Support Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Support Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 77 80
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 45 36 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.30% 2.02% 2.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.46% 2.14% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 17 33
10th Percentile - £164 £127
25th Percentile £213 £170 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £200 £155
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +29.03% -50.12%
75th Percentile £608 £375 £219
90th Percentile - £508 £337
South East median daily rate £215 £225 £213
% change year-on-year -4.44% +5.88% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +76.92% -38.24%
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - £21.01
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £17.53
% change year-on-year +15.38% +48.32% -16.72%

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,829 1,686 2,239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 94.77% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 1,049 1,428
10th Percentile £259 £325 £220
25th Percentile £400 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £706 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 57 38
10th Percentile £20.05 £17.34 £13.00
25th Percentile £42.13 £24.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £64.68 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.99% +227.47% -8.14%
75th Percentile £75.24 £75.00 £34.29
90th Percentile £87.53 £79.61 £71.89
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in Berkshire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Berkshire

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in Berkshire

Support Engineer
Contract 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 22 June 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
Reading +14 37 £475 +137.50% 11
Bracknell -10 6 £325 -7.07% 4
Slough +6 1 £190 -21.65%
Windsor -11 1 - - 1
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2024, 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 32 (71.11%) Windows
2 30 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 26 (57.78%) DV Cleared
4 25 (55.56%) Microsoft
5 22 (48.89%) SCCM
5 22 (48.89%) Social Skills
6 21 (46.67%) ITIL
7 18 (40.00%) Active Directory
8 16 (35.56%) SC Cleared
8 16 (35.56%) Azure
8 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (31.11%) Windows 10
9 14 (31.11%) Customer Service
9 14 (31.11%) PowerShell
10 13 (28.89%) HP
10 13 (28.89%) Windows Server
11 12 (26.67%) Driving Licence
11 12 (26.67%) Hardware Maintenance
11 12 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (26.67%) DNS
11 12 (26.67%) Linux
11 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
11 12 (26.67%) Windows 7
11 12 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (24.44%) PKI
12 11 (24.44%) WSUS
12 11 (24.44%) DHCP
13 10 (22.22%) Degree
13 10 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services

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 7 (15.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Azure
2 12 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (17.78%) Entra ID
4 7 (15.56%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (15.56%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.22%) AWS
5 1 (2.22%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (2.22%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) DNS
2 11 (24.44%) DHCP
3 8 (17.78%) Firewall
4 4 (8.89%) SAN
5 3 (6.67%) NAS
5 3 (6.67%) VPN
6 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
6 2 (4.44%) SGSN
6 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.22%) BGP
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (2.22%) IPsec
7 1 (2.22%) Junos
7 1 (2.22%) MPLS
7 1 (2.22%) VoIP
7 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (6.67%) MySQL
1 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 22 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.22%) Advertising
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Electronics
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.22%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) Hugging Face
2 1 (2.22%) LangChain
2 1 (2.22%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Driving Licence
2 11 (24.44%) PKI
3 7 (15.56%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.67%) Fat Client
4 3 (6.67%) Thin Client
5 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.22%) LIMS
6 1 (2.22%) NHS
6 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.22%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 32 (71.11%) Windows
2 14 (31.11%) Windows 10
3 13 (28.89%) Windows Server
4 12 (26.67%) Linux
4 12 (26.67%) Windows 7
4 12 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (6.67%) Android
6 3 (6.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (4.44%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) ITIL
2 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (31.11%) Customer Service
4 12 (26.67%) Hardware Maintenance
5 8 (17.78%) DevOps
5 8 (17.78%) Service Management
6 7 (15.56%) Agile
6 7 (15.56%) Analytics
6 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.56%) Identity Management
6 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (15.56%) Log Analytics
6 7 (15.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 7 (15.56%) Privileged Identity Management
6 7 (15.56%) RBAC
6 7 (15.56%) Release Management
7 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.89%) Incident Management
8 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (6.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.56%) Bicep
2 7 (15.56%) C#
2 7 (15.56%) VB
2 7 (15.56%) VBScript
3 2 (4.44%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 26 (57.78%) DV Cleared
3 16 (35.56%) SC Cleared
4 10 (22.22%) Degree
5 7 (15.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (4.44%) CCNA
6 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.22%) CCNP
7 1 (2.22%) CEH
7 1 (2.22%) CISSP
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) ISO 9000
1 1 (2.22%) QA
1 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (15.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (8.89%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (48.89%) SCCM
2 11 (24.44%) WSUS
3 10 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 9 (20.00%) SCOM
5 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
7 4 (8.89%) vCenter Server
8 3 (6.67%) Ansible
8 3 (6.67%) Nessus
8 3 (6.67%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (6.67%) ZABBIX
9 1 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (2.22%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 25 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.89%) HP
3 5 (11.11%) Apple
3 5 (11.11%) Cisco
4 4 (8.89%) Oracle
4 4 (8.89%) Veeam
4 4 (8.89%) VMware
5 3 (6.67%) Juniper
5 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.44%) Ericsson
7 1 (2.22%) 3PAR
7 1 (2.22%) Dell
7 1 (2.22%) EMC
7 1 (2.22%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.22%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.22%) Polycom
7 1 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.22%) Symantec