Systems Support Engineer Contracts

System Support Engineer
UK

The median System Support Engineer daily rate in the UK is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 688 829
Rank change year-on-year +118 +141 -141
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Support Engineer 20 15 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.025% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.027% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 18
10th Percentile £126 £371 £294
25th Percentile £166 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £485 £350
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +38.57% -
75th Percentile £500 £543 £456
90th Percentile - £725 £541
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £47.00 - £16.02
25th Percentile £47.92 - £16.63
Median hourly rate £50.70 £21.67 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +133.94% +22.85% -34.74%
75th Percentile £54.72 - £26.32
90th Percentile £56.39 - £31.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.39 £21.67 £16.94
% change year-on-year +114.07% +27.90% -37.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

Systems Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK

Systems Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK

Systems Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Support Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Support Engineer in the UK

Systems Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Support Engineer in the UK

Systems Support Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +129 17 £500 +3.09% 16
UK excluding London +58 11 £500 +5.26% 13
London +95 8 - - 3
Work from Home +126 7 £329 -28.92% 5
South East +19 4 £183 -63.50% 2
East of England - 4 £500 -
Scotland +38 2 £126 - 1
South West +18 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Systems 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 featuring Systems Support Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (35.00%) Windows
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (20.00%) Apple
3 4 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) IIS
3 4 (20.00%) LAN
3 4 (20.00%) WAN
3 4 (20.00%) Workflow
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Degree
3 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (20.00%) SCCM
3 4 (20.00%) SCOM
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector

Systems Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (20.00%) IIS
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) LAN
1 4 (20.00%) WAN
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) BGP
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (10.00%) DHCP
3 2 (10.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (10.00%) Internet
3 2 (10.00%) MPLS
3 2 (10.00%) Multicast
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security
3 2 (10.00%) OSPF
3 2 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (10.00%) VLAN
3 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Automotive
5 2 (10.00%) Electronics
5 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.00%) French Language
5 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Portuguese Language
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Spanish Language
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Android
2 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (20.00%) Workflow
4 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Inventory Management
5 2 (10.00%) Logistics
5 2 (10.00%) Programme Management
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bash
1 1 (5.00%) Korn
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
1 1 (5.00%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (5.00%) NFS
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) SCCM
1 4 (20.00%) SCOM
2 1 (5.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Apple
3 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Dell
3 2 (10.00%) F5
3 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) VMware