Support Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Support Engineer
England > North of England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £190 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 86 74
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 85 151 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.81% 2.60% 2.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 2.73% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 107 146
10th Percentile £140 £152 £126
25th Percentile £150 £173 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £225 £175
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £243 £325 £250
90th Percentile £338 £405 £353
England median daily rate £214 £250 £205
% change year-on-year -14.50% +21.95% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 15
10th Percentile £17.72 £13.50 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.86 £15.75 £15.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £17.00 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +61.76% +0.89% -2.52%
75th Percentile £43.75 £38.75 £20.76
90th Percentile - - £41.75
England median hourly rate £21.41 £20.00 £17.56
% change year-on-year +7.04% +13.90% +6.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,370 5,536 6,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.30% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,742 3,911 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £385 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £684 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 160 284
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.76 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +70.11% +4.63%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.72 £28.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.07 £51.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in the North of England

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
North West -10 43 £160 -42.34% 67
Yorkshire +4 34 £200 - 32
North East +9 8 £175 -17.16% 9
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 North of England region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (57.65%) Windows
2 41 (48.24%) Microsoft
3 38 (44.71%) Active Directory
4 37 (43.53%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (32.94%) Social Skills
6 26 (30.59%) Windows 10
7 21 (24.71%) Customer Service
8 17 (20.00%) VMware
8 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (18.82%) Firewall
10 15 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
10 15 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
10 15 (17.65%) Azure
10 15 (17.65%) Windows Server
11 14 (16.47%) Cisco
12 12 (14.12%) LAN
12 12 (14.12%) ITIL
13 11 (12.94%) Microsoft Exchange
13 11 (12.94%) SCCM
13 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
14 10 (11.76%) Degree
15 8 (9.41%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (9.41%) Manufacturing
15 8 (9.41%) Mac OS
16 7 (8.24%) Service Management
16 7 (8.24%) SAN
16 7 (8.24%) Apple
16 7 (8.24%) SQL
17 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 11 (12.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Site Server
Applications
1 15 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.53%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (17.65%) Azure
3 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
3 6 (7.06%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.88%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.18%) IaaS
5 1 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.82%) Firewall
2 12 (14.12%) LAN
3 8 (9.41%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (8.24%) SAN
5 6 (7.06%) VPN
6 5 (5.88%) Internet
6 5 (5.88%) VoIP
6 5 (5.88%) WAN
7 4 (4.71%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (4.71%) VLAN
8 3 (3.53%) DNS
8 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
9 2 (2.35%) Broadband
9 2 (2.35%) Network Security
10 1 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.18%) NAS
10 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Power BI
2 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Hudson
General
1 28 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.88%) Law
5 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Finance
6 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.18%) Automotive
8 1 (1.18%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.18%) .NET
1 1 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Clustering
1 5 (5.88%) Life Science
1 5 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.71%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.35%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.18%) CCTV
4 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.18%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.18%) iPad
4 1 (1.18%) LIMS
4 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.18%) Social Media
4 1 (1.18%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 49 (57.65%) Windows
2 26 (30.59%) Windows 10
3 15 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 8 (9.41%) Mac OS
5 5 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (4.71%) Apple iOS
7 3 (3.53%) Linux
7 3 (3.53%) Windows 7
7 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.35%) VMS
9 1 (1.18%) Windows 8
9 1 (1.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.71%) Customer Service
2 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (14.12%) ITIL
4 7 (8.24%) Service Management
5 6 (7.06%) Asset Management
6 5 (5.88%) Analytics
6 5 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (5.88%) Customer Experience
6 5 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (5.88%) Data Analytics
6 5 (5.88%) Data Extraction
6 5 (5.88%) FMEA
6 5 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (5.88%) Process Improvement
6 5 (5.88%) Project Management
6 5 (5.88%) Smart Manufacturing
6 5 (5.88%) Test Scripting
6 5 (5.88%) Validation
7 4 (4.71%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.24%) SQL
2 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.18%) C#
3 1 (1.18%) Java
3 1 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (11.76%) Degree
2 6 (7.06%) CCNA
2 6 (7.06%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.53%) A+ Certification
3 3 (3.53%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.35%) CCENT
4 2 (2.35%) CCNP
4 2 (2.35%) MCSA
4 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) GAMP
1 5 (5.88%) GxP
1 5 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 38 (44.71%) Active Directory
2 15 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.53%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.35%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.18%) Docker
5 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (12.94%) SCCM
3 4 (4.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (3.53%) Autotask
4 3 (3.53%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.53%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (48.24%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.00%) VMware
3 14 (16.47%) Cisco
4 7 (8.24%) Apple
5 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.53%) Datto
7 2 (2.35%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.35%) Veeam
8 1 (1.18%) Brio