IT Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

IT Support Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in England is £200, 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 332 386 414
Rank change year-on-year +54 +28 +6
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 328 132 122
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.48% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.52% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 88 77
10th Percentile £163 £149 £124
25th Percentile £175 £160 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £248 £250 £269
90th Percentile £306 £325 £350
UK median daily rate £200 £200 £200
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 9
10th Percentile £15.24 £16.00 £19.74
25th Percentile £18.25 £16.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.29 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% -7.80% +19.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 £26.00 £24.18
90th Percentile £26.80 £32.25 £24.74
UK median hourly rate £20.63 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +24.15%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 42,644 25,339 30,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 91.32% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,474 16,339 19,303
10th Percentile £325 £280 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,406 1,355 1,524
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.71 £14.66
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% -0.76%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

IT Support Engineer job vacancy trend in England

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in England

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in England

IT Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Support Engineer job vacancies in England

IT Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in England

IT Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the England 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
London -43 101 £206 -8.33% 24
South East -26 66 £250 +25.00% 37
North of England -20 64 £190 +18.75% 14
East of England +27 54 £195 +9.86% 12
North West -18 48 £200 +25.00% 10
Midlands -28 28 £200 - 19
South West -39 18 £225 -18.18% 10
West Midlands -39 17 £185 -7.50% 10
Yorkshire -28 15 £190 +22.58% 2
East Midlands -8 11 £300 +76.47% 9
North East -41 1 £175 - 2
IT Support Engineer
UK

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, IT 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 England region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 256 (78.05%) Windows
2 218 (66.46%) Microsoft 365
3 214 (65.24%) Microsoft
4 195 (59.45%) Active Directory
5 128 (39.02%) Customer Service
6 116 (35.37%) Windows 10
7 95 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (24.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 78 (23.78%) ITIL
10 66 (20.12%) SharePoint
11 62 (18.90%) Entra ID
12 61 (18.60%) ITSM
13 57 (17.38%) ServiceNow
14 52 (15.85%) Azure
15 44 (13.41%) Microsoft Exchange
16 37 (11.28%) User Experience
17 36 (10.98%) Asset Management
17 36 (10.98%) Mac OS
18 35 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
19 34 (10.37%) Apple iOS
19 34 (10.37%) Security Cleared
20 33 (10.06%) DNS
21 32 (9.76%) VPN
22 31 (9.45%) OneDrive
23 30 (9.15%) DHCP
23 30 (9.15%) TCP/IP
24 25 (7.62%) SC Cleared
24 25 (7.62%) Service Management
25 24 (7.32%) Apple
25 24 (7.32%) JIRA

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 66 (20.12%) SharePoint
2 44 (13.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.61%) Acrobat
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 218 (66.46%) Microsoft 365
2 62 (18.90%) Entra ID
3 52 (15.85%) Azure
4 31 (9.45%) OneDrive
5 8 (2.44%) AWS
5 8 (2.44%) SaaS
6 6 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.91%) Google Workspace
7 3 (0.91%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.61%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.61%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.30%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (10.06%) DNS
2 32 (9.76%) VPN
3 30 (9.15%) DHCP
3 30 (9.15%) TCP/IP
4 21 (6.40%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (3.66%) LAN
6 9 (2.74%) Firewall
6 9 (2.74%) WAN
7 7 (2.13%) Internet
7 7 (2.13%) SAN
8 6 (1.83%) VLAN
9 5 (1.52%) WLAN
10 3 (0.91%) Wireless
11 2 (0.61%) BGP
11 2 (0.61%) MPLS
11 2 (0.61%) Network Security
11 2 (0.61%) OSPF
11 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.30%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (7.32%) JIRA
2 4 (1.22%) Git
General
1 187 (57.01%) Social Skills
2 35 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (7.01%) Finance
4 21 (6.40%) Manufacturing
5 11 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.13%) Marketing
8 6 (1.83%) Legal
9 4 (1.22%) Retail
10 3 (0.91%) Banking
11 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Japanese Language
12 1 (0.30%) Local Government
12 1 (0.30%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.30%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 64 (19.51%) Onboarding
2 21 (6.40%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (3.35%) Data Centre
4 5 (1.52%) iPad
4 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.22%) CCTV
5 4 (1.22%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.22%) iPhone
6 3 (0.91%) CMDB
6 3 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.61%) BYOD
7 2 (0.61%) Digital Signage
7 2 (0.61%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.61%) Replication
7 2 (0.61%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.30%) Clustering
8 1 (0.30%) Life Science
8 1 (0.30%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 256 (78.05%) Windows
2 116 (35.37%) Windows 10
3 36 (10.98%) Mac OS
4 34 (10.37%) Apple iOS
5 19 (5.79%) Android
5 19 (5.79%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.13%) Linux
7 3 (0.91%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (39.02%) Customer Service
2 95 (28.96%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (23.78%) ITIL
4 61 (18.60%) ITSM
5 37 (11.28%) User Experience
6 36 (10.98%) Asset Management
7 35 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (7.62%) Service Management
9 23 (7.01%) Service Delivery
10 21 (6.40%) Migration
11 20 (6.10%) Break/Fix
12 15 (4.57%) Inventory Management
13 13 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (3.35%) Collaborative Working
14 11 (3.35%) Problem Management
14 11 (3.35%) Process Improvement
15 10 (3.05%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (3.05%) High Availability
16 9 (2.74%) Mobile Device Management
16 9 (2.74%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (7.32%) PowerShell
2 7 (2.13%) SQL
3 6 (1.83%) C#
4 4 (1.22%) Python
5 2 (0.61%) Java
5 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 34 (10.37%) Security Cleared
2 25 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.40%) Degree
4 18 (5.49%) A+ Certification
5 14 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (3.96%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (2.13%) CCNA
7 7 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.13%) MCSE
8 6 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.22%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.71%) SLA
2 3 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.30%) GDPR
3 1 (0.30%) GxP
3 1 (0.30%) ITGC
3 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 195 (59.45%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.30%) Docker
4 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (24.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.66%) SCCM
3 5 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.91%) WSUS
6 2 (0.61%) Ansible
7 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 214 (65.24%) Microsoft
2 57 (17.38%) ServiceNow
3 24 (7.32%) Apple
4 14 (4.27%) VMware
5 9 (2.74%) Samsung
6 8 (2.44%) Cisco
7 7 (2.13%) Dell
7 7 (2.13%) iManage
8 5 (1.52%) Citrix
8 5 (1.52%) Remedy
9 4 (1.22%) Google
9 4 (1.22%) Sophos
10 3 (0.91%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.91%) Logitech
10 3 (0.91%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.61%) Aruba
11 2 (0.61%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.61%) Okta
11 2 (0.61%) Rapid7
11 2 (0.61%) Veeam
106 IT Support Engineer jobs in England