Support Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Support Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £215 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 81 72
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 43 33 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.17% 1.83% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 1.93% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 13 41
10th Percentile - £151 £128
25th Percentile £213 £170 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £198 £160
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% +23.44% -52.59%
75th Percentile £288 £375 £238
90th Percentile £488 £550 £445
South East median daily rate £213 £250 £195
% change year-on-year -15.00% +28.21% -15.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 11
10th Percentile - £20.40 -
25th Percentile - £21.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +31.43% -16.86%
75th Percentile - £31.00 £21.03
90th Percentile - £46.90 £21.05
South East median hourly rate £18.00 £22.00 £17.64
% change year-on-year -18.18% +24.72% -16.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,872 1,708 2,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 94.68% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 1,093 1,472
10th Percentile £213 £326 £205
25th Percentile £375 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 57 41
10th Percentile £18.85 £17.34 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £21.65 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -1.29%
75th Percentile £70.47 £73.59 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.05 £79.61 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +12 31 £215 +8.18% 11
Bracknell -17 6 £325 -7.07% 4
Slough +14 2 £245 -
Wokingham 0 2 £275 +61.76%
Windsor -9 1 - -
Support Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 33 (76.74%) Windows
2 25 (58.14%) Microsoft
2 25 (58.14%) Security Cleared
3 23 (53.49%) SCCM
3 23 (53.49%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
4 22 (51.16%) Windows 10
5 20 (46.51%) Customer Service
5 20 (46.51%) DV Cleared
5 20 (46.51%) Windows 7
5 20 (46.51%) ITIL
6 19 (44.19%) HP
7 18 (41.86%) Microsoft Office
7 18 (41.86%) Hardware Maintenance
7 18 (41.86%) Driving Licence
7 18 (41.86%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (16.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
9 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
9 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
10 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
10 5 (11.63%) Cisco
10 5 (11.63%) DNS
10 5 (11.63%) Linux
10 5 (11.63%) Apple
10 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
11 4 (9.30%) WSUS
11 4 (9.30%) VMware

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:

Applications
1 18 (41.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (9.30%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) AWS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (2.33%) ChatGPT
3 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) DNS
2 4 (9.30%) DHCP
2 4 (9.30%) SAN
3 3 (6.98%) NAS
3 3 (6.98%) VPN
4 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
4 2 (4.65%) SGSN
4 2 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.33%) BGP
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (2.33%) Firewall
5 1 (2.33%) IPsec
5 1 (2.33%) Junos
5 1 (2.33%) MPLS
5 1 (2.33%) VoIP
5 1 (2.33%) WAN
5 1 (2.33%) Wireless
5 1 (2.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (6.98%) MySQL
1 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
General
1 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 18 (41.86%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.33%) Advertising
5 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Electronics
5 1 (2.33%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) CSS
1 1 (2.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (2.33%) LangChain
1 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (41.86%) Driving Licence
2 4 (9.30%) PKI
3 3 (6.98%) Fat Client
3 3 (6.98%) Thin Client
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.33%) LIMS
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.33%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 33 (76.74%) Windows
2 22 (51.16%) Windows 10
3 20 (46.51%) Windows 7
4 7 (16.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
6 5 (11.63%) Linux
7 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (6.98%) Android
8 3 (6.98%) Mac OS
8 3 (6.98%) Ubuntu
8 3 (6.98%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (46.51%) Customer Service
2 20 (46.51%) ITIL
3 18 (41.86%) Hardware Maintenance
4 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
6 4 (9.30%) Incident Management
7 3 (6.98%) Change Management
7 3 (6.98%) Configuration Management
7 3 (6.98%) Migration
8 2 (4.65%) Coaching
8 2 (4.65%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (4.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (4.65%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (4.65%) Project Management
9 1 (2.33%) Data Protection
9 1 (2.33%) Digital Marketing
9 1 (2.33%) Problem Management
9 1 (2.33%) Service Management
9 1 (2.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.65%) Python
2 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) Java
3 1 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 20 (46.51%) DV Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) Degree
5 2 (4.65%) CCNA
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.33%) CCNP
6 1 (2.33%) CEH
6 1 (2.33%) CISSP
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) ISO 9000
1 1 (2.33%) QA
1 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.65%) XenApp
4 2 (4.65%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (53.49%) SCCM
2 4 (9.30%) vCenter Server
2 4 (9.30%) WSUS
3 3 (6.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
3 3 (6.98%) Nessus
3 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Satellite
3 3 (6.98%) ZABBIX
4 2 (4.65%) SCOM
5 1 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 25 (58.14%) Microsoft
2 19 (44.19%) HP
3 5 (11.63%) Apple
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco
4 4 (9.30%) Oracle
4 4 (9.30%) Veeam
4 4 (9.30%) VMware
5 3 (6.98%) Citrix
5 3 (6.98%) Juniper
5 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.65%) Ericsson
7 1 (2.33%) 3PAR
7 1 (2.33%) Dell
7 1 (2.33%) EMC
7 1 (2.33%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.33%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.33%) SAP
7 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.33%) Symantec