Software Support Engineer Contracts in England

Software Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Software Support Engineer daily rate in England is £125 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 May 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 639 777
Rank change year-on-year +101 +138 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Software Support Engineer 6 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.015% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.015% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £308 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £125 £315 £160
Median % change year-on-year -60.32% +96.88% -55.80%
75th Percentile - £650 £170
90th Percentile - £680 -
UK median daily rate £125 £315 £400
% change year-on-year -60.32% -21.25% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £70.90 - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £70.90 - £37.75

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 33,963 45,391 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.59% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,511 32,266 48,393
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.81% +7.03%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,510 1,321 1,823
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.73
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +8.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.02 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.05%

Software Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Support Engineer in England

Software Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Support Engineer in England

Software Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Support Engineer in England

Software 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 Software Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 May 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 +96 4 £125 -80.77%
North West - 2 - - 3
North of England - 2 - - 3
Software Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, Software 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 Software Support Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) Runbook
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering

Software 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Runbook
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dell
1 2 (33.33%) HP
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow