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 8 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
8 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 119 116
Rank change year-on-year -47 -3 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 770 644 636
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 2.35% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.58% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 426 438
10th Percentile £163 £160 £143
25th Percentile £185 £200 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £238 £234
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +1.47% -6.28%
75th Percentile £338 £387 £350
90th Percentile £500 £538 £514
UK median daily rate £226 £238 £238
% change year-on-year -5.05% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 69 37
10th Percentile £15.24 £16.50 £16.64
25th Percentile £18.31 £20.64 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +7.53% +25.61%
75th Percentile £35.81 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £37.50 £68.00 £64.36
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £25.20 £23.59
% change year-on-year -12.70% +6.82% +22.55%

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 42,476 25,002 30,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 91.41% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,485 16,122 19,317
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,304 1,327 1,545
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.67 £14.60
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.03 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.07% -47.05% +8.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% +3.29%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -12 282 £250 - 139
South East -48 160 £250 - 105
North of England -20 142 £200 -10.61% 54
North West -4 103 £200 -12.09% 27
East of England -1 67 £200 -9.09% 47
Midlands -68 66 £250 -9.09% 55
South West -63 54 £205 -12.77% 27
West Midlands -64 47 £250 -9.09% 32
Yorkshire -27 36 £190 -13.64% 20
East Midlands -13 18 £270 +38.46% 23
North East -47 4 £239 +22.44% 10
Support Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 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.

1 463 (60.13%) Windows
2 363 (47.14%) Microsoft
3 342 (44.42%) Active Directory
4 330 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
5 195 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (24.68%) Customer Service
7 171 (22.21%) Windows 10
8 153 (19.87%) ITIL
9 148 (19.22%) Security Cleared
10 132 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 124 (16.10%) Azure
12 117 (15.19%) ITSM
13 113 (14.68%) SharePoint
14 111 (14.42%) Entra ID
15 103 (13.38%) ServiceNow
16 96 (12.47%) DNS
17 89 (11.56%) PowerShell
18 87 (11.30%) SC Cleared
19 77 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
20 73 (9.48%) Asset Management
21 72 (9.35%) Windows Server
22 70 (9.09%) Degree
23 67 (8.70%) Linux
23 67 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
24 65 (8.44%) Service Management
25 64 (8.31%) SQL
26 63 (8.18%) TCP/IP
26 63 (8.18%) VMware
27 62 (8.05%) Mac OS
28 61 (7.92%) Service Delivery

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
1 113 (14.68%) SharePoint
2 67 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.78%) NetWeaver
4 5 (0.65%) MTS
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.26%) IIS
6 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle BRM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (0.13%) SAP FS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.13%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 330 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 124 (16.10%) Azure
3 111 (14.42%) Entra ID
4 45 (5.84%) OneDrive
5 34 (4.42%) AWS
6 22 (2.86%) SaaS
7 15 (1.95%) GCP
8 10 (1.30%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.91%) Google Workspace
11 6 (0.78%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (0.65%) IaaS
13 4 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.52%) Cloud Functions
13 4 (0.52%) Google App Engine
13 4 (0.52%) Google Compute Engine
13 4 (0.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (0.52%) PaaS
14 3 (0.39%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (12.47%) DNS
2 63 (8.18%) TCP/IP
3 56 (7.27%) VPN
4 52 (6.75%) DHCP
5 39 (5.06%) Wi-Fi
6 26 (3.38%) LAN
7 25 (3.25%) Firewall
7 25 (3.25%) WAN
8 19 (2.47%) Internet
9 10 (1.30%) VLAN
10 8 (1.04%) SAN
10 8 (1.04%) Wireless
11 7 (0.91%) Network Security
11 7 (0.91%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.65%) Skype
12 5 (0.65%) SMTP
12 5 (0.65%) WebEx
12 5 (0.65%) WLAN
13 3 (0.39%) MPLS
13 3 (0.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.95%) MySQL
3 9 (1.17%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.04%) Power BI
5 6 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.78%) SAP HANA
6 5 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (0.65%) MaxDB
6 5 (0.65%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.65%) Pentaho
6 5 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
7 3 (0.39%) Big Data
7 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.39%) KDB
8 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.13%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 48 (6.23%) JIRA
2 18 (2.34%) Git
3 6 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.39%) Android Studio
4 3 (0.39%) Artifactory
4 3 (0.39%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.39%) Xcode
5 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.26%) Firebug
6 1 (0.13%) GitLab
6 1 (0.13%) Subversion
6 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 327 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 87 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (10.39%) Finance
4 38 (4.94%) Banking
5 37 (4.81%) Manufacturing
6 27 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 22 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.73%) Investment Banking
9 18 (2.34%) Front Office
10 15 (1.95%) Legal
11 14 (1.82%) Law
11 14 (1.82%) Retail
11 14 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.56%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.30%) Spanish Language
14 7 (0.91%) Marketing
14 7 (0.91%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.39%) Advertising
15 3 (0.39%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.08%) Terraform
2 9 (1.17%) .NET
3 7 (0.91%) JDO
4 5 (0.65%) CSS
4 5 (0.65%) LDAP
4 5 (0.65%) REST
4 5 (0.65%) SAP Basis
4 5 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (0.65%) SAPUI5
5 4 (0.52%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (0.52%) React
6 3 (0.39%) Ajax
6 3 (0.39%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.39%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.39%) HTML
6 3 (0.39%) Jakarta EE
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (0.39%) Web Services
6 3 (0.39%) XML
7 2 (0.26%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 109 (14.16%) Onboarding
2 31 (4.03%) Video Conferencing
3 22 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.21%) Hedge funds
6 16 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.56%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.56%) iPhone
9 11 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.30%) CMDB
10 10 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.91%) iPad
14 6 (0.78%) BYOD
14 6 (0.78%) PKI
15 5 (0.65%) NHS
15 5 (0.65%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 463 (60.13%) Windows
2 171 (22.21%) Windows 10
3 72 (9.35%) Windows Server
4 67 (8.70%) Linux
5 62 (8.05%) Mac OS
6 41 (5.32%) Apple iOS
7 36 (4.68%) Android
8 29 (3.77%) Unix
9 12 (1.56%) Windows 7
10 11 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (1.30%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.52%) OpenVMS
12 4 (0.52%) Solaris
12 4 (0.52%) VMS
12 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.39%) CentOS
13 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.26%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
2 190 (24.68%) Customer Service
3 153 (19.87%) ITIL
4 117 (15.19%) ITSM
5 77 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (9.48%) Asset Management
7 65 (8.44%) Service Management
8 61 (7.92%) Service Delivery
9 60 (7.79%) Migration
10 54 (7.01%) Root Cause Analysis
11 53 (6.88%) User Experience
12 42 (5.45%) Incident Management
12 42 (5.45%) Problem Management
13 40 (5.19%) Technical Leadership
14 35 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 31 (4.03%) Runbook
16 30 (3.90%) Change Management
16 30 (3.90%) Data Protection
17 28 (3.64%) Disaster Recovery
18 26 (3.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 89 (11.56%) PowerShell
2 64 (8.31%) SQL
3 39 (5.06%) Python
4 28 (3.64%) Java
5 22 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.82%) Bash
7 10 (1.30%) C#
7 10 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.91%) C++
9 5 (0.65%) Perl
9 5 (0.65%) Tcl
10 4 (0.52%) Go
10 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.39%) Korn
11 3 (0.39%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.26%) DCL
13 1 (0.13%) C
13 1 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 148 (19.22%) Security Cleared
2 87 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.09%) Degree
4 53 (6.88%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.86%) A+ Certification
6 16 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
8 13 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 12 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.17%) CCNA
10 9 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 7 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.91%) MCSE
12 6 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.39%) CCNP
14 2 (0.26%) OCA
14 2 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.75%) SLA
2 5 (0.65%) QA
3 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.26%) GDPR
4 2 (0.26%) GxP
5 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.13%) GLP
5 1 (0.13%) GMP
5 1 (0.13%) GRC
5 1 (0.13%) ITGC
5 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 342 (44.42%) Active Directory
2 50 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (2.60%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.34%) VMware NSX
6 15 (1.95%) vCloud
7 13 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (1.17%) Docker
9 7 (0.91%) vSphere
10 5 (0.65%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.39%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.26%) zsh
13 1 (0.13%) NFS
13 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 132 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (6.23%) SCCM
3 30 (3.90%) vCenter Server
4 24 (3.12%) SCOM
5 17 (2.21%) Kubernetes
6 14 (1.82%) Ansible
7 13 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (1.43%) Grafana
9 10 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.91%) WSUS
11 4 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.39%) AirWatch
12 3 (0.39%) Nagios
12 3 (0.39%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.39%) Puppet
12 3 (0.39%) vMotion
12 3 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 363 (47.14%) Microsoft
2 103 (13.38%) ServiceNow
3 63 (8.18%) VMware
4 34 (4.42%) Apple
5 29 (3.77%) Oracle
6 28 (3.64%) Cisco
7 25 (3.25%) Citrix
7 25 (3.25%) Google
8 17 (2.21%) Splunk
9 13 (1.69%) Bloomberg
9 13 (1.69%) iManage
9 13 (1.69%) Samsung
10 12 (1.56%) Okta
11 11 (1.43%) Meraki
12 10 (1.30%) Broadcom
12 10 (1.30%) Sybase
13 9 (1.17%) Dell
13 9 (1.17%) HP
13 9 (1.17%) SolarWinds
14 8 (1.04%) ION Trading
400 Support Engineer jobs in England