Support Engineer Contracts in Sheffield

Support Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £195 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 46 49 44
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 10 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.65% 1.10% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 1.12% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £172 - £116
25th Percentile £185 £171 £120
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £173 £150
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £239 £174 £200
90th Percentile £247 - £410
South Yorkshire median daily rate £200 £186 £275
% change year-on-year +7.38% -32.27% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.56
90th Percentile - - £16.90
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.00 - £16.38
% change year-on-year - - -17.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 338 445 376
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 98.02% 96.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 313 302
10th Percentile £360 £363 £300
25th Percentile £413 £473 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £705 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% +8.21% +6.85%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £18.11
90th Percentile - £33.00 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
% change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +2.20%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Sheffield

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Sheffield

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Sheffield

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Sheffield

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

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 Sheffield region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (60.00%) Windows 10
4 5 (50.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (50.00%) Law
5 4 (40.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (20.00%) LAN
6 2 (20.00%) VPN
6 2 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (20.00%) ITIL
6 2 (20.00%) Release Management
6 2 (20.00%) VMware
6 2 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (20.00%) Clustering
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
7 1 (10.00%) Security Patching
7 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
7 1 (10.00%) CCTV
7 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (10.00%) SCCM
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 5 (50.00%) Law
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Security Patching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco