Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in Bracknell

Support Engineer
Berkshire > Bracknell

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Bracknell is £208, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 18 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 7 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bracknell 6.25% 3.20% 9.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.29% 3.33% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £165 £138
25th Percentile £204 £202 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £276 £151
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +82.15% -61.83%
75th Percentile £211 £338 £375
90th Percentile - £368 -
Berkshire median daily rate £269 £605 £215
% change year-on-year -55.62% +181.40% +38.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bracknell

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bracknell. 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 Bracknell with a recognized job title 96 120 150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.71% 96.00% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 46 61
10th Percentile £400 £251 £163
25th Percentile £422 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £600
90th Percentile £600 £600 £738
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -8.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 6
10th Percentile £32.05 £23.32 £28.00
25th Percentile £32.18 £33.50 £37.08
Median hourly rate £51.00 £41.50 £51.67
Median % change year-on-year +22.89% -19.67% +330.54%
75th Percentile £67.63 £55.19 £62.34
90th Percentile £74.90 £68.57 £67.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.18 £61.75 £56.89
% change year-on-year -47.89% +8.55% +63.04%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Bracknell

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

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

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 Bracknell region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Customer Experience
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) HTTP
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) SAS
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (28.57%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (28.57%) MDX
4 2 (28.57%) French Language
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Palantir
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Foundry
4 2 (28.57%) Tableau
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bracknell 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 2 (28.57%) SAS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Tableau
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (14.29%) Power Query
3 1 (14.29%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (14.29%) Sisense
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (14.29%) Fiddler
1 1 (14.29%) Firebug
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) French Language
3 1 (14.29%) German Language
3 1 (14.29%) Italian Language
3 1 (14.29%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) MDX
1 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (28.57%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) Customer Experience
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) Privileged Identity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Foundry
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) MicroStrategy
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Palantir