Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Support Engineer
England > East of England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £220, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 35 52
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 0
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 37 63 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.84% 4.10% 3.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.37% 4.64% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 42
10th Percentile £151 £128 £122
25th Percentile £185 £180 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £220 £205
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +17.14%
75th Percentile £230 £288 £344
90th Percentile £267 £349 £434
England median daily rate £238 £237 £250
% change year-on-year +0.11% -5.10% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £24.70 - -
25th Percentile £31.20 - £16.54
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £17.72
75th Percentile £43.75 - £20.00
90th Percentile £44.38 - -
England median hourly rate £25.58 £24.18 £19.25
% change year-on-year +5.77% +25.61% -8.33%

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 1,099 1,359 1,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.28% 88.42% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 550 992
10th Percentile £186 £200 £195
25th Percentile £363 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £596 £573 £600
90th Percentile £688 £610 £709
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 357 265
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.32 £21.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £37.50 £47.50 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +13.64% +111.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £70.00 £84.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies 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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the East of England

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Engineer job vacancies 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 19 September 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 19 September 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
Cambridgeshire +7 15 £180 -20.00% 4
Hertfordshire 0 10 £225 -21.74% 12
Suffolk -4 6 £220 - 1
Essex 0 4 £215 -38.57% 7
Norfolk -15 2 - -
Support Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 20 (54.05%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (51.35%) Windows
3 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
4 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
5 13 (35.14%) Customer Service
6 11 (29.73%) Active Directory
6 11 (29.73%) Windows 10
7 8 (21.62%) Azure
7 8 (21.62%) SharePoint
8 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Office
8 7 (18.92%) DHCP
8 7 (18.92%) ITIL
8 7 (18.92%) DNS
8 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
8 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
8 7 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (16.22%) Apple iOS
9 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow
9 6 (16.22%) Manufacturing
9 6 (16.22%) Antivirus Management
10 5 (13.51%) CCNA
10 5 (13.51%) Cisco
10 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (13.51%) SAP
10 5 (13.51%) XML
10 5 (13.51%) Java
10 5 (13.51%) Oracle
10 5 (13.51%) Workday
10 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree

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 8 (21.62%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) AutoCAD
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (13.51%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (2.70%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) DHCP
1 7 (18.92%) DNS
2 5 (13.51%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (13.51%) PuTTY
3 4 (10.81%) VPN
4 3 (8.11%) VLAN
5 2 (5.41%) Firewall
5 2 (5.41%) LAN
5 2 (5.41%) WAN
5 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.70%) 5G
6 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.70%) VoIP
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.70%) Automotive
5 1 (2.70%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Law
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) JSON
1 5 (13.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) iPad
1 5 (13.51%) iPhone
2 3 (8.11%) Operational Technology
2 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.41%) FPGA
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Verilog
3 2 (5.41%) VHDL
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Windows
2 11 (29.73%) Windows 10
3 6 (16.22%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.70%) Linux
5 1 (2.70%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (35.14%) Customer Service
3 7 (18.92%) ITIL
4 6 (16.22%) Antivirus Management
5 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
5 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.81%) Inventory Management
6 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.81%) Time Management
7 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (8.11%) Process Improvement
8 2 (5.41%) Decision-Making
8 2 (5.41%) Development Roadmap
8 2 (5.41%) FPGA Design
8 2 (5.41%) Information Management
8 2 (5.41%) ITSM
8 2 (5.41%) Migration
8 2 (5.41%) Roadmaps
8 2 (5.41%) Service Management
9 1 (2.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Java
2 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) CCNA
2 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (13.51%) Degree
3 3 (8.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) GMP
1 1 (2.70%) GxP
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.41%) SCCM
3 1 (2.70%) AppManager
3 1 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (13.51%) Cisco
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 5 (13.51%) SAP
3 5 (13.51%) Workday
4 3 (8.11%) McAfee
4 3 (8.11%) Starlink
4 3 (8.11%) VMware
5 2 (5.41%) Apple
5 2 (5.41%) Intel
5 2 (5.41%) Lattice Semiconductor
5 2 (5.41%) Xilinx
6 1 (2.70%) Google
6 1 (2.70%) HP
6 1 (2.70%) Ivanti
6 1 (2.70%) MobileIron
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.70%) Samsung
6 1 (2.70%) Veritas