Senior Support Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Support Engineer daily rate in England is £313, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 608 696
Rank change year-on-year +81 +88 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 12 31 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.066% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.070% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 22 63
10th Percentile £203 £207 £198
25th Percentile £241 £226 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £288 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -23.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £338 £350 £394
90th Percentile £344 £506 £498
UK median daily rate £313 £300 £375
% change year-on-year +4.17% -20.00% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,784 44,471 66,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.49% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,775 31,617 47,960
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -2.64% +2.71% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,652 1,324 1,749
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.38 £12.78
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £38.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +86 5 £231 -7.50% 6
Midlands +19 3 £313 - 4
West Midlands +19 3 £313 - 1
North of England +19 2 - - 7
North West +8 2 - - 7
South East +7 1 - - 5
Senior Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (33.33%) SCCM
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco
5 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (16.67%) Degree
5 2 (16.67%) JIRA
5 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
5 2 (16.67%) Skype for Business
5 2 (16.67%) Citrix
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (16.67%) CCNA
5 2 (16.67%) VPN
5 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
5 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) ITSM
5 2 (16.67%) Legal
5 2 (16.67%) CMS

Senior 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 2 (16.67%) CMS
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (16.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Slack
2 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Skype
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) BGP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) IGRP
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (8.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Change Management
4 1 (8.33%) ETL
4 1 (8.33%) Global Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) SDLC
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Debt
4 1 (8.33%) Ticket Management
4 1 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Becrypt
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Apple
4 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Okta