Senior Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £225 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 427 495
Rank change year-on-year +40 +68 -61
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Support Engineer 4 30 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.13% 0.097%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 21 27
10th Percentile - £213 £169
25th Percentile £213 £256 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +7.69% +100.00%
75th Percentile £238 - £388
90th Percentile - £506 -
UK median daily rate £231 £300 £325
% change year-on-year -22.92% -7.69% +23.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Senior Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
North of England +17 3 £225 -5.26% 11
North West +14 2 - - 8
Yorkshire +17 1 £225 -5.26% 2
South East +10 1 - - 8
Senior Support Engineer
UK

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Elite 3E
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Replication
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP

Senior Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) iPad
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) VMware