Support Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Support Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £242, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 22 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 30 61 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 5.64% 8.02% 6.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.05% 8.24% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 58 45
10th Percentile £182 £170 £156
25th Percentile £203 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £242 £239 £243
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -1.60% +24.36%
75th Percentile £285 £315 £265
90th Percentile £350 £365 £296
South East median daily rate £245 £220 £250
% change year-on-year +11.36% -12.00% +31.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.21
25th Percentile - - £11.30
Median hourly rate £53.00 - £12.40
75th Percentile - - £13.41
90th Percentile - - £13.44
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -4.76% +8.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 496 740 854
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 97.24% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 595 632
10th Percentile £203 £194 £185
25th Percentile £275 £305 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £638 £611
90th Percentile £663 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 29 34
10th Percentile £15.96 £21.89 £12.50
25th Percentile £30.00 £42.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £49.00 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +22.22% +85.57%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.90 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £77.67 -
South East median hourly rate £57.43 £51.42 £24.00
% change year-on-year +11.68% +114.25% -4.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Surrey

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Staines -9 8 £205 -18.00% 1
Reigate - 5 £259 -
Redhill - 4 £338 - 1
Woking -5 3 £403 +79.11% 1
Camberley +3 2 £130 -78.33% 2
Guildford +2 1 £250 +42.86%
Weybridge +2 1 - - 2
Leatherhead 0 1 £183 -8.75%
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 Surrey region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (63.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (60.00%) Windows
3 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 13 (43.33%) Customer Service
4 13 (43.33%) Active Directory
5 12 (40.00%) Degree
6 11 (36.67%) TCP/IP
7 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
7 9 (30.00%) Azure
8 8 (26.67%) Relational Database
8 8 (26.67%) Qualys
8 8 (26.67%) Finance
8 8 (26.67%) Linux
8 8 (26.67%) OO
8 8 (26.67%) Java
8 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
8 8 (26.67%) MySQL
8 8 (26.67%) Oracle
8 8 (26.67%) ITIL
8 8 (26.67%) Unix
9 7 (23.33%) Firewall
9 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (23.33%) AWS
9 7 (23.33%) Proactive Monitoring
10 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (20.00%) Nessus
10 6 (20.00%) JIRA
10 6 (20.00%) VLAN
10 6 (20.00%) Wireless

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.00%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) GitHub
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) TCP/IP
2 7 (23.33%) Firewall
3 6 (20.00%) VLAN
3 6 (20.00%) Wireless
4 5 (16.67%) HTTP
4 5 (16.67%) IMAP
4 5 (16.67%) POP3
4 5 (16.67%) SMTP
5 3 (10.00%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) MySQL
1 8 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) Big Data
2 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Bugzilla
2 3 (10.00%) CANoe
3 2 (6.67%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (6.67%) Firebug
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.00%) Automotive
4 3 (10.00%) French Language
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Electronics
5 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) JDBC
1 5 (16.67%) LDAP
1 5 (16.67%) ODBC
1 5 (16.67%) REST
1 5 (16.67%) SAML
1 5 (16.67%) SOAP
1 5 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (6.67%) CSS
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) CMDB
2 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) FMCG
4 1 (3.33%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 18 (60.00%) Windows
2 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 8 (26.67%) Unix
3 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Customer Service
2 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (26.67%) ITIL
3 8 (26.67%) OO
4 7 (23.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.67%) Data Extraction
6 5 (16.67%) ITSM
7 3 (10.00%) CAD
7 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (10.00%) Issue Tracking
7 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (10.00%) SDLC
7 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) V-Model
8 2 (6.67%) Case Management
8 2 (6.67%) Patch Management
8 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Java
1 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (20.00%) Perl
2 6 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) C++
4 2 (6.67%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (6.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.67%) MCSA
3 2 (6.67%) MCSE
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.67%) vSphere
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Nessus
2 5 (16.67%) SCCM
2 5 (16.67%) WSUS
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (63.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 8 (26.67%) Qualys
3 5 (16.67%) Google
3 5 (16.67%) Okta
4 4 (13.33%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) Apple
5 2 (6.67%) Avaya
5 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.67%) SAP
5 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.67%) Wind River
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.33%) Genesys