Support Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Support Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Support Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £228, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 52 31
Rank change year-on-year -5 -21 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 18 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.89% 0.20% 3.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.25% 0.22% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 14
10th Percentile £203 - £183
25th Percentile £214 - £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £228 £400 £250
Median % change year-on-year -43.13% +60.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £241 - £325
90th Percentile £348 - £375
North West median daily rate £228 £200 £225
% change year-on-year +13.75% -11.11% -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 554 464 378
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.07% 94.50% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 306 235
10th Percentile £270 £308 £242
25th Percentile £358 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £573 £586
90th Percentile £650 £645 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.47 £14.70
25th Percentile £22.07 £13.49 £22.31
Median hourly rate £30.99 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +14.20% +40.71%
75th Percentile £37.89 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £62.08 £47.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £26.08 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.50% +16.67% +33.33%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in Cheshire

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in Cheshire

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Support Engineer
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Chester - 9 - - 4
Warrington - 7 £228 -
Knutsford -17 1 £358 -10.50%
Crewe - 1 £160 -
Support Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 Cheshire region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (55.56%) ITIL
4 9 (50.00%) Linux
4 9 (50.00%) Cisco
4 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 9 (50.00%) Skype for Business
4 9 (50.00%) Skype
4 9 (50.00%) WebEx
5 8 (44.44%) Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (44.44%) Mattermost
5 8 (44.44%) Unified Communications
5 8 (44.44%) Splunk
5 8 (44.44%) Problem Management
5 8 (44.44%) SCOM
5 8 (44.44%) XMPP
5 8 (44.44%) B2B
5 8 (44.44%) SQL
5 8 (44.44%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
5 8 (44.44%) Management Information System
5 8 (44.44%) Softphone
6 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (33.33%) Windows
8 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (22.22%) DBS Check
8 4 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 9 (50.00%) Skype for Business
2 8 (44.44%) Mattermost
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (5.56%) Apache
5 1 (5.56%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Skype
1 9 (50.00%) WebEx
2 8 (44.44%) Softphone
2 8 (44.44%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.56%) SSL
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) XMPP
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Management Information System
2 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (55.56%) ITIL
3 8 (44.44%) B2B
3 8 (44.44%) Problem Management
3 8 (44.44%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) ITSM
4 2 (11.11%) Security Management
5 1 (5.56%) Break/Fix
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.56%) High Availability
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (22.22%) DBS Check
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 15 (83.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) SCOM
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (50.00%) Cisco
3 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
3 8 (44.44%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle