IT Support Engineer Contracts in England

IT Support Engineer
UK > England

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in England is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 455 525
Rank change year-on-year +74 +70 -20
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 164 209 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.44% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 141 179
10th Percentile £123 £135 £128
25th Percentile £145 £150 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £258 £288 £255
90th Percentile £300 £350 £388
UK median daily rate £190 £180 £198
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.86% +19.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 28
10th Percentile £12.53 £12.11 £12.62
25th Percentile £16.44 £13.44 £14.72
Median hourly rate £21.00 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -5.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £22.83 £22.03 £19.29
90th Percentile £41.75 £30.88 £21.00
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +21.21% -5.71% +13.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in England

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Support Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for IT Support Engineer 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 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in England

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Support Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Engineer 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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +97 65 £238 +20.25% 34
North of England +25 26 £190 -10.59% 33
South East +22 23 £183 -8.75% 36
South West +18 18 £183 +2.82% 28
Midlands +13 18 £150 -21.05% 28
East Midlands +15 15 £150 -52.38% 16
East of England +15 14 £200 - 15
Yorkshire +23 13 £200 +21.21% 12
North West +17 8 £158 -43.50% 17
North East +17 5 £175 +18.64% 4
West Midlands +11 3 £175 +16.67% 12
IT Support Engineer
UK

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, IT 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 England region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 111 (67.68%) Windows
2 79 (48.17%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (43.29%) Active Directory
4 61 (37.20%) Microsoft
5 54 (32.93%) Social Skills
6 51 (31.10%) Customer Service
7 35 (21.34%) Windows 10
8 30 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (17.68%) SCCM
10 28 (17.07%) Microsoft Office
11 26 (15.85%) Microsoft Exchange
12 24 (14.63%) Finance
13 21 (12.80%) ITIL
14 19 (11.59%) Asset Management
14 19 (11.59%) Azure
14 19 (11.59%) Microsoft Intune
14 19 (11.59%) ServiceNow
15 18 (10.98%) LAN
16 16 (9.76%) SharePoint
16 16 (9.76%) Windows Server
16 16 (9.76%) Video Conferencing
17 14 (8.54%) Manufacturing
18 13 (7.93%) VPN
18 13 (7.93%) Security Cleared
18 13 (7.93%) Apple iOS
18 13 (7.93%) Onboarding
19 12 (7.32%) DHCP
20 11 (6.71%) VMware
20 11 (6.71%) Firewall
20 11 (6.71%) Wi-Fi

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 26 (15.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (9.76%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.05%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) JBoss
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (17.07%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.61%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) ION MarketView
1 1 (0.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 79 (48.17%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (11.59%) Azure
3 8 (4.88%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.27%) AWS
5 4 (2.44%) OneDrive
5 4 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.83%) Asana
6 3 (1.83%) Slack
6 3 (1.83%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.22%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.22%) SaaS
8 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.98%) LAN
2 13 (7.93%) VPN
3 12 (7.32%) DHCP
4 11 (6.71%) Firewall
4 11 (6.71%) WAN
4 11 (6.71%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (6.10%) DNS
6 8 (4.88%) Internet
7 7 (4.27%) TCP/IP
8 6 (3.66%) Wireless
9 5 (3.05%) Skype
10 4 (2.44%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (2.44%) SAN
10 4 (2.44%) VLAN
11 2 (1.22%) Intranet
11 2 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (1.22%) SD-WAN
11 2 (1.22%) Telepresence
11 2 (1.22%) VoIP
12 1 (0.61%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.83%) Power BI
2 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.27%) JIRA
General
1 54 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.63%) Finance
3 14 (8.54%) Manufacturing
4 9 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.27%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.66%) Law
7 4 (2.44%) Electronics
7 4 (2.44%) Marketing
7 4 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.22%) Automotive
9 2 (1.22%) Back Office
9 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.22%) French Language
9 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.22%) Portuguese Language
9 2 (1.22%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.61%) Aviation
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.61%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (0.61%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.76%) Video Conferencing
2 13 (7.93%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.88%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.66%) iPhone
5 5 (3.05%) NHS
5 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.83%) BYOD
6 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.83%) Life Science
6 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.22%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.22%) CMDB
7 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.22%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.61%) Digital Signage
8 1 (0.61%) EPoS
8 1 (0.61%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.61%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 111 (67.68%) Windows
2 35 (21.34%) Windows 10
3 16 (9.76%) Windows Server
4 13 (7.93%) Apple iOS
5 11 (6.71%) Android
6 9 (5.49%) Linux
6 9 (5.49%) Windows 7
7 6 (3.66%) Unix
8 3 (1.83%) VMS
9 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.61%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.10%) Customer Service
2 30 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (12.80%) ITIL
4 19 (11.59%) Asset Management
5 11 (6.71%) Service Delivery
6 9 (5.49%) Server Patching
7 8 (4.88%) ITSM
7 8 (4.88%) Mobile Device Management
8 7 (4.27%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (4.27%) Logistics
9 6 (3.66%) Incident Management
9 6 (3.66%) Service Management
10 5 (3.05%) Change Management
10 5 (3.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (3.05%) Customer Experience
10 5 (3.05%) Inventory Management
10 5 (3.05%) Kalman Filter
10 5 (3.05%) Migration
10 5 (3.05%) Process Improvement
11 4 (2.44%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.05%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.83%) Python
2 3 (1.83%) SQL
3 1 (0.61%) Java
3 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (7.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.49%) Degree
3 8 (4.88%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.27%) DBS Check
5 5 (3.05%) A+ Certification
6 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.22%) MCDST
8 2 (1.22%) MCP
9 1 (0.61%) CCNA
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.49%) SLA
2 3 (1.83%) GAMP
2 3 (1.83%) GxP
3 2 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 71 (43.29%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (17.68%) SCCM
2 19 (11.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.83%) SCOM
3 3 (1.83%) SCVMM
3 3 (1.83%) WSUS
4 2 (1.22%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 61 (37.20%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.59%) ServiceNow
3 11 (6.71%) Apple
3 11 (6.71%) Citrix
3 11 (6.71%) VMware
4 9 (5.49%) Cisco
5 5 (3.05%) Veeam
6 4 (2.44%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.44%) Google
6 4 (2.44%) SAP
7 3 (1.83%) MobileIron
7 3 (1.83%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.83%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.22%) Adobe
8 2 (1.22%) BMC
8 2 (1.22%) Polycom
8 2 (1.22%) Reuters
8 2 (1.22%) Splunk
8 2 (1.22%) UiPath
9 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
189 IT Support Engineer jobs Nationwide