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 5 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
5 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 130 90
Rank change year-on-year -3 -40 +38
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 754 525 884
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.08% 2.07% 2.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 2.23% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 375 627
10th Percentile £151 £154 £140
25th Percentile £185 £188 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £230 £215
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £338 £375 £300
90th Percentile £500 £523 £450
UK median daily rate £213 £225 £215
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.65% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 24 59
10th Percentile £17.14 £16.67 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.77 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £22.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% +10.45% +1.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £29.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £47.75 £48.75 £46.39
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £23.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +3.63%

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 33,397 23,567 34,774
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 92.91% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,135 15,150 23,280
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,153 742 2,208
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.01 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.47 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +7.20% -19.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.18 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -1.47% - -16.05%

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 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 5 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 5 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 -27 218 £275 -8.33% 86
South East -4 157 £225 +9.76% 138
North of England -33 112 £190 -13.64% 87
South West +2 111 £250 +11.11% 30
Midlands -9 100 £200 -18.37% 35
West Midlands -27 62 £223 -14.42% 19
East of England -2 58 £201 -6.40% 35
North West -26 58 £152 -29.53% 48
Yorkshire -41 45 £205 -11.83% 33
East Midlands +2 40 £200 +5.26% 16
North East -11 9 £106 -45.64% 10
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 377 (50.00%) Windows
2 281 (37.27%) Microsoft
3 245 (32.49%) Microsoft 365
4 226 (29.97%) Security Cleared
5 223 (29.58%) Active Directory
6 183 (24.27%) SC Cleared
7 176 (23.34%) Windows 10
8 161 (21.35%) Customer Service
9 138 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (14.46%) Azure
11 98 (13.00%) ServiceNow
12 89 (11.80%) ITIL
13 88 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
14 74 (9.81%) Migration
15 70 (9.28%) Linux
16 69 (9.15%) PowerShell
17 61 (8.09%) ITSM
17 61 (8.09%) SCCM
18 60 (7.96%) SharePoint
19 59 (7.82%) DNS
20 55 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
21 54 (7.16%) Entra ID
22 52 (6.90%) DHCP
23 50 (6.63%) TCP/IP
24 49 (6.50%) DV Cleared
25 48 (6.37%) Asset Management
25 48 (6.37%) Wi-Fi
26 46 (6.10%) Microsoft Exchange
26 46 (6.10%) Service Management
27 45 (5.97%) Android

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 60 (7.96%) SharePoint
2 46 (6.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.99%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.53%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) 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%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.13%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 55 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.93%) Shopify
2 6 (0.80%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.66%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.13%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.13%) assyst
5 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.13%) Eikon
5 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 245 (32.49%) Microsoft 365
2 109 (14.46%) Azure
3 54 (7.16%) Entra ID
4 30 (3.98%) OneDrive
5 23 (3.05%) SaaS
6 21 (2.79%) AWS
7 19 (2.52%) Google Workspace
8 16 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.72%) Sauce Labs
10 11 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.33%) Power Platform
12 7 (0.93%) npm
13 5 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.66%) PaaS
14 4 (0.53%) Amazon S3
14 4 (0.53%) OpenShift
15 3 (0.40%) Datadog
15 3 (0.40%) GCP
15 3 (0.40%) PowerApps
15 3 (0.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 59 (7.82%) DNS
2 52 (6.90%) DHCP
3 50 (6.63%) TCP/IP
4 48 (6.37%) Wi-Fi
5 43 (5.70%) VPN
6 31 (4.11%) LAN
7 30 (3.98%) Firewall
8 27 (3.58%) Wireless
9 24 (3.18%) WAN
10 16 (2.12%) Skype
11 15 (1.99%) VLAN
12 13 (1.72%) Network Security
12 13 (1.72%) PABX
13 10 (1.33%) Internet
13 10 (1.33%) Junos
14 9 (1.19%) Cisco Firepower
14 9 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
14 9 (1.19%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (1.19%) HTTP
15 7 (0.93%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.52%) Relational Database
3 17 (2.25%) MySQL
4 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (0.93%) Power BI
6 6 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.40%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.27%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.27%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (0.27%) Tableau
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.13%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 40 (5.31%) JIRA
2 20 (2.65%) Browser DevTools
3 13 (1.72%) Android Studio
3 13 (1.72%) Eclipse
3 13 (1.72%) Xcode
4 11 (1.46%) Git
5 7 (0.93%) Maven
6 4 (0.53%) Firebug
7 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.13%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.13%) MSI
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 332 (44.03%) Social Skills
2 65 (8.62%) Finance
3 50 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (5.70%) Banking
4 43 (5.70%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.44%) Manufacturing
6 28 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.99%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.72%) Electronics
10 13 (1.72%) Marketing
11 11 (1.46%) Law
12 8 (1.06%) Aviation
12 8 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.06%) Front Office
12 8 (1.06%) Legal
13 5 (0.66%) Automotive
14 4 (0.53%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.05%) Middleware
2 17 (2.25%) CSS
3 13 (1.72%) Ajax
3 13 (1.72%) AngularJS
3 13 (1.72%) GraphQL
3 13 (1.72%) React
4 7 (0.93%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 6 (0.80%) PySpark
5 6 (0.80%) REST
6 5 (0.66%) OAuth
6 5 (0.66%) SOAP
6 5 (0.66%) YAML
7 4 (0.53%) HTML
7 4 (0.53%) JDO
7 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (0.53%) XML
8 3 (0.40%) .NET
8 3 (0.40%) SAML
9 2 (0.27%) SAP Basis
9 2 (0.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.97%) Onboarding
2 41 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (3.58%) Driving Licence
4 26 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.92%) Smartphone
6 18 (2.39%) PKI
7 14 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.46%) iPhone
11 8 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.06%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.80%) iPad
14 4 (0.53%) Hedge funds
15 3 (0.40%) CCTV
15 3 (0.40%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 377 (50.00%) Windows
2 176 (23.34%) Windows 10
3 70 (9.28%) Linux
4 45 (5.97%) Android
5 44 (5.84%) Mac OS
6 40 (5.31%) Windows Server
7 34 (4.51%) Unix
8 33 (4.38%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.59%) Ubuntu
10 9 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.93%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.53%) CentOS
14 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (21.35%) Customer Service
2 138 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (11.80%) ITIL
4 74 (9.81%) Migration
5 61 (8.09%) ITSM
6 48 (6.37%) Asset Management
7 46 (6.10%) Service Management
8 45 (5.97%) Workflow
9 37 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 36 (4.77%) User Experience
11 35 (4.64%) Workflow Management
12 29 (3.85%) Service Delivery
13 26 (3.45%) Root Cause Analysis
14 24 (3.18%) Break/Fix
14 24 (3.18%) DevOps
15 22 (2.92%) OO
15 22 (2.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (2.79%) Data Protection
17 20 (2.65%) Change Management
17 20 (2.65%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 69 (9.15%) PowerShell
2 39 (5.17%) SQL
3 32 (4.24%) Java
3 32 (4.24%) JavaScript
4 31 (4.11%) Python
5 23 (3.05%) Shell Script
6 15 (1.99%) C#
6 15 (1.99%) Perl
7 12 (1.59%) Ada
7 12 (1.59%) C
7 12 (1.59%) C++
8 9 (1.19%) Bash
9 7 (0.93%) Korn
10 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.27%) AWK
11 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.27%) VBA
11 2 (0.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.13%) Magik
12 1 (0.13%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 226 (29.97%) Security Cleared
2 183 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.50%) DV Cleared
4 32 (4.24%) Degree
5 27 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (1.86%) A+ Certification
7 12 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (1.06%) CCNA
8 8 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.06%) MCSE
9 6 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.66%) Server+ Certification
11 4 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.40%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.13%) HND
13 1 (0.13%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.71%) SLA
2 9 (1.19%) GDPR
3 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.40%) QA
4 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.13%) GAAP
5 1 (0.13%) GLP
5 1 (0.13%) GMP
5 1 (0.13%) IFRS
5 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 223 (29.58%) Active Directory
2 27 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.12%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (0.80%) Firmware
8 4 (0.53%) Docker
8 4 (0.53%) vSphere
9 3 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.27%) NFS
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 88 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 61 (8.09%) SCCM
3 27 (3.58%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (1.86%) Ansible
5 12 (1.59%) Grafana
5 12 (1.59%) vCenter Server
6 8 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.06%) Terraform
7 7 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.27%) Kubernetes
10 2 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.27%) SCOM
10 2 (0.27%) WMI
10 2 (0.27%) WSUS
11 1 (0.13%) Autotask
11 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 281 (37.27%) Microsoft
2 98 (13.00%) ServiceNow
3 35 (4.64%) Oracle
3 35 (4.64%) VMware
4 31 (4.11%) Cisco
5 29 (3.85%) Apple
6 26 (3.45%) Dell
7 21 (2.79%) Google
8 20 (2.65%) HP
9 19 (2.52%) SAP
10 17 (2.25%) Juniper
10 17 (2.25%) Red Hat
11 16 (2.12%) Splunk
12 13 (1.72%) SolarWinds
13 11 (1.46%) Citrix
14 10 (1.33%) Bloomberg
14 10 (1.33%) Remedy
15 7 (0.93%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.80%) Starlink
16 6 (0.80%) Twitter
379 Support Engineer jobs in England