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 22 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
22 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 125 78
Rank change year-on-year +13 -47 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 765 616 1,097
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.50% 1.97% 2.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.74% 2.12% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 431 789
10th Percentile £153 £150 £140
25th Percentile £188 £188 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £240 £238
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +3.26%
75th Percentile £348 £350 £400
90th Percentile £537 £525 £600
UK median daily rate £225 £240 £238
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 31 57
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.22 £14.03
25th Percentile £19.54 £19.60 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +27.26% -6.31%
75th Percentile £30.00 £40.75 £21.75
90th Percentile £59.60 £60.00 £23.95
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £23.59 £19.00
% change year-on-year +1.74% +24.16% -2.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,895 29,050 36,997
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 92.91% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,870 17,756 25,553
10th Percentile £283 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,704 1,106 1,431
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.12 £19.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +50.00%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -3 222 £238 -20.83% 183
South East +24 184 £238 +1.87% 146
South West +32 104 £250 +13.64% 46
Midlands +2 100 £250 -3.85% 75
North of England -18 99 £205 +2.50% 97
West Midlands +2 73 £255 -1.92% 49
North West -17 54 £190 -5.00% 55
East of England -8 52 £220 - 46
Yorkshire -32 33 £205 -7.87% 35
East Midlands 0 27 £180 -24.21% 26
North East +4 12 £106 -34.77% 8
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, 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.

1 423 (55.29%) Windows
2 307 (40.13%) Microsoft
3 240 (31.37%) Microsoft 365
4 237 (30.98%) Security Cleared
5 226 (29.54%) Active Directory
6 178 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
7 173 (22.61%) SC Cleared
8 161 (21.05%) Windows 10
9 157 (20.52%) Customer Service
10 116 (15.16%) ITIL
11 101 (13.20%) Azure
11 101 (13.20%) ServiceNow
12 93 (12.16%) Microsoft Office
13 92 (12.03%) Linux
14 88 (11.50%) DNS
14 88 (11.50%) Microsoft Intune
15 79 (10.33%) DHCP
16 75 (9.80%) ITSM
17 74 (9.67%) Service Management
17 74 (9.67%) SharePoint
17 74 (9.67%) VPN
18 73 (9.54%) SCCM
18 73 (9.54%) TCP/IP
19 71 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
20 61 (7.97%) DV Cleared
21 57 (7.45%) Migration
22 54 (7.06%) Cisco
23 53 (6.93%) Android
23 53 (6.93%) Windows Server
24 48 (6.27%) Oracle

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 74 (9.67%) SharePoint
2 71 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (3.40%) Skype for Business
4 11 (1.44%) Exchange Server 2010
4 11 (1.44%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (1.31%) Office Communications Server
6 6 (0.78%) Confluence
7 3 (0.39%) Apache
7 3 (0.39%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.26%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 93 (12.16%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) DaVinci Resolve
5 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.13%) Pro Tools
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.65%) Primavera
3 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) Eikon
4 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) assyst
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Eze OMS
5 1 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 240 (31.37%) Microsoft 365
2 101 (13.20%) Azure
3 37 (4.84%) Entra ID
4 27 (3.53%) AWS
5 25 (3.27%) OneDrive
5 25 (3.27%) SaaS
6 18 (2.35%) Sauce Labs
7 17 (2.22%) Google Workspace
8 13 (1.70%) Power Platform
9 7 (0.92%) npm
10 6 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.65%) OpenShift
11 5 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.39%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.39%) Slack
13 2 (0.26%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 88 (11.50%) DNS
2 79 (10.33%) DHCP
3 74 (9.67%) VPN
4 73 (9.54%) TCP/IP
5 39 (5.10%) Firewall
5 39 (5.10%) Wireless
6 38 (4.97%) WAN
7 36 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (3.27%) LAN
9 23 (3.01%) Cisco IOS
10 21 (2.75%) VLAN
11 20 (2.61%) Junos
12 18 (2.35%) MPLS
13 17 (2.22%) BGP
13 17 (2.22%) IPsec
13 17 (2.22%) Skype
14 15 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
15 13 (1.70%) Network Security
15 13 (1.70%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.44%) Relational Database
2 25 (3.27%) MySQL
3 17 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.31%) Power BI
5 6 (0.78%) MariaDB
6 5 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.52%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.39%) DB2
8 3 (0.39%) Tableau
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.26%) GIS
10 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.13%) Informix
10 1 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (3.66%) Browser DevTools
2 18 (2.35%) Android Studio
2 18 (2.35%) Eclipse
2 18 (2.35%) Xcode
3 17 (2.22%) JIRA
4 9 (1.18%) Firebug
4 9 (1.18%) Git
5 7 (0.92%) Maven
6 3 (0.39%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 345 (45.10%) Social Skills
2 78 (10.20%) Finance
3 67 (8.76%) Public Sector
4 54 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.71%) Manufacturing
6 34 (4.44%) Banking
7 27 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (3.40%) Telecoms
9 24 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (2.22%) Marketing
11 16 (2.09%) Electronics
12 12 (1.57%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.57%) Front Office
13 10 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.05%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.05%) Law
15 7 (0.92%) Legal
15 7 (0.92%) Retail
16 6 (0.78%) Automotive
16 6 (0.78%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.79%) CSS
2 23 (3.01%) Middleware
3 21 (2.75%) React
4 19 (2.48%) Ajax
4 19 (2.48%) AngularJS
4 19 (2.48%) GraphQL
5 16 (2.09%) XML
6 10 (1.31%) HTML
7 7 (0.92%) JSON
8 5 (0.65%) .NET
8 5 (0.65%) REST
8 5 (0.65%) SOAP
9 4 (0.52%) JDO
9 4 (0.52%) OAuth
10 3 (0.39%) ADO
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.26%) Kafka
11 2 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.26%) PySpark
11 2 (0.26%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (4.05%) Data Centre
3 27 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.01%) Driving Licence
4 23 (3.01%) PKI
5 20 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (2.61%) Mobile App
6 15 (1.96%) Smartphone
7 14 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
8 13 (1.70%) iPhone
9 12 (1.57%) Replication
10 11 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.44%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.92%) iPad
11 7 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.92%) NHS
12 6 (0.78%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.65%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.52%) CMDB
14 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 423 (55.29%) Windows
2 161 (21.05%) Windows 10
3 92 (12.03%) Linux
4 53 (6.93%) Android
4 53 (6.93%) Windows Server
5 44 (5.75%) Mac OS
6 43 (5.62%) Apple iOS
7 31 (4.05%) Unix
8 13 (1.70%) Ubuntu
9 11 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (1.31%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (0.92%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.65%) CentOS
12 5 (0.65%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.13%) VMS
14 1 (0.13%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
2 157 (20.52%) Customer Service
3 116 (15.16%) ITIL
4 75 (9.80%) ITSM
5 74 (9.67%) Service Management
6 57 (7.45%) Migration
7 45 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 42 (5.49%) Asset Management
9 41 (5.36%) Workflow
10 34 (4.44%) User Experience
11 33 (4.31%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (4.18%) OO
13 29 (3.79%) Service Delivery
14 27 (3.53%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (3.40%) Workflow Management
16 25 (3.27%) Root Cause Analysis
17 23 (3.01%) Data Protection
18 22 (2.88%) High Availability
19 21 (2.75%) Disaster Recovery
20 20 (2.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (6.27%) PowerShell
2 43 (5.62%) JavaScript
3 42 (5.49%) Java
4 32 (4.18%) Python
5 24 (3.14%) SQL
6 20 (2.61%) Perl
7 15 (1.96%) C
7 15 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 12 (1.57%) Ada
8 12 (1.57%) Bash
8 12 (1.57%) C++
9 4 (0.52%) C#
10 3 (0.39%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.26%) AWK
11 2 (0.26%) Magik
11 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.13%) ABAP
12 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.13%) VBA
12 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 237 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 173 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.97%) DV Cleared
4 46 (6.01%) Degree
5 29 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.57%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.44%) CCNA
9 11 (1.44%) Server+ Certification
10 9 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.05%) A+ Certification
12 7 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.65%) MCSE
14 4 (0.52%) MCP
14 4 (0.52%) MCSA
15 3 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 2 (0.26%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.58%) SLA
2 11 (1.44%) QA
3 9 (1.18%) GDPR
4 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.13%) GAAP
7 1 (0.13%) GMP
7 1 (0.13%) GxP
7 1 (0.13%) IFRS
System Software
1 226 (29.54%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.61%) Hyper-V
4 19 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (2.09%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.31%) Brightmail
6 10 (1.31%) ISA Server
6 10 (1.31%) vSphere
7 7 (0.92%) Docker
8 6 (0.78%) Firmware
9 3 (0.39%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.26%) NFS
10 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 88 (11.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 73 (9.54%) SCCM
3 27 (3.53%) Jamf Pro
4 22 (2.88%) Ansible
5 18 (2.35%) vCenter Server
6 12 (1.57%) Terraform
7 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (1.18%) SCOM
9 8 (1.05%) Grafana
10 6 (0.78%) Kubernetes
10 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.65%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
14 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.26%) OpenView
14 2 (0.26%) WSUS
15 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 307 (40.13%) Microsoft
2 101 (13.20%) ServiceNow
3 54 (7.06%) Cisco
4 48 (6.27%) Oracle
5 44 (5.75%) VMware
6 42 (5.49%) Apple
7 33 (4.31%) Juniper
8 25 (3.27%) SAP
8 25 (3.27%) SolarWinds
9 24 (3.14%) HP
10 21 (2.75%) Splunk
11 20 (2.61%) Citrix
12 19 (2.48%) Red Hat
13 18 (2.35%) Google
14 12 (1.57%) Dell
14 12 (1.57%) Remedy
15 11 (1.44%) Bloomberg
16 7 (0.92%) McAfee
16 7 (0.92%) Starlink
17 6 (0.78%) Zscaler
564 Support Engineer jobs in England