Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £210, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 112 106
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 687 573 812
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.75% 2.35% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 2.54% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 393 580
10th Percentile £153 £154 £137
25th Percentile £185 £195 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £245 £215
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.95% -14.00%
75th Percentile £338 £399 £300
90th Percentile £470 £550 £416
UK median daily rate £213 £240 £210
% change year-on-year -11.46% +14.29% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 30 55
10th Percentile £17.51 £18.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.97 £18.20 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.18 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +16.17% +7.85%
75th Percentile £27.13 £32.42 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.90 £68.00 £46.39
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £23.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.26% +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 36,221 22,584 34,712
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.76% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,810 15,127 23,151
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,401 842 2,352
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -5.05% -21.54%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £31.58 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.37% -9.77% -21.81%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -55 211 £275 -9.09% 62
South East -22 124 £213 -15.00% 88
North of England -49 119 £190 -11.63% 71
Midlands -30 89 £200 -27.27% 39
South West -18 87 £210 -6.67% 39
North West -19 68 £168 -22.99% 43
East of England -14 59 £203 -10.00% 28
West Midlands -53 55 £270 -6.09% 19
Yorkshire -31 45 £205 -8.89% 24
East Midlands -6 35 £200 -5.88% 20
North East -24 6 £106 -45.64% 7
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 April 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.

1 333 (48.47%) Windows
2 257 (37.41%) Microsoft
3 237 (34.50%) Microsoft 365
4 224 (32.61%) Active Directory
5 167 (24.31%) Security Cleared
6 165 (24.02%) Windows 10
7 155 (22.56%) Customer Service
8 141 (20.52%) SC Cleared
9 113 (16.45%) Azure
10 111 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
11 94 (13.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 87 (12.66%) ITIL
13 80 (11.64%) ServiceNow
14 64 (9.32%) Migration
15 63 (9.17%) Entra ID
16 59 (8.59%) PowerShell
16 59 (8.59%) SharePoint
17 51 (7.42%) ITSM
18 48 (6.99%) JIRA
18 48 (6.99%) Wi-Fi
19 47 (6.84%) DNS
20 45 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
20 45 (6.55%) SQL
21 44 (6.40%) Asset Management
22 42 (6.11%) SCCM
23 38 (5.53%) DHCP
23 38 (5.53%) TCP/IP
24 37 (5.39%) User Experience
25 35 (5.09%) Linux
26 34 (4.95%) 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 (8.59%) SharePoint
2 28 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.02%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.58%) Apache
5 3 (0.44%) Confluence
5 3 (0.44%) IIS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.29%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.15%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (1.02%) Shopify
2 6 (0.87%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.15%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.15%) assyst
4 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.15%) Eikon
4 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.15%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 237 (34.50%) Microsoft 365
2 113 (16.45%) Azure
3 63 (9.17%) Entra ID
4 23 (3.35%) OneDrive
5 20 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (2.47%) Google Workspace
7 16 (2.33%) AWS
7 16 (2.33%) SaaS
8 11 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.60%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.02%) Sauce Labs
10 5 (0.73%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (0.73%) GCP
10 5 (0.73%) npm
10 5 (0.73%) PaaS
11 4 (0.58%) Datadog
11 4 (0.58%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.44%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (6.99%) Wi-Fi
2 47 (6.84%) DNS
3 38 (5.53%) DHCP
3 38 (5.53%) TCP/IP
4 33 (4.80%) LAN
5 32 (4.66%) VPN
6 24 (3.49%) WAN
7 22 (3.20%) Firewall
8 16 (2.33%) Wireless
9 13 (1.89%) SAN
10 11 (1.60%) Internet
10 11 (1.60%) Network Security
11 9 (1.31%) Skype
12 8 (1.16%) VLAN
13 7 (1.02%) HTTP
14 6 (0.87%) WLAN
15 5 (0.73%) AMQP
15 5 (0.73%) VoIP
16 4 (0.58%) PABX
16 4 (0.58%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.62%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.47%) MySQL
3 12 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.31%) Power BI
4 9 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (1.02%) Pentaho
6 5 (0.73%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (0.44%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.44%) Tableau
9 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.29%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.29%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.15%) MS Access
10 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (6.99%) JIRA
2 19 (2.77%) Git
3 12 (1.75%) Browser DevTools
4 7 (1.02%) Android Studio
4 7 (1.02%) Eclipse
4 7 (1.02%) Xcode
5 5 (0.73%) Maven
6 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.15%) Firebug
7 1 (0.15%) MSI
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.15%) Subversion
General
1 293 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 57 (8.30%) Finance
3 48 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (5.68%) Banking
5 37 (5.39%) Manufacturing
6 29 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.49%) Public Sector
8 17 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.60%) Front Office
9 11 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.46%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.31%) Law
11 9 (1.31%) Legal
12 8 (1.16%) Electronics
12 8 (1.16%) Marketing
13 7 (1.02%) Aviation
14 6 (0.87%) French Language
15 5 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.46%) Middleware
1 10 (1.46%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 8 (1.16%) CSS
3 7 (1.02%) .NET
3 7 (1.02%) Ajax
3 7 (1.02%) AngularJS
3 7 (1.02%) GraphQL
3 7 (1.02%) React
4 6 (0.87%) JDO
5 5 (0.73%) REST
5 5 (0.73%) SAML
5 5 (0.73%) YAML
6 4 (0.58%) OAuth
6 4 (0.58%) PySpark
7 2 (0.29%) EDI
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.29%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.29%) SOAP
7 2 (0.29%) Spring
7 2 (0.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.70%) Onboarding
2 33 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 25 (3.64%) Driving Licence
4 16 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (2.18%) Smartphone
6 13 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.75%) iPhone
7 12 (1.75%) PKI
7 12 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.73%) iPad
12 4 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (0.44%) Hedge funds
13 3 (0.44%) Management Information System
14 2 (0.29%) CCTV
14 2 (0.29%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 333 (48.47%) Windows
2 165 (24.02%) Windows 10
3 35 (5.09%) Linux
4 33 (4.80%) Android
5 32 (4.66%) Mac OS
5 32 (4.66%) Windows Server
6 27 (3.93%) Apple iOS
6 27 (3.93%) Unix
7 9 (1.31%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.44%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.29%) CentOS
10 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (22.56%) Customer Service
2 111 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (12.66%) ITIL
4 64 (9.32%) Migration
5 51 (7.42%) ITSM
6 44 (6.40%) Asset Management
7 37 (5.39%) User Experience
8 34 (4.95%) Workflow
9 32 (4.66%) Change Management
9 32 (4.66%) Service Management
10 27 (3.93%) DevOps
11 26 (3.78%) Workflow Management
12 25 (3.64%) Break/Fix
12 25 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (3.64%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (3.35%) Incident Management
13 23 (3.35%) Service Delivery
14 20 (2.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (2.77%) Agile
15 19 (2.77%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 59 (8.59%) PowerShell
2 45 (6.55%) SQL
3 24 (3.49%) Python
4 20 (2.91%) C#
5 19 (2.77%) Java
6 15 (2.18%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.18%) Shell Script
7 10 (1.46%) Korn
8 9 (1.31%) Perl
9 6 (0.87%) Bash
10 3 (0.44%) C
10 3 (0.44%) C++
10 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.29%) Ada
11 2 (0.29%) AWK
11 2 (0.29%) VBA
11 2 (0.29%) VBScript
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 141 (20.52%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.66%) DV Cleared
4 30 (4.37%) Degree
5 19 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (2.33%) A+ Certification
7 14 (2.04%) CCNA
7 14 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.75%) MCSE
9 11 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 1 (0.15%) CCNP
16 1 (0.15%) City & Guilds
16 1 (0.15%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.20%) SLA
2 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (0.58%) GDPR
3 3 (0.44%) QA
4 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.29%) GLP
4 2 (0.29%) GMP
5 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.15%) GAAP
5 1 (0.15%) GxP
5 1 (0.15%) IFRS
5 1 (0.15%) ITGC
5 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 224 (32.61%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.46%) Oracle RAC
3 10 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.87%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.58%) Firmware
7 3 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.44%) vSphere
8 2 (0.29%) Docker
8 2 (0.29%) NFS
9 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 94 (13.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (6.11%) SCCM
3 24 (3.49%) Jamf Pro
4 16 (2.33%) Grafana
5 10 (1.46%) Ansible
5 10 (1.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 10 (1.46%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.31%) Terraform
7 6 (0.87%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.29%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.29%) WMI
8 2 (0.29%) WSUS
9 1 (0.15%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.15%) Autotask
9 1 (0.15%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.15%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 257 (37.41%) Microsoft
2 80 (11.64%) ServiceNow
3 28 (4.08%) Dell
3 28 (4.08%) Oracle
4 22 (3.20%) Cisco
5 21 (3.06%) VMware
6 20 (2.91%) Apple
7 19 (2.77%) Google
7 19 (2.77%) HP
8 15 (2.18%) SAP
9 11 (1.60%) Splunk
10 10 (1.46%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.46%) McAfee
11 9 (1.31%) Remedy
11 9 (1.31%) Starlink
12 8 (1.16%) Denodo
12 8 (1.16%) Juniper
12 8 (1.16%) Talend
13 7 (1.02%) Citrix
13 7 (1.02%) Meraki
309 Support Engineer jobs in England