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 27 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
27 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 114 102
Rank change year-on-year -32 -12 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 700 567 833
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.86% 2.34% 2.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 2.52% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 398 598
10th Percentile £151 £153 £136
25th Percentile £185 £188 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £239 £215
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +11.05% -14.00%
75th Percentile £350 £385 £300
90th Percentile £485 £505 £450
UK median daily rate £213 £230 £213
% change year-on-year -7.61% +8.24% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 28 54
10th Percentile £17.14 £18.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.18 £17.56
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% +10.45% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.10 £30.00
90th Percentile £34.64 £45.18 £46.39
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £19.47
% change year-on-year +3.59% +18.16% -2.68%

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 34,699 22,524 34,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.96% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,859 15,103 23,349
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,284 813 2,292
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.54 £34.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.85% +4.95% -24.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £77.00 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.20% -24.38%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -54 209 £275 -10.57% 62
South East -21 129 £225 +9.76% 88
North of England -41 122 £190 -12.64% 71
Midlands -31 92 £200 -23.81% 39
South West -15 91 £214 -5.00% 39
North West -23 66 £152 -30.34% 43
East of England -9 58 £203 -8.99% 28
West Midlands -45 57 £270 -6.09% 19
Yorkshire -27 48 £205 -11.83% 24
East Midlands -4 36 £200 +5.26% 20
North East -17 8 £106 -45.64% 7
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 March 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.

1 345 (49.29%) Windows
2 260 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 235 (33.57%) Microsoft 365
4 227 (32.43%) Active Directory
5 187 (26.71%) Security Cleared
6 165 (23.57%) Windows 10
7 157 (22.43%) Customer Service
8 154 (22.00%) SC Cleared
9 115 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
10 110 (15.71%) Azure
11 87 (12.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 86 (12.29%) ServiceNow
13 80 (11.43%) ITIL
14 66 (9.43%) PowerShell
15 65 (9.29%) Migration
16 61 (8.71%) Entra ID
17 59 (8.43%) SharePoint
18 56 (8.00%) ITSM
19 52 (7.43%) DNS
20 49 (7.00%) Wi-Fi
21 46 (6.57%) Asset Management
21 46 (6.57%) JIRA
22 45 (6.43%) DHCP
22 45 (6.43%) SCCM
22 45 (6.43%) TCP/IP
23 43 (6.14%) SQL
24 42 (6.00%) Linux
25 41 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
26 40 (5.71%) DV Cleared
27 38 (5.43%) User Experience

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 59 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 34 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.71%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.57%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) Confluence
5 3 (0.43%) IIS
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.29%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (1.00%) Shopify
2 6 (0.86%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.14%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.14%) assyst
4 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.14%) Eikon
4 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) Primavera
4 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 235 (33.57%) Microsoft 365
2 110 (15.71%) Azure
3 61 (8.71%) Entra ID
4 24 (3.43%) OneDrive
5 19 (2.71%) Google Workspace
5 19 (2.71%) SaaS
6 18 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.29%) AWS
8 11 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (1.29%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.29%) Sauce Labs
10 5 (0.71%) Amazon S3
10 5 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (0.71%) npm
10 5 (0.71%) PaaS
11 4 (0.57%) Datadog
11 4 (0.57%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.43%) GCP
12 3 (0.43%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 52 (7.43%) DNS
2 49 (7.00%) Wi-Fi
3 45 (6.43%) DHCP
3 45 (6.43%) TCP/IP
4 37 (5.29%) VPN
5 34 (4.86%) LAN
6 27 (3.86%) WAN
7 25 (3.57%) Firewall
8 19 (2.71%) Wireless
9 14 (2.00%) Network Security
9 14 (2.00%) Skype
10 13 (1.86%) Internet
11 10 (1.43%) SAN
12 9 (1.29%) VLAN
13 8 (1.14%) HTTP
14 7 (1.00%) Cisco Firepower
14 7 (1.00%) Cisco IOS
14 7 (1.00%) Cisco ISE
14 7 (1.00%) Junos
15 6 (0.86%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.71%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.57%) MySQL
3 14 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 11 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.00%) Power BI
7 6 (0.86%) Pentaho
8 5 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.57%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (0.43%) InfluxDB
10 3 (0.43%) Tableau
11 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.29%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.29%) Sybase ASE
12 1 (0.14%) GIS
12 1 (0.14%) MS Access
12 1 (0.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (6.57%) JIRA
2 16 (2.29%) Git
3 15 (2.14%) Browser DevTools
4 9 (1.29%) Android Studio
4 9 (1.29%) Eclipse
4 9 (1.29%) Xcode
5 5 (0.71%) Maven
6 2 (0.29%) Firebug
6 2 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.14%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.14%) MSI
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 308 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 58 (8.29%) Finance
3 45 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (5.43%) Manufacturing
5 37 (5.29%) Banking
6 30 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 29 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.14%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.57%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.43%) Electronics
12 10 (1.43%) Marketing
13 9 (1.29%) Law
13 9 (1.29%) Legal
14 8 (1.14%) Front Office
15 7 (1.00%) Aviation
16 6 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.57%) Advertising
18 3 (0.43%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.86%) Middleware
2 11 (1.57%) CSS
3 9 (1.29%) Ajax
3 9 (1.29%) AngularJS
3 9 (1.29%) GraphQL
3 9 (1.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 9 (1.29%) React
4 5 (0.71%) OAuth
4 5 (0.71%) REST
4 5 (0.71%) SAML
4 5 (0.71%) YAML
5 4 (0.57%) .NET
5 4 (0.57%) JDO
5 4 (0.57%) PySpark
6 3 (0.43%) HTML
6 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.29%) EDI
7 2 (0.29%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.29%) SOAP
7 2 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.71%) Onboarding
2 34 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
3 26 (3.71%) Driving Licence
4 24 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.29%) Smartphone
6 14 (2.00%) PKI
7 13 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.71%) iPhone
8 12 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.71%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.86%) iPad
12 5 (0.71%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.57%) Hedge funds
13 4 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
14 3 (0.43%) CCTV
15 2 (0.29%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 345 (49.29%) Windows
2 165 (23.57%) Windows 10
3 42 (6.00%) Linux
4 38 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 36 (5.14%) Android
6 34 (4.86%) Mac OS
7 28 (4.00%) Apple iOS
7 28 (4.00%) Unix
8 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.71%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.57%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.29%) CentOS
12 2 (0.29%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (22.43%) Customer Service
2 115 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (11.43%) ITIL
4 65 (9.29%) Migration
5 56 (8.00%) ITSM
6 46 (6.57%) Asset Management
7 38 (5.43%) User Experience
8 37 (5.29%) Workflow
9 35 (5.00%) Service Management
10 30 (4.29%) Change Management
11 29 (4.14%) Workflow Management
12 26 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (3.71%) Root Cause Analysis
13 25 (3.57%) DevOps
14 24 (3.43%) Service Delivery
15 22 (3.14%) Break/Fix
16 21 (3.00%) Agile
17 19 (2.71%) Data Protection
17 19 (2.71%) Incident Management
18 18 (2.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 66 (9.43%) PowerShell
2 43 (6.14%) SQL
3 26 (3.71%) Python
4 23 (3.29%) Java
5 20 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 18 (2.57%) C#
7 17 (2.43%) Shell Script
8 11 (1.57%) Perl
9 9 (1.29%) Korn
10 7 (1.00%) Bash
11 5 (0.71%) C
11 5 (0.71%) C++
12 4 (0.57%) Ada
13 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.29%) AWK
14 2 (0.29%) VBA
14 2 (0.29%) VBScript
15 1 (0.14%) Magik
15 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 154 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 27 (3.86%) Degree
5 18 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.00%) A+ Certification
7 12 (1.71%) CCNA
7 12 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.29%) MCSE
8 9 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.43%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.14%) HND
15 1 (0.14%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.29%) SLA
2 5 (0.71%) GDPR
3 4 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.43%) QA
5 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.29%) GLP
5 2 (0.29%) GMP
6 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.14%) GAAP
6 1 (0.14%) IFRS
6 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 227 (32.43%) Active Directory
2 17 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.43%) VMware NSX
4 9 (1.29%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.29%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.86%) Firmware
6 3 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.43%) vSphere
7 2 (0.29%) Docker
7 2 (0.29%) NFS
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 87 (12.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (6.43%) SCCM
3 26 (3.71%) Jamf Pro
4 15 (2.14%) Grafana
5 10 (1.43%) Ansible
5 10 (1.43%) vCenter Server
6 9 (1.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 9 (1.29%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.00%) Terraform
8 2 (0.29%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.29%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.29%) WMI
8 2 (0.29%) WSUS
9 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.14%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 260 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 86 (12.29%) ServiceNow
3 30 (4.29%) Oracle
4 26 (3.71%) Cisco
5 25 (3.57%) Dell
6 21 (3.00%) VMware
7 20 (2.86%) HP
8 19 (2.71%) Apple
8 19 (2.71%) Google
9 17 (2.43%) SAP
10 14 (2.00%) Juniper
11 13 (1.86%) Splunk
12 10 (1.43%) Bloomberg
12 10 (1.43%) SolarWinds
13 9 (1.29%) McAfee
13 9 (1.29%) Remedy
14 8 (1.14%) Starlink
15 7 (1.00%) Citrix
15 7 (1.00%) Denodo
15 7 (1.00%) Talend
309 Support Engineer jobs in England