Support Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Support Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 69 80
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -2
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 25 45 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.12% 2.62% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 2.87% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 25
10th Percentile £129 £214 £152
25th Percentile £225 £276 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £605 £315
Median % change year-on-year -50.41% +92.06% +106.56%
75th Percentile £338 £608 £468
90th Percentile £537 - £490
South East median daily rate £250 £235 £228
% change year-on-year +6.24% +3.43% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £46.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -61.97% +138.46% -7.14%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,078 1,568 1,668
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 91.38% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 853 1,061
10th Percentile £325 £313 £303
25th Percentile £413 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 82 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £21.43 £17.31
25th Percentile £18.09 £56.02 £39.27
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.65 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -47.59% +6.63% +122.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £76.59 £72.65
90th Percentile £85.80 £96.75 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Berkshire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Berkshire

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Support Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +2 10 £288 -52.48% 10
Wokingham -7 6 £325 +41.30% 4
Bracknell -2 4 - - 1
Slough -1 3 £129 -59.99% 7
Maidenhead - 1 £200 - 2
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Berkshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (48.00%) Windows
3 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (32.00%) Azure
4 8 (32.00%) Linux
5 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
6 6 (24.00%) AWS
6 6 (24.00%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
6 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (24.00%) DevOps
6 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
7 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (20.00%) Ansible
7 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 5 (20.00%) Windows 10
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.00%) SCCM
7 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 5 (20.00%) Open Source
7 5 (20.00%) Bash
7 5 (20.00%) OpenStack
7 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (20.00%) vSphere
7 5 (20.00%) Analytics
7 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
7 5 (20.00%) Python
7 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
7 5 (20.00%) DNS

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SAS
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.00%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) AWS
4 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (12.00%) DHCP
2 3 (12.00%) HTTP
2 3 (12.00%) Network Security
2 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) FTP
4 1 (4.00%) LAN
4 1 (4.00%) SMTP
4 1 (4.00%) Telnet
4 1 (4.00%) VPN
4 1 (4.00%) WAN
4 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.00%) Wireless
4 1 (4.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Tableau
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (4.00%) Power Query
3 1 (4.00%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (4.00%) Sisense
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Fiddler
General
1 16 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.00%) French Language
4 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) German Language
4 1 (4.00%) Italian Language
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) MDX
1 2 (8.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.00%) CSS
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) Android
5 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
1 6 (24.00%) DevOps
2 5 (20.00%) Analytics
2 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (20.00%) Open Source
2 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.00%) Customer Experience
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (8.00%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (8.00%) Migration
5 2 (8.00%) Privileged Identity Management
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (4.00%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Bash
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Bicep
3 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.00%) VB
3 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) CEH
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CISSP
5 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.00%) NFS
3 1 (4.00%) Samba
3 1 (4.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Ansible
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (20.00%) SCCM
3 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) SCOM
4 1 (4.00%) WSUS
4 1 (4.00%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) FireEye
4 1 (4.00%) Progress
4 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.00%) Tanium