Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Support Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £208, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

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

 6 months to
17 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 27 23
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 44 30 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 12.36% 5.52% 7.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.94% 5.92% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 55
10th Percentile £163 £182 £170
25th Percentile £200 £203 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £242 £243
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% -0.28% -
75th Percentile £223 £285 £315
90th Percentile £250 £350 £365
South East median daily rate £250 £250 £223
% change year-on-year - +12.36% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £25.44 - -
25th Percentile £25.86 - -
Median hourly rate £26.58 £53.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.86% - -
75th Percentile £27.29 - -
90th Percentile £27.72 - -
South East median hourly rate £19.44 £40.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -51.41% +100.00% -4.76%

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 340 507 734
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.51% 93.37% 97.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 357 586
10th Percentile £204 £203 £194
25th Percentile £250 £281 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £638
90th Percentile £625 £667 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 33 30
10th Percentile £21.41 £15.96 £22.57
25th Percentile £25.86 £30.00 £43.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -6.19% +25.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £71.90
90th Percentile - £76.86 £77.59
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +106.78%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies 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 17 September 2025. 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 +6 8 £175 -14.63%
Leatherhead +9 7 £215 +17.81% 3
Redhill +12 2 - - 5
Guildford -1 2 £250 - 2
Reigate +6 1 £250 -3.29% 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £238 -
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, 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 34 (77.27%) Social Skills
2 33 (75.00%) Windows
3 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 21 (47.73%) OO
5 18 (40.91%) JavaScript
5 18 (40.91%) MySQL
5 18 (40.91%) Oracle
5 18 (40.91%) CSS
5 18 (40.91%) Browser DevTools
5 18 (40.91%) Relational Database
6 17 (38.64%) Unix
7 16 (36.36%) Java
8 15 (34.09%) Customer Service
9 14 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (29.55%) User Experience
10 13 (29.55%) Linux
10 13 (29.55%) Active Directory
11 12 (27.27%) Python
11 12 (27.27%) Perl
11 12 (27.27%) Ajax
11 12 (27.27%) ServiceNow
11 12 (27.27%) AngularJS
11 12 (27.27%) Mobile App
11 12 (27.27%) Mobile Application Development
11 12 (27.27%) SaaS
11 12 (27.27%) React
11 12 (27.27%) GraphQL
12 11 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
12 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (25.00%) Splunk

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 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (27.27%) SaaS
3 11 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (4.55%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.27%) AWS
5 1 (2.27%) Azure
5 1 (2.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.00%) Wireless
2 5 (11.36%) FTP
3 4 (9.09%) HTTP
3 4 (9.09%) Wireshark
4 3 (6.82%) DHCP
4 3 (6.82%) DNS
5 2 (4.55%) LAN
5 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.55%) WAN
6 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) MySQL
1 18 (40.91%) Relational Database
2 6 (13.64%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) Browser DevTools
2 11 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 11 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 11 (25.00%) Xcode
3 6 (13.64%) Firebug
General
1 34 (77.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.91%) CSS
2 12 (27.27%) Ajax
2 12 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 12 (27.27%) GraphQL
2 12 (27.27%) React
3 6 (13.64%) HTML
3 6 (13.64%) XML
4 4 (9.09%) REST
4 4 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) iPhone
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (75.00%) Windows
2 17 (38.64%) Unix
3 13 (29.55%) Linux
4 11 (25.00%) Android
5 7 (15.91%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.55%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.27%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) OO
2 15 (34.09%) Customer Service
3 13 (29.55%) User Experience
4 12 (27.27%) Mobile Application Development
5 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (22.73%) ITIL
7 5 (11.36%) Incident Management
7 5 (11.36%) Patch Management
7 5 (11.36%) Service Management
8 4 (9.09%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.09%) Escalation Management
8 4 (9.09%) OOP
9 2 (4.55%) Disk Encryption
9 2 (4.55%) ITSM
10 1 (2.27%) Case Management
10 1 (2.27%) Contract Management
10 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 1 (2.27%) Project Delivery
10 1 (2.27%) Task Automation
10 1 (2.27%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) JavaScript
2 16 (36.36%) Java
3 12 (27.27%) Perl
3 12 (27.27%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.55%) A+ Certification
3 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.27%) MCP
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.27%) XenApp
3 1 (2.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) SCCM
2 1 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 18 (40.91%) Oracle
3 12 (27.27%) ServiceNow
4 11 (25.00%) Splunk
5 3 (6.82%) Apple
5 3 (6.82%) Citrix
5 3 (6.82%) Google
6 2 (4.55%) Wyse
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco
7 1 (2.27%) Okta
17 Support Engineer jobs in Surrey