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 5 December 2025.

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

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 131 81
Rank change year-on-year +16 -50 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 765 593 1,039
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 1.93% 2.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.69% 2.08% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 418 741
10th Percentile £153 £153 £140
25th Percentile £185 £188 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £240 £238
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +0.21%
75th Percentile £348 £350 £395
90th Percentile £525 £543 £600
UK median daily rate £225 £240 £243
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.03% +1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 26 57
10th Percentile £17.14 £14.89 £15.40
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.27 £17.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.09 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.65% +16.26% -5.66%
75th Percentile £25.58 £26.50 £21.75
90th Percentile £62.80 £48.75 £23.95
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £23.59 £18.97
% change year-on-year +1.74% +24.39% -2.74%

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 28,419 28,527 35,622
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.94% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,252 17,617 24,501
10th Percentile £287 £300 £292
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -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 1,704 990 1,393
10th Percentile £14.28 £15.36 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.44 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.70% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £74.47 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +39.68%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -12 218 £225 -25.00% 72
South East +30 186 £238 +5.78% 148
South West +26 106 £250 +12.36% 52
North of England -19 104 £200 -2.44% 145
Midlands +9 98 £250 -5.66% 63
West Midlands 0 71 £271 +2.26% 40
North West -10 56 £180 -10.00% 77
East of England -11 50 £220 - 77
Yorkshire -21 36 £205 -8.89% 56
East Midlands +4 27 £175 -26.32% 22
North East +2 12 £106 -34.77% 18
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 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.

1 417 (54.51%) Windows
2 305 (39.87%) Microsoft
3 240 (31.37%) Security Cleared
4 234 (30.59%) Microsoft 365
5 222 (29.02%) Active Directory
6 178 (23.27%) SC Cleared
7 168 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (21.70%) Customer Service
9 160 (20.92%) Windows 10
10 107 (13.99%) ITIL
11 98 (12.81%) ServiceNow
12 95 (12.42%) Azure
13 92 (12.03%) Linux
14 87 (11.37%) Microsoft Office
15 86 (11.24%) DNS
16 85 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
17 77 (10.07%) DHCP
18 72 (9.41%) SharePoint
19 71 (9.28%) TCP/IP
19 71 (9.28%) VPN
20 70 (9.15%) ITSM
21 69 (9.02%) Service Management
22 68 (8.89%) SCCM
23 66 (8.63%) Microsoft Exchange
24 64 (8.37%) Migration
25 61 (7.97%) DV Cleared
26 53 (6.93%) Android
26 53 (6.93%) Cisco
27 51 (6.67%) Windows Server
28 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 72 (9.41%) SharePoint
2 66 (8.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 24 (3.14%) 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
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%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 87 (11.37%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
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 7 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.65%) Primavera
3 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) Eikon
4 2 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) assyst
5 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.13%) Eze OMS
5 1 (0.13%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 234 (30.59%) Microsoft 365
2 95 (12.42%) Azure
3 36 (4.71%) Entra ID
4 24 (3.14%) AWS
4 24 (3.14%) SaaS
5 23 (3.01%) OneDrive
6 19 (2.48%) Sauce Labs
7 18 (2.35%) Google Workspace
8 11 (1.44%) Power Platform
9 7 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.92%) npm
10 5 (0.65%) OpenShift
10 5 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.52%) Slack
12 2 (0.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.26%) IaaS
12 2 (0.26%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 86 (11.24%) DNS
2 77 (10.07%) DHCP
3 71 (9.28%) TCP/IP
3 71 (9.28%) VPN
4 39 (5.10%) Firewall
4 39 (5.10%) Wireless
5 35 (4.58%) WAN
5 35 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (2.88%) Cisco IOS
6 22 (2.88%) LAN
7 21 (2.75%) VLAN
8 20 (2.61%) Junos
9 18 (2.35%) MPLS
10 17 (2.22%) BGP
10 17 (2.22%) IPsec
11 15 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
11 15 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
11 15 (1.96%) Skype
12 14 (1.83%) Network Security
13 13 (1.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.44%) Relational Database
2 27 (3.53%) MySQL
3 15 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 9 (1.18%) Power BI
5 7 (0.92%) MariaDB
6 5 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.52%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.39%) Tableau
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.26%) GIS
9 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.13%) DB2
10 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.13%) Informix
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 30 (3.92%) Browser DevTools
2 19 (2.48%) Android Studio
2 19 (2.48%) Eclipse
2 19 (2.48%) Xcode
3 18 (2.35%) JIRA
4 10 (1.31%) Firebug
5 9 (1.18%) Git
6 7 (0.92%) Maven
7 3 (0.39%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.26%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 348 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 74 (9.67%) Finance
3 64 (8.37%) Public Sector
4 48 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.71%) Banking
6 32 (4.18%) Manufacturing
7 29 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (2.88%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.96%) Electronics
10 15 (1.96%) Marketing
11 12 (1.57%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.57%) Front Office
12 9 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.18%) Law
13 8 (1.05%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.92%) Retail
15 6 (0.78%) Automotive
15 6 (0.78%) Legal
16 4 (0.52%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (3.92%) CSS
2 24 (3.14%) Middleware
3 21 (2.75%) React
4 20 (2.61%) Ajax
4 20 (2.61%) AngularJS
4 20 (2.61%) GraphQL
5 17 (2.22%) XML
6 10 (1.31%) HTML
7 7 (0.92%) JSON
8 5 (0.65%) REST
8 5 (0.65%) SOAP
9 4 (0.52%) .NET
9 4 (0.52%) JDO
10 3 (0.39%) ADO
10 3 (0.39%) Kafka
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (0.39%) OAuth
11 2 (0.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.26%) PySpark
11 2 (0.26%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
2 32 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 31 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 27 (3.53%) Driving Licence
5 25 (3.27%) PKI
6 20 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 17 (2.22%) Smartphone
8 13 (1.70%) iPhone
9 12 (1.57%) Replication
10 11 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.44%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (0.92%) iPad
11 7 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.78%) NHS
13 5 (0.65%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.65%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.39%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 417 (54.51%) Windows
2 160 (20.92%) Windows 10
3 92 (12.03%) Linux
4 53 (6.93%) Android
5 51 (6.67%) Windows Server
6 47 (6.14%) Mac OS
7 41 (5.36%) Apple iOS
8 32 (4.18%) Unix
9 13 (1.70%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (1.31%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.65%) CentOS
14 4 (0.52%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
16 1 (0.13%) VMS
16 1 (0.13%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
2 166 (21.70%) Customer Service
3 107 (13.99%) ITIL
4 70 (9.15%) ITSM
5 69 (9.02%) Service Management
6 64 (8.37%) Migration
7 44 (5.75%) Asset Management
8 43 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 42 (5.49%) Workflow
10 36 (4.71%) User Experience
11 33 (4.31%) OO
12 30 (3.92%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (3.79%) Service Delivery
13 29 (3.79%) Workflow Management
14 27 (3.53%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (3.53%) Root Cause Analysis
15 24 (3.14%) Data Protection
16 22 (2.88%) High Availability
17 21 (2.75%) Break/Fix
18 20 (2.61%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 47 (6.14%) PowerShell
2 44 (5.75%) JavaScript
3 43 (5.62%) Java
4 31 (4.05%) Python
5 23 (3.01%) SQL
6 21 (2.75%) Perl
7 15 (1.96%) C
7 15 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 12 (1.57%) Ada
8 12 (1.57%) C++
9 10 (1.31%) Bash
10 3 (0.39%) 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%) Korn
12 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.13%) Tcl
12 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 240 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 178 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 61 (7.97%) DV Cleared
4 42 (5.49%) Degree
5 28 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (1.57%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.44%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (1.31%) CCNA
11 8 (1.05%) A+ Certification
11 8 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.52%) MCP
13 4 (0.52%) MCSE
14 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.39%) MCSA
15 2 (0.26%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.44%) SLA
2 9 (1.18%) GDPR
2 9 (1.18%) QA
3 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.13%) GAAP
5 1 (0.13%) IFRS
5 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 222 (29.02%) Active Directory
2 31 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.61%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (2.09%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.31%) Brightmail
6 10 (1.31%) ISA Server
7 7 (0.92%) Docker
7 7 (0.92%) vSphere
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 85 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (8.89%) SCCM
3 29 (3.79%) Jamf Pro
4 20 (2.61%) Ansible
5 18 (2.35%) vCenter Server
6 13 (1.70%) Terraform
7 10 (1.31%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (1.18%) Grafana
9 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.65%) AirWatch
10 5 (0.65%) Kubernetes
10 5 (0.65%) SCOM
11 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.26%) OpenView
13 2 (0.26%) WSUS
14 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 305 (39.87%) Microsoft
2 98 (12.81%) ServiceNow
3 53 (6.93%) Cisco
4 48 (6.27%) Oracle
5 44 (5.75%) Apple
5 44 (5.75%) VMware
6 33 (4.31%) Juniper
7 25 (3.27%) HP
8 24 (3.14%) SAP
9 23 (3.01%) Splunk
10 21 (2.75%) SolarWinds
11 20 (2.61%) Google
12 19 (2.48%) Citrix
12 19 (2.48%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.70%) Dell
14 11 (1.44%) Bloomberg
15 10 (1.31%) Remedy
16 8 (1.05%) McAfee
17 7 (0.92%) Starlink
18 6 (0.78%) Zscaler
532 Support Engineer jobs in England