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 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 135 80
Rank change year-on-year +14 -55 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 741 522 946
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 1.91% 2.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.57% 2.06% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 370 677
10th Percentile £151 £152 £140
25th Percentile £185 £188 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £240 £225
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -5.16%
75th Percentile £348 £360 £338
90th Percentile £519 £544 £510
UK median daily rate £220 £235 £225
% change year-on-year -6.51% +4.58% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 27 50
10th Percentile £17.14 £14.96 £16.23
25th Percentile £19.59 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.79 £22.00 £19.44
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +13.17% -0.31%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.09 £22.00
90th Percentile £58.00 £44.40 £31.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £23.00 £19.38
% change year-on-year +4.35% +18.68% +0.41%

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 28,793 25,364 33,771
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.47% 92.85% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,431 15,701 23,038
10th Percentile £300 £300 £280
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
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 1,738 796 1,465
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -21.35% +28.74%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.11 £74.93 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -26.97% +36.92%

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 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -5 200 £235 -21.99% 78
South East +23 174 £238 +10.70% 94
North of England -8 112 £200 -6.98% 70
South West +24 109 £250 +11.11% 25
Midlands +11 101 £230 -13.21% 46
West Midlands -9 71 £259 -15.93% 24
North West -12 65 £170 -17.07% 33
East of England -10 46 £204 -5.23% 39
Yorkshire -27 37 £205 -8.89% 31
East Midlands -1 32 £175 -28.57% 22
North East -2 10 £106 - 10
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 January 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.

1 391 (52.77%) Windows
2 291 (39.27%) Microsoft
3 238 (32.12%) Security Cleared
4 223 (30.09%) Microsoft 365
5 206 (27.80%) Active Directory
6 183 (24.70%) SC Cleared
7 160 (21.59%) Windows 10
8 158 (21.32%) Customer Service
9 152 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (12.96%) Azure
11 94 (12.69%) ServiceNow
12 90 (12.15%) ITIL
13 89 (12.01%) Linux
14 84 (11.34%) Microsoft Intune
15 73 (9.85%) Microsoft Office
16 72 (9.72%) DNS
17 68 (9.18%) Migration
18 66 (8.91%) SCCM
19 65 (8.77%) SharePoint
20 64 (8.64%) DHCP
21 63 (8.50%) Service Management
22 62 (8.37%) TCP/IP
22 62 (8.37%) VPN
23 61 (8.23%) ITSM
24 58 (7.83%) DV Cleared
25 55 (7.42%) Android
25 55 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
26 50 (6.75%) Windows Server
27 48 (6.48%) Cisco
27 48 (6.48%) Mac OS

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 65 (8.77%) SharePoint
2 55 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.70%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.94%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (0.94%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (0.81%) Exchange Server 2013
5 6 (0.81%) Office Communications Server
6 4 (0.54%) Apache
7 3 (0.40%) IIS
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.27%) Confluence
8 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 73 (9.85%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.27%) 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 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.94%) Shopify
2 5 (0.67%) Primavera
3 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.27%) Eikon
4 2 (0.27%) 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%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 223 (30.09%) Microsoft 365
2 96 (12.96%) Azure
3 40 (5.40%) Entra ID
4 29 (3.91%) SaaS
5 23 (3.10%) AWS
5 23 (3.10%) OneDrive
6 20 (2.70%) Sauce Labs
7 19 (2.56%) Google Workspace
8 9 (1.21%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.08%) npm
10 7 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.67%) OpenShift
11 5 (0.67%) Slack
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
14 2 (0.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (0.27%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (0.27%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 72 (9.72%) DNS
2 64 (8.64%) DHCP
3 62 (8.37%) TCP/IP
3 62 (8.37%) VPN
4 38 (5.13%) Wireless
5 33 (4.45%) Firewall
5 33 (4.45%) Wi-Fi
6 28 (3.78%) WAN
7 20 (2.70%) Junos
7 20 (2.70%) VLAN
8 17 (2.29%) Cisco IOS
8 17 (2.29%) MPLS
9 16 (2.16%) BGP
9 16 (2.16%) IPsec
10 15 (2.02%) Cisco Firepower
10 15 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
10 15 (2.02%) LAN
10 15 (2.02%) Skype
11 14 (1.89%) Network Security
12 13 (1.75%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.32%) Relational Database
2 26 (3.51%) MySQL
3 12 (1.62%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.08%) Power BI
5 5 (0.67%) MariaDB
5 5 (0.67%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.54%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.27%) Tableau
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.13%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.13%) GIS
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 29 (3.91%) Browser DevTools
2 20 (2.70%) Android Studio
2 20 (2.70%) Eclipse
2 20 (2.70%) Xcode
3 15 (2.02%) JIRA
4 10 (1.35%) Git
5 8 (1.08%) Firebug
5 8 (1.08%) Maven
6 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 331 (44.67%) Social Skills
2 65 (8.77%) Finance
3 56 (7.56%) Public Sector
4 50 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (4.86%) Banking
6 25 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (3.24%) Manufacturing
8 19 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.89%) Electronics
9 14 (1.89%) Front Office
9 14 (1.89%) Law
9 14 (1.89%) Marketing
10 13 (1.75%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.62%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.08%) Legal
13 6 (0.81%) Automotive
14 5 (0.67%) French Language
14 5 (0.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.91%) CSS
2 24 (3.24%) Middleware
3 21 (2.83%) Ajax
3 21 (2.83%) AngularJS
3 21 (2.83%) GraphQL
3 21 (2.83%) React
4 13 (1.75%) XML
5 8 (1.08%) HTML
6 5 (0.67%) JSON
6 5 (0.67%) REST
6 5 (0.67%) SOAP
7 4 (0.54%) .NET
7 4 (0.54%) JDO
7 4 (0.54%) PySpark
8 3 (0.40%) ADO
9 2 (0.27%) EDI
9 2 (0.27%) Kafka
9 2 (0.27%) OAuth
9 2 (0.27%) XMPP
9 2 (0.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
2 33 (4.45%) Onboarding
3 28 (3.78%) Driving Licence
4 26 (3.51%) PKI
5 23 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.10%) Smartphone
6 21 (2.83%) Mobile App
7 17 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.62%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.35%) iPhone
11 8 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.08%) Replication
11 8 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (0.81%) iPad
13 5 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.40%) Operational Technology
14 3 (0.40%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 391 (52.77%) Windows
2 160 (21.59%) Windows 10
3 89 (12.01%) Linux
4 55 (7.42%) Android
5 50 (6.75%) Windows Server
6 48 (6.48%) Mac OS
7 39 (5.26%) Apple iOS
8 32 (4.32%) Unix
9 12 (1.62%) Ubuntu
10 11 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (1.08%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.67%) CentOS
14 3 (0.40%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
16 1 (0.13%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (21.32%) Customer Service
2 152 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (12.15%) ITIL
4 68 (9.18%) Migration
5 63 (8.50%) Service Management
6 61 (8.23%) ITSM
7 45 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 44 (5.94%) Asset Management
9 43 (5.80%) Workflow
10 40 (5.40%) User Experience
11 32 (4.32%) OO
11 32 (4.32%) Workflow Management
12 28 (3.78%) Service Delivery
13 27 (3.64%) Root Cause Analysis
14 24 (3.24%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (2.97%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (2.97%) Data Protection
16 21 (2.83%) Logistics
16 21 (2.83%) Mobile Application Development
17 19 (2.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (6.34%) PowerShell
2 42 (5.67%) JavaScript
3 41 (5.53%) Java
4 30 (4.05%) Python
5 21 (2.83%) Perl
6 20 (2.70%) SQL
7 15 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 13 (1.75%) C
9 12 (1.62%) Ada
9 12 (1.62%) C++
10 6 (0.81%) Bash
11 2 (0.27%) AWK
11 2 (0.27%) C#
11 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.13%) Magik
12 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.13%) Tcl
12 1 (0.13%) VBA
12 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 238 (32.12%) Security Cleared
2 183 (24.70%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.83%) DV Cleared
4 37 (4.99%) Degree
5 26 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (1.62%) A+ Certification
9 11 (1.48%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.48%) Server+ Certification
10 7 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.54%) CCNA
12 4 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.54%) MCP
13 3 (0.40%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.40%) MCSE
14 2 (0.27%) MCSA
15 1 (0.13%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.32%) SLA
2 9 (1.21%) GDPR
3 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.54%) QA
4 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.13%) GAAP
5 1 (0.13%) IFRS
5 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 206 (27.80%) Active Directory
2 28 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.43%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.16%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.81%) Brightmail
6 6 (0.81%) Docker
6 6 (0.81%) ISA Server
7 5 (0.67%) Firmware
8 4 (0.54%) vSphere
9 3 (0.40%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.27%) NFS
10 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 84 (11.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 66 (8.91%) SCCM
3 26 (3.51%) Jamf Pro
4 20 (2.70%) Ansible
5 18 (2.43%) vCenter Server
6 13 (1.75%) Terraform
7 11 (1.48%) Grafana
8 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.40%) AirWatch
11 3 (0.40%) Kubernetes
11 3 (0.40%) SCOM
12 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.27%) WSUS
13 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.13%) Kibana
13 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 291 (39.27%) Microsoft
2 94 (12.69%) ServiceNow
3 48 (6.48%) Cisco
4 43 (5.80%) Oracle
5 41 (5.53%) VMware
6 38 (5.13%) Apple
7 31 (4.18%) Juniper
8 28 (3.78%) HP
9 23 (3.10%) Splunk
10 22 (2.97%) Google
11 21 (2.83%) SAP
11 21 (2.83%) SolarWinds
12 19 (2.56%) Dell
12 19 (2.56%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.75%) Citrix
14 12 (1.62%) Bloomberg
15 9 (1.21%) Remedy
16 7 (0.94%) McAfee
16 7 (0.94%) Palo Alto
17 6 (0.81%) Starlink
315 Support Engineer jobs in England