Support Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Support Engineer daily rate in England is £218, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
14 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 127 98
Rank change year-on-year -7 -29 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 739 537 864
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.01% 2.17% 2.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 2.34% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 381 613
10th Percentile £151 £153 £138
25th Percentile £185 £188 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £218 £230 £215
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £347 £375 £300
90th Percentile £500 £500 £450
UK median daily rate £220 £225 £215
% change year-on-year -2.22% +4.65% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 24 58
10th Percentile £17.14 £16.67 £16.18
25th Percentile £19.89 £18.13 £17.56
Median hourly rate £22.75 £21.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.43% +3.09%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £40.25 £39.18 £46.39
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +12.50% +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 33,880 22,988 35,176
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 93.03% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,370 15,076 23,537
10th Percentile £310 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,235 770 2,274
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.41 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.45 £77.59 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £33.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.88% +1.71% -23.53%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -39 217 £275 -8.33% 41
South East -4 144 £238 +18.75% 89
North of England -38 119 £190 -13.64% 66
South West +3 109 £250 +11.11% 32
Midlands -17 93 £200 -10.11% 30
North West -22 64 £152 -29.53% 38
East of England -5 58 £203 -8.99% 34
West Midlands -47 56 £250 -9.09% 18
Yorkshire -29 46 £205 -11.83% 24
East Midlands -1 38 £200 +5.26% 12
North East -16 9 £106 -45.64% 8
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 359 (48.58%) Windows
2 271 (36.67%) Microsoft
3 240 (32.48%) Microsoft 365
4 222 (30.04%) Security Cleared
5 218 (29.50%) Active Directory
6 182 (24.63%) SC Cleared
7 170 (23.00%) Windows 10
8 160 (21.65%) Customer Service
9 121 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (13.94%) Azure
11 96 (12.99%) ServiceNow
12 86 (11.64%) Microsoft Intune
13 84 (11.37%) ITIL
14 72 (9.74%) Migration
15 70 (9.47%) PowerShell
16 59 (7.98%) Linux
17 58 (7.85%) DNS
17 58 (7.85%) ITSM
18 56 (7.58%) SharePoint
19 55 (7.44%) Entra ID
20 54 (7.31%) SCCM
21 52 (7.04%) DHCP
22 51 (6.90%) Asset Management
22 51 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
23 49 (6.63%) TCP/IP
24 45 (6.09%) DV Cleared
24 45 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
24 45 (6.09%) Workflow
25 42 (5.68%) JIRA
25 42 (5.68%) SQL

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 56 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 39 (5.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.03%) Skype for Business
4 4 (0.54%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) Confluence
5 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (0.95%) Shopify
2 6 (0.81%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.41%) Primavera
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.14%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.14%) assyst
5 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.14%) Eikon
5 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 240 (32.48%) Microsoft 365
2 103 (13.94%) Azure
3 55 (7.44%) Entra ID
4 29 (3.92%) OneDrive
5 22 (2.98%) SaaS
6 19 (2.57%) AWS
6 19 (2.57%) Google Workspace
7 15 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (1.49%) Sauce Labs
9 9 (1.22%) Power Platform
10 6 (0.81%) npm
11 5 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (0.68%) PaaS
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.54%) Datadog
12 4 (0.54%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.41%) Nutanix
13 3 (0.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 58 (7.85%) DNS
2 52 (7.04%) DHCP
3 51 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
4 49 (6.63%) TCP/IP
5 41 (5.55%) VPN
6 34 (4.60%) LAN
7 26 (3.52%) WAN
8 24 (3.25%) Firewall
9 23 (3.11%) Wireless
10 16 (2.17%) Skype
11 13 (1.76%) Network Security
11 13 (1.76%) PABX
11 13 (1.76%) VLAN
12 11 (1.49%) Internet
13 9 (1.22%) SAN
14 8 (1.08%) HTTP
15 7 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
15 7 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (0.95%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.57%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.44%) MySQL
3 16 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (0.95%) Power BI
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (0.54%) Pentaho
8 3 (0.41%) InfluxDB
8 3 (0.41%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.41%) Tableau
9 2 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.27%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.27%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.14%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 42 (5.68%) JIRA
2 18 (2.44%) Browser DevTools
3 13 (1.76%) Git
4 11 (1.49%) Android Studio
4 11 (1.49%) Eclipse
4 11 (1.49%) Xcode
5 6 (0.81%) Maven
6 4 (0.54%) Firebug
7 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.27%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.14%) MSI
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 321 (43.44%) Social Skills
2 60 (8.12%) Finance
3 44 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (5.68%) Manufacturing
5 41 (5.55%) Public Sector
6 38 (5.14%) Banking
7 27 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (2.17%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.03%) Aerospace
10 15 (2.03%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.76%) Electronics
11 13 (1.76%) Marketing
12 10 (1.35%) Law
13 9 (1.22%) Legal
14 8 (1.08%) Aviation
14 8 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.95%) Front Office
16 4 (0.54%) Advertising
16 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.84%) Middleware
2 15 (2.03%) CSS
3 11 (1.49%) Ajax
3 11 (1.49%) AngularJS
3 11 (1.49%) GraphQL
3 11 (1.49%) React
4 9 (1.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 5 (0.68%) OAuth
5 5 (0.68%) REST
5 5 (0.68%) YAML
6 4 (0.54%) HTML
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (0.54%) PySpark
6 4 (0.54%) SAML
6 4 (0.54%) XML
7 3 (0.41%) .NET
7 3 (0.41%) JDO
8 2 (0.27%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.27%) SOAP
8 2 (0.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.50%) Onboarding
2 41 (5.55%) Self-Motivation
3 27 (3.65%) Driving Licence
4 26 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.11%) Smartphone
6 14 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (1.89%) PKI
7 13 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.62%) iPhone
8 12 (1.62%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.81%) iPad
12 6 (0.81%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.54%) Hedge funds
14 3 (0.41%) CCTV
15 2 (0.27%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 359 (48.58%) Windows
2 170 (23.00%) Windows 10
3 59 (7.98%) Linux
4 41 (5.55%) Mac OS
5 40 (5.41%) Android
6 37 (5.01%) Windows Server
7 31 (4.19%) Unix
8 28 (3.79%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.62%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.81%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.41%) CentOS
11 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (21.65%) Customer Service
2 121 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (11.37%) ITIL
4 72 (9.74%) Migration
5 58 (7.85%) ITSM
6 51 (6.90%) Asset Management
7 45 (6.09%) Workflow
8 39 (5.28%) User Experience
9 36 (4.87%) Service Management
10 35 (4.74%) Workflow Management
11 34 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (3.65%) Root Cause Analysis
13 26 (3.52%) Change Management
13 26 (3.52%) Service Delivery
14 24 (3.25%) Break/Fix
15 22 (2.98%) DevOps
16 20 (2.71%) Data Protection
16 20 (2.71%) Knowledge Transfer
17 19 (2.57%) Agile
18 18 (2.44%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 70 (9.47%) PowerShell
2 42 (5.68%) SQL
3 30 (4.06%) JavaScript
4 28 (3.79%) Java
5 27 (3.65%) Python
6 25 (3.38%) Shell Script
7 16 (2.17%) C#
8 13 (1.76%) Perl
9 12 (1.62%) Ada
9 12 (1.62%) C
9 12 (1.62%) C++
10 9 (1.22%) Bash
10 9 (1.22%) Korn
11 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.27%) AWK
12 2 (0.27%) VBA
12 2 (0.27%) VBScript
13 1 (0.14%) Magik
13 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 222 (30.04%) Security Cleared
2 182 (24.63%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.09%) DV Cleared
4 25 (3.38%) Degree
5 23 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.76%) A+ Certification
7 11 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (1.35%) CCNA
8 10 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.22%) MCSE
10 8 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.41%) Server+ Certification
14 1 (0.14%) HND
14 1 (0.14%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.92%) SLA
2 9 (1.22%) GDPR
3 3 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.41%) QA
4 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.14%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.14%) GAAP
5 1 (0.14%) GLP
5 1 (0.14%) GMP
5 1 (0.14%) IFRS
5 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 218 (29.50%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.62%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.35%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.81%) Firmware
7 3 (0.41%) Docker
7 3 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.41%) vSphere
8 2 (0.27%) NFS
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 86 (11.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (7.31%) SCCM
3 27 (3.65%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (1.89%) Grafana
5 11 (1.49%) Ansible
6 10 (1.35%) vCenter Server
7 9 (1.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 9 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
7 9 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.95%) Terraform
9 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.27%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.27%) WMI
9 2 (0.27%) WSUS
10 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.14%) Autotask
10 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 271 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 96 (12.99%) ServiceNow
3 33 (4.47%) Oracle
4 27 (3.65%) VMware
5 26 (3.52%) Apple
5 26 (3.52%) Cisco
5 26 (3.52%) Dell
6 21 (2.84%) HP
7 20 (2.71%) SAP
8 18 (2.44%) Google
9 15 (2.03%) Red Hat
10 14 (1.89%) Juniper
10 14 (1.89%) Splunk
11 10 (1.35%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.35%) Citrix
11 10 (1.35%) SolarWinds
12 9 (1.22%) Remedy
13 8 (1.08%) Zscaler
14 7 (0.95%) McAfee
14 7 (0.95%) Starlink
269 Support Engineer jobs in England