Support Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £188 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 41 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 -16 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 38 45 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.96% 4.31% 6.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.29% 4.58% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 36 46
10th Percentile £120 £135 £122
25th Percentile £145 £181 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £238 £185
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +28.38% +0.68%
75th Percentile £280 £350 £347
90th Percentile £356 - £445
England median daily rate £215 £250 £200
% change year-on-year -14.00% +25.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile - £18.13 £15.37
25th Percentile - £18.47 £16.56
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% -9.78% +59.07%
75th Percentile - £21.70 £23.88
90th Percentile - £22.36 £29.40
England median hourly rate £20.82 £20.00 £17.53
% change year-on-year +4.08% +14.09% +6.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 719 982 1,346
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.06% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 754 986
10th Percentile £166 £213 £179
25th Percentile £260 £325 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £504
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 62 94
10th Percentile £11.81 £11.80 £9.59
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.35 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.36 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +17.74% +17.64%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £24.38
90th Percentile £51.91 £64.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Derbyshire +13 20 £150 +11.11% 7
Northamptonshire +6 9 £356 +11.25% 14
Leicestershire +6 5 £120 -61.60% 9
Nottinghamshire +1 4 £193 -13.68% 8
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 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 East Midlands region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (76.32%) Windows
2 20 (52.63%) Active Directory
3 14 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (23.68%) Windows 10
5 8 (21.05%) Windows Server
5 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
5 8 (21.05%) JIRA
6 7 (18.42%) SCCM
6 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
6 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
6 7 (18.42%) Linux
6 7 (18.42%) Customer Service
7 6 (15.79%) Apple iOS
7 6 (15.79%) Driving Licence
7 6 (15.79%) SharePoint
7 6 (15.79%) Cisco
8 5 (13.16%) RDBMS
8 5 (13.16%) Ethernet
8 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
8 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (13.16%) Perl
8 5 (13.16%) JBoss
8 5 (13.16%) Python
8 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
8 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (13.16%) TeamCity
8 5 (13.16%) Git
8 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (13.16%) Migration
8 5 (13.16%) Elastic Stack

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (13.16%) JBoss
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (13.16%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Ethernet
1 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.53%) DNS
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (5.26%) DHCP
3 2 (5.26%) Ethereal
3 2 (5.26%) LAN
3 2 (5.26%) WAN
3 2 (5.26%) Wireless
3 2 (5.26%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.63%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (13.16%) RDBMS
1 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) JIRA
2 5 (13.16%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (13.16%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (13.16%) Git
2 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.16%) SonarQube
2 5 (13.16%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (13.16%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.26%) Automotive
4 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (13.16%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.26%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 29 (76.32%) Windows
2 9 (23.68%) Windows 10
3 8 (21.05%) Windows Server
4 7 (18.42%) Linux
5 6 (15.79%) Apple iOS
6 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (10.53%) Windows 7
7 4 (10.53%) Windows Vista
8 3 (7.89%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (18.42%) Customer Service
2 5 (13.16%) Build Automation
2 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
2 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
2 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (13.16%) DevOps
2 5 (13.16%) Microservices
2 5 (13.16%) Migration
3 4 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (10.53%) ITIL
3 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.89%) Ticket Management
5 2 (5.26%) Change Management
5 2 (5.26%) Computer Science
5 2 (5.26%) Mentoring
5 2 (5.26%) PRINCE2
5 2 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (5.26%) Software Deployment
5 2 (5.26%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Perl
1 5 (13.16%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) CCNA
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 20 (52.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.16%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) SCCM
2 5 (13.16%) Kibana
2 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (13.16%) Progress Chef
3 3 (7.89%) Autotask
4 2 (5.26%) OpenView
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Cisco
3 5 (13.16%) AppDynamics
3 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
3 5 (13.16%) Splunk
4 4 (10.53%) Apple
5 3 (7.89%) Remedy
5 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.26%) VMware
7 1 (2.63%) NetApp