Support Engineer Contracts in County Antrim

Support Engineer
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Support Engineer daily rate in County Antrim is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 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
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 21 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 9 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 3.88% 3.94% 9.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.66% 4.35% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £188
25th Percentile - - £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £213
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.23%
75th Percentile - - £397
90th Percentile - - £450
Northern Ireland median daily rate £250 - £213
% change year-on-year - - +22.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - £24.18 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in County Antrim. 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 County Antrim with a recognized job title 193 115 129
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.19% 90.55% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 66 65
10th Percentile £248 £155 £164
25th Percentile £325 £200 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% +7.81% -15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £533
90th Percentile £625 £626 £614
Northern Ireland median daily rate £475 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +8.57% +2.94% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 6
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £13.60 £19.64 £13.40
Median hourly rate £15.33 £24.18 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year -36.60% +73.83% +26.63%
75th Percentile £16.25 £28.41 £16.77
90th Percentile £24.76 £36.06 £17.86
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £15.42 £19.02 £13.91
% change year-on-year -18.95% +36.74% +26.63%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in County Antrim

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in County Antrim

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in County Antrim

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast -4 9 £250 - 6
Support Engineer
Northern Ireland

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 County Antrim region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
4 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Zscaler
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Application Security
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) Migration

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Application Security
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
2 1 (11.11%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Zscaler