Remote Support Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Remote Support Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Remote Support Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £170 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 448 564
Rank change year-on-year +108 +116 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Remote Support Engineer 9 16 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.064% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.067% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 31
10th Percentile £130 £228 £210
25th Percentile £152 £297 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £170 £356 £363
Median % change year-on-year -52.28% -1.72% +51.04%
75th Percentile £374 £411 £450
90th Percentile £482 £496 £500
UK median daily rate £250 £325 £313
% change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +27.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
UK median hourly rate - - £17.75
% change year-on-year - - -6.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,932 23,816 42,408
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.33% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,353 16,817 30,671
10th Percentile £325 £362 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 545 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.22 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +50.00% +44.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.15 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Remote Support Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Remote Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Remote Support Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Remote Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Remote Support Engineer.

Remote Support Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Remote Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Remote Support Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Remote Support Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Remote Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Remote Support Engineer.

Remote Support Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Remote Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Remote 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Remote Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (22.22%) SystmOne
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 1 (11.11%) IPsec
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco

Remote Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) IPsec
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) OSPF
2 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
2 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) F#
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) Avid
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Okta
1 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
1 1 (11.11%) Zscaler