Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £270, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 50 44
Rank change year-on-year -18 -6 0
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 18 20 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.38% 2.55% 2.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 2.80% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 9
10th Percentile £190 £133 £205
25th Percentile £208 £171 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £195 £275
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -29.09% +27.91%
75th Percentile £325 £300 £315
90th Percentile - £348 £380
England median daily rate £225 £238 £237
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.21% -5.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 3
Median hourly rate - £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year - +4.01% +20.90%
England median hourly rate £23.00 £26.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year -11.54% +7.53% +25.61%

All Contract IT Job Roles
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,149 714 736
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.84% 91.19% 93.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 489 453
10th Percentile £263 £198 £250
25th Percentile £402 £330 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £656 £625 £623
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 64 54
10th Percentile £12.76 £16.17 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.13 £17.87 £14.07
Median hourly rate £18.16 £21.39 £20.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +2.86% +3.98%
75th Percentile £26.72 £25.15 £50.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £26.10 £51.91
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Support Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies 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 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the East Midlands

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies 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 13 September 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 7 £300 - 10
Nottinghamshire -13 5 £200 +31.15% 2
Lincolnshire -18 3 - - 3
Derbyshire -13 2 £525 +122.93% 4
Leicestershire -9 1 - - 5
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 7 (38.89%) Entra ID
4 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
5 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
7 4 (22.22%) ITSM
7 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
8 3 (16.67%) Azure
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 3 (16.67%) ITIL
8 3 (16.67%) SCCM
8 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
9 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
9 2 (11.11%) BCP
9 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
9 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
9 2 (11.11%) DHCP
9 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (11.11%) DNS
9 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
9 2 (11.11%) JIRA
9 2 (11.11%) LAN
9 2 (11.11%) SLA
9 2 (11.11%) WLAN

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (38.89%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DHCP
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
1 2 (11.11%) LAN
1 2 (11.11%) WLAN
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.56%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) ITSM
3 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) BCP
4 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.56%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (5.56%) Major Incident Management
5 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Service Management
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (5.56%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
1 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.56%) Juniper
3 1 (5.56%) Meraki