Support Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £215 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 83 82
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 64 68 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.40% 2.35% 2.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.58% 2.48% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 41 60
10th Percentile £143 £170 £125
25th Percentile £209 £185 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £250 £165
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +51.52% -46.60%
75th Percentile £281 £370 £232
90th Percentile £493 £515 £310
South East median daily rate £210 £240 £200
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 15
10th Percentile - £20.40 -
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £18.75 £31.00 £21.03
90th Percentile £25.50 £46.90 £21.05
South East median hourly rate £18.00 £22.00 £18.32
% change year-on-year -18.18% +20.09% -12.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,481 2,738 3,375
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 94.48% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,897 2,307
10th Percentile £208 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 77 100
10th Percentile £15.67 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.00 £12.81
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.45 £79.19 £58.26
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -20.00%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in the Thames Valley

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Berkshire +2 44 £215 +10.97% 24
Buckinghamshire +19 10 £220 -12.00% 15
Oxfordshire +1 10 £145 -58.57% 21
Support Engineer
South East

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 6 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 Thames Valley region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (79.69%) Windows
2 35 (54.69%) Microsoft
3 29 (45.31%) Security Cleared
4 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
4 28 (43.75%) Customer Service
5 26 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (40.63%) SCCM
6 25 (39.06%) Windows 10
7 22 (34.38%) DV Cleared
7 22 (34.38%) Windows 7
7 22 (34.38%) ITIL
8 20 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
9 19 (29.69%) HP
10 18 (28.13%) Driving Licence
10 18 (28.13%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (26.56%) Hardware Maintenance
12 16 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (23.44%) Active Directory
14 9 (14.06%) PowerShell
14 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
14 9 (14.06%) Azure
14 9 (14.06%) Windows Server
14 9 (14.06%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (12.50%) Linux
15 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
16 7 (10.94%) DNS
16 7 (10.94%) Degree
17 6 (9.38%) WSUS
17 6 (9.38%) PKI
17 6 (9.38%) Cisco

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 20 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (14.06%) Azure
3 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.13%) AWS
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (1.56%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.56%) GCP
5 1 (1.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) DNS
2 6 (9.38%) DHCP
2 6 (9.38%) VPN
3 4 (6.25%) SAN
4 3 (4.69%) Firewall
4 3 (4.69%) NAS
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.13%) SGSN
5 2 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.56%) BGP
6 1 (1.56%) IPsec
6 1 (1.56%) Junos
6 1 (1.56%) MPLS
6 1 (1.56%) VoIP
6 1 (1.56%) WAN
6 1 (1.56%) Wireless
6 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.69%) MySQL
1 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
General
1 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 18 (28.13%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.69%) Electronics
6 3 (4.69%) Finance
6 3 (4.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.56%) CSS
2 1 (1.56%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.56%) LangChain
2 1 (1.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.13%) Driving Licence
2 6 (9.38%) PKI
3 3 (4.69%) Fat Client
3 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.69%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.13%) NHS
4 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.56%) LIMS
5 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.56%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 51 (79.69%) Windows
2 25 (39.06%) Windows 10
3 22 (34.38%) Windows 7
4 9 (14.06%) Windows Server
4 9 (14.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (12.50%) Linux
6 6 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (4.69%) Android
7 3 (4.69%) Mac OS
7 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.56%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Customer Service
2 26 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (34.38%) ITIL
4 17 (26.56%) Hardware Maintenance
5 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (7.81%) Mentoring
7 4 (6.25%) Incident Management
7 4 (6.25%) Migration
8 3 (4.69%) Break/Fix
8 3 (4.69%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (4.69%) Change Management
8 3 (4.69%) Configuration Management
8 3 (4.69%) DevOps
8 3 (4.69%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (4.69%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (4.69%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (4.69%) Programme Management
8 3 (4.69%) Service Management
9 2 (3.13%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 2 (3.13%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.13%) Bicep
2 2 (3.13%) C#
2 2 (3.13%) Python
2 2 (3.13%) SQL
2 2 (3.13%) VB
2 2 (3.13%) VBScript
3 1 (1.56%) Java
3 1 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (45.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.38%) DV Cleared
3 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) Degree
5 3 (4.69%) A+ Certification
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.13%) CCNA
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.56%) CCNP
7 1 (1.56%) CEH
7 1 (1.56%) CISSP
7 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) ISO 9000
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 15 (23.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.13%) XenApp
3 2 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (40.63%) SCCM
2 6 (9.38%) WSUS
3 5 (7.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (6.25%) SCOM
4 4 (6.25%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.69%) Ansible
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.69%) Nessus
5 3 (4.69%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (4.69%) ZABBIX
6 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.56%) AirWatch
7 1 (1.56%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (1.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 35 (54.69%) Microsoft
2 19 (29.69%) HP
3 6 (9.38%) Apple
3 6 (9.38%) Cisco
4 5 (7.81%) Oracle
4 5 (7.81%) VMware
5 4 (6.25%) Citrix
5 4 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.25%) Veeam
6 3 (4.69%) Juniper
6 3 (4.69%) SAP
7 2 (3.13%) Ericsson
7 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.56%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.56%) Dell
8 1 (1.56%) EMC
8 1 (1.56%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.56%) Remedy
8 1 (1.56%) Symantec