Support Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Support Engineer
England > East of England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £225, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 56 61
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 39 57 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.49% 2.97% 3.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.02% 3.34% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 45 43
10th Percentile £180 £128 £142
25th Percentile £200 £168 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £225 £200
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -
75th Percentile £238 £273 £306
90th Percentile £263 £403 £368
England median daily rate £238 £225 £250
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £20.64 - -
25th Percentile £23.28 - £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.20 - £17.22
75th Percentile £40.61 - £18.13
90th Percentile £43.75 - £19.25
England median hourly rate £26.14 £23.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +13.65% +15.00% +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 969 1,709 1,808
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.75% 88.96% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 735 1,114
10th Percentile £198 £206 £200
25th Percentile £347 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £442 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% -6.95% +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £654 £642 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 589 268
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.40 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.75 £43.00 £39.03
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +10.19% +101.26%
75th Percentile £66.38 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.55 £70.25 £76.30
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the East of England

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the East of England

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the East of England

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the East of England

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in the East of England

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Suffolk -5 14 £210 -4.55% 4
Cambridgeshire +9 10 £190 -15.56% 24
Hertfordshire +24 9 £225 -10.89% 23
Essex +10 3 £226 -39.73% 17
Norfolk -5 2 - - 8
Bedfordshire -7 1 £225 -48.57% 10
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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 East of England region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (64.10%) Windows
2 20 (51.28%) Microsoft
3 19 (48.72%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
5 13 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 12 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (25.64%) SharePoint
7 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
7 10 (25.64%) Customer Service
8 9 (23.08%) Windows 10
8 9 (23.08%) iPhone
8 9 (23.08%) ServiceNow
8 9 (23.08%) iPad
9 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
10 7 (17.95%) ITIL
10 7 (17.95%) VPN
11 6 (15.38%) DNS
11 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
11 6 (15.38%) McAfee
11 6 (15.38%) DHCP
11 6 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (15.38%) Manufacturing
11 6 (15.38%) Azure
11 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (15.38%) Time Management
11 6 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (15.38%) Antivirus Management
11 6 (15.38%) Inventory Management
12 5 (12.82%) Operational Technology

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 10 (25.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (15.38%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) OneDrive
4 2 (5.13%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) VPN
2 6 (15.38%) DHCP
2 6 (15.38%) DNS
3 5 (12.82%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (12.82%) PuTTY
4 4 (10.26%) Firewall
5 3 (7.69%) LAN
5 3 (7.69%) VLAN
5 3 (7.69%) WAN
5 3 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.56%) 5G
6 1 (2.56%) VoIP
General
1 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 5 (12.82%) Legal
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.56%) Finance
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) JSON
1 2 (5.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) iPad
1 9 (23.08%) iPhone
2 6 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (12.82%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (64.10%) Windows
2 9 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 5 (12.82%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.13%) Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.64%) Customer Service
3 7 (17.95%) ITIL
4 6 (15.38%) Antivirus Management
4 6 (15.38%) Inventory Management
4 6 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (15.38%) Time Management
5 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
6 3 (7.69%) ITSM
6 3 (7.69%) Service Management
7 2 (5.13%) Agile
7 2 (5.13%) Coaching
7 2 (5.13%) Computer Security
7 2 (5.13%) Decision-Making
7 2 (5.13%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineering
7 2 (5.13%) Software Testing
7 2 (5.13%) Validation
8 1 (2.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (12.82%) CCNA
4 5 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (12.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) GxP
2 1 (2.56%) GMP
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.13%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (5.13%) SCCM
3 1 (2.56%) AppManager
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.08%) ServiceNow
3 6 (15.38%) McAfee
4 5 (12.82%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) Apple
5 2 (5.13%) Google
5 2 (5.13%) MobileIron
5 2 (5.13%) Nexthink
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 2 (5.13%) SAP
5 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 2 (5.13%) Workday
6 1 (2.56%) Ivanti
6 1 (2.56%) Samsung