Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £213, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
6 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 130 90
Rank change year-on-year +2 -40 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 754 530 891
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.07% 2.07% 2.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 2.23% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 378 634
10th Percentile £151 £154 £139
25th Percentile £185 £188 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £230 £215
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £338 £375 £300
90th Percentile £500 £521 £450
UK median daily rate £213 £226 £215
% change year-on-year -5.76% +4.88% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 24 59
10th Percentile £17.14 £16.67 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.77 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £22.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% +10.45% +1.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £29.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £47.75 £48.75 £46.39
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £23.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +3.63%

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 33,481 23,742 35,057
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 92.91% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,160 15,275 23,477
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 743 2,218
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.01 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.48 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.89 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +6.26% -19.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.10 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £34.08
% change year-on-year - -0.23% -15.93%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -20 220 £275 -8.33% 58
South East -8 155 £225 +9.76% 117
North of England -36 113 £190 -13.64% 84
South West +2 110 £250 +11.11% 34
Midlands -6 100 £200 -18.37% 30
West Midlands -24 61 £223 -14.42% 15
East of England -4 58 £201 -6.40% 37
North West -14 58 £152 -29.53% 47
Yorkshire -33 46 £205 -11.83% 29
East Midlands +9 41 £200 +5.26% 15
North East -14 9 £106 -45.64% 12
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 March 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.

1 375 (49.73%) Windows
2 280 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 245 (32.49%) Microsoft 365
4 224 (29.71%) Security Cleared
5 222 (29.44%) Active Directory
6 181 (24.01%) SC Cleared
7 174 (23.08%) Windows 10
8 160 (21.22%) Customer Service
9 135 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (14.46%) Azure
11 99 (13.13%) ServiceNow
12 90 (11.94%) ITIL
13 88 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
14 74 (9.81%) Migration
15 70 (9.28%) PowerShell
16 69 (9.15%) Linux
17 61 (8.09%) SCCM
18 59 (7.82%) DNS
18 59 (7.82%) ITSM
18 59 (7.82%) SharePoint
19 55 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
20 54 (7.16%) Entra ID
21 53 (7.03%) DHCP
22 51 (6.76%) TCP/IP
23 49 (6.50%) Asset Management
24 48 (6.37%) DV Cleared
24 48 (6.37%) Wi-Fi
25 45 (5.97%) Android
25 45 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
25 45 (5.97%) Workflow

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 59 (7.82%) SharePoint
2 45 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.99%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.53%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.27%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.93%) Shopify
2 6 (0.80%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.66%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.13%) assyst
5 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.13%) Eikon
5 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 245 (32.49%) Microsoft 365
2 109 (14.46%) Azure
3 54 (7.16%) Entra ID
4 30 (3.98%) OneDrive
5 23 (3.05%) SaaS
6 21 (2.79%) AWS
7 19 (2.52%) Google Workspace
8 16 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.72%) Sauce Labs
10 11 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.46%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.93%) npm
12 5 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.66%) PaaS
13 4 (0.53%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.53%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.53%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.40%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 59 (7.82%) DNS
2 53 (7.03%) DHCP
3 51 (6.76%) TCP/IP
4 48 (6.37%) Wi-Fi
5 42 (5.57%) VPN
6 31 (4.11%) LAN
7 30 (3.98%) Firewall
8 27 (3.58%) Wireless
9 23 (3.05%) WAN
10 16 (2.12%) VLAN
11 15 (1.99%) Skype
12 13 (1.72%) Network Security
12 13 (1.72%) PABX
13 10 (1.33%) Internet
14 9 (1.19%) HTTP
15 8 (1.06%) Cisco Firepower
15 8 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
15 8 (1.06%) Cisco ISE
15 8 (1.06%) Junos
15 8 (1.06%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.52%) Relational Database
1 19 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.25%) MySQL
3 9 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (1.06%) Power BI
5 6 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.53%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.40%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (0.40%) Tableau
8 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.27%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.27%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.13%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.13%) GIS
9 1 (0.13%) MS Access
9 1 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (5.44%) JIRA
2 20 (2.65%) Browser DevTools
3 13 (1.72%) Android Studio
3 13 (1.72%) Eclipse
3 13 (1.72%) Xcode
4 11 (1.46%) Git
5 7 (0.93%) Maven
6 4 (0.53%) Firebug
7 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 329 (43.63%) Social Skills
2 65 (8.62%) Finance
3 50 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.57%) Banking
4 42 (5.57%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.44%) Manufacturing
6 28 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.99%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.72%) Electronics
10 13 (1.72%) Marketing
11 11 (1.46%) Law
12 8 (1.06%) Aviation
12 8 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.06%) Front Office
12 8 (1.06%) Legal
13 5 (0.66%) Automotive
14 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.92%) Middleware
2 17 (2.25%) CSS
3 13 (1.72%) Ajax
3 13 (1.72%) AngularJS
3 13 (1.72%) GraphQL
3 13 (1.72%) React
4 7 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 7 (0.93%) REST
5 6 (0.80%) PySpark
6 5 (0.66%) OAuth
6 5 (0.66%) SOAP
6 5 (0.66%) YAML
7 4 (0.53%) HTML
7 4 (0.53%) JDO
7 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (0.53%) XML
8 3 (0.40%) .NET
8 3 (0.40%) SAML
9 2 (0.27%) ADO
9 2 (0.27%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.97%) Onboarding
2 40 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (3.58%) Driving Licence
4 26 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.92%) Smartphone
6 16 (2.12%) PKI
7 14 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.46%) iPhone
11 8 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.06%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.80%) iPad
14 4 (0.53%) Hedge funds
15 3 (0.40%) CCTV
15 3 (0.40%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 375 (49.73%) Windows
2 174 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 69 (9.15%) Linux
4 45 (5.97%) Android
5 44 (5.84%) Mac OS
6 40 (5.31%) Windows Server
7 34 (4.51%) Unix
8 33 (4.38%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.59%) Ubuntu
10 9 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.80%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.53%) CentOS
13 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (21.22%) Customer Service
2 135 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (11.94%) ITIL
4 74 (9.81%) Migration
5 59 (7.82%) ITSM
6 49 (6.50%) Asset Management
7 45 (5.97%) Workflow
8 44 (5.84%) Service Management
9 38 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (4.77%) User Experience
11 35 (4.64%) Workflow Management
12 29 (3.85%) Root Cause Analysis
12 29 (3.85%) Service Delivery
13 24 (3.18%) Break/Fix
13 24 (3.18%) DevOps
14 22 (2.92%) OO
14 22 (2.92%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (2.79%) Change Management
15 21 (2.79%) Data Protection
16 20 (2.65%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 70 (9.28%) PowerShell
2 41 (5.44%) SQL
3 33 (4.38%) Java
4 32 (4.24%) JavaScript
5 30 (3.98%) Python
6 24 (3.18%) Shell Script
7 15 (1.99%) C#
7 15 (1.99%) Perl
8 12 (1.59%) Ada
8 12 (1.59%) C
8 12 (1.59%) C++
9 9 (1.19%) Bash
10 7 (0.93%) Korn
11 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.27%) AWK
12 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.27%) VBA
12 2 (0.27%) VBScript
13 1 (0.13%) Magik
13 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 224 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 181 (24.01%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.37%) DV Cleared
4 32 (4.24%) Degree
5 27 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.72%) A+ Certification
7 12 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (1.19%) CCNA
8 9 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.06%) MCSE
10 7 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.66%) Server+ Certification
13 4 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.40%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.13%) HND
15 1 (0.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.85%) SLA
2 9 (1.19%) GDPR
3 3 (0.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.40%) QA
4 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.13%) GAAP
5 1 (0.13%) GLP
5 1 (0.13%) GMP
5 1 (0.13%) IFRS
5 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 222 (29.44%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.12%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (0.80%) Firmware
8 5 (0.66%) vSphere
9 4 (0.53%) Docker
10 3 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.27%) NFS
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 88 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 61 (8.09%) SCCM
3 27 (3.58%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (1.86%) Ansible
5 12 (1.59%) Grafana
6 10 (1.33%) vCenter Server
7 8 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.06%) Terraform
8 7 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 7 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.27%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.27%) SCOM
10 2 (0.27%) WMI
10 2 (0.27%) WSUS
11 1 (0.13%) Autotask
11 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 280 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 99 (13.13%) ServiceNow
3 35 (4.64%) Oracle
3 35 (4.64%) VMware
4 29 (3.85%) Apple
5 28 (3.71%) Cisco
6 25 (3.32%) Dell
7 21 (2.79%) HP
8 20 (2.65%) Google
8 20 (2.65%) SAP
9 17 (2.25%) Red Hat
10 16 (2.12%) Splunk
11 15 (1.99%) Juniper
12 11 (1.46%) Citrix
12 11 (1.46%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.33%) Bloomberg
13 10 (1.33%) Remedy
14 7 (0.93%) Zscaler
15 6 (0.80%) McAfee
15 6 (0.80%) Starlink
327 Support Engineer jobs in England