Support Engineer Contracts in South Wales

Support Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Support Engineer daily rate in South Wales is £145 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 43 51
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 22 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 6.49% 2.71% 2.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.28% 2.86% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 19
10th Percentile £133 £130 £120
25th Percentile £143 £151 £128
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 £178 £175
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% +1.43% +6.06%
75th Percentile £148 £435 £200
90th Percentile £213 £475 £335
Wales median daily rate £145 £165 £175
% change year-on-year -12.12% -5.71% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £17.23 £12.84
25th Percentile £12.25 £19.81 £13.75
Median hourly rate £12.50 £35.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% +125.81% -5.34%
75th Percentile £12.75 £49.06 £16.50
90th Percentile - £49.63 £16.95
Wales median hourly rate £12.50 £22.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year -44.44% +60.71% +5.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 302 490 877
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.09% 94.96% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 379 651
10th Percentile £172 £177 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £563 £569 £575
90th Percentile £644 £650 £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 36
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.00 £11.15
25th Percentile £15.20 £16.98 £11.97
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -8.89% +10.61%
75th Percentile £53.75 £19.98 £26.06
90th Percentile £87.80 £49.38 £47.14
Wales median hourly rate £19.09 £18.14 £19.91
% change year-on-year +5.21% -8.89% +20.58%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in South Wales

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in South Wales

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in South Wales

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in South Wales

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 27 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
Cardiff +20 15 £145 -67.78% 4
Newport +8 7 £135 -66.04% 1
Support Engineer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 South Wales region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (40.91%) Azure
4 3 (13.64%) SLA
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
4 3 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (13.64%) CMDB
4 3 (13.64%) Windows
4 3 (13.64%) CRM
4 3 (13.64%) User Experience
4 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (4.55%) PagerDuty
5 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Rackspace
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) New Relic
5 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
5 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (4.55%) VPN
5 1 (4.55%) Firewall
5 1 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (40.91%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (13.64%) CRM
2 3 (13.64%) User Experience
3 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) New Relic
2 1 (4.55%) PagerDuty
2 1 (4.55%) Rackspace
2 1 (4.55%) VMware