Support Engineer Contracts in the South East

Support Engineer
England > South East

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the South East is £215 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 70 86
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 144 176 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.57% 2.97% 3.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.77% 3.15% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 126 154
10th Percentile £142 £173 £128
25th Percentile £185 £200 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £250 £195
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +28.21% -7.14%
75th Percentile £238 £350 £274
90th Percentile £358 £500 £388
England median daily rate £215 £250 £200
% change year-on-year -14.00% +25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 29
10th Percentile £16.23 £17.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.69 £20.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +24.72% -16.20%
75th Percentile £30.00 £29.88 £21.00
90th Percentile £32.00 £33.65 £21.14
England median hourly rate £20.82 £20.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +4.08% +11.11% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,190 5,585 7,536
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.29% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,115 3,889 5,104
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 239 334
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £59.71
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in the South East

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +13 71 £215 -28.33% 47
Berkshire 0 40 £215 +8.18% 16
Hampshire -21 29 £265 +10.42% 31
Kent +23 23 £205 -18.00% 7
Buckinghamshire +30 21 £215 -21.82% 16
Surrey -5 11 £200 -27.27% 18
Oxfordshire +1 10 £145 -58.57% 15
West Sussex +3 9 £145 -31.76% 14
Home Counties +4 1 - -
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 East region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 109 (75.69%) Windows
2 62 (43.06%) Windows 10
3 57 (39.58%) Microsoft
4 47 (32.64%) Security Cleared
5 43 (29.86%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (29.86%) Customer Service
6 42 (29.17%) Social Skills
7 36 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (24.31%) Active Directory
9 34 (23.61%) SCCM
10 32 (22.22%) Windows 7
11 31 (21.53%) ITIL
12 29 (20.14%) HP
13 28 (19.44%) Microsoft Office
14 27 (18.75%) Telecoms
14 27 (18.75%) Public Sector
15 26 (18.06%) Manufacturing
15 26 (18.06%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (16.67%) DV Cleared
16 24 (16.67%) Finance
17 23 (15.97%) Programme Management
17 23 (15.97%) Electronics
17 23 (15.97%) SAP
17 23 (15.97%) NHS
17 23 (15.97%) Digital Marketing
17 23 (15.97%) Marketing
18 20 (13.89%) Organisational Skills
19 19 (13.19%) Driving Licence
20 18 (12.50%) Hardware Maintenance
20 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.69%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (19.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 43 (29.86%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (11.81%) Azure
3 7 (4.86%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.08%) AWS
5 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.69%) GCP
6 1 (0.69%) GitHub
6 1 (0.69%) IaaS
6 1 (0.69%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.69%) OCI
6 1 (0.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.94%) DNS
2 9 (6.25%) DHCP
2 9 (6.25%) VPN
3 8 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (4.17%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (4.17%) SAN
5 5 (3.47%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.78%) Firewall
6 4 (2.78%) LAN
6 4 (2.78%) VLAN
6 4 (2.78%) VoIP
6 4 (2.78%) WAN
6 4 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.08%) NAS
7 3 (2.08%) Network Security
7 3 (2.08%) Wireless
8 2 (1.39%) BGP
8 2 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.39%) IPsec
8 2 (1.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.78%) MySQL
4 3 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.08%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Git
1 1 (0.69%) GitLab
1 1 (0.69%) Hudson
General
1 42 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 27 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 26 (18.06%) Manufacturing
4 24 (16.67%) Finance
5 23 (15.97%) Electronics
5 23 (15.97%) Marketing
6 20 (13.89%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Automotive
10 2 (1.39%) Banking
10 2 (1.39%) French Language
10 2 (1.39%) Legal
10 2 (1.39%) Portuguese Language
10 2 (1.39%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.39%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.69%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.97%) NHS
2 19 (13.19%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.47%) Blackberry
3 5 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.47%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (2.78%) CMDB
4 4 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.78%) PKI
4 4 (2.78%) Smartphone
5 3 (2.08%) Fat Client
5 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.08%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.08%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.39%) Replication
7 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 109 (75.69%) Windows
2 62 (43.06%) Windows 10
3 32 (22.22%) Windows 7
4 14 (9.72%) Windows Server
5 12 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (7.64%) Android
6 11 (7.64%) Linux
7 8 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (3.47%) Mac OS X
9 4 (2.78%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.08%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.08%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.08%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.69%) Solaris
11 1 (0.69%) Unix
11 1 (0.69%) VMS
11 1 (0.69%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.69%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (29.86%) Customer Service
2 36 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (21.53%) ITIL
4 26 (18.06%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (15.97%) Digital Marketing
5 23 (15.97%) Programme Management
6 18 (12.50%) Hardware Maintenance
7 11 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (6.25%) Asset Management
9 8 (5.56%) Break/Fix
9 8 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
9 8 (5.56%) Migration
10 7 (4.86%) Mentoring
11 5 (3.47%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (3.47%) Incident Management
11 5 (3.47%) Performance Monitoring
12 4 (2.78%) Agile
12 4 (2.78%) Configuration Management
12 4 (2.78%) ITSM
12 4 (2.78%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.64%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.17%) SQL
3 2 (1.39%) Python
4 1 (0.69%) Bash
4 1 (0.69%) Java
4 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (32.64%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.33%) Degree
5 7 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.17%) A+ Certification
7 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.39%) CCNA
8 2 (1.39%) CCNP
8 2 (1.39%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.39%) MCDST
9 1 (0.69%) CEH
9 1 (0.69%) CISSP
9 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.69%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.94%) SLA
2 1 (0.69%) ISO 9000
2 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 35 (24.31%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.78%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.39%) XenApp
4 2 (1.39%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (23.61%) SCCM
2 10 (6.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.78%) AirWatch
3 4 (2.78%) Ansible
3 4 (2.78%) vCenter Server
3 4 (2.78%) WSUS
4 3 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (2.08%) Nessus
4 3 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
4 3 (2.08%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.39%) SCOM
6 1 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.69%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.69%) Packer
6 1 (0.69%) SmoothWall
6 1 (0.69%) Terraform
6 1 (0.69%) vRealize
6 1 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.14%) HP
3 23 (15.97%) SAP
4 18 (12.50%) Cisco
5 15 (10.42%) Apple
5 15 (10.42%) ServiceNow
6 13 (9.03%) VMware
7 11 (7.64%) Remedy
8 7 (4.86%) Juniper
8 7 (4.86%) Oracle
9 6 (4.17%) Red Hat
10 5 (3.47%) Citrix
11 4 (2.78%) Polycom
11 4 (2.78%) Veeam
12 3 (2.08%) Dell
12 3 (2.08%) Mitel
13 2 (1.39%) Adobe
13 2 (1.39%) Ericsson
13 2 (1.39%) F5
13 2 (1.39%) MobileIron