Support Engineer Contracts in Belfast

Support Engineer
County Antrim > Belfast

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Belfast is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 August 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
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 9 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 4.39% 3.94% 8.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.95% 4.39% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £188
25th Percentile - - £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £213
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.23%
75th Percentile - - £397
90th Percentile - - £450
County Antrim median daily rate £250 - £213
% change year-on-year - - +22.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
County Antrim median hourly rate - £24.18 -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Belfast. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Belfast with a recognized job title 182 114 132
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.78% 89.76% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 66 67
10th Percentile £261 £155 £166
25th Percentile £325 £200 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £441 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% +10.31% -17.10%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £529
90th Percentile £625 £626 £609
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £441 £400
% change year-on-year +7.65% +10.31% -17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 8
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.25 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 £14.48 £12.69
Median hourly rate £15.05 £22.56 £13.69
Median % change year-on-year -33.29% +64.85% +30.33%
75th Percentile £19.88 £24.18 £14.86
90th Percentile £25.11 - £17.80
County Antrim median hourly rate £15.42 £24.18 £13.69
% change year-on-year -36.25% +76.69% +24.58%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Belfast

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

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

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in Belfast

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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 Belfast region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
4 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Zscaler
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Application Security
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) Migration

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Application Security
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
2 1 (11.11%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Zscaler