Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £225, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 120 119
Rank change year-on-year -46 -1 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 755 640 653
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.32% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 2.53% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 415 453
10th Percentile £163 £158 £140
25th Percentile £188 £200 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £240 £234
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.73% -6.55%
75th Percentile £338 £385 £350
90th Percentile £470 £538 £525
UK median daily rate £238 £238 £234
% change year-on-year - +1.36% -6.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 68 38
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.84 £18.13
Median hourly rate £22.00 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £36.00 £43.75 £28.31
90th Percentile £37.50 £68.00 £63.27
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £25.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -4.95% +14.77% +15.79%

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 42,292 25,286 30,796
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.58% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,558 16,303 20,188
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,206 1,347 1,752
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.08
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +3.61%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Support Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in England

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Support Engineer in England

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 Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 August 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 -37 278 £270 +8.00% 41
South East -37 162 £250 - 89
North of England -35 135 £200 -9.09% 50
North West -10 91 £200 -12.09% 26
Midlands -64 62 £250 -9.09% 45
East of England -7 59 £200 - 46
South West -64 58 £210 -10.64% 36
Yorkshire -23 41 £200 -11.11% 20
West Midlands -66 40 £250 -9.09% 23
East Midlands -14 21 £270 +47.54% 22
North East -49 4 £239 +22.44% 7
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 2026, 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 439 (58.15%) Windows
2 336 (44.50%) Microsoft
3 331 (43.84%) Active Directory
4 308 (40.79%) Microsoft 365
5 185 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
6 178 (23.58%) Customer Service
7 167 (22.12%) Windows 10
8 149 (19.74%) ITIL
9 145 (19.21%) Security Cleared
10 133 (17.62%) Azure
11 127 (16.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 109 (14.44%) ServiceNow
13 105 (13.91%) Entra ID
14 103 (13.64%) SharePoint
15 102 (13.51%) ITSM
16 95 (12.58%) DNS
17 93 (12.32%) SC Cleared
18 86 (11.39%) PowerShell
19 69 (9.14%) Windows Server
20 65 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
21 64 (8.48%) Microsoft Exchange
21 64 (8.48%) SQL
22 63 (8.34%) Asset Management
22 63 (8.34%) TCP/IP
23 62 (8.21%) Degree
24 60 (7.95%) Linux
24 60 (7.95%) VMware
25 57 (7.55%) Migration
26 56 (7.42%) Mac OS
26 56 (7.42%) Service Management

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
1 103 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 64 (8.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.06%) NetWeaver
4 3 (0.40%) Confluence
4 3 (0.40%) MTS
4 3 (0.40%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.26%) IIS
5 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle BRM
3 1 (0.13%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-CA
3 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 308 (40.79%) Microsoft 365
2 133 (17.62%) Azure
3 105 (13.91%) Entra ID
4 40 (5.30%) OneDrive
5 35 (4.64%) AWS
6 21 (2.78%) SaaS
7 18 (2.38%) GCP
8 16 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 7 (0.93%) Google Workspace
11 6 (0.79%) IaaS
11 6 (0.79%) Mimecast
11 6 (0.79%) PaaS
12 5 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.53%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (0.53%) Google App Engine
13 4 (0.53%) Google Compute Engine
13 4 (0.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 3 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 95 (12.58%) DNS
2 63 (8.34%) TCP/IP
3 53 (7.02%) DHCP
3 53 (7.02%) VPN
4 38 (5.03%) Wi-Fi
5 29 (3.84%) LAN
6 23 (3.05%) Firewall
6 23 (3.05%) WAN
7 21 (2.78%) Internet
8 15 (1.99%) SAN
9 11 (1.46%) VLAN
10 7 (0.93%) Skype
11 6 (0.79%) Wireless
12 5 (0.66%) HTTP
12 5 (0.66%) Network Security
12 5 (0.66%) SMTP
12 5 (0.66%) WLAN
13 4 (0.53%) WebEx
14 3 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.84%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.25%) MySQL
3 9 (1.19%) Power BI
4 8 (1.06%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.06%) SAP HANA
5 7 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (0.93%) Pentaho
5 7 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.93%) Sybase ASE
6 6 (0.79%) MaxDB
7 5 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.66%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (0.40%) Big Data
9 3 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 54 (7.15%) JIRA
2 20 (2.65%) Git
3 9 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.40%) Android Studio
5 3 (0.40%) Artifactory
5 3 (0.40%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.40%) Xcode
6 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.26%) Firebug
7 1 (0.13%) GitLab
7 1 (0.13%) MSI
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.13%) Subversion
7 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 310 (41.06%) Social Skills
2 87 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (10.33%) Finance
4 38 (5.03%) Banking
5 33 (4.37%) Manufacturing
6 25 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.85%) Front Office
8 14 (1.85%) Law
8 14 (1.85%) Retail
9 13 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.59%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.59%) Legal
11 11 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.32%) Spanish Language
13 9 (1.19%) Public Sector
14 7 (0.93%) Marketing
15 6 (0.79%) Advertising
16 3 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.19%) .NET
1 9 (1.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 7 (0.93%) JDO
2 7 (0.93%) REST
2 7 (0.93%) SAP Basis
3 6 (0.79%) SAP Fiori
3 6 (0.79%) SAPUI5
4 5 (0.66%) CSS
4 5 (0.66%) LDAP
4 5 (0.66%) SAML
5 4 (0.53%) OAuth
6 3 (0.40%) Ajax
6 3 (0.40%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.40%) HTML
6 3 (0.40%) JSP
6 3 (0.40%) Middleware
6 3 (0.40%) React
6 3 (0.40%) RESTful
6 3 (0.40%) Web Services
6 3 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 28 (3.71%) Video Conferencing
3 25 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 23 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.12%) Hedge funds
7 15 (1.99%) iPhone
8 14 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.32%) iPad
11 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.06%) Driving Licence
13 7 (0.93%) CMDB
13 7 (0.93%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.79%) BYOD
14 6 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.79%) PKI
14 6 (0.79%) Smartphone
15 5 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.53%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 439 (58.15%) Windows
2 167 (22.12%) Windows 10
3 69 (9.14%) Windows Server
4 60 (7.95%) Linux
5 56 (7.42%) Mac OS
6 37 (4.90%) Apple iOS
7 36 (4.77%) Unix
8 29 (3.84%) Android
9 13 (1.72%) Windows 7
10 9 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (1.06%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.53%) OpenVMS
13 4 (0.53%) Solaris
13 4 (0.53%) VMS
13 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.26%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
2 178 (23.58%) Customer Service
3 149 (19.74%) ITIL
4 102 (13.51%) ITSM
5 65 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 63 (8.34%) Asset Management
7 57 (7.55%) Migration
8 56 (7.42%) Service Management
9 54 (7.15%) Service Delivery
10 52 (6.89%) User Experience
11 47 (6.23%) Root Cause Analysis
12 42 (5.56%) Problem Management
13 38 (5.03%) Change Management
14 37 (4.90%) Incident Management
15 35 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 35 (4.64%) Runbook
16 33 (4.37%) DevOps
17 28 (3.71%) CI/CD
17 28 (3.71%) Data Protection
18 27 (3.58%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 86 (11.39%) PowerShell
2 64 (8.48%) SQL
3 35 (4.64%) Python
4 27 (3.58%) Java
5 22 (2.91%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.12%) C#
6 16 (2.12%) Shell Script
7 13 (1.72%) Bash
8 9 (1.19%) Korn
9 7 (0.93%) C++
10 5 (0.66%) Perl
11 4 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.40%) Go
12 3 (0.40%) Tcl
13 2 (0.26%) DCL
13 2 (0.26%) VBA
14 1 (0.13%) C
14 1 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 145 (19.21%) Security Cleared
2 93 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.21%) Degree
4 46 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.58%) A+ Certification
6 23 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
8 17 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (2.12%) CCNA
10 13 (1.72%) MCSE
11 11 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 10 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (1.06%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.79%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.26%) CCNP
17 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
17 1 (0.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.02%) SLA
2 5 (0.66%) Data Quality
2 5 (0.66%) QA
3 3 (0.40%) GDPR
3 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.26%) GxP
5 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.13%) GLP
5 1 (0.13%) GMP
5 1 (0.13%) GRC
5 1 (0.13%) ITGC
5 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 331 (43.84%) Active Directory
2 48 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
4 23 (3.05%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.38%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.72%) vCloud
7 12 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (1.19%) Docker
8 9 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (0.93%) vSphere
10 5 (0.66%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.40%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.26%) Firmware
12 2 (0.26%) zsh
13 1 (0.13%) NFS
13 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 127 (16.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (5.56%) SCCM
3 25 (3.31%) vCenter Server
4 19 (2.52%) SCOM
5 15 (1.99%) Kubernetes
5 15 (1.99%) Terraform
6 14 (1.85%) Grafana
7 12 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (1.46%) Ansible
8 11 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 9 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (0.93%) WSUS
11 4 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.40%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.40%) Nagios
12 3 (0.40%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.40%) Puppet
12 3 (0.40%) vMotion
Vendors
1 336 (44.50%) Microsoft
2 109 (14.44%) ServiceNow
3 60 (7.95%) VMware
4 32 (4.24%) Apple
5 31 (4.11%) Oracle
6 25 (3.31%) Google
7 24 (3.18%) Citrix
8 21 (2.78%) Cisco
9 16 (2.12%) Dell
10 14 (1.85%) Splunk
11 12 (1.59%) iManage
11 12 (1.59%) Okta
12 11 (1.46%) HP
12 11 (1.46%) Samsung
12 11 (1.46%) SAP
13 10 (1.32%) Bloomberg
13 10 (1.32%) Sybase
14 9 (1.19%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.19%) McAfee
14 9 (1.19%) Meraki
283 Support Engineer jobs in England