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 12 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
12 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 140 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 -50 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 739 501 917
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 1.92% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.37% 2.06% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 354 653
10th Percentile £151 £153 £140
25th Percentile £185 £188 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £228 £220
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +3.64% -8.24%
75th Percentile £322 £350 £315
90th Percentile £500 £538 £500
UK median daily rate £213 £225 £215
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.65% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 22 58
10th Percentile £17.14 £14.63 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.84 £18.13 £17.79
Median hourly rate £22.75 £21.55 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% +6.40% +1.25%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.31 £28.82
90th Percentile £38.38 £48.03 £44.54
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £23.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.26% +15.00% +2.66%

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 31,137 24,269 35,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 93.07% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,768 15,138 23,489
10th Percentile £300 £299 £270
25th Percentile £407 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,988 717 2,110
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.92 £13.18
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.36 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.68 £75.00 £72.46
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% -2.23%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -19 209 £260 -5.45% 81
South East +7 159 £238 +16.10% 158
South West +13 108 £250 +11.11% 39
North of England -30 106 £190 -12.64% 85
Midlands -2 102 £200 -20.00% 56
West Midlands -20 66 £215 -17.31% 33
East of England +1 59 £203 -10.00% 39
North West -13 58 £152 -28.71% 49
Yorkshire -36 39 £205 -8.89% 29
East Midlands +6 38 £200 +5.26% 23
North East -11 9 £106 -69.71% 11
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 February 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.

1 382 (51.69%) Windows
2 284 (38.43%) Microsoft
3 242 (32.75%) Microsoft 365
4 231 (31.26%) Security Cleared
5 215 (29.09%) Active Directory
6 183 (24.76%) SC Cleared
7 173 (23.41%) Windows 10
8 159 (21.52%) Customer Service
9 145 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (14.34%) Azure
11 94 (12.72%) ITIL
12 91 (12.31%) ServiceNow
13 89 (12.04%) Microsoft Intune
14 83 (11.23%) Linux
15 70 (9.47%) Migration
16 66 (8.93%) ITSM
17 62 (8.39%) Microsoft Office
17 62 (8.39%) SCCM
17 62 (8.39%) SharePoint
18 61 (8.25%) DNS
19 59 (7.98%) PowerShell
19 59 (7.98%) Service Management
20 57 (7.71%) DHCP
21 53 (7.17%) TCP/IP
22 52 (7.04%) DV Cleared
23 51 (6.90%) VPN
24 48 (6.50%) Android
25 47 (6.36%) Microsoft Exchange
26 46 (6.22%) Asset Management
26 46 (6.22%) Windows Server

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 62 (8.39%) SharePoint
2 47 (6.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.03%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.54%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) 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%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.14%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 62 (8.39%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) DaVinci Resolve
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (0.14%) Pro Tools
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.95%) Shopify
2 5 (0.68%) Primavera
2 5 (0.68%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.14%) assyst
3 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.14%) Eikon
3 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 242 (32.75%) Microsoft 365
2 106 (14.34%) Azure
3 45 (6.09%) Entra ID
4 28 (3.79%) OneDrive
5 26 (3.52%) AWS
5 26 (3.52%) SaaS
6 18 (2.44%) Google Workspace
7 15 (2.03%) Sauce Labs
8 10 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.35%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.95%) npm
11 5 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.54%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.41%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.27%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (0.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.25%) DNS
2 57 (7.71%) DHCP
3 53 (7.17%) TCP/IP
4 51 (6.90%) VPN
5 44 (5.95%) Wi-Fi
6 31 (4.19%) Wireless
7 30 (4.06%) Firewall
8 29 (3.92%) LAN
9 26 (3.52%) WAN
10 21 (2.84%) VLAN
11 15 (2.03%) Junos
11 15 (2.03%) Skype
12 14 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
12 14 (1.89%) Network Security
13 13 (1.76%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
13 13 (1.76%) PABX
14 12 (1.62%) MPLS
15 11 (1.49%) BGP
15 11 (1.49%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.98%) Relational Database
2 19 (2.57%) MySQL
3 13 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.95%) Power BI
5 6 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.41%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.27%) Tableau
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.14%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.14%) GIS
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 27 (3.65%) JIRA
2 20 (2.71%) Browser DevTools
3 15 (2.03%) Android Studio
3 15 (2.03%) Eclipse
3 15 (2.03%) Xcode
4 8 (1.08%) Git
5 7 (0.95%) Maven
6 4 (0.54%) Firebug
7 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 332 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 65 (8.80%) Finance
3 51 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.28%) Banking
6 38 (5.14%) Manufacturing
7 28 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.57%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.17%) Investment Banking
11 14 (1.89%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.89%) Electronics
11 14 (1.89%) Law
11 14 (1.89%) Marketing
12 10 (1.35%) Front Office
13 8 (1.08%) Aviation
13 8 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.95%) Legal
15 5 (0.68%) Automotive
15 5 (0.68%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.98%) Middleware
2 20 (2.71%) CSS
3 16 (2.17%) Ajax
3 16 (2.17%) AngularJS
3 16 (2.17%) GraphQL
3 16 (2.17%) React
4 7 (0.95%) REST
5 6 (0.81%) PySpark
5 6 (0.81%) SOAP
6 5 (0.68%) XML
6 5 (0.68%) YAML
7 4 (0.54%) HTML
7 4 (0.54%) JDO
7 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.27%) .NET
8 2 (0.27%) ADO
8 2 (0.27%) EDI
8 2 (0.27%) OAuth
8 2 (0.27%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.28%) Onboarding
1 39 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (3.79%) Driving Licence
3 23 (3.11%) Smartphone
4 22 (2.98%) PKI
5 20 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 16 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 14 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.62%) iPhone
9 11 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.95%) iPad
12 7 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.54%) CCTV
14 3 (0.41%) Hedge funds
14 3 (0.41%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 382 (51.69%) Windows
2 173 (23.41%) Windows 10
3 83 (11.23%) Linux
4 48 (6.50%) Android
5 46 (6.22%) Windows Server
6 43 (5.82%) Mac OS
7 36 (4.87%) Apple iOS
8 30 (4.06%) Unix
9 12 (1.62%) Ubuntu
10 10 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.95%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.54%) CentOS
12 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (21.52%) Customer Service
2 145 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (12.72%) ITIL
4 70 (9.47%) Migration
5 66 (8.93%) ITSM
6 59 (7.98%) Service Management
7 46 (6.22%) Asset Management
7 46 (6.22%) Workflow
8 44 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 36 (4.87%) User Experience
10 35 (4.74%) Workflow Management
11 27 (3.65%) Root Cause Analysis
11 27 (3.65%) Service Delivery
12 25 (3.38%) OO
13 22 (2.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (2.71%) Data Protection
15 19 (2.57%) Agile
15 19 (2.57%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (2.44%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (2.44%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 59 (7.98%) PowerShell
2 35 (4.74%) JavaScript
3 34 (4.60%) Java
4 30 (4.06%) Python
5 28 (3.79%) SQL
6 17 (2.30%) Perl
7 16 (2.17%) Shell Script
8 12 (1.62%) Ada
8 12 (1.62%) C
8 12 (1.62%) C++
9 7 (0.95%) Bash
10 6 (0.81%) C#
11 2 (0.27%) AWK
11 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.14%) Korn
12 1 (0.14%) Magik
12 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.14%) VBA
12 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 231 (31.26%) Security Cleared
2 183 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.04%) DV Cleared
4 32 (4.33%) Degree
5 27 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.57%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.76%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (1.49%) Server+ Certification
9 9 (1.22%) A+ Certification
10 8 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.68%) CCNA
11 5 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.54%) MCSE
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.27%) MCSA
15 1 (0.14%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.25%) SLA
2 8 (1.08%) GDPR
3 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.54%) QA
4 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.14%) GAAP
5 1 (0.14%) IFRS
5 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 215 (29.09%) Active Directory
2 30 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.44%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.89%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.68%) Docker
6 5 (0.68%) vSphere
7 4 (0.54%) Firmware
8 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) NFS
10 1 (0.14%) Brightmail
10 1 (0.14%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 89 (12.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 62 (8.39%) SCCM
3 25 (3.38%) Jamf Pro
4 16 (2.17%) Ansible
4 16 (2.17%) vCenter Server
5 10 (1.35%) Grafana
6 9 (1.22%) Terraform
7 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.41%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.41%) SCOM
11 2 (0.27%) WSUS
12 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 284 (38.43%) Microsoft
2 91 (12.31%) ServiceNow
3 41 (5.55%) VMware
4 39 (5.28%) Cisco
5 31 (4.19%) Oracle
6 28 (3.79%) Apple
7 24 (3.25%) Juniper
8 21 (2.84%) Google
9 20 (2.71%) HP
10 19 (2.57%) Red Hat
10 19 (2.57%) SolarWinds
11 18 (2.44%) Dell
11 18 (2.44%) SAP
11 18 (2.44%) Splunk
12 12 (1.62%) Citrix
13 10 (1.35%) Remedy
14 9 (1.22%) Bloomberg
15 7 (0.95%) Starlink
16 6 (0.81%) McAfee
17 5 (0.68%) Siemens
414 Support Engineer jobs in England