Support Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Support Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £220 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 94 90
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 22 28 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.42% 1.45% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.49% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 43
10th Percentile £141 £163 £123
25th Percentile £160 £170 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £315 £150
Median % change year-on-year -30.16% +110.00% -
75th Percentile £311 £353 £224
90th Percentile £351 £550 £248
North West median daily rate £175 £245 £180
% change year-on-year -28.57% +36.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.01
25th Percentile - - £18.77
Median hourly rate £17.72 - £20.28
75th Percentile - - £22.02
90th Percentile - - £22.92
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £20.28
% change year-on-year +13.33% +84.93% +9.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,477 1,873 2,478
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.60% 96.75% 97.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,398 1,981
10th Percentile £306 £311 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £568
90th Percentile £693 £663 £650
North West median daily rate £498 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -0.50% +8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 58 58
10th Percentile £12.02 £14.53 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £37.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +114.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.94 £48.44 £20.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.20 £34.13
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £32.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -19.73% +64.39% +11.73%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Manchester

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 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
Sale - 1 £145 -
Wigan - 1 £160 - 1
Support Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 Manchester region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (54.55%) Windows
3 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
3 9 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (40.91%) Windows 10
4 8 (36.36%) Azure
5 7 (31.82%) Firewall
5 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
6 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (27.27%) VMware
7 5 (22.73%) Degree
7 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (22.73%) Cisco
7 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
7 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (22.73%) Mobile Device Management
8 4 (18.18%) LAN
8 4 (18.18%) VPN
8 4 (18.18%) ITIL
8 4 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (18.18%) CCNA
8 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (13.64%) Clustering
9 3 (13.64%) Quality Management
9 3 (13.64%) VLAN
9 3 (13.64%) SCCM
9 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
9 3 (13.64%) Mac OS

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) IaaS
4 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 4 (18.18%) LAN
2 4 (18.18%) VPN
2 4 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (13.64%) VLAN
3 3 (13.64%) VoIP
3 3 (13.64%) WAN
4 1 (4.55%) BGP
4 1 (4.55%) Broadband
4 1 (4.55%) EIGRP
4 1 (4.55%) MPLS
4 1 (4.55%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Hudson
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Software Packaging
2 1 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Clustering
1 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Windows 10
3 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (13.64%) Mac OS
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.55%) Linux
5 1 (4.55%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (18.18%) ITIL
4 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
4 3 (13.64%) Quality Management
5 2 (9.09%) Break/Fix
6 1 (4.55%) Customer Experience
6 1 (4.55%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (4.55%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 1 (4.55%) Customer-Centricity
6 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (4.55%) Network Architecture
6 1 (4.55%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (4.55%) Proactive Maintenance
6 1 (4.55%) Project Delivery
6 1 (4.55%) SDLC
6 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) CCNA
2 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (13.64%) Autotask
2 3 (13.64%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (13.64%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (13.64%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) VMware
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco
4 3 (13.64%) Apple
4 3 (13.64%) Datto
5 1 (4.55%) Ciena
5 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.55%) Juniper