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 £223, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 66 52
Rank change year-on-year +20 -14 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 36 46 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.84% 2.41% 3.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.34% 2.69% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 37 57
10th Percentile £180 £149 £143
25th Percentile £192 £178 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £223 £225 £200
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £248 £273 £350
90th Percentile £475 £470 £408
England median daily rate £245 £215 £250
% change year-on-year +13.95% -14.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £16.13
25th Percentile £20.64 £17.00 £16.74
Median hourly rate £21.28 £18.00 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +18.22% +2.95% -0.09%
75th Percentile £21.92 £21.38 £17.50
90th Percentile - £22.80 £18.59
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% +10.00% +14.09%

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 829 1,710 1,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 89.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 773 1,156
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £379 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 591 294
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 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
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 1 May 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 +1 15 £210 - 4
Hertfordshire +21 6 £293 +15.84% 9
Essex +9 6 £232 -48.50% 9
Cambridgeshire +5 5 £500 +135.29% 10
Norfolk +5 3 £170 +6.25% 5
Bedfordshire -2 1 £225 +12.50% 8
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 24 (66.67%) Windows
2 22 (61.11%) Microsoft
3 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 14 (38.89%) Active Directory
4 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (36.11%) Customer Service
5 13 (36.11%) SharePoint
5 13 (36.11%) VPN
6 12 (33.33%) Windows 10
7 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
8 9 (25.00%) iPhone
8 9 (25.00%) iPad
9 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
10 7 (19.44%) Time Management
10 7 (19.44%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (19.44%) McAfee
10 7 (19.44%) ITIL
10 7 (19.44%) Azure
10 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (19.44%) Antivirus Management
10 7 (19.44%) Inventory Management
10 7 (19.44%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (16.67%) OneDrive
11 6 (16.67%) DNS
12 5 (13.89%) Firewall
12 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
13 4 (11.11%) Apple iOS
13 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills

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 13 (36.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 3 (8.33%) AWS
4 3 (8.33%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.78%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) VPN
2 6 (16.67%) DNS
3 5 (13.89%) Firewall
4 4 (11.11%) LAN
4 4 (11.11%) WAN
4 4 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (8.33%) DHCP
5 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 3 (8.33%) VLAN
5 3 (8.33%) VoIP
6 2 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Legal
2 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) iPad
1 9 (25.00%) iPhone
2 7 (19.44%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (66.67%) Windows
2 12 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 4 (11.11%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.56%) Linux
4 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (36.11%) Customer Service
3 7 (19.44%) Antivirus Management
3 7 (19.44%) Inventory Management
3 7 (19.44%) ITIL
3 7 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (19.44%) Time Management
4 3 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (8.33%) Zero Trust
5 2 (5.56%) Agile
5 2 (5.56%) Coaching
5 2 (5.56%) Computer Security
5 2 (5.56%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (5.56%) Incident Management
5 2 (5.56%) Software Deployment
5 2 (5.56%) Software Testing
5 2 (5.56%) Validation
6 1 (2.78%) Migration
6 1 (2.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (19.44%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.56%) A+ Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GxP
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.11%) SCCM
3 3 (8.33%) AppManager
4 2 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 22 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) McAfee
3 3 (8.33%) Ivanti
3 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.33%) VMware
4 2 (5.56%) Apple
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) MobileIron
5 1 (2.78%) Nexthink