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 29 June 2026.

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

 6 months to
29 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 125 117
Rank change year-on-year -52 -8 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 668 582 746
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 2.29% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 2.48% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 377 505
10th Percentile £156 £160 £140
25th Percentile £185 £200 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £240 £225
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £330 £375 £338
90th Percentile £450 £497 £500
UK median daily rate £225 £245 £220
% change year-on-year -8.16% +11.36% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 45 50
10th Percentile £16.97 £17.24 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.31 £20.64 £18.60
Median hourly rate £22.50 £26.28 £23.05
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +14.04% +11.87%
75th Percentile £34.85 £53.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £37.50 £68.00 £58.84
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £25.08 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.28% +11.44% +10.84%

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 40,278 23,474 34,696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.17% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,699 15,362 22,679
10th Percentile £325 £293 £298
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,883 1,087 2,595
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.94 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.65
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -10.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.82
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.26% -28.00% -14.50%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -45 227 £275 +5.16% 45
South East -31 146 £238 -5.00% 77
North of England -64 89 £190 -9.52% 55
Midlands -39 77 £210 -17.65% 28
South West -50 65 £210 -10.64% 45
East of England -3 64 £198 -12.22% 26
North West -41 53 £189 -5.63% 33
West Midlands -61 47 £250 -9.09% 13
Yorkshire -30 35 £190 -19.15% 17
East Midlands +7 29 £200 +16.96% 15
North East -51 1 £290 +48.72% 7
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 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.

1 352 (52.69%) Windows
2 269 (40.27%) Active Directory
3 253 (37.87%) Microsoft
4 241 (36.08%) Microsoft 365
5 155 (23.20%) Windows 10
6 141 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (18.71%) Azure
8 124 (18.56%) Customer Service
9 123 (18.41%) Security Cleared
10 112 (16.77%) ITIL
11 103 (15.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 88 (13.17%) SC Cleared
13 77 (11.53%) ServiceNow
14 74 (11.08%) Entra ID
15 68 (10.18%) SharePoint
16 67 (10.03%) DNS
17 66 (9.88%) PowerShell
18 58 (8.68%) SQL
19 56 (8.38%) ITSM
19 56 (8.38%) JIRA
20 48 (7.19%) Windows Server
21 47 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
22 46 (6.89%) Linux
22 46 (6.89%) Migration
23 43 (6.44%) Degree
23 43 (6.44%) Mac OS
24 42 (6.29%) Change Management
24 42 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
25 41 (6.14%) DHCP
25 41 (6.14%) LAN

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 68 (10.18%) SharePoint
2 47 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.20%) NetWeaver
4 3 (0.45%) Confluence
4 3 (0.45%) IIS
4 3 (0.45%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 30 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.90%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 241 (36.08%) Microsoft 365
2 125 (18.71%) Azure
3 74 (11.08%) Entra ID
4 31 (4.64%) AWS
5 24 (3.59%) OneDrive
6 21 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.84%) SaaS
8 13 (1.95%) GCP
9 10 (1.50%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.35%) PaaS
11 6 (0.90%) IaaS
12 5 (0.75%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.75%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.60%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.45%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.45%) Sauce Labs
15 2 (0.30%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (0.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (10.03%) DNS
2 41 (6.14%) DHCP
2 41 (6.14%) LAN
3 40 (5.99%) TCP/IP
3 40 (5.99%) VPN
3 40 (5.99%) Wi-Fi
4 25 (3.74%) WAN
5 18 (2.69%) Firewall
6 17 (2.54%) Internet
6 17 (2.54%) SAN
7 11 (1.65%) WLAN
8 9 (1.35%) VLAN
9 7 (1.05%) HTTP
10 6 (0.90%) Skype
11 5 (0.75%) Wireless
12 4 (0.60%) Network Security
13 3 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.45%) SMTP
13 3 (0.45%) Unified Communications
13 3 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.69%) MySQL
3 11 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.20%) Power BI
5 8 (1.20%) SAP HANA
6 7 (1.05%) Pentaho
6 7 (1.05%) Sybase ASE
7 6 (0.90%) MaxDB
7 6 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.75%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.60%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.45%) Big Data
10 3 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.30%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (8.38%) JIRA
2 16 (2.40%) Git
3 9 (1.35%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.45%) Android Studio
4 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.45%) Xcode
5 2 (0.30%) Firebug
5 2 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.15%) GitLab
6 1 (0.15%) MSI
6 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.15%) Subversion
6 1 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 258 (38.62%) Social Skills
2 70 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (8.68%) Finance
4 37 (5.54%) Manufacturing
5 35 (5.24%) Banking
6 21 (3.14%) Investment Banking
7 19 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.95%) Law
9 10 (1.50%) Retail
10 8 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.20%) Front Office
11 7 (1.05%) Aviation
11 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.05%) Marketing
11 7 (1.05%) Public Sector
12 6 (0.90%) Legal
12 6 (0.90%) Spanish Language
12 6 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 9 (1.35%) REST
3 7 (1.05%) JDO
3 7 (1.05%) SAP Basis
4 6 (0.90%) .NET
4 6 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
4 6 (0.90%) SAPUI5
5 5 (0.75%) CSS
5 5 (0.75%) SAML
6 4 (0.60%) Middleware
6 4 (0.60%) OAuth
6 4 (0.60%) PySpark
7 3 (0.45%) Ajax
7 3 (0.45%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.45%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.45%) JSP
7 3 (0.45%) LDAP
7 3 (0.45%) React
7 3 (0.45%) RESTful
7 3 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.13%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.19%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 18 (2.69%) Virtual Team
5 15 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
6 13 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.80%) iPhone
8 10 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.20%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.05%) iPad
10 7 (1.05%) PKI
11 6 (0.90%) BYOD
11 6 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.90%) Smartphone
12 5 (0.75%) CCTV
12 5 (0.75%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.60%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 352 (52.69%) Windows
2 155 (23.20%) Windows 10
3 48 (7.19%) Windows Server
4 46 (6.89%) Linux
5 43 (6.44%) Mac OS
6 39 (5.84%) Unix
7 22 (3.29%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.95%) Android
9 11 (1.65%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.90%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.60%) Solaris
12 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.30%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.30%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.30%) VMS
14 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (18.56%) Customer Service
3 112 (16.77%) ITIL
4 56 (8.38%) ITSM
5 46 (6.89%) Migration
6 42 (6.29%) Change Management
6 42 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (5.69%) Asset Management
8 35 (5.24%) Service Delivery
9 34 (5.09%) DevOps
10 32 (4.79%) User Experience
11 31 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 29 (4.34%) Incident Management
12 29 (4.34%) Root Cause Analysis
13 28 (4.19%) Service Management
14 23 (3.44%) High Availability
15 22 (3.29%) Problem Management
15 22 (3.29%) Runbook
16 20 (2.99%) Break/Fix
17 19 (2.84%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 66 (9.88%) PowerShell
2 58 (8.68%) SQL
3 25 (3.74%) Python
4 20 (2.99%) C#
5 19 (2.84%) Java
6 16 (2.40%) Shell Script
7 15 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.50%) Korn
9 9 (1.35%) Bash
10 7 (1.05%) C++
10 7 (1.05%) Perl
11 2 (0.30%) DCL
12 1 (0.15%) C
12 1 (0.15%) Go
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.15%) VBA
12 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 123 (18.41%) Security Cleared
2 88 (13.17%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.44%) Degree
4 29 (4.34%) DV Cleared
5 22 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.84%) A+ Certification
7 18 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
8 17 (2.54%) CCNA
8 17 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.95%) MCSE
10 8 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.05%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.15%) CCNP
14 1 (0.15%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.34%) SLA
2 4 (0.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (0.60%) GDPR
3 3 (0.45%) QA
3 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.30%) GLP
4 2 (0.30%) GMP
5 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.15%) GRC
5 1 (0.15%) GxP
5 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 269 (40.27%) Active Directory
2 33 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.69%) Hyper-V
3 18 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (2.40%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.65%) vCloud
6 10 (1.50%) Oracle RAC
6 10 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.05%) vSphere
8 4 (0.60%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.60%) Docker
9 3 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.45%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.30%) Firmware
10 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.15%) NFS
11 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.15%) zsh
Systems Management
1 103 (15.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (4.64%) SCCM
3 18 (2.69%) vCenter Server
4 16 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (1.80%) Grafana
5 12 (1.80%) SCOM
6 11 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.50%) Ansible
7 10 (1.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 10 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.90%) Kubernetes
9 5 (0.75%) Terraform
10 3 (0.45%) AirWatch
10 3 (0.45%) Nagios
10 3 (0.45%) Puppet
10 3 (0.45%) vMotion
10 3 (0.45%) vRealize
11 2 (0.30%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.30%) WMI
11 2 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 253 (37.87%) Microsoft
2 77 (11.53%) ServiceNow
3 41 (6.14%) VMware
4 27 (4.04%) Oracle
5 25 (3.74%) Apple
6 17 (2.54%) Dell
7 16 (2.40%) Citrix
8 14 (2.10%) Google
8 14 (2.10%) HP
9 12 (1.80%) Cisco
10 10 (1.50%) SAP
11 9 (1.35%) McAfee
12 8 (1.20%) Denodo
12 8 (1.20%) Splunk
12 8 (1.20%) Starlink
12 8 (1.20%) Talend
13 7 (1.05%) Okta
13 7 (1.05%) Samsung
13 7 (1.05%) Sybase
14 6 (0.90%) Siemens
246 Support Engineer jobs in England