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 15 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
15 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 123 125
Rank change year-on-year -49 +2 -42
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 766 643 631
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 2.35% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 2.57% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 431 436
10th Percentile £163 £160 £143
25th Percentile £185 £198 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £235 £237
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -0.95% -5.10%
75th Percentile £325 £375 £350
90th Percentile £500 £550 £506
UK median daily rate £226 £235 £240
% change year-on-year -4.04% -2.08% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 67 35
10th Percentile £15.24 £16.50 £18.07
25th Percentile £18.31 £20.95 £20.11
Median hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +7.53% +26.46%
75th Percentile £35.81 £43.75 £44.38
90th Percentile £37.50 £68.00 £66.54
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £25.63 £23.59
% change year-on-year -14.15% +8.63% +23.38%

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 42,696 24,979 30,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 91.29% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,483 16,104 19,043
10th Percentile £325 £280 £301
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,419 1,343 1,501
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.66 £14.65
25th Percentile £21.07 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -1.96%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -29 277 £250 - 232
South East -52 155 £250 - 121
North of England -14 137 £200 -9.09% 71
North West +8 100 £200 -12.09% 44
East of England +5 78 £200 -9.09% 48
Midlands -63 67 £250 -9.09% 66
South West -62 53 £205 -12.77% 18
West Midlands -69 49 £225 -18.18% 40
Yorkshire -21 34 £190 -13.64% 19
East Midlands -13 18 £270 +38.46% 26
North East -42 4 £239 +22.44% 11
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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.

1 465 (60.70%) Windows
2 367 (47.91%) Microsoft
3 341 (44.52%) Active Directory
4 333 (43.47%) Microsoft 365
5 196 (25.59%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (25.07%) Customer Service
7 170 (22.19%) Windows 10
8 153 (19.97%) ITIL
9 147 (19.19%) Security Cleared
10 132 (17.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 127 (16.58%) Azure
12 119 (15.54%) ITSM
13 115 (15.01%) SharePoint
14 114 (14.88%) Entra ID
15 99 (12.92%) ServiceNow
16 95 (12.40%) DNS
17 90 (11.75%) PowerShell
18 84 (10.97%) SC Cleared
19 77 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
20 73 (9.53%) Asset Management
20 73 (9.53%) Degree
21 71 (9.27%) Windows Server
22 70 (9.14%) Microsoft Exchange
23 69 (9.01%) Service Management
24 68 (8.88%) Linux
25 65 (8.49%) Service Delivery
26 64 (8.36%) Mac OS
27 63 (8.22%) VMware
28 62 (8.09%) SQL
28 62 (8.09%) TCP/IP

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
1 115 (15.01%) SharePoint
2 70 (9.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.78%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.65%) MTS
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 42 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 333 (43.47%) Microsoft 365
2 127 (16.58%) Azure
3 114 (14.88%) Entra ID
4 45 (5.87%) OneDrive
5 34 (4.44%) AWS
6 22 (2.87%) SaaS
7 15 (1.96%) GCP
8 10 (1.31%) Power Platform
9 7 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.91%) Google Workspace
10 6 (0.78%) Mimecast
11 5 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (0.65%) IaaS
12 4 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (0.52%) Cloud Functions
12 4 (0.52%) Google App Engine
12 4 (0.52%) Google Compute Engine
12 4 (0.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.52%) PaaS
12 4 (0.52%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 95 (12.40%) DNS
2 62 (8.09%) TCP/IP
3 57 (7.44%) VPN
4 51 (6.66%) DHCP
5 37 (4.83%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (3.39%) Firewall
7 23 (3.00%) LAN
8 22 (2.87%) WAN
9 19 (2.48%) Internet
10 10 (1.31%) VLAN
10 10 (1.31%) Wireless
11 8 (1.04%) SAN
12 7 (0.91%) Network Security
12 7 (0.91%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.91%) WebEx
13 5 (0.65%) Skype
13 5 (0.65%) SMTP
13 5 (0.65%) WLAN
14 3 (0.39%) BGP
14 3 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.70%) MySQL
3 9 (1.17%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.04%) Power BI
5 6 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.78%) SAP HANA
6 5 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.65%) MaxDB
6 5 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.39%) Big Data
8 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.39%) KDB
8 3 (0.39%) Pentaho
9 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 48 (6.27%) JIRA
2 16 (2.09%) Git
3 6 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.39%) Android Studio
4 3 (0.39%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.39%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.39%) Xcode
5 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.26%) Firebug
6 1 (0.13%) GitLab
6 1 (0.13%) Subversion
6 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 327 (42.69%) Social Skills
2 83 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (10.44%) Finance
4 38 (4.96%) Banking
4 38 (4.96%) Manufacturing
5 27 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
6 22 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.74%) Investment Banking
8 18 (2.35%) Front Office
8 18 (2.35%) Legal
9 14 (1.83%) Law
9 14 (1.83%) Retail
9 14 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.70%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.31%) Spanish Language
13 7 (0.91%) Marketing
14 6 (0.78%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.09%) Terraform
2 9 (1.17%) .NET
3 7 (0.91%) JDO
4 6 (0.78%) CSS
5 5 (0.65%) LDAP
5 5 (0.65%) REST
5 5 (0.65%) SAP Basis
5 5 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
5 5 (0.65%) SAPUI5
6 4 (0.52%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.52%) HTML
6 4 (0.52%) React
7 3 (0.39%) Ajax
7 3 (0.39%) AngularJS
7 3 (0.39%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.39%) Jakarta EE
7 3 (0.39%) Web Services
7 3 (0.39%) XML
8 2 (0.26%) Kafka
8 2 (0.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 111 (14.49%) Onboarding
2 32 (4.18%) Video Conferencing
3 22 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (2.61%) Data Centre
5 18 (2.35%) Hedge funds
6 15 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.44%) CMDB
9 11 (1.44%) iPhone
10 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.91%) iPad
13 6 (0.78%) BYOD
13 6 (0.78%) NHS
13 6 (0.78%) PKI
14 5 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 465 (60.70%) Windows
2 170 (22.19%) Windows 10
3 71 (9.27%) Windows Server
4 68 (8.88%) Linux
5 64 (8.36%) Mac OS
6 41 (5.35%) Apple iOS
7 40 (5.22%) Android
8 27 (3.52%) Unix
9 12 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (1.44%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.44%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.52%) CentOS
11 4 (0.52%) OpenVMS
11 4 (0.52%) Solaris
11 4 (0.52%) VMS
11 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (25.59%) Problem-Solving
2 192 (25.07%) Customer Service
3 153 (19.97%) ITIL
4 119 (15.54%) ITSM
5 77 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (9.53%) Asset Management
7 69 (9.01%) Service Management
8 65 (8.49%) Service Delivery
9 61 (7.96%) Migration
10 55 (7.18%) Root Cause Analysis
11 53 (6.92%) User Experience
12 42 (5.48%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (5.35%) Problem Management
14 40 (5.22%) Incident Management
15 34 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 31 (4.05%) Data Protection
17 30 (3.92%) Runbook
18 29 (3.79%) Disaster Recovery
19 27 (3.52%) Inventory Management
20 26 (3.39%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 90 (11.75%) PowerShell
2 62 (8.09%) SQL
3 39 (5.09%) Python
4 28 (3.66%) Java
5 23 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.83%) Bash
7 10 (1.31%) C#
8 8 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.91%) C++
10 5 (0.65%) Perl
10 5 (0.65%) Tcl
11 4 (0.52%) Go
11 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.26%) DCL
14 1 (0.13%) C
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
14 1 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 147 (19.19%) Security Cleared
2 84 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.53%) Degree
4 55 (7.18%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.87%) A+ Certification
6 17 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
8 13 (1.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 12 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.17%) CCNA
10 9 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.91%) MCSE
12 6 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.39%) CCNP
15 2 (0.26%) OCA
15 2 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.14%) SLA
2 5 (0.65%) QA
3 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.26%) GDPR
4 2 (0.26%) GxP
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
1 341 (44.52%) Active Directory
2 50 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (2.61%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.22%) VMware NSX
6 15 (1.96%) vCloud
7 13 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (1.17%) Docker
9 6 (0.78%) vSphere
10 5 (0.65%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.39%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.26%) zsh
13 1 (0.13%) Firmware
13 1 (0.13%) NFS
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 132 (17.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (6.53%) SCCM
3 30 (3.92%) vCenter Server
4 25 (3.26%) SCOM
5 17 (2.22%) Kubernetes
6 14 (1.83%) Ansible
6 14 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (1.17%) Grafana
7 9 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.91%) WSUS
9 4 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.39%) Nagios
10 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.39%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) vMotion
11 2 (0.26%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.26%) Kibana
11 2 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.26%) vRealize
12 1 (0.13%) Forefront Identity Manager
Vendors
1 367 (47.91%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.92%) ServiceNow
3 63 (8.22%) VMware
4 35 (4.57%) Apple
5 31 (4.05%) Cisco
6 27 (3.52%) Citrix
6 27 (3.52%) Oracle
7 25 (3.26%) Google
8 17 (2.22%) Splunk
9 13 (1.70%) iManage
9 13 (1.70%) Samsung
10 12 (1.57%) Bloomberg
11 11 (1.44%) Broadcom
11 11 (1.44%) Meraki
11 11 (1.44%) Okta
12 10 (1.31%) SolarWinds
12 10 (1.31%) Sybase
13 9 (1.17%) Dell
14 8 (1.04%) HP
14 8 (1.04%) SAP
541 Support Engineer jobs in England