 (1.63%) MobileIron
8 3 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.63%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.09%) Polycom
9 2 (1.09%) Progress
9 2 (1.09%) Splunk
9 2 (1.09%) UiPath
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