Support Engineer Contracts in Essex

Support Engineer
East of England > Essex

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Essex is £450 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 26 25 50
Rank change year-on-year -1 +25 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 9 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 3.98% 5.02% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.19% 5.38% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile £188 £156 £141
25th Percentile £250 £160 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £195 £225
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -13.33% +2.74%
75th Percentile £500 £238 £238
90th Percentile - £288 £275
East of England median daily rate £225 £198 £190
% change year-on-year +13.92% +3.95% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.53
25th Percentile - - £15.31
Median hourly rate - - £17.25
75th Percentile - - £18.81
90th Percentile - - £19.38
East of England median hourly rate £18.00 £17.47 £17.50
% change year-on-year +3.03% -0.17% +29.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Essex

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 215 223 370
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.13% 93.31% 93.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 134 228
10th Percentile £250 £160 £191
25th Percentile £350 £235 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £492
Median % change year-on-year - -8.54% +15.76%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £578
90th Percentile £600 £621 £631
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 16 37
10th Percentile £12.86 £20.40 £14.45
25th Percentile £16.65 £24.09 £18.55
Median hourly rate £40.31 £43.32 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +66.60% +13.31%
75th Percentile £80.00 £63.31 £35.20
90th Percentile - £69.51 £68.18
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +22.86% +125.81% -5.62%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Essex

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Essex

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Essex over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Essex

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Essex

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Colchester 0 5 £500 +53.85% 1
Chelmsford - 2 £220 -
Support Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Essex region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) SCCM
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) SCOM
2 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) IIS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Apple
5 1 (11.11%) Clearswift
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Google
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
5 1 (11.11%) Network Management
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (44.44%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Network Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) SCCM
2 4 (44.44%) SCOM
3 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Apple
2 1 (11.11%) Clearswift
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Proofpoint