1st Line Support Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

First Line Support Engineer
England > Midlands

The median First Line Support Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £180 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 158 196
Rank change year-on-year +33 +38 -51
Contract jobs requiring a 1st Line Support Engineer 6 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.22% 0.059% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.062% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £109
25th Percentile - £106 £122
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £113 £150
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -25.00% +10.09%
75th Percentile - £119 £188
90th Percentile - - £193
England median daily rate £135 £175 £140
% change year-on-year -22.86% +25.00% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
England median hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -31.82% +62.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,522 3,231 4,815
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.88% 94.72% 95.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 2,272 3,527
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 127 174
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.30 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £13.81
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +15.07% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.08
90th Percentile £52.78 £60.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

1st Line Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured 1st Line Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for 1st Line Support Engineer in the Midlands

1st Line Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for 1st Line Support Engineer in the Midlands

1st Line Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for 1st Line Support Engineer in the Midlands

1st Line Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 1st Line Support Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
West Midlands +29 5 £180 -
East Midlands +21 1 - - 3
1st Line Support Engineer
England

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 1st Line 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 Midlands region featuring 1st Line Support Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) PKI
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SCADA
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Release Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security

1st Line Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) SCADA
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
2 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNA
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) BMC
2 1 (16.67%) CA