Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £220, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 120 109
Rank change year-on-year -56 -11 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 694 633 748
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 2.31% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 2.51% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 407 515
10th Percentile £163 £160 £140
25th Percentile £185 £200 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £238 £225
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +5.56% -13.04%
75th Percentile £330 £385 £344
90th Percentile £450 £538 £500
UK median daily rate £225 £238 £223
% change year-on-year -5.26% +6.74% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 58 51
10th Percentile £16.29 £17.67 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.64 £18.08
Median hourly rate £23.00 £26.14 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +18.01% +15.42%
75th Percentile £35.22 £46.56 £29.06
90th Percentile £37.50 £68.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £25.39 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +0.93% +14.32% +13.17%

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 41,513 25,197 33,247
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.87% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,322 16,387 21,878
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £629 £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 2,989 1,248 2,255
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.39 £41.27
Median % change year-on-year +66.34% -33.63% -6.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.52 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +73.72% -37.13% -6.98%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -49 235 £240 -8.57% 39
South East -33 165 £238 -5.00% 78
North of England -64 101 £190 -13.64% 53
Midlands -45 69 £250 -9.09% 29
North West -43 63 £190 -9.52% 31
South West -50 63 £210 -10.64% 38
East of England +3 60 £200 -5.88% 34
West Midlands -74 43 £250 -9.09% 16
Yorkshire -32 37 £200 -14.89% 17
East Midlands -3 25 £220 +22.22% 13
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 20 July 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.

1 385 (55.48%) Windows
2 294 (42.36%) Active Directory
3 277 (39.91%) Microsoft
4 266 (38.33%) Microsoft 365
5 163 (23.49%) Windows 10
6 156 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
7 144 (20.75%) Customer Service
8 129 (18.59%) Azure
8 129 (18.59%) ITIL
9 126 (18.16%) Security Cleared
10 116 (16.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 94 (13.54%) ServiceNow
12 86 (12.39%) Entra ID
12 86 (12.39%) SC Cleared
13 83 (11.96%) SharePoint
14 81 (11.67%) DNS
15 75 (10.81%) ITSM
16 73 (10.52%) PowerShell
17 63 (9.08%) SQL
18 61 (8.79%) JIRA
19 52 (7.49%) Microsoft Exchange
19 52 (7.49%) Windows Server
20 50 (7.20%) TCP/IP
21 49 (7.06%) Asset Management
21 49 (7.06%) Degree
21 49 (7.06%) DHCP
22 48 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
23 47 (6.77%) Linux
23 47 (6.77%) Mac OS
23 47 (6.77%) VMware

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 83 (11.96%) SharePoint
2 52 (7.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.15%) NetWeaver
4 4 (0.58%) Confluence
5 3 (0.43%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.29%) IIS
6 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Teamcenter
3 4 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.14%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 266 (38.33%) Microsoft 365
2 129 (18.59%) Azure
3 86 (12.39%) Entra ID
4 30 (4.32%) OneDrive
5 28 (4.03%) AWS
6 21 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.74%) SaaS
8 16 (2.31%) GCP
9 11 (1.59%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.30%) PaaS
11 6 (0.86%) IaaS
11 6 (0.86%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.72%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.43%) Amazon S3
14 3 (0.43%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.43%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.43%) Sauce Labs
15 2 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (0.29%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 81 (11.67%) DNS
2 50 (7.20%) TCP/IP
3 49 (7.06%) DHCP
4 44 (6.34%) VPN
5 41 (5.91%) LAN
5 41 (5.91%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (3.75%) WAN
7 20 (2.88%) Firewall
8 19 (2.74%) Internet
9 17 (2.45%) SAN
10 11 (1.59%) VLAN
11 9 (1.30%) WLAN
12 7 (1.01%) HTTP
12 7 (1.01%) Skype
13 5 (0.72%) Network Security
14 4 (0.58%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.58%) Wireless
15 3 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
15 3 (0.43%) SMTP
15 3 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.32%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.45%) MySQL
3 9 (1.30%) Power BI
3 9 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (1.15%) SAP HANA
5 7 (1.01%) Pentaho
5 7 (1.01%) Sybase ASE
6 6 (0.86%) MaxDB
6 6 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (0.43%) Big Data
9 3 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.29%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 61 (8.79%) JIRA
2 19 (2.74%) Git
3 9 (1.30%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.43%) Android Studio
4 3 (0.43%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.43%) Xcode
5 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.29%) Firebug
6 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) GitLab
6 1 (0.14%) MSI
6 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.14%) Subversion
6 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 288 (41.50%) Social Skills
2 73 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (8.93%) Finance
4 37 (5.33%) Banking
4 37 (5.33%) Manufacturing
5 22 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (2.74%) Investment Banking
7 13 (1.87%) Law
7 13 (1.87%) Retail
8 10 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.30%) Front Office
10 8 (1.15%) Spanish Language
11 7 (1.01%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.01%) Legal
11 7 (1.01%) Marketing
11 7 (1.01%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.86%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 9 (1.30%) REST
3 8 (1.15%) .NET
4 7 (1.01%) JDO
4 7 (1.01%) SAP Basis
5 6 (0.86%) SAP Fiori
5 6 (0.86%) SAPUI5
6 5 (0.72%) CSS
6 5 (0.72%) LDAP
6 5 (0.72%) SAML
7 4 (0.58%) OAuth
8 3 (0.43%) Ajax
8 3 (0.43%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.43%) HTML
8 3 (0.43%) JSP
8 3 (0.43%) Middleware
8 3 (0.43%) React
8 3 (0.43%) RESTful
8 3 (0.43%) Web Services
8 3 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (11.38%) Onboarding
2 28 (4.03%) Data Centre
3 23 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
5 18 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (2.16%) iPhone
7 12 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.30%) Hedge funds
8 9 (1.30%) iPad
9 6 (0.86%) BYOD
9 6 (0.86%) Driving Licence
9 6 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 5 (0.72%) CCTV
10 5 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.72%) PKI
10 5 (0.72%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.58%) Clustering
11 4 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 385 (55.48%) Windows
2 163 (23.49%) Windows 10
3 52 (7.49%) Windows Server
4 47 (6.77%) Linux
4 47 (6.77%) Mac OS
5 39 (5.62%) Unix
6 24 (3.46%) Apple iOS
7 17 (2.45%) Android
8 11 (1.59%) Windows 7
9 7 (1.01%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.58%) Solaris
12 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.29%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.29%) OpenVMS
13 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.29%) VMS
13 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
2 144 (20.75%) Customer Service
3 129 (18.59%) ITIL
4 75 (10.81%) ITSM
5 49 (7.06%) Asset Management
6 48 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (6.48%) Migration
8 44 (6.34%) Service Delivery
9 42 (6.05%) Change Management
10 40 (5.76%) User Experience
11 39 (5.62%) Service Management
12 33 (4.76%) DevOps
13 32 (4.61%) Incident Management
13 32 (4.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 32 (4.61%) Problem Management
14 31 (4.47%) Root Cause Analysis
15 27 (3.89%) Runbook
16 25 (3.60%) High Availability
17 22 (3.17%) Break/Fix
18 21 (3.03%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 73 (10.52%) PowerShell
2 63 (9.08%) SQL
3 25 (3.60%) Python
4 21 (3.03%) C#
5 20 (2.88%) Java
6 17 (2.45%) Shell Script
7 16 (2.31%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.44%) Bash
8 10 (1.44%) Korn
9 7 (1.01%) C++
9 7 (1.01%) Perl
10 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.29%) DCL
11 2 (0.29%) Go
12 1 (0.14%) C
12 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.14%) VBA
12 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 126 (18.16%) Security Cleared
2 86 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.06%) Degree
4 35 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.46%) A+ Certification
7 20 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
8 17 (2.45%) CCNA
8 17 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.87%) MCSE
10 9 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.15%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.14%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.14%) CCNP
14 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.19%) SLA
2 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (0.58%) GDPR
3 3 (0.43%) QA
3 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.29%) GLP
4 2 (0.29%) GMP
5 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.14%) GRC
5 1 (0.14%) GxP
5 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 294 (42.36%) Active Directory
2 38 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
4 21 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 17 (2.45%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.73%) vCloud
7 11 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (1.44%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (1.15%) vSphere
10 4 (0.58%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.58%) Docker
11 3 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.43%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.29%) Firmware
12 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.14%) NFS
13 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.14%) zsh
Systems Management
1 116 (16.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (4.76%) SCCM
3 22 (3.17%) vCenter Server
4 16 (2.31%) SCOM
5 15 (2.16%) Jamf Pro
6 12 (1.73%) Grafana
7 10 (1.44%) Ansible
7 10 (1.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 10 (1.44%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.15%) Kubernetes
9 7 (1.01%) Terraform
10 3 (0.43%) AirWatch
10 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.43%) Nagios
10 3 (0.43%) Puppet
10 3 (0.43%) vMotion
10 3 (0.43%) vRealize
11 2 (0.29%) Kibana
11 2 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 277 (39.91%) Microsoft
2 94 (13.54%) ServiceNow
3 47 (6.77%) VMware
4 27 (3.89%) Apple
4 27 (3.89%) Oracle
5 19 (2.74%) Citrix
6 17 (2.45%) Dell
6 17 (2.45%) Google
7 14 (2.02%) HP
8 12 (1.73%) Cisco
9 10 (1.44%) SAP
10 9 (1.30%) McAfee
10 9 (1.30%) Splunk
11 8 (1.15%) Starlink
12 7 (1.01%) Denodo
12 7 (1.01%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.01%) Okta
12 7 (1.01%) Remedy
12 7 (1.01%) Samsung
12 7 (1.01%) Talend
253 Support Engineer jobs in England